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[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Agreed.

grunting noises

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You aren't hurting anyone or doing anything wrong. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people with fashy instincts who freak out over anyone living an unconventional life. And capitalism frowns on anyone living freely and not paying rent, etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Ye olde Zen Garden technique, a classic.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Rubbing one out lowers aggression, ergo masturbation is now mandatory. You all know what to do here, people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, I still use paint.net. My needs are pretty humble, and it still hits that sweet spot between MS Paint and Gimp.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

There's been a trend towards simplicity/minimalism in UX for a long time. Sometimes it works really well. Other times it makes it difficult to find things like setting preferences (or they just don't implement them because the assholes think they know better than you).

For me, MS is a mixed bag. Some of the UX changes are good, some of it is horrible.

But I love a well done minimalist UX. Obsidian and Reaper are two examples that come to mind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

After a recent renovation, our new exaust fan is much quieter, and it kind of bugs me. It is nice to be able to leave it running longer, though. The old one was too obnoxiously loud to leave on after you finished a shower.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Surprised we haven't heard from the germophobes that they use a gantry of hot air blowers, like you sometimes find at the end of an automated car wash.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like sesame sticks and nuts (but allergies can be an issue). Also wasabi peas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll just throw this into the mix: the so-called "wisdom of crowds". I'm not sure if it really applies to juries. But I think the idea that a group of people will be smarter and less biased (or their biases will cancel each other out) is a common notion. It also dilutes the feeling of individual responsibility to some degree.

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

After defeating the Balrog in the mines of Moria, Jesus comes back as Buddy Christ.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

"...In the BOX truck."

Sorry, I got nothin'.

 

I feel like an idiot for not knowing about these.

Every 2-3 months I have to snake out our shower drain with a 25' snake. Giant PITA.

After some web searches, I stumbled across these hair trap devices. They come in both external and internal configurations. Many different types to choose from.

I purchased an internal one, installed it, and am going to give it a try. In theory I can just pop it out and clean it instead of snaking the pipes. Folks tell me they work well. If this one doesn't work I'll try another type. They are fairly inexpensive.

 

We mostly watch news and sports in my house. So unfortunately, live TV. Occasionally we watch other things. I mute the commercials and browse my phone when they're on.

But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes' uniforms. Hide the ads on the pitcher's mound. Hide the billboards and signs in the stadium. Show some cool little generic animation, music video, or slide show during commercial breaks. Hide the damned popup window ads and scrolling ads that some channels do. Remove product placements from movies and shows. Basically make all ads completely vanish.

 

Not asking for tech support here, just wondering if in theory it would be possible to create a plug-in or even a complete browser that blocks ads in a way that's impossible to detect. One model that comes to mind is a quarantined / containerized non-blocking virtual browser which queries the web server directly, then the UX filters the content from that container and presents it to the user ad-free. As far as the web server can tell, the containerized browser is just vanilla Chromium.

 

Some of the satire on there was gold. Had a wonderful lampoon vibe.

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