About 3 years ago, I was looking for emeralds at a closed emerald mine when I had the brilliant idea of hitting a random rock with my pickaxe. Turns out the rock was harder than the pickaxe, so a piece of the metal broke off and flew into my finger. I was 10s of hours away from any hospitals, and the metal curved around the bone of my finger, so I had to take my dad’s camping knife and cut the thing out. This was at a camping spot, so I had running water, but it wasn’t easy.

Aren’t pretty much all storefronts searchable, or is it a Europe thing?

I shop primarily local and find stores with ddg/Google/Google maps. I live in a country where Amazon doesn’t exist, and shipping takes at least 3-7 days, so I’ve always bought stuff from local stores. Of course not everything is sold in a physical store, for which you’ll probably have to use ebay.

Go local.

I keep forgetting that some people need vpns to torrent.

Oh Hi!

Please charge your phone

Whoa that’s a super nice way of telling the user how different parts of the drier should sound. A+++ for this execution. I can see that they take right to repair pretty seriously (at least for diagnostics)

Wait you have traffic lights on your roundabouts?

🎶takin a dump on the company dime🎶

I live in a country that doesn’t care about piracy and has super strong protections for people who pirate, but i’d imagine i would be in deep trouble if i lived in a different country. I don’t download that much, but i do seed my entire jellyfin library with no speedcaps. Here’s this month’s upload stats for my network

Size doesn’t matter. It’s how you use it

Wait until it upgrades itself to windows 11 💀

Our roborock robot vacuum runs Ubuntu (I’m not joking)

The new ones were garbage anyways. Mine is stuck at a polling rate of 10hz, and the acceleration is god awful

Yea id reply the same way…

Oh onlyoffice works great! It’s spreadsheet function is far less buggy than excel and it’s smooth and snappy.

I made my desktop wallpaper with JSplacement before that project disappeared off the internet. The background is pretty boring because i wanted some color, but knew that i would rarely see it (I always have multiple layers of programs opened at all times)

My phone’s pixel art wallpaper was made in photoshop (turns out that’s a really bad program for pixel art)

I’d honestly love a wall of shame for websites and “tech products” that showcases their hostility to users trying to circumvent their tracking

https://www.onlyoffice.com
Or
https://www.libreoffice.org/

It’s because the apps work as black boxes stopping the end user from blocking their telemetry, advertising and tracking.

What I hate more is how companies deliberately add blocks to their websites if you’re on mobile so as to force the user to download the app.

Two of the most egregious samples I’ve seen so far is Microsoft teams that shows a banner saying “this browser is not supported”, but switching your user agent or enabling desktop mode from within your phone’s browser makes it work perfectly fine.

Another is Facebook (yuck) which displays a fake loading bar that never finishes unless you trick it the same way as with teams. Their mobile site prevents you from posting anything, commenting, viewing random posts, uploading files, or seeing notifications. If you don’t have the app installed, you’re essentially locked out of messenger because it is reluctant at opening any shared files or posts as that has to be opened through the facebook app (obviously). What’s worse is I’m prompted to log in to Facebook every time I open any link Facebook or not from within messenger.

I’d love to fully uninstall meta’s apps but I have family members that only use their apps (fuck the networking effect)