I see this as an absolute win.

How do you connect it to your computer? I have a big old keyboard but it’s from before there were PS2 ports so I don’t know what to do with it.

I wish I could still buy plain old corded blinds. I managed to find someone selling the precisely correct size for my apartment on Amazon despite the rule against it but now I’m staying in a house with windows of different sizes and no window coverings at all, and I’m misdirecting my spite towards my neighbors by forcing them to see me rather than buying cordless blinds.

Despite being a software developer, I don’t like “smart home” stuff. I recently spent several hundred dollars getting a couple of three-way light switches wired up (I wanted to be able to control the light from multiple locations) and people told me to get the much cheaper and more flexible smart bulbs and wireless switches, but for some reason I can’t put into words I didn’t want that.

(I suppose this is the same urge that pushes me to buy a car with a manual transmission, which in 2025 is severely limiting my options.)

Heh, I loved the first one and then I tried the second one, hated how they changed the combat, and quit.

Years ago I had a screensaver of a double pendulum which was fun because it distracted everyone remaining in the room whenever I left.

I refuse to believe that Romans painted theirs. I mean, the evidence is clear that they did but it would look so terrible!

I set something on fire in my microwave once and now people complain about the way it looks even when it’s completely clean :(

I was also a very active user of traditional forums but, in my experience, small niche subreddits (when I was on Reddit) were a decent substitute in terms of content, since posts could stay on their front page for several days. Lemmy isn’t big enough to have those yet but I hope it will be. The thing I miss most about forums isn’t the format but rather the community. The forum I posted on the most had only a few dozen regulars and I knew them.

There was the guy with a kind, insightful take on controversial issues and a fetish for women with more than two arms. The active duty marine who reliably posted harsh truths. The feminist I didn’t get along with at all despite agreeing with her about most things. The dedicated father who bought real razor wire for his daughter when she wanted a UN-peacekeeper-base themed birthday party. The very determined conservative who defended his position no matter how outnumbered he was and once bragged that he had given his wife several dozen orgasms in a row…

I suppose I was the young man with strange views about what was or wasn’t fair and a great deal of anger over any perceived unfairness. (I don’t think I was particularly well-liked.) The internet is so much less personal now.

Challenging them is one thing. Disrupting the CEO’s public speech is another. I think almost every company would fire any employee who did that for any reason.

I hate it when a curse makes all my clothing too big.

In grad school, the only way they could get a lot of graduate students to show up anywhere was by offering free pizza. I think ice cream would have worked too.

The programmer’s answer?

We don’t support that use case.

I don’t think they’re feral anymore if they live in an apartment.

It looks like a fire-damaged apartment in an otherwise nice building, and it could be worth a lot more than 105k in the right location.

Yes, because real Vikings were very serious about respecting human rights.

I don’t see anything anticompetitive in that. Many browsers use Chromium because that’s what users apparently prefer. Look at the history of Firefox’s market share or the market share of the original Edge. Users had those options and rejected them despite the fact that the former had an enormous head start and the latter was bundled with Windows.

Apparently simply being popular is enough to count as a monopoly even when there are multiple other browsers readily available for free? It’s extortion, IMO.

(I know that the case is more complicated than that, with the integration of Chrome and Google Search being an issue, but I think my point still stands.)

I had liability-only insurance but with a clause including 100% coverage specifically for windshield replacement. I’m not sure why. I used it twice (once per vehicle) over the years and my rates didn’t go up as far as I could tell.

One time I locked my keys inside my truck and then I decided it was a good time to get the crack in my windshield fixed. It really did have a crack, but I also didn’t have to pay to have the truck unlocked.

Is it more or less annoying than the plain old beeping when you’re trying to sleep?