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Ugh, I indirectly feel your pain. I don't have the issue with cold, but just didn't enjoy the touch controls on any earbuds I've tried, so I'm stuck using my older, slowly falling apart earbuds with inline controls. The earbuds have a wire connecting the two buds, and there's a little lump of plastic along the wire with 3 buttons, but there's no wire connecting them to the device. Short press turns volume up, down, pause/play. It also has functions mapped to long press and double press for things like next/previous, assistant, and I forget what else.

It's super hard to find any headphones lately that are Bluetooth, but still have a wire connecting the two ear pieces, and therefore a spot for the inline controls. I have no clue about the quality of these, just linking as an example of the style that has worked well for me: https://www.amazon.com/Scosche-Rechargeable-Bluetooth-Microphone-Isolating/dp/B01KU7EYZO

I really like Thunder, but for some reason it doesn't display vote counts when I'm using this account. If I switch to my .world account, the vote counts show up, and I can't figure out why it's different. I'm using Voyager at the moment, but not satisfied. My preferred Reddit app was Slide, and I thought someone was making a Lemmy version, but I'm not sure what happened.

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Yeah, but we spend just over 4 months on "standard" time, and almost 8 months on "summer" time. Why do we only use "standard" time for roughly 1/3 of the year?

I think you have that backwards. The US changed their clocks to DST several weeks ago (March 9).

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/usa

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/uk

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4B_movement

Would this have the unfortunate side effect of also eliminating the color pink? What about purple and orange?

Dr. Grip. I love the "shake to advance" thing and the huge, squishy grip.

I'm not the person you asked, but I use microchip-based feeders for my cats and the company also sells microchip doors. I've been pretty happy with the feeders, but haven't had any reason to try the doors.

https://www.surepetcare.com/en-us/pet-doors/microchip-pet-door

Pretty much. I was going to buy some shit from a non-Amazon online vendor, then got a captcha on checkout and just left. Saved me some money I guess.

Not quite. I was shopping for running shoes a while back and learned that generally, a women's wide is the same width as a men's standard. I think a women's standard is usually called a B width, and the women's wide and men's standard would be a D width. Some brands do make other slight differences between the men's shoe and the women's shoe, so the swap might not always be 1 to 1, and some brands do unisex sizing, so there's no difference in width for men's vs. women's.

Another commenter shared a link with a guide to create a custom feed, and I definitely see how that can be better. As a new user, I was having too much trouble finding an easy way to create my own custom feed, and wasn't happy with any of the existing feeds that I looked at.. they all seemed to include more "junk" than the equivalent hashtags on Mastodon. I agree that simply following hashtags has downsides, but the logic as to why a specific post shows up in my feed is much more obvious in that case, allowing me to more easily troubleshoot and adjust my follow/block settings.

Thanks! I was looking for a way to build my own feed, but this is the first guide I've seen that seems relatively simple to follow. I agree that there's downsides to simply following hashtags, but I'm familiar with ways to curate my feed based on hashtags, and just wanted to start with something familiar. The curated feeds are probably great for a lot of people, but just really frustrated me, as the feeds I happened to browse seemed to somehow include more "junk" than what I've encountered with the equivalent hashtags on Mastodon.

Yeah, I saw those and appreciate the idea, but I didn't like them, at least not yet. I just want to follow a few cat related tags, maybe some FOSS stuff, and some tags relevant to my local area. I just clicked through a few feeds related to each of those, but didn't like any of the ones that came up. Each feed contains posts that seem totally irrelevant and I don't understand why they're included or how to tweak my feed to remove them.

I'm probably an idiot, but my experience was exactly the opposite. I don't really feel like following specific users (at least for now), I just want to follow hashtags. Super easy to do on Mastodon, but I couldn't figure it out on Bluesky.

I never used Twitter, and am not particularly excited about the general format, so I'm probably not the target user, but I check Mastodon occasionally, and gave up on Bluesky after like 2 days.

I actually found myself tempted to say exactly that earlier today. Someone said something about sucking, and my initial instinct was, "That's what she said!", but then I thought about the audience and felt like the gender neutral "they" might be more appropriate, but I wasn't really sure, so instead I said nothing.

As an American living in a region with halfway decent (by American standards) public transit, I feel like I hear more comments aligned with the European side than the American side. If public transit has literally any downsides, that's justification enough to drive for so many people.

It's funny how much people differ. I live in a city and feel much more comfortable having my curtains wide open than when I lived in suburbia.

One of the things that sold me on my current place was the abundant south and west facing windows, meaning lots of natural light (northern hemisphere), especially in the evenings. It drives me absolutely nuts when I visit people who live in dark caves. I did finally get some heavier curtains for my bedroom since summer days can be pretty long and the limited darkness was impacting my sleep. I get wanting to avoid direct sunlight, and that you might want heavy curtains available some times, but I literally get depressed without lots of natural light and the whole day/night cycle.

Some classes translate to an online format much easier than others. How do you effectively translate an upper level chemistry lab to be done online? Even if you could do it in such a way that the student gains the theoretical knowledge, it wouldn't give them the hands on practice that they'll need for real lab work.