Apathy Tree @ ApathyTree @lemmy.dbzer0.com

I aim to be more human. I aim to be less apathetic as a human. Apathy grows

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As someone who switched from android to iPhone after using android exclusively (only because I’m sick to shit of my devices breaking themselves at about the 2 year mark - and I don’t mean software):

Apple is a fucking nightmare to swap to if you use your device for anything beyond the absolute basics. I’m honestly probably going to swap off it sooner rather than later.

It’s a miserable experience to go from being able to do basically whatever you want… to not even being able to change to a specific ringtone without paying for it or going through some ridiculous process on Mac to convert. (And before some random asshole pipes up -again- and says “there’s tons of ways” without telling me what they are, I’ve looked and found nothing so either tell me the ways or don’t bother replying because no there aren’t, that’s why everyone on iOS has the same set of ringtones.) I mean hell, it’s painful just to move photos to a pc. Like ridiculously painful. Unless you pay for iCloud.

And the whole ecosystem is supposed to “just work”, but it doesn’t. Tons of finicky little problems, like I can’t get “find my” to play sound on my phone the next room over with all the settings enabled, and even the time of day focus on my watch is usually wrong, which is like a super basic function of this crap. But you can’t really troubleshoot because of the lockdown on everything.

Venting aside, it’s simply not worth it to switch from android. It’s a downgrade in every single way except hardware being built to last, and the software getting regular security updates. That’s it. That’s all it has going for it. I thought that might be enough, but it really isn’t.

I like to tell them “your mother must be so ashamed to have you in the family; so worthless as a breadwinner that you have to resort to theft”.

That always riles them right up.

I feel your pain. 140 year old house with 3 additions and several remodels over the years. Still had a coal cistern when I moved in!

The middle bedroom has a partial window where the addition was tied in but they couldn’t be bothered to seal up the hole fully.. it’s about 8 inches wide and made of a custom storm window and nothing else (currently sealed up well with insulation until I can re-do siding).

Fireplace hearth (way overbuilt thing for a pellet stove -previous owner was a mason) was installed over a layer of hardwood flooring, which they didn’t realize wasn’t subfloor because there were 2 layers of hardwood flooring, old kind that was thick - the house sighed with relief when I ripped it all out and I gained 4 inches to my ceiling height.

Had to drill through a 4-inch thick cement wall to install my dishwasher. Someone moved the entry from one side to the other at some point, probably when they added the driveway and garage, and the walkway is still under my lawn. And my cabinets are different internal heights for some reason?

Weird stuff. Every project becomes 5-15 projects to do right.

That’s the exact memory I have as well. Grainy.

My bedroom media pc (old-ass enterprise tower) has 8 on the back and 5 on the front. So 13 usb ports. It doesn’t have any wireless anything, physical ports only, and there’s no room to add internal cards for it, but plenty of usb ports for dongles!

I use 3 of those ports at most (I use Ethernet, since it’s my acquisition machine, or it’d be 4), and 2 are for keyboards and mice (one handheld with touchpad, the other a normal set).

I’m struggling to even come up with 7 things that would all need to be plugged in together.. I guess webcam, mouse and keyboard if they can’t run off a single port, and headset maybe if you got one that bypasses the audio jacks for whatever reason.. but that’s still only 4.

Stop, stop! I can only get so moist!

I had to get a lot of dental work done one year, and I was just like “hey, I’m gunna listen to this book while you do this, if that’s ok. If you need me to pause just like tap my forehead or something”. If it was today I’d probably watch videos or something but this was like 10 years ago.

He was thrilled, said it’s kinda awkward sometimes to have a one-sided conversation, especially when the work takes a while. Dental work isn’t really something they need to talk to you about while doing it.

Maybe give that a try if you need future work done. :)

I’m faceblind, that honestly didn’t register.

Really? None of that looks at all familiar (other than the quality).

Wild. Thanks for replying :)

Idk about mass loss, but space is full of small rocks and dust moving at high speeds. Impacts from those might not make a big difference on the human timescale, but a longer one, it would absolutely cause a shift in orbital momentum.

They should have been stripped of their property ownership. They should never be allowed to own property again, of any sort.

This just means it cost an extra 300k. That’s not even much of a penalty.

What is this from? Continues? (I just found that the other day, haven’t watched it yet)

If they paid taxes, maybe, but imo they are being compensated already for something they aren’t even doing.

As one of the entries on the list (for once, that never happens…), this is true.

Most nights not a whole bottle, but sometimes (or more!)

I sweat a lot some nights, which gives me a thirst, but in winter even when I don’t sweat my place is so bone dry I wake up throughout the night with terribly dry throat, so sometimes I’ll even go through 2 16 oz bottles.

I’d rather have to pee than not have the water nearby.

No. It was a job that could have stayed fully remote but was instead hybrid. And it was a big waste of time job. I could have had another job at the same time.

I don’t have friends and still got Covid…

I definitely did something wrong (it was “being employed”)

Dude you really need to get off the internet now and then. You are so entirely out of touch with normal humans..

You can win a million dollars at a gay orgy?

Fuck I wish I was a dude.