Anything really grinding your gears that you need to get off your chest? Lets talk about it.
Discovered phone launcher I use (Ratio Launcher) got bought out by some shady company , peops who bought their lifetime subs now expected to perpetually drain their wallets to this company . Play store has so many 1⭐ reviews . Hate subscription models so much . At least modded APKs of it exist , where I would be without em
I really dont get the appeal of launchers, is that like an Android thing comparable to Shortcuts/automations?
Not … really ? More like alternate home screen layouts . Some allow custom icon packs
Lawn chair is decent.
Am not asking about alternative launchers
Sorry for the shitty experience and for my comment.
I’m slowly losing the sense of belonging I had to my work. I’m afraid I’ll never financially recover from it if I fully realize it.
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When it comes to people’s behavior always trust your gut.
My ankle that I rolled in early December hasn’t healed fully yet Almost, but not quite
Omg I can relate. I rolled my ankle once and it was hurting for months and months, turns out I had a hairline break that never healed correctly; now my ankle is permanently slightly crooked.
RIP I got an X-ray so I’m g, just pushing to exercise too fast and too hard before the tendons can heal 🫤
I rolled mine badly at the end of Feb and it’s still hurting. X-ray didn’t show a fracture but the doc said sometimes they don’t show up right away.
Sorry to be that guy but an xray won’t show much compared to something like an mri. Get a second opinion and have them do something other then an xray.
It was the ER just checking for a break. Entire foot was swollen, couldn’t put any pressure on it, etc.
I’ve moved and never set up a new PCP either. The billing alone has put me off healthcare. I spend about 2 hours a month dealing with a prescription. The ER billing has been crazy too, spent a few hours talking to various billing depts, getting bill weekly for things that were paid for, etc.
I can’t wait for this US system to be replaced.
We are getting old
I fell of a bike in October. Stupid knee still feels on some days pretty wanky but on other days like nothing is wrong.
I nearly failed my driving exam because of it.
I hate having to store hop. This happens all of the time to me with Dollar Tree. I live near like 6 dollar tree stores. I’ll be looking for, say, work gloves. So I go to the one next to me, shit, they don’t have it, well now I gotta decide how far I want to go to the next one. I go to the second closest, fuck, they have gloves but not the kind I’m used to. Fuck, gotta go to the third one but now that’s a little further away because I had to drive a bit away from the other two. Same applies to other stores.
Things that protect your hands and feet you won’t find at dollar tree. Go to a actual farm supply store, or anything that sells Carhartt or CAT
SAME
Family
Family can be SUCH a challenge. You need to limit your exposure to the bad elements and increase exposure to the good ones (who likely suffer like you with those bad ones).
It’s okay to ghost your family a lot, my dude, if it keeps ya sane. They may love you in some weird broken way, but they aren’t you; take care of you.
The obsession Americans have with acronyms. Some of them can have wildly different meanings depending on the context (MTG, CP), and sometimes even in the same context can mean different things and you need further context, like video game titles (DS, GoW, AC, SC).
It’s getting near impossible to understand what’s going on when reading their news. “DOJ pushing DOGE to ban EPA, GOP says…” The who, what, where?
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The absolute crap interfaces that are being developed for electronic devices. There’s no reason for them to be as bad as they are at this point. They were getting better and better going from say 1996 until about 2005. After that they just started dropping off fast. The last few years they’re just atrocious. And there is just no excuse. I know it annoys people when I say it, but as far as I’m concerned, the people who develop these interfaces, when they get up in the morning, they do lines of crack until their brains just about explode. Then they go to work and say this would be a cool idea even though the rest of the world looks at and goes. What the hell?
There’s no logic in the interface no common sense that you can use to use them.
And the target/hit boxes are becoming so small if you have any sort of muscular issue good luck on ever using it.
The developers, the executives the companies do not give a crap. Their attitude is if you don’t like it just buy something else. The problem : that’s the way it’s all being designed so you literally have nothing else to buy.
Then you have the consumers , their attitude is basically you have a choice. You don’t have to buy it. Which is a completely moronic statement.
My response is basically I’ve stopped buying things. Unless I absolutely have no other choice I just make do with what I have and the world go screw itself.
I watched my mom try to tap an icon on the screen seven separate times before it would actually activate. think about that , seven times just to activate whatever she was trying to touch. That’s stupid. So I literally knelt down right next to the table and watched herfinger very carefully, hit the screen and come up. The problem was her finger was moving by just a few pixels. So it was counted as a drag. Who the fuck thought that would be a idea? I mean, I could understand if you touch and drag, like a distance on the screen OK well that’s dragging. But that incredibly tiny amount? What jackass thought this was a good idea.? If your finger so much is twitches, it won’t count it as touch. It’ll count it as a drag and it won’t activate.
I’ve also noticed my kids trying to press things on my screen. Before, when they didn’t know better, they would keep accidentally scrolling a little when trying to press something, because that’s how much force trying to press something real and physical usually requires.
But you can actually see, with your own eyes, the moment as they notice how their real world experience is not useful to apply to a touch screen. They have to adapt and be extra gentle and careful when tapping to activate stuff, so at not to scroll.
Tell grandma with Parkinson’s to “adapt”. While not as ubiquitus a disability as daltonism or blindness, interfaces should still cater to people with them.
When it’s kids adapting it’s fun. When it’s someone with tremors physically incapable of gently and precisely tapping the exact 5px, it’s just bad design.
I’ve yet to see an accessibility setting for this very valid usecase.
I mean, yes. You’re right, ideally. But it’s very, very difficult in the general sense to design something that works for every human. Not even fully capable humans will agree on what the best interface is.
That’s why there are different products that cater to different people. Maybe grandma with Parkinson’s shouldn’t have a smartphone with a touch screen. 🙂👍 There are alternatives.
Preach!
The gnats inside the house.
Start collecting spiders and place them near gnat hotspots.
Once had a fly problem with my plants, plopped a couple spiders there and they were gone in a week or two
Then what do you get to get rid of your spider problem?
Without the food they usually go bye bye pretty quick. Also make sure to kill any eggsacs
It’s late April and already starting to get hot, I’ll soon need an electric fan and in one month it won’t be enough. Half the year is unbearable, and it’s only going to get worse with time.
I feel you! I am in PA and it was 85 degrees the other day. Hello we are in the NORTH why am I sweating in April?! There used to be surprise snowstorms in April around these parts.
Yes same in France… we have the saying “en Avril ne te découvre pas d’un fil” (in April don’t remove any clothing) because it’s supposed to still randomly get very cold very quickly 😭
I fear that in 10 years we’ll all be climate refugees in Iceland or Canada
My fucking Brain. I have severe ADHD, and difficulty understanding concepts that are even more than a little complex. I forget stuff so easily. I fucking hate it so much, it is massively fucking frustrating.
I have passion, time and a want to be better. But changing myself is like walking barefoot through a narrow corridor, shoulder wide and full of glass shards on both the walls and the ground. All the while I keep forgetting where the exit is, even as it is right infront of me. Things that should take normal people a day to do, takes me more than a month. I hate it, I hate that it takes me so much time. And only fear drives me to do things, WHY? Why can’t it be something that I want to do instead of fucking fear. I fucking hate that. It’s like my brain has some bottleneck that just can’t be gotten rid of.
If I weren’t lucky with my circumstances, I would have killed myself.
Gen AI
I’m scared that I’m developing tinnitus. It started in one ear a few days ago and won’t go away. It’s not getting worse, but also not letting up either. It comes and goes, but when it’s quiet in the room, I can hear it clearly.
No particular event has occurred for it to start, sound wise. No loud things or blasts or anything. But I haven’t been sleeping properly for a good week or so. I should try getting some proper sleep. Maybe? I dunno.
My grandma is basically deaf, and my mother’s hearing got ruined when she was subjected to a house burglar alarm. Having bad hearing is not fun. I also love music and singing and such and I really don’t want to get effed-up hearing. My coworker is also afflicted by tinnitus and has to go to coping therapy and shit. It does not sound like a fun time to have this continuing, or progressing. 😟
The end.
I’m not a medical expert, but I can safely say from experience that tinnitus can be caused by a huge variety of things with most of them not actually being that serious (cold/flu, earwax buildup, meds, infections, etc.). However, like other symptoms that inhibit daily functions, if it persists longer than a week, you should definitely consult a professional (assuming that option is available to you.)
I got perma tinnitus from covid in January 2020. It makes me so incredibly sad. I had very good hearing before that, and now, after spending some time with an audiologist and ent, it’s official that I have some hearing damage caused by that event, too.
