I once threw away sink full of dirty dishes rather than hand wash them. They had been there for like two weeks and were really nasty. I think that was at the height of my depression.
That's why I like stainless steel cookware. If there's a tough mess stuck to them, I just switch from my usual sponge to the stainless steel scouring pad and wear it back down to the metal.
Can do similar with cast iron, but it can turn into more work if you need to reseason it.
As someone who has spent their fair share of time deep-cleaning greasy commercial kitchens, I believe the stainless steel scrubby is one of humankind's greatest creations.
That quick temperature change sounds like a double edged sword to me, as a thicker base means it can hold its temperature as you add cold/wet food, which might result in steaming food instead of frying/sautéing.
On that note, temperature control also helps making cleaning easier. If your oil is heated before you add the food, the food will tend to not stick as much (though there's a bunch of other factors at play, so I still get use out of my scouring pad).
I once pirated a book because I didn’t want to get it from another room.
I pirated a game I legit bought. This was way back in the days when some games had this annoying copy protection where you had to look up words from the manual before you could play. Enter the 3rd word on line 7 of page 28. This sort of thing.
It got old really fast, so I disassembled the binary and saw where it was calling on a random number generator to select the page. I changed just 1 assembly instruction so that the generator would always return 0. Then it said look up so-and-so and the word turned out to be "time". After that, all I had to do was enter "time" at launch and I tossed out the manual.
Yes. Assembly is barely abstracted from the actual machine instructions, to the point where the process of translating it is easily reversible. Reading assembly code is a thing all on it's own, though.
There's specialised software available for this kind of reverse-engineering now, too, if you're doing something more complicated than just looking for and cutting out a system call.
Yeah. At the lowest level, the CPU reads a program as a bunch of numbers, where each number is a very simple instruction such as "add 2 values together". Assembly language is a more human-readable version of machine code, where you can see something more like add r1,r2 instead of 35397176 or whatever numeric code means "add the value in register 1 to 2" for some hypothetical processor. (Registers are where the processor keeps values loaded in from the RAM.)
So in my case, if I saw that the program was making some system call to the random number generator and the calling conventions used by the operating system always put the return value in register 0, I could replace the call with something like clr r0 (clear the value in register 0). It's a pretty simple hack. So the "generator" now always generates zero.
These days, programs are often code-signed and if you start messing around like that, they'll get flagged as malware. But it worked fine back in those open and trusting days.
That's a good question. It may depend on the platform?
Right now, I'm doing most of my coding on a Mac. I noticed I get into trouble when trying to move the program to another machine. The OS seems to tag the executable with some metadata that runs afoul of Gatekeeper. Removing said metadata seems to get you past that. But that's for in-house software that has never been registered with Apple or anything. I've never actually tried modifying a program that has been registered, so I'm not sure if there are any extra levels to this?
One example is Minecraft, which I legit bought but no longer legitimately own, because when Microsoft took over they forced people to make Microsoft accounts and no longer allow Mojang accounts to be used to authenticate. Because I didn't make a Microsoft account, I no longer own the game, so now I play a pirated copy because I can no longer legitimately play it.
Another example is some games made by studios that went bust and there's no longer any legit distributor of the game, so the only copy you can download is a pirated copy.
It's still piracy if it circumvents the intended method of distribution and validation that you own a licence.
Piracy cannot happen if it's fair use. And this is fair use (I'm referring to downloading a game you already own, not the thing about dead studios).
Piracy is the intention/result, not the method. If you bought a video game, you own it and are allowed to own a backup of it. How you get that backup is irrelevant
In the first example, it is not fair use, because you don't buy digital copies of games—you buy a licence to play the game. My Minecraft licence would have been revoked when I didn't create a Microsoft account. Game companies can impose whatever conditions on a game licence they like (so long as the condition is not otherwise illegal).
Case law is specific to jurisdiction. I don't know where you live, and I've not said where I live. The way buying and selling most digital copies of games is through buying and selling licences, though some software you do pay for the download itself rather than paying for a licence. That doesn't require case law; that's literally just what it is, like how if I sign a contract I don't need case law to demonstrate that what I've signed is a contract, it just is. Case law adjudicates matters of law which are in dispute, not figuring out whether a spade is a spade.
Yeah just because you say "this is not in dispute," doesn't make it true. The reason there appears to be no dispute is because video game companies haven't brought a suit against anyone for this specific thing. Until then, it's nebulous and completely up for debate.
Video game manufacturers have lost several emulation suits in the past, and I would not be one bit surprised if that's the reason why they never tried to go after this in courts.
Bleem! successfully won their countersuit against Sony because of fair use.
It doesn't hurt that there is this precedent regarding VHS:
A friend of mine at least once ordered delivery from the Mexican place that was directly below her apartment. She said the delivery guy was a little confused. She had a lot of depression at the time.
We rented an apartment for 5 months after listing our house for sale because we didn’t want to have to clean it and leave the house fora few hours every time someone wanted to come do a viewing.
In our defense… we had a 3yr old, a hairy dog, and were preparing to leave the country permanently, which took 10 months of nonstop preparation on top of working full time, so I still think it was worth the money to save us the extra work. But yeah, probably the laziest thing I’ve done.
I'm pretty sure that's what I'll have to do as I can clean but I have trouble maintaining. Plus I have too much stuff for the space I have, so I'll need a place for my stuff anyways.
I dunno if laziest but my landlord certainly thought so. I had bedbugs and there's so much crap you have to do prep for the extermination like remove all your clothes and wash them three times on hot, flip through all your books to check for them, the list was ridiculous. I'm way too lazy for that so I paid the extra $600 out of pocket for the "good" treatment where they just super heat your entire home to kill them and all you have to do is remove things that might melt or explode.
Thankfully the exterminators found the illegal fireworks I had hidden and forgotten about, removed them, and didn't say anything to the landlord.
The heat treatment was the only thing that worked when I had to deal with those little fuckers. I'm sorry you had to deal with them, but I'm glad they're gone now. Those things aren't just physically irritating, they fuck with your head.
Last part of last sentence absolutely. Reminded me of when I moved to sleeping on the couch while waiting for the extermination day. While doing couch life I read that bed bugs are attracted to carbon dioxide so breathing will pull them toward you anyway. There is no escape.
Yea that's what we did at a public library I worked at whenever a bed bug or signs of it were spotted. All the books in the same space were considered contaminated and we put them all in a special heater.
Pretty much everything is illegal here except maybe like sparklers and snakes. I only had pretty tame stuff like Roman candles I bought a county over from mine. Lotta wildfires here.
Pissed out of a window rather than walk ten feet to the bathroom.
In fairness, I had the flu, and was a teenager. Feeling like hammered vulture shit, with a window right there and open anyway? No way was I getting out of bed. The window was just barely above the top of the mattress, so all I had to do was roll over, kinda prop up, and let 'er rip.
Surprisingly, not only did it not go horribly wrong, but the little forethought I had with a fever that high managed to prevent any drips from being a problem. Well, a problem then. Still had to wash the towel later, and that left me without a clean towel for fever sweats, but I had bandanas I could use for that.
Look, I was creeping into dangerous fever levels lol. Not the best set of decisions, but it worried out in the end
Out into the yard. It had plenty of arc what with being backed up a good bit lol.
Our yard had plenty of trees and shrubberies even back then (now, it's essentially a meadow), so for someone to have seen anything at all they would have had to be in the yard itself, and thus deserved to see a dick hanging out a window and pissing on them :)
Back in my teenage years, when you used to change TV channel by walking over to the TV and physically pressing a button, myself and two friends (likely all a bit stoned), sat on a sofa opposite the TV, invented a ~3 metre long "TV prodding device" from gaffer tape and "anything we could find within arm's reach".
I think we spent about half an hour building this device, rather than any of us standing up, taking a few steps forward and physically pressing the button.
I remember when my grandfather died, we were going through his belongings and found a drawer full of electric razors. Why did he have so many?!? Then we noticed every one was full of hair, and concluded that he bought a new one every time it filled up rather than emptying it.
Then years later, my parents became snowbirds who went to Mexico every winter, and they stayed with this other family who were locals. They got good at Spanish and one day I guess, my dad was talking to the other dad and they burst out laughing. I asked what that was all about, and he said the Mexican dad's father also had a drawer full of electric razors, and he never understood why?
Pro tip: If you buy tons of the same type of socks such as 20 pairs of black you can wash and dry them and they pair easily. It's less effort than going to buy new ones.
This is exactly what I do. I have like 30 identical pairs of socks. They just get dumped in a pile in my sock drawer, and I grab two off the top of the pile every day.
I dated a girl who did this. I asked why her socks were always mismatched. She looked at me like it should be obvious, and said “I pull two out of the drawer. If they match, I know I’m going to have a good day.” I said she could just match her socks, and then she’d have a good day every day. But apparently that was missing the point.
Gosh I've been trying to force myself to do that for like 5 years already. I'm just too lazy to spend some time and choose a good fit (instead of just buying random socks every once in a while). What brand and type of socks would you recommend??
Buy one pack of 5, if good go back and buy 3+ more packs leaving some unopened and throw out old if not find better. Look at what sock you like currently and try finding similar. I like thin/semi thin. I don't do brands, just feel with the hands.
Dickies Dri-Tech in whatever length you need. They’re my go-to because I wear safety boots for work. They’re way more padded than typical socks, and they’re extremely durable.
I did the same. I wanted to watch a TV series of which I own the box set but I was too lazy to get the box, put the disc in and go through the menu for every three episodes or so. So I pirated it.
So many providers these days STILL don't get that the more control you take away the less incentive people have to buy their product. Oh I have to see a mandatory FBI piracy warning splash screen and the speed control is locked at 1.5x max? Jeez it's a shame you can't compete with the pirated file that has no nag screens and I can blow through at fucking 20x if I want.
We can't get a dishwasher. The pipes to the house are too messed up. The sink was designed for someone way taller than me so I have to lean forward and get soaked on the cabinet that tilts forwards towards me instead of back towards the sink.
Using a state of the art local LLM and an agent to ask it to find all files with a certain extension, because I always forget how to use the find command on linux and I can't be bothered to read it.
I put clothes on hangers and hung them in the doorway between the kitchen and the rest of the house to take with me when I eventually head in that direction. I left the clothes there for over a week while I had to twist to get around them, and only took them to my room to put away when I did laundry the next week...and ran out of space to hang the clean shirts.
I have remoted in to my desktop from my laptop or vice versa many times to close a video that either I left playing or the cats have unpaused by walking on the keyboard
That's not too bad. Back in the days when Nintendo Switch came out, I heard that rich people bought digital version of games because they were too lazy to get up from the couch and walk to the docked console to switch cartridges.
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sheridan@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 61d
I once threw away sink full of dirty dishes rather than hand wash them. They had been there for like two weeks and were really nasty. I think that was at the height of my depression.
Duranie@leminal.space · 19 pts · 61d
Depression is expensive. I lost a couple crock pots that way. Finally found disposable liners!
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 61d
Been there as well
And I tried to save a pan, but the fat and dust would never get of it, and I needed to throw it away anyway...
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
That's why I like stainless steel cookware. If there's a tough mess stuck to them, I just switch from my usual sponge to the stainless steel scouring pad and wear it back down to the metal.
Can do similar with cast iron, but it can turn into more work if you need to reseason it.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
As someone who has spent their fair share of time deep-cleaning greasy commercial kitchens, I believe the stainless steel scrubby is one of humankind's greatest creations.
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 59d
Since some months now we have a carbon steel pan and I absolutely love it, because it's also very thin and adapts quickly to temperature changes
And also has the advantage to clean it quite roughly
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
That quick temperature change sounds like a double edged sword to me, as a thicker base means it can hold its temperature as you add cold/wet food, which might result in steaming food instead of frying/sautéing.
On that note, temperature control also helps making cleaning easier. If your oil is heated before you add the food, the food will tend to not stick as much (though there's a bunch of other factors at play, so I still get use out of my scouring pad).
naeap@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 59d
I usually account for that, by starting to heat up before that
Maybe a thing of preference :-)
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 61d
NONE_dc@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 61d
I made an script in Python to batch rename like 10 images in a folder.
g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 61d
What's the point of automation if not to save seconds by wasting hours?
otacon239@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 61d
This immediately came to mind
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 61d
That's valid
HostilePlayer@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 61d
I got a pair of slippers with brushes on for when you clean the floor, I put it on a remote controlled car so I didn't have to get off the couch.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 61d
That's not lazy, that's brilliant
InterestingUsername@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 60d
That's genius
communism@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 59d
That's great though, because it makes cleaning the floor fun. You get to drive a remote controlled car instead of just mopping or whatever.
tunetardis@piefed.ca · 44 pts · 61d
I pirated a game I legit bought. This was way back in the days when some games had this annoying copy protection where you had to look up words from the manual before you could play. Enter the 3rd word on line 7 of page 28. This sort of thing.
It got old really fast, so I disassembled the binary and saw where it was calling on a random number generator to select the page. I changed just 1 assembly instruction so that the generator would always return 0. Then it said look up so-and-so and the word turned out to be "time". After that, all I had to do was enter "time" at launch and I tossed out the manual.
Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz · 24 pts · 61d
That's a lot of work in the short term to be lazy in the long, and I am impressed
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 60d
You can disassemble programs like that? and see what's inside? can you explain like I'm four and three quarters?
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 60d
Yes. Assembly is barely abstracted from the actual machine instructions, to the point where the process of translating it is easily reversible. Reading assembly code is a thing all on it's own, though.
There's specialised software available for this kind of reverse-engineering now, too, if you're doing something more complicated than just looking for and cutting out a system call.
tunetardis@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 60d
Yeah. At the lowest level, the CPU reads a program as a bunch of numbers, where each number is a very simple instruction such as "add 2 values together". Assembly language is a more human-readable version of machine code, where you can see something more like
add r1,r2instead of35397176or whatever numeric code means "add the value in register 1 to 2" for some hypothetical processor. (Registers are where the processor keeps values loaded in from the RAM.)So in my case, if I saw that the program was making some system call to the random number generator and the calling conventions used by the operating system always put the return value in register 0, I could replace the call with something like
clr r0(clear the value in register 0). It's a pretty simple hack. So the "generator" now always generates zero.These days, programs are often code-signed and if you start messing around like that, they'll get flagged as malware. But it worked fine back in those open and trusting days.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 58d
Isn't there a way to manually whitelist modified software on your AV, if it's your own machine?
With modern software, there's also the problem of just learning whatever weird stack the game is running on, to know where to look.
tunetardis@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 58d
That's a good question. It may depend on the platform?
Right now, I'm doing most of my coding on a Mac. I noticed I get into trouble when trying to move the program to another machine. The OS seems to tag the executable with some metadata that runs afoul of Gatekeeper. Removing said metadata seems to get you past that. But that's for in-house software that has never been registered with Apple or anything. I've never actually tried modifying a program that has been registered, so I'm not sure if there are any extra levels to this?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 59d
I would argue that this is not possible.
communism@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 59d
It definitely is, and I've done it several times.
One example is Minecraft, which I legit bought but no longer legitimately own, because when Microsoft took over they forced people to make Microsoft accounts and no longer allow Mojang accounts to be used to authenticate. Because I didn't make a Microsoft account, I no longer own the game, so now I play a pirated copy because I can no longer legitimately play it.
Another example is some games made by studios that went bust and there's no longer any legit distributor of the game, so the only copy you can download is a pirated copy.
It's still piracy if it circumvents the intended method of distribution and validation that you own a licence.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 58d
Piracy cannot happen if it's fair use. And this is fair use (I'm referring to downloading a game you already own, not the thing about dead studios).
Piracy is the intention/result, not the method. If you bought a video game, you own it and are allowed to own a backup of it. How you get that backup is irrelevant
communism@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 58d
In the first example, it is not fair use, because you don't buy digital copies of games—you buy a licence to play the game. My Minecraft licence would have been revoked when I didn't create a Microsoft account. Game companies can impose whatever conditions on a game licence they like (so long as the condition is not otherwise illegal).
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 58d
And you have case law to back this up?
communism@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 58d
Case law is specific to jurisdiction. I don't know where you live, and I've not said where I live. The way buying and selling most digital copies of games is through buying and selling licences, though some software you do pay for the download itself rather than paying for a licence. That doesn't require case law; that's literally just what it is, like how if I sign a contract I don't need case law to demonstrate that what I've signed is a contract, it just is. Case law adjudicates matters of law which are in dispute, not figuring out whether a spade is a spade.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 57d
Yeah just because you say "this is not in dispute," doesn't make it true. The reason there appears to be no dispute is because video game companies haven't brought a suit against anyone for this specific thing. Until then, it's nebulous and completely up for debate.
Video game manufacturers have lost several emulation suits in the past, and I would not be one bit surprised if that's the reason why they never tried to go after this in courts.
Bleem! successfully won their countersuit against Sony because of fair use.
It doesn't hurt that there is this precedent regarding VHS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios%2C_Inc.
Until Nintendo or Sony, etc actually tries to sue someone for doing it, then it's up for dispute.
TheMadCodger@piefed.social · 39 pts · 61d
Ordered delivery from across the street because it was raining and I didn't want to…
jtrek@startrek.website · 18 pts · 61d
A friend of mine at least once ordered delivery from the Mexican place that was directly below her apartment. She said the delivery guy was a little confused. She had a lot of depression at the time.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu · 12 pts · 60d
I did that with a pizzeria that was in my building.
Instructions for delivery : Go upstairs.
I wasn't depressed or anything it was more a little bit of a joke to the delivery man.
olafurp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
I once had a cheap German everything fast food restaurant downstairs. I went there so often to eat in because I didn't want to cook and clean.
slowtrain33@lemmy.ml · 34 pts · 61d
We rented an apartment for 5 months after listing our house for sale because we didn’t want to have to clean it and leave the house fora few hours every time someone wanted to come do a viewing.
In our defense… we had a 3yr old, a hairy dog, and were preparing to leave the country permanently, which took 10 months of nonstop preparation on top of working full time, so I still think it was worth the money to save us the extra work. But yeah, probably the laziest thing I’ve done.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 61d
That's not lazy, that's just good planning. The last thing you need before a massive move like that is more stress.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 59d
I'm pretty sure that's what I'll have to do as I can clean but I have trouble maintaining. Plus I have too much stuff for the space I have, so I'll need a place for my stuff anyways.
Chewbaccabra@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 60d
I dunno if laziest but my landlord certainly thought so. I had bedbugs and there's so much crap you have to do prep for the extermination like remove all your clothes and wash them three times on hot, flip through all your books to check for them, the list was ridiculous. I'm way too lazy for that so I paid the extra $600 out of pocket for the "good" treatment where they just super heat your entire home to kill them and all you have to do is remove things that might melt or explode.
Thankfully the exterminators found the illegal fireworks I had hidden and forgotten about, removed them, and didn't say anything to the landlord.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 59d
The heat treatment was the only thing that worked when I had to deal with those little fuckers. I'm sorry you had to deal with them, but I'm glad they're gone now. Those things aren't just physically irritating, they fuck with your head.
Chewbaccabra@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
Last part of last sentence absolutely. Reminded me of when I moved to sleeping on the couch while waiting for the extermination day. While doing couch life I read that bed bugs are attracted to carbon dioxide so breathing will pull them toward you anyway. There is no escape.
EddoWagt@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 60d
How hot does your room get in such a process?
Chewbaccabra@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 60d
55 C or thereabouts. I was at work when they did it. When I came home it felt like I'd left the heat on full blast all day
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 59d
Yea that's what we did at a public library I worked at whenever a bed bug or signs of it were spotted. All the books in the same space were considered contaminated and we put them all in a special heater.
EddoWagt@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 59d
Damn, that's enough to deform PLA 3d prints
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 60d
Illegal fireworks? is that code for explosives?
I did a quick check and looks like there are two categories of fireworks above what regular people can freely buy in a store...
https://eclatsetincelants.fr/blog/reglementation-feux-artifice-france
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 60d
Fireworks are explosives by definition so yes
Chewbaccabra@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 60d
Pretty much everything is illegal here except maybe like sparklers and snakes. I only had pretty tame stuff like Roman candles I bought a county over from mine. Lotta wildfires here.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 60d
Depending on location they can all be illegal. Firecrackers specifically are illegal in my region, IIRC.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 61d
Pissed out of a window rather than walk ten feet to the bathroom.
In fairness, I had the flu, and was a teenager. Feeling like hammered vulture shit, with a window right there and open anyway? No way was I getting out of bed. The window was just barely above the top of the mattress, so all I had to do was roll over, kinda prop up, and let 'er rip.
Surprisingly, not only did it not go horribly wrong, but the little forethought I had with a fever that high managed to prevent any drips from being a problem. Well, a problem then. Still had to wash the towel later, and that left me without a clean towel for fever sweats, but I had bandanas I could use for that.
Look, I was creeping into dangerous fever levels lol. Not the best set of decisions, but it worried out in the end
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 61d
In hindsight, you could've used a bandana for the drips
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 59d
Where was the pee falling to? Any neighbor that could have seen?
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 59d
Out into the yard. It had plenty of arc what with being backed up a good bit lol.
Our yard had plenty of trees and shrubberies even back then (now, it's essentially a meadow), so for someone to have seen anything at all they would have had to be in the yard itself, and thus deserved to see a dick hanging out a window and pissing on them :)
Godric@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 61d
I've found alternate means of watching a show because I couldn't be assed to open my authenticator app more than once.
d00ery@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 60d
An authenticator app is required for media streaming app!?
TBF, I'm getting a bit fed up with these logins that require 2 factor text or email.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 24 pts · 61d
I put off procrastinating.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 60d
I once st
mitch404@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 59d
Well d
ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 61d
Checked my phone to get the current weather. The alternative was walking a meter and opening the curtains. But then I had to get up.
tdawg@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 61d
The curtains won't tell you the high for the day
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 60d
⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️
Instead of
history | grep whateverlichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 60d
You can just do CTRL+R (in bash at least)
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 59d
I never remember this when it'd actually be useful
Everyday0764@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 59d
and with zsh and fzf you get a nice fuzzy search window: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/plugins%2Ffzf%2FREADME.md
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 19 pts · 60d
Back in my teenage years, when you used to change TV channel by walking over to the TV and physically pressing a button, myself and two friends (likely all a bit stoned), sat on a sofa opposite the TV, invented a ~3 metre long "TV prodding device" from gaffer tape and "anything we could find within arm's reach".
I think we spent about half an hour building this device, rather than any of us standing up, taking a few steps forward and physically pressing the button.
The device succeeded.
It fell apart after a few uses.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 59d
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 59d
A fing-longerer
pwxd@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 60d
I SSHed my laptop to turn it off, even though my laptop is not that far away from my bed
black0ut@pawb.social · 10 pts · 60d
I WoL my second computer to turn it on, even though it's at an arm's reach (but I'd have to stretch a bit to reach it)
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 61d
Your mom. Sorry if this had been mentioned already, it's a long line.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 59d
Can I take a number? I'm in line for their dad already.
Dispassionate@quokk.au · 16 pts · 61d
I didn’t read a book because it was in the other room.
texture@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 60d
when my apartment gets too messy i just move
Mpatch@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 60d
I don't wash stains on walls from dogs or kids. I just paint every few years
texture@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 60d
maybe we're related
LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 61d
I literally spit coffee reading this lol
lemmylemonade@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 60d
I buy new socks instead of washing them.
tunetardis@piefed.ca · 15 pts · 60d
I remember when my grandfather died, we were going through his belongings and found a drawer full of electric razors. Why did he have so many?!? Then we noticed every one was full of hair, and concluded that he bought a new one every time it filled up rather than emptying it.
Then years later, my parents became snowbirds who went to Mexico every winter, and they stayed with this other family who were locals. They got good at Spanish and one day I guess, my dad was talking to the other dad and they burst out laughing. I asked what that was all about, and he said the Mexican dad's father also had a drawer full of electric razors, and he never understood why?
fireweed@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 60d
But you should always wash clothes before wearing them for the first time???
(Seriously though, they have all kinds of dirt and chemicals on them)
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 60d
Are they really cheap socks, at least?
lemmylemonade@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 59d
yea they are
olafurp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
Pro tip: If you buy tons of the same type of socks such as 20 pairs of black you can wash and dry them and they pair easily. It's less effort than going to buy new ones.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 59d
This is exactly what I do. I have like 30 identical pairs of socks. They just get dumped in a pile in my sock drawer, and I grab two off the top of the pile every day.
groucho@retrolemmy.com · 1 pts · 59d
I do this, except for the part where they're all identical.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 59d
I dated a girl who did this. I asked why her socks were always mismatched. She looked at me like it should be obvious, and said “I pull two out of the drawer. If they match, I know I’m going to have a good day.” I said she could just match her socks, and then she’d have a good day every day. But apparently that was missing the point.
myszka@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 59d
Gosh I've been trying to force myself to do that for like 5 years already. I'm just too lazy to spend some time and choose a good fit (instead of just buying random socks every once in a while). What brand and type of socks would you recommend??
olafurp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
Buy one pack of 5, if good go back and buy 3+ more packs leaving some unopened and throw out old if not find better. Look at what sock you like currently and try finding similar. I like thin/semi thin. I don't do brands, just feel with the hands.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 59d
Dickies Dri-Tech in whatever length you need. They’re my go-to because I wear safety boots for work. They’re way more padded than typical socks, and they’re extremely durable.
myszka@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 58d
Thanks!
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 60d
I legitimately think my boyfriend does this. That man has more socks than any person needs.
tourist@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 61d
I'm too lazy to keep track of all the lazy shit I do
I have no way to gauge it
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 61d
I was watching "In Bruges" on TV, and couldn't understand the version of English they spoke, so I downloaded it with subtitles and watched that.
ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 60d
I did the same. I wanted to watch a TV series of which I own the box set but I was too lazy to get the box, put the disc in and go through the menu for every three episodes or so. So I pirated it.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 59d
So many providers these days STILL don't get that the more control you take away the less incentive people have to buy their product. Oh I have to see a mandatory FBI piracy warning splash screen and the speed control is locked at 1.5x max? Jeez it's a shame you can't compete with the pirated file that has no nag screens and I can blow through at fucking 20x if I want.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 59d
Called someone in the next room to bring me something.
calmblue75@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 59d
Adhd?
butsbutts@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 59d
yo pass me some adhd
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 59d
Laziest thing I've done is nothing. Much lazier than doing something.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 60d
Upvotes to the left
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 60d
?
Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 59d
I don't wash dishes I use paper plates and forks.
We can't get a dishwasher. The pipes to the house are too messed up. The sink was designed for someone way taller than me so I have to lean forward and get soaked on the cabinet that tilts forwards towards me instead of back towards the sink.
dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza · 3 pts · 60d
Using a state of the art local LLM and an agent to ask it to find all files with a certain extension, because I always forget how to use the find command on linux and I can't be bothered to read it.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 60d
ls *.txt?schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 60d
That would work for a single directory.
Most file managers have a global search.
golden_zealot@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 60d
ls -R *.txt?dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza · 2 pts · 59d
No that would be just in the current folder, I needed to search recursively
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 59d
find -name "*.txt"
Iirc. Though it might want a regular expression instead of a wildcard.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 60d
How are you getting a local LLM to read files for you?
dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza · 3 pts · 59d
Take a look at pi.dev (or similar tools)
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 59d
I put clothes on hangers and hung them in the doorway between the kitchen and the rest of the house to take with me when I eventually head in that direction. I left the clothes there for over a week while I had to twist to get around them, and only took them to my room to put away when I did laundry the next week...and ran out of space to hang the clean shirts.
waggz@programming.dev · 3 pts · 59d
I have remoted in to my desktop from my laptop or vice versa many times to close a video that either I left playing or the cats have unpaused by walking on the keyboard
myszka@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 59d
I got on Fediverse bc I was too lazy to consume what the algorithm fed me
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 61d
That's not too bad. Back in the days when Nintendo Switch came out, I heard that rich people bought digital version of games because they were too lazy to get up from the couch and walk to the docked console to switch cartridges.