Underwaterbob @ Underwaterbob @lemm.ee

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A couple years ago, I ended up in an ambulance due to what turned out to be a small urethra stone. At the hospital, I had an x-ray. When that didn't find the problem, they gave me a CT scan. Once they found the stone, they called in a urologist. I got a consultation, prescription, passed the stone later that day (it was tiny), and recovered very quickly. My total bill was 243'000 Korean won - just about $200 USD. I only had the mandatory insurance that was paid for by my employer. Something to the tune of $50 a month that they are legally required to pay.

The US's system is completely fucked. Broken beyond repair. I wish them luck.

You monster!

I may have harvested my beets a little late.

Yup. I waited something like a year for Elden Ring to go on sale. No problem waiting again.

Peter Watts' Blindsight for the second time. It's pretty dense. I'm catching more this time around. It's a fantastic read with some of the most alien aliens ever put to page. It was a meme how often it used to get recommended back on r/printsf which I miss a lot since its replacement here is essentially dead.

While I also feel like the past is better left in the past, I am certainly not above a little schadenfreude, either.

This changes drastically if you have a kid(s). I would kill for a weekend alone at home right about now.

Eventually every chat gpt request will just be answered with, "I too choose this guy's dead wife."

This could make for some hilarious, alternate history satire or something. I could totally see Key and Peele heading a group of racially diverse nazis ironically preaching racial purity and attempting to take over the world.

Well, for now I just right click my YouTube search results and open them up in YouTube instead where Ublock is already working fine.

it might be difficult here. I'm in Korea. ie the land of Samsung.

I am using Ublock Origin in Firefox, it still somehow slipped an ad in there.

Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) in The Long Kiss Goodnight!

Yes. I'm using the same search methods I've always used that used to get me relevant results, and I get a bunch of fucking sponsored links instead. I've noticed lately that if the result of a search is a YouTube video and I click on it, it doesn't go to YouTube but opens up as a search result and plays me ads somehow bypassing my adblocker that works just fine in actual YouTube. More than once after the ad was done, the video refused to load, which was utterly infuriating.

Google assistant on my phone has also become garbage. They changed the functionality of the few key things I liked to use, and now it's totally useless to me. Google is swirling down the shitter faster than yesterdays tacos. Honestly, if it wasn't for email, photos, and using an Android phone, I'd probably be done with them entirely.

Do you like synthesizers? My synthesizer community is mostly me talking to myself about them. !synthesizers@lemm.ee

I've been using a pair of dual shock 4s for something like seven years now without any drift. I had to buy new stick tops because I wore them out.

OTOH, the dual sense I bought started drifting so badly, it was unusable after a year.

It's a surprisingly decent condenser. And it's got a headphone jack. Class compliant. I was using it with an older Linux laptop a while back, now with my phone. I'm getting more use out of it than I expected.

I make music with Koala Sampler, a Samson Go mic, and an $8 DAC for line-in and headphones. It's no PC/DAW, but there's more versatility there than you'd expect. Especially if you consider I've also got Csound, Caustic, and Grainstorm for creating samples and other audio processing.

I was coding Indie games when it came out. The number of clones in the community was just disgusting. There was even more than one Flappy Game Jam. If Flappy Bird can be credited with one thing, it's that it made a whole bunch of inept coders think that they too could get rich by making super simple mobile games.

You want to wreck someone at hangman? Choose "jazz". Getting "A" as the second letter is no help at all, and "J" and "Z" are the last letters anyone guesses.