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Re:Use Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback by welfare on Monday June 29, 2020 @10:59AM (#23678194)
As someone who's never read a manual for anything I owned in my entire life I find this fascinating.

Is there anything I'm missing out on, and if I wouldn't read manuals cover-to-cover, what parts would you recommend reading?

Also, assuming many are like me, do you find a lot of quality issues or inconsistencies in documentation just because it's a "tick-in-the-box" exercise to provide a documentation and maybe an overlooked part of the product development?

Thank you!

Re:Use Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback by bogdan314 on Monday June 29, 2020 @11:46AM (#23678624)
not the original comment author but I also read most manuals when I buy something. If you buy electronics/products from decent companies, you will be surprise how well the documentation is done.

Numerous times I found warnings of how to use or not a certain product, that further expanded by understanding of how certain things works. Even the most boring product can have instructions that you might don't know and could use to learn them.

Example, my local shop sells tomatoes in a box, written with bold letters, don't store in fridge. I bought from that shop for 2 years, and always store them in the fridge until I took notice of the warning and it pushed me to read why.

Re:Use Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback by wnoise on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:04PM (#23679454)
Well, why shouldn't you store tomatoes in the fridge?
Re:Use Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback by cbsks on Monday June 29, 2020 @01:21PM (#23679695)
Serious Eats has an in-depth article about how to store tomatoes. Short answer is that you should store them at room temperature until they ripen, then refrigerate only if necessary: https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/why-you-should-refrigera...
Re:Use Unix Pipes to Improve Chromecast Playback by zymhan on Monday June 29, 2020 @12:53PM (#23679321)
I really recommend reading the manual. For instance, the one for my Weber grill had quite a few tips in there that I wouldn't have come across otherwise.