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  • When you refund a mattress they just surface clean it

    yuck. I doubt that. It’s manual work and far more expensive than a machine.

    but getting them dry would be a challenge

    seriously? I mean, there is a chance no such service exists in your town. Bad luck then. But there is close to zero chance it doesn’t exist in your country.

    What do you think hospitals do? (Or good hotels, as mentioned). Source: Worked in an elderly home that used such a service regularly.

    Here’s an image of such a mattress washing machine.

    They work.


  • That’s not true. All mattresses except the cheapest foam ones are washable (they are, too but they might change properties then). But why get a used cheap one?

    There are mattress washing services with giant washing machines that are used by hotels. Ask hotel staff to find one.

    You can’t get rid of most of the build-up.

    You actually can get rid of all the buildups. Just like with clothes. Also don’t think sellers throw it away when you refund a mattress - they wash it and sell it again.



  • Some things basically come for free when they were used. Washing machine, stoves… Disassembling them to fully clean them takes a day or two, but it’s still faster than buying new and chances are good, someone wants to get rid of their high quality stuff near you and will give it away for cheap if you “dispose” it for them.

    You can even wash a mattress for a few bucks. If it’s good quality, a decade old used filthy mattress can come out like brand new.

    People finding that gross or poorish are the reason, stuff is so cheap


  • We live in the real world. If you don’t submit the government forms how they want you to, they shrug and fine the shit out of you.

    Then you just don’t know the law. There is no legislation that enforces Acrobat in any civilized country without alternative.

    Quite the opposite: Send macroridden documents to any decently secure infrastructure and you get a big fat warning in the subject if it’s not filtered entirely. Officials LOVE to do that extra call ensuring that this document is really from you before opening it and no phishing attempt…not.

    Source: working >25 years in IT, >15 years for government IT

    EDIT: we got some real Adobe Acrobat Fanboy here, eh? ;-)






  • Formulars, such as calculating a sum based on the preceding fields.

    • Field formatting, such as appending .00 to a currency amount

    You’re doing it wrong. PDF with embedded javascript is a nightmare and it still doesn’t make PDF equal to excel.

    Better generate your documents with your favourite HTML templating engine from your DB and convert them to simple PDF in the last step.

    LibreOffice notoriously renders Microsoft Office documents incorrectly in my experience.

    Only had that experience with badly designed, macro ridden documents which there’s no excuse for anyway nowadays. I use a lot of print templates (various label printers) and it works flawlessly.

    Also, exporting a non MS file format usually imports fine in LibreOffice, even with complex documents.

    The ability to quickly edit PDF makes it the office suite of my choice.