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Comment by huesatbri | Hacker News Reader

What did you do wrong and why was it dumb? What’s the correct way?

If you pull a blind cord to the right it stays up, if you pull it to the left it comes down. My whole life I've just been jiggling and tugging the cord to get it to stay or come down.

For those unfamiliar with this, the cord that raises and lowers the blinds applies friction against a wheel in a slot (when pulled to the left). When the wheel is shifted it holds the cord in place and the blinds and they stay in position. Pulling to the right releases the wheel and the blinds move freely.

Incidentally, one of the cords on the blinds in my office is worn, and it dis a poor job of engaging. So one side will latch the others will not.

At my house, all the strings are dry rotting, so any movement of the cord is pretty likely to lower the blinds. Rapidly.

Definitely not in the German speaking countries, we have different blinds. You pull a cord down for the blinds to go up, and vice versa. Then the cord is tied to a hook or button.

Your windows open differently too. Instead of angling inward/outward along either of two axes, ours usually just slide up-down or left-right, remaining firmly attached to the window sill.

No offense, but HN and Reddit are both American created, operated, and primarily trafficked sites. It's not unusual to assume an American audience.

If OP came out assuming a Nairobi design that wasn't used anywhere else, or if they went to the heise.de forums and posted the above; now that would be odd/call-out worthy.

It looks like more than half the traffic is not coming from the US. So even with most traffic coming from the US many here aren't. Good news is that Ikea had a system like that. So there will be many households in Europe that's also fighting with blinds.

Sure, my only point is that telling Americans to back off of/check themselves in spaces that are their only ones just because English happens to be the most spoken language worldwide (especially in the tech-savvy communities) is always weird. Especially when ~45% of the traffic is American.

If an American that spoke German did the same in a German-majority space they would be met with pretty massive derision.

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