Fleppensteyn @ Fleppensteijn @feddit.nl

Floris Jan van Fleppensteyn

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Laundry. Why do each of us need to have a machine and space to leave clothes to dry when we could have a common space for that?

Sure, I was always interested to see where everyone was traveling. That's what I had Facebook for until it turned to shit.

I don't have to hear anything about babies though.

It's so wasteful. It costs paper, electricity, bandwidth, and mostly, my time. I don't have money. If you advertise something that costs money, I'm not interested.

I heard one I thought was ridiculous. You can pay a company because you spend so much you don't even know where your money is going, because don't we all have so many subscriptions nowadays?

I have a no spam sticker on my mailbox but brokers don't care. No, I don't want to sell my home so you can drive up the rent. If I'd own the place, I could do that myself.

I already go to the supermarket every day. Why do they need to shout at me telling me what they're selling? Stop wasting money and make stuff cheaper instead

Because they don't have change?

Happened to me before. The ATM only gives out 20s but the driver only wants small coins, only cash is accepted.

It happened in several countries and it's still a mystery to me how you're supposed to get small change when you're fresh off the airplane or something (or why they don't just take card).

I'll just mention QMMP which is basically a Winamp clone. Works great and I've used it for many years now.

More recent ones that are really good:

Barry, a show about a murderer that turns out to be really funny.

Snowfall, about drug dealers making it to kingpins. A similar show, Queen of the South is also good.

And some classics that are funny and clever enough to rewatch:

Keeping up Appearances, I think we all know some of these characters in real life

Flight of the Conchords

In the last week, I came across 2 videos that started with an ad. Both were embedded YouTube videos. They must have found a way to circumvent adblocking.

It's loud and annoying and I don't have the patience for this. I just didn't watch those videos.

You're out of touch. Employers don't want overqualified people. They are the ones that decide for you that you can't possibly be motivated for such a job. You'll only leave when you find something better they think, which is definitely true when you claim to just "bridge the gap".

Of course, but how often would you go to a coffee place? If you work in an office, coffee is usually free anyways.

As a poor European:

Coders saying "but me a cup of coffee" for $8.

I buy a pack of coffee of 250g for ≈ $3. An average cup, according to Google, is 7.5g.

That's $0.40 for a cup.

(Or about 9 beers)

Nice. Are they official or just a copy? My old login no longer works.

Living under Christianity means living in constant fear of being watched and judged and living in a world full of supernatural forces. It was a great relief when I realized it's all bullshit.

Yes, it tastes a bit earthy to me.

I got a tour of the place where they proudly show these cats in the most horrible conditions. Also, it doesn't even taste good.

I remember always switching to another channel when ads came up, but later that became impossible because they all started ads at the same time. So it seems to be on purpose to prevent people from switching channels. This was in the Netherlands, though I haven't listened to radio anymore since Napster came out.

ftp

It's crazy that Firefox was good with ftp until they just decided to not support it anymore 😕

Checking my blocklist makes me wish communities could be blocked on category.

It's mostly football, F1, sports, anime, porn but also star trek.

It's normal to get such weird brainfarts, like the call of the void or imagining murder or other bad things, just like when a song suddenly gets stuck in your head. A healthy person thinks "wtf brain?" but when you start to think "that's a great idea I want to act on", maybe that's not completely normal.

I have different folders for different genres, then subdivided in folders for year of release.

I spent way too much time organizing this way back so I stick with it. Problems with this are that genes can overlap (could be fixed with symlinks?) and the year is something you often have to look up (id3 often shows year of the album which is not always the year it came out).