#Vornado

[strathshepard]

Vornado Silver Swan

[scrambler]

A standee used to advertise Vornado fans in the 1950s.

[besthousereview]

10 Best Vornado Space Heaters of 2023

Vornado space heaters also use less energy than other heaters. It can be used with a home heating system and helps you save money. Vornado space heater is one of the space heater brands that has been providing great air solutions for a long time.

Focus on some good brand and model that fits your preferences, needs, and budget and find the best vornado space heaters.

[kenobion]

I lowkey love the air circulator I got to replace my fan (which died), it’s so quiet and it oscillates and it takes up so little floor space, and no matter how warm it is the air that comes out of it feels so nice and cool

[sarcoptid]

me when i fix the annoying rattle in my fan with a zip tie

[evelynjohn001]

How to Clean Your Vornado Fan: A Step-by-Step Guide

Cleaning your Vornado fan regularly not only keeps it looking good but also ensures it operates efficiently. Here’s a simple guide to help you clean your Vornado fan effectively:

What You'll Need:

Soft cloth or microfiber towel

Vacuum cleaner with brush attachment

Mild dish soap

Water

Screwdriver (if applicable)

Step 1: Unplug Your Fan

Safety first! Make sure your Vornado fan is completely turned off and unplugged from the power source before you start cleaning.

Step 2: Disassemble the Fan (if possible)

Some Vornado models allow you to disassemble the front grill and blades for thorough cleaning. Check your user manual for specific instructions on how to safely remove these parts.

Step 3: Vacuum the Grill and Blades

Using a vacuum cleaner with a brush attachment, gently vacuum the front grill and fan blades to remove dust and debris. Pay attention to any crevices or hard-to-reach areas.

Step 4: Wipe Down the Grill

Dampen a soft cloth or microfiber towel with a mixture of mild dish soap and water. Wipe down the front grill and any removable parts that you have taken off, ensuring you clean both sides thoroughly.

Step 5: Clean the Blades

If you’ve removed the fan blades, wipe them down with the damp cloth to remove any built-up dust and grime. Be gentle to avoid bending the blades.

Step 6: Reassemble the Fan (if applicable)

Once everything is clean and dry, reassemble the fan according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Ensure all parts are securely in place.

Step 7: Clean the Exterior

Use a clean, damp cloth to wipe down the exterior of the fan, including the base and controls. Avoid using harsh chemicals that could damage the finish.

Step 8: Final Touches

Allow all parts to air dry completely before plugging the fan back in. This prevents any potential electrical hazards and ensures your fan stays in good working condition.

Maintenance Tips:

Clean your Vornado fan at least once every few months, or more frequently if you notice a decrease in airflow.

Regular cleaning helps maintain optimal performance and extends the life of your fan.

Store your fan in a clean, dry place when not in use to prevent dust buildup.

[hopcrow]

dude I ordered a $70 room fan bc my old one broke and then I had all this angst like. that's so much money for a fan

but it came today and I'll be damned, this thing is not even remotely fucking around... the whole room is noticeably cooler than the rest of the apartment. and it has a 5 year warranty 👍

[reportwire]

VNO Stock Price | Vornado Realty Trust Stock Quote (U.S.: NYSE) | MarketWatch

Vornado Realty Trust Vornado Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust, which engages in the ownership of office, retail, merchandise mart properties, and other real estate and related investments. It operates through the New York and Other segments. The company was founded by Steven Roth on March 29, 1993 and is headquartered in New York, NY. Source link

[joehaupt]

Vintage Vornado Transistor Radio, Model 6YR-20, AM Band, 6 Transistors, Made In Japan, Circa 1961 by Joe Haupt Via Flickr: See also the Corona model 6YR-20, the Marvel 6YR-20 and Regalia 6YR-20. Also, the Rainbow 6YR-20 and a variant of Vornado 6YR-20, both with a different front design.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

2600’s amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down under enshittification

Catch me in Miami! I'll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM.

It's been 40 years since Emmanuel Goldstein launched the seminal, essential, world-changing 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. 2600 wasn't the first phreak/hacker zine, but it was the most important, spawning a global subculture dedicated to the noble pursuit of technological self-determination:

https://www.2600.com/

2600 has published hundreds of issues in which digital spelunkers report eagerly on the things they've discovered by peering intently at the things no one was supposed to even glance at (I'm proud to be one of those writers!). They've fought legal battles, including one that almost went to the Supreme Court:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

They created a global network of meetups where some of technology's most durable friendships and important collaborations were born. These continue to this day:

https://www.2600.com/meetings

And they've hosted a weekly radio show on NYC's WBAI, Off the Hook:

https://wbai.org/program.php?program=76

When WBAI management lost their minds and locked the station's most beloved hosts out of the studio, Off the Hook (naturally) led the rebellion, taking back the station for its audience, rescuing it from a managerial coup:

https://twitter.com/2600/status/1181423565389942786

But best of all, 2600 gave us HOPE – both in the metaphorical sense of "hope for a better technological tomorrow" and in the literal sense, with its biannual Hackers On Planet Earth con:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_on_Planet_Earth

For decades HOPE had an incredible venue, the Hotel Pennsylvania (memorialized in the phreak anthem "PEnnsylvania 6-5000"), a crumbling pile in midtown Manhattan that was biannually transformed into a rollicking, multi-day festival of forbidden technology, improbable feats, and incredible presentations. I was privileged to keynote HOPE in 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1D7APjmVbk

But after the 2018 HOPE, the Hotel Pennsylvania was demolished to make way for the Penn15 (no, really) skyscraper, a vaporware mega-tower planned as a holding pen for luxury shopping and empty million-dollar condos sold to offshore war-criminals as safe-deposit boxes in the sky. The developer, Vornado (no, really) hasn't actually done all that – after demo'ing the Hotel Pennsylvania, they noped out, leave a large, unusable scar across midtown.

But HOPE wasn't lost. In 2022, the ever-resilient 2600 crew relocated to Queens, hosted by St John's University – a venue that was less glamorous that the Hotel Pennsylvania, but the event was still fantastic. Attendance fell from 2,000 to 1,000, but that was something they could work with, and reviews from attendees were stellar.

Good thing, too. 2600 is, first and foremost, a magazine publisher, and these have been hard years for magazines. First there was the mass die-off of indie bookstores and newsracks (I used to sell 2600 when I was a bookseller, and in the years after, I always took the presence of 2600 on a store's newsrack as an unimpeachable mark of quality).

Thankfully for 2600, their audience is (unsurprisingly) a tech-savvy one, so they were able to substitute digital subscriptions for physical ones:

https://www.2600.com/Magazine/DigitalEditions

Of course, many of those subscriptions came through Amazon's Kindle, because nerds were early Amazon adopters, and because the Kindle magazine publishing platform offered DRM-free distribution to subscribers along with a fair payout to publishers.

But then Amazon enshittified its magazine system. Having locked publishers to its platform, it rugged them and killed the monthly subscription fees that allowed publishers to plan for a steady output. Publishers were given a choice: leave Amazon (and all the readers locked inside its walled garden) or put your magazine into the Kindle Unlimited system:

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/arp/B0BWPTCP4K?deviceType=A1FG5NAKX0MRJL

Kindle Unlimited is an all-you-can-eat program for Kindle, which pays publishers and writers based on a system that is both opaque and easily gamed, with the lion's share of the money going to "publishers" who focus on figuring out how to cheat the algorithm. Revenues for 2600 – and all the other magazines that Amazon had sucked in and sucked dry – fell off a cliff.

Which brings me to the present moment. After 40 years, 2600 is still at it, having survived the bookstorepocalypse, the lunacy of public radio management, the literal demolition of their physical home by an evil real-estate developer, and Amazon's crooked accounting.

This is 2600, circa 2024, and 2024 a HOPE year:

https://www.hope.net/

Once again, HOPE has been scheduled for its new digs in Queens, July 12-14. Last week, HOPE sent out an email blast to their subscribers telling them the news. They expected to sell 500 tickets in the first 24 hours. They didn't even come close:

https://www.2600.com/content/hope-ticket-sales-update

It turns out that Google and the other major mail providers don't like emails with the word "hacker" in them. The cartel that decides which email gets delivered, and which messages go to spam, or get blocked altogether, mass-blocked the HOPE 2024 announcement. Email may be the last federated, open platform we have, but mass concentration has created a system where it's nearly impossible to get your email delivered unless you're willing to play by Gmail's rules:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/

For Emmanuel Goldstein, founder of 2600 and tireless toiler for this community, the deafening silence following from that initial email volley was terrifying: "like some kind of a "Twilight Zone" episode where everyone has disappeared."

The enshittification that keeps 2600's emails from being delivered to the people who asked to receive them is even worse on social media. Social media companies routinely defraud their users by letting them subscribe to feeds, then turning around to the people and organizations that run those feeds and saying, "You've got x thousand subscribers on this platform, but we won't put your posts in their feeds unless you pay us to 'boost' your content":

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first

Enshittification has been coming at 2600 for decades. Like other forms of oddball media dedicated to challenging corporate power and government oppression, 2600 has always been a ten-years-ahead preview of the way the noose was gonna tighten on all of us. And now, they're on the ropes. HOPE can't sell tickets unless people know about HOPE, and neither email providers nor social media platforms have any interest in making that happen.

A handful of giant corporations now get to decide what we read, who we hear from, and whether and how we can get together in person to make friends, forge community, rabble-rouse and change the world. The idea that "it's not censorship unless the government does it" has always been wrong (not all censorship violates the First Amendment, and censorship can be real without being unconstitutional):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/04/yes-its-censorship/

What can you do about it? Well, for one thing, you can sign up for HOPE. It's gonna be great. They've got sub-$100 hotel rooms! In New York City!

https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv

If you can't make it to HOPE, you can sign up for a virtual membership:

https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv-virtual-attendee

You can submit a talk to HOPE:

https://www.hope.net/cfp.html

You can subscribe to 2600, in print or electronically (I signed up for the lifetime print subscription and it was a bargain – I devour every issue the day it arrives):

https://store.2600.com/collections/subscriptions-renewals

2600 is living a decade in the future of every other community you care about, weird hobby you enjoy, con you live for, and publication you read from cover to cover. If we can all pull together to save it, it'll be a beacon of hope (and HOPE).

I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/19/hope-less/#hack-the-planet

[uboat53]

I'm calling it now, Donald Trump had a stroke. Hear me out.

So, first of all, Trump did an interview with Elon Musk yesterday on Twitter (or "X", I suppose) where he sounded off. I hadn't heard it until today so I was prepared for it not to be as bad as the chatter, but it was definitely bad. Whenever he got excited it seemed like his mouth filled up with saliva to the point where he sounded like Sylvester the Cat; I half expected to hear him say "thuffering thucotash!" after listening to him for only 30 seconds.

Of course his campaign is trying to blame it on the sound equipment and, while he does sound a trifle muffled, I know a few people who deal with sound equipment (benefits of marrying a music teacher) and none of them think this is something that the equipment could have caused.

So why do I think it's a stroke? Let me explain with a story.

You see, in 2016, I had a discussion with a friend where I argued that we should assume Trump is in debt for more than the value of his assets. You see, at that point he was refusing to release tax returns and financial records to prove that he was actually as rich as he said he was. My point was that, by assuming good things about his finances, he would have no incentive to actually release the documents because anything in them was probably much worse than what we were assuming. By assuming the worst, we provide incentive for him to release them, if only just to prove us wrong.

Now it's eight years later and… boy do we know a lot of bad things about his finances. We know that almost none of his buildings run at a profit and that the only one that does is the one that he doesn't manage (the Vornado partnership). We know that his charity was shut down for being a slush fund that did no actual charitable work, we know that he fraudulently inflates and deflates the values of his properties depending on whether he's talking to a lender or a tax collector, and we know that he falsified his business records to hide illegal payments to aid his political career.

In other words, if we'd assumed the worst in 2016, we'd have been much closer to being correct than if we'd even made a neutral assumption!

So that's why I think Trump had a stroke. It would explain why he suddenly developed a speech impediment (unlike Biden's stutter, this wasn't there four years ago) and why he's been holed up in Mar a Lago for the last month.

If he didn't have a stroke, then let's hear the real explanation for these things. I'm betting I'm much closer to being correct than the people who would brush it off as nothing.

[silver-grasp]

I'm constantly arguing with people about this because everyone wants to open the windows in the middle of the day in summer because "it's hot" yeah no shit it's hot, it's summer! But guess where it's hotter??? OUTSIDE!! Opening the windows is just going to make it hotter inside!! If you want airflow get a decent fan oh my god, a little Vornado is $20 at the hardware store and they're designed to make air circulate not just blow in one direction.

This is basic thermodynamics guys please. Close the windows keep the heat out, open them at night once it cools down.

[air-conditioner-man]

1952 ROOM AIR CONDITIONER DISPLAY

On display are four 1952 brands, Philco (made by York), Vornado (made by O.A. Sutton), Fedders and Mitchell.

[fluffmugger]

......I threw in a casual comment about how an AU company selling “vornados” should possibly have googled before stamping approved on that particular brand name and a company rep reached out to me for clarification so now I have to explain vore fetish to a corporate suit.

[rosymothquilts]

i dont know if anyone active on the quilting side of tumblr has talked about this yet. but i just had to put together a post at work about this, so i might as well share it here

vornado has extended its voluntary recall for steamfast mini irons to include more models. the cord bushing is prone to damage which increases risk of fire and electrical shock. you can read the official document here