subspaceinterferents @ subspaceinterferents @lemmy.world

The shell cracked. I emerged. How it will end is anyone's guess.

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Some men feel emasculated by the idea of sitting to pee. Really guys? I wonder what goes on in the privacy of their bathrooms, when they’re pinching the proverbial loaf. Do they stand up to pee and sit to pass? Of course not. :: Sitting to pee is what you do if you want to keep the toilet area clean. You can be a big strong man and still be a sitzpinkler.

I'm here working at developing a community every day. It's the community for my hometown, a large city on the coast of California. I try to post some interesting original content at least every other day, including photos.

Sometimes I feel like it's a personal echo chamber, but there are lots of lurkers and upvotes, so I keep going. Reading lots of other Lemmy communities going forward. It's all good.

Suggest not going anywhere when drunk. In fact, suggest not getting drunk.

Yes, have spent many happy wasted hours here. Good for music discovery.

OMG, a fellow plane-toucher. Not big on compulsive behavior, but gotta tap the skin with the fingernail or it's going down for sure...

I think I see where you're going with this...

I use Claude.ai a lot, and I like it. It can and will gin up a lot of nonsense, on occasion. I've asked it some pointed questions on arcane subjects I know details about, and it's spit out a pack of crap. I always preface my query with a statement asking Claude to admit when it doesn't have a factual answer, rather than making one up out of whole cloth. Seems to work.

What do pizza and revenge have in common?

Pooper requests a Rapidograph pen, triangle and some double-sided tape.

After 30 years on MacOS (yes, I am older than dirt), I switched to Windows 11. I love it. With a few software add-ins, notably Better Desktop Tool and Start11, as well as a deep-dive into Settings/Notifications, etc., it's useable, comfortable, fairly Mac-like, and not too annoying. I guess I'm lucky as I don't have any UI/UX baggage from past Windows OSs to drag behind me. Yeah, it's different than MacOS, but I can get stuff done.

Approach with caution.

Oh man, does this bring back memories. We live in a house that has translucent panels on all the interior doors. In the morning, light would shine from the building next door through a window and onto the panel on the door for our bedroom. Our cat, now departed, would sit adjacent to the door, and wait for us to get up and give her the morning meal. Because of the light coming through the window her silhouette was there every morning. We called it the Alfred Hitchcat effect. Miss that cat. Give your cat an extra squeeze for me.

Via Claude.ai, a simplified version of the OP's complaint: (I really wish people who say that they "can't write" would process their text through an A.I. "editor" to save us all from their bombastic prose.)

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For years, my peers told me to avoid Apple devices. However, none of them actually used Apple devices recently. Their knowledge was based on outdated information or peer pressure.

I'm in the EU where Apple isn't as popular. I've used Android phones and Windows PCs for 15 years. I was constantly let down by my phones after 1-3 years, across brands like HTC, LG, Sony, Samsung, Xiaomi, Nokia, OnePlus. Each phone had issues like notification problems, bad battery life, slow camera, restarts.

A year ago, I decided to try an iPhone 13 to see what the fuss was about. After a week, I was doing everything on the iPhone. Six months later, when my Windows laptop died, I considered a thin Debian laptop.

Then I remembered my peers' anger when I switched to iPhone. So I looked at Mac laptops, which were similarly priced. I got a base M2 Air. I loved the iPhone-Mac integration and features like AirDrop.

My "friends" mocked me for using Apple, claiming I was "locked in" and "fell for marketing." But I don't use any paid Apple services. I connected my Apple devices to my home server successfully. I feel more freedom because some things work better than on Android or Windows.

Why so much hate without first-hand experience? Why can't I decide for myself? Why is Apple connectivity looked down on when that's not the case? Shouldn't you at least try before judging?

Yanks are a sneaky bunch.

Modern stuff is hard.

Uh... #unpopularopinion

Cat scritches are the best scritches.

SquareHome launcher. Emulates the experience of a Windows phone user interface. I've never had a Windows phone, but the functionality was quite appealing, and I've made it my own.

Gonna be a keeper.