What an expensive and enviromentally unfriendly way of being petty…

Halogen oven: I live alone, and even though it’s relatively small, it’s big enough for me (unless I want to cook a pizza). It preheats much faster than a regular oven, so meals take much less time to make if I’m just throwing something in it too cook.

Headphone stand: I got a stand that you can hang headphones on, and it’s so much nicer than just tossing it on the table or whatever.

Battery powered lamp with a flexible “spine”. I have an adjustable lamp which charges via usb and has a flexible neck. It saves the hassle of trying to prop up a phone or something with the torch turned on.

Did you know you can get toilet roll holders that have a little shelf for you to put a phone on? If you browse on the can, they’re rather handy.

Extension cables: If you have a desktop or tv, you can just grab some USB, hdmi or audio extensions and swap things using that instead of leaning behind the device.

Egg cooker thingy: I have a thingie that you put a certain amount of water in and it boils an egg using the steam and turns off when done. Saves the effort of setting a timer or boiling a full pan of water.

Kettles: Apparently not a thing in the US? I don’t know how you live without them.

Honestly been feeling pretty good recently. Started taking some antidepressants and they seem to be working! I guess I now have this feeling that everything is going to be okay and work itself out somehow.

Just a heads up: Some instances don’t allow creation of new communities by non-admins. If the “Create Community” option isn’t there, you’re probably on one of those instances.

For standard use, ext4. If you want to tinker and use fancy features, btrfs (or maybe zfs?).

A society that allows everyone to be free to do whatever they want, provided that all parties involved fully understand and consent to it. Economy wise, I’d like everyone to just unconditionally receive a basic income that covers enough for them to live comfortably.

Perhaps unrealistic yeah, but that’s the dream society I wish could happen.

One small thing but I’m surprised nobody points it out - the charging port location. I like using my switch/steam deck in bed or otherwise laying down, and the fact that the charging lead is at the bottom of the console rather than the top sucks. It just gets in the way and stops you resting the console on you. Whereas the Steam Deck just has it on top where you can just plug it in while playing.

I know the technical reasons behind it because of the dock and all that, but it’s annoying.

In general, I think the steam deck is better than the switch in almost every way - The switch is just an expensive ticket for the right to play Nintendo games nowadays.

The Holy See.

Trust me.

Put up Halloween decorations and claim you got the date wrong.

Used them to debug a problem. Forgot to remove them. Wondered why I ran out of disk space a few weeks later.

Programs running graphically (Firefox, your file browser, etc.) need a way to tell the system “draw these pixels here”. That’s what the display server does; it takes all these applications, works out where their windows are and manages that pixel data.

XOrg has historically been the display server in common use, but it’s very old and very cobbled together. It generally struggles with “modern” things that must people expect today. Multimonitor setups, vsync, hdr and all that. They work, but support is hacked together and brittle.

Wayland is a replacement for XOrg that was designed from scratch to fix a lot of these issues. But it’s been an uphill battle because XOrg is the final boss of legacy codebases.

tl;dr They’re both software that manages drawing pixels from applications to the display.

Soldering. Anyone who tells you it’s easy is wrong. :P

Was soldering a mod board to a Sega Mega Drive, but ended up getting solder on the cpu’s contacts and needed to get a second one. And it was a pain getting the wires to bind to the traces.

And yes, I probably was doing everything wrong.

Firstly, if you can, get a bunch of boxes of paperclips and put them in plausible hiding places. Depending on how they are marked, it might buy you some time.

Some ideas:

• Lock it in a safe or strongbox only you know the code for.
• Unscrew a plug socket or light switch from the wall, put it in the cavity, and then reattach it.
• Get a photograph with a metal frame and slip the paperclip behind the picture itself.
• Find some other metalic easy to dismantle thing and hide the clip inside.
• Throw it down a drain or other hole, you can use a magnet on a string to retrieve it.

I assume the investigator will systematically remove everything and sweep it with a metal detector. Hopefully these hiding places won’t be as obvious.

Finally, my spirit animal.

To deal with the hunger I mostly feed on small rodents, birds, particularly annoying dogs and grapes.

On a serious note, what are you actually asking for here? Can you provide more details about what conversation you are trying to start?

What I call brain fog is like “thinking through treacle” or something. Any thoughts I try to make, either solving problems or being creative, take a lot more “brain fuel” and effort to do.

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Out of interest, what is your use case? I’ve not seen a gui app that requires root that doesn’t prompt for it when you start it up.

I’d like to see fusion power (or some other good power source) become a thing. It’d be nice to live in a society where energy usage was basically safe and free.

If we’re being unrealistic, easy access to ftl spacecraft for everyone would be nice. Exploring the galaxy sounds fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R0hbe8HZj0 If you’re a video watchy person, I found this to be a really good overview on fighting game fundamentals.