I’ve had that issue in several ways. Of course what you said, had an extension cord with a switch below my desk and I kept accidentally hitting that switch in the same way, lived in an apartment some years ago that had some shitty electrical work done by the previous tenant and if I had enough lamps on while my computer and screen where on and I tried to plug in my phone or turn the TV on the circuit popped, and most recently I’ve been playing games via cloud streaming (Shadow) and my Ethernet cable has lost the security tab thingy on both ends and I keep accidentally moving other cables so they touch the Ethernet cable and it falls out. Most of the time I can just put it back in an reconnect to the cloud computer but sometimes it just refuses to do that so the cloud computer shuts down before I’m able to get it working. Lost several hours of progress in various games throughout the past couple of years, but I never buy anything new unless it’s absolutely needed so I just live with and accept it '^^

As was*

It’s the one thing I just never get used to. Everything else about seasons etc. has stopped being surprising and anything more than “oh, this is happening again”, but it never stops feeling unreal that it gets dark so damn late in the morning and early in the afternoon.

User: Add enough detergent for this weight of clothes.

Washing machine AI: OK, I have added the correct amount for you, ready to start the wash.

User: You only added fabric softener, I need you to add detergent. Please weigh the clothes and add the detergent based on that weight.

Washing machine AI: Ah, I see what you mean. I have now weighed the clothes and added the needed amount of detergent.

User: you just added more fabric softener. Do not add any more of that, I only need detergent. Please, add detergent.

Washing machine AI: I’m sorry, I misunderstood you before. I have now made sure to add detergent.

User: you added more fabric softener…

From the little I’ve seen (or more had to be exposed to) they are 100% convinced that Lemmy is like 10 people and nothing else exists. They’re so walled in, much of those walls being built by themselves.

On a vaguely related note, reddit has been so deeply shit now for long enough where it has stopped being a good source of info. It used to be such a good place to find just about any info via a search but now the results are just so fucking weird. Trying to find stuff about new-ish games, tech support, recommendations for anything etc. has become so much harder now.

In the US, sure, not so much anywhere else. Halloween is not at all as big in most of the world as it is in the US, so if you want people to dress up it has to be explicitly stated on the invite.

Well, they see us collect their various excrements so I’m pretty sure some cats think we do that for eating later or whatever else. So they’re actually trying to be nice.

What’s wrong baby, you haven’t touched you scroffee.

This is what happens in your brain when you tell yourself to remember something.

They died after being found in the basement? Because that’s what the title says.

Squaring = swearing

*Cos he kept talking about sin

I thought it was incredibly weird, it just left me with “what…?” in a not good way. Gonna give the next few episodes a watch but don’t have high hopes.

How is that relevant? They never said anything that hinted at them thinking Mad Max was in New Zealand. They referenced the reason for the billionaires to go to these bunkers as a Mad Max style collapse, and that in this case of such a collapse they’d not choose the one place on earth that is the home of pissed off Maori.

That’s the thing, they keep doing shit that goes above and beyond what anyone ever dares to think. We keep saying, like you, that we’re beyond the point of expected reason but they somehow manage to outplay that.

Competition is not an objectively good thing. Just look at Microsoft now, how would what they are made anything better in the smartphone space? Their phones would be just as shitty as Win 11 is with AI and data collection.

It’s “what it looks like” or “how it looks”, never “how it looks like”. That’s as dumb as “what it looks”, which I’m sure most people understand isn’t correct.
It’s one thing to make that mistake in a random comment, but in your fucking web comic? Seriously?

Yeah, and he did an awesome job with that character! I now want more punk roles from him.

The orders of crunchxenon-124 supreme?

😮

I don’t think that bottom hole is for a thumb…