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Heldenhirn, (edited ) in I'm being harassed by mosquitoes, how do i kill them all?
  • Fly screens (Unrealistic solution but I wanted to mention it)
  • Get a Pet Frog that eats them
  • Get lots of Spiders making Webs. Be aware that the Pet frog might eat the spiders
  • Flood one of your rooms and make a little swamp where you can plant canivourus plants. The issue is that the swamp will breed more mosquito than it kills but the frog will feel right at home
  • Make a small campfire in your bedroom before you go to sleep. It is known that smoke scares them away. Make sure to keep the windows and door closed so no new mosquito get inside. This is probably the most effective as you won’t get stung for the rest of you life
  • Catch some mosquitos and suck the blood out of them. The other mosquitos will see their wrongdoings and change their ways
Marketsupreme,

Campfire solution worked for m-

Faresh,

Fly screens (Unrealistic solution but I wanted to mention it)

Can I ask why you consider that an unrealistic solution? In my experience the plant based products (lotions/patches etc) are ineffective but I haven’t tried fly screens yet.

Heldenhirn,

It more of a joke because its the only real solution in my list. They are limited to your house but from my experience there’s no way normal mosquitos can go through them. I think mosquitos don’t really give a fuck about smells (at least not enough) and the problem is that they dont spread that well.

ablackcatstail, in What password manager do you recommend?
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I am a fan of Vault Warden.

Fisch,
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He specifically stated that he doesn’t want to self host

buco, in What's your favorite rabbit hole to go down?
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I start out with the Fermi paradox and might end up anywhere. And once every now and then I read about those two Dutch girls who got lost in the Amazon jungle.

its4am,

I think about that incident about the two Dutch tourists every few months. It’s just crazy imagining what they went through.

aaron_griffin, in Does anyone actually enjoy working out?
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Yes, of course. But if you don’t enjoy it, you don’t have to do it, or don’t have to do it at the level you’re attempting. There are 1000 ways to be fit and healthy, you don’t have to pick 2 and do them forever. Experiment.

simon574, in What exercises can I do to strengthen my willpower?

What is it you are distracting yourself from? The low motivation could also be that you are not really believing in a goal or you are not enjoying a task because you would rather do something else with your time. As others already said if you “suspect” you have ADHD you could also try therapy.

NightOwl, in What's a good way to prank your coworker?

Stapler in jello always gets laughs.

jaackf,

Classic Tim

empireOfLove,

DAMMIT JIM!

RoadieRich,

Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler?

Deez, in What's the point of buying new phones every years?

I have never upgraded every year, I used to every two years, then three. Now I’ve had my iPhone 11 for almost four years, and I’m planning to keep it for 5. It will probably still get new OS updates for another 1 year after that (total of 6).

There is no reason to update your phone every year.

_haha_oh_wow_, in Does anyone actually enjoy working out?
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I used to, but I fell out of the habit. Mostly with strength training, kinda hated cardio haha. The only way I liked cardio was to hop on an elliptical and tune out to a show while I “ran”.

lasagna, in Does anyone actually enjoy working out?
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Nah, it’s definitely a delayed gratification in my case. I don’t dislike working out per se, I just like doing other things more. Hence why I do a couple of physically demanding sports.

gmtom, in Does anyone actually enjoy working out?

Ive made the argument for years that working out in the gym is by far the worst possible way to work it. Its just so boring and depressing and take sup your limited time.

Why would I spend an hour at the gym working out when I can play football with freinds, or go to a skate park or go mountain biking, or even just go for a run through a park? Its like trying to learn something by just doing math problems over and over again instead of working through actual problems.

Coreidan,

Because all those things you mentioned are sporadic and rely on good weather and scheduling of others. So how often can you even do them? Most people at my age can’t just whip up a game of football when ever.

It’s just easier to go to the gym if you want any chance at a regular routine.

gmtom,

There are always ways to make it work. Like for me I have regularly scheduled volleyball for a couple hours twice a week. Which because its inside I never have to worry about the weather and theres enough people that other peoples schedules arent an issue. And while volleyball can be pretty niche you can find regular open invite football anywhere even in small towns. Then I also go to the skatepark twice a week too which doesnt rely on other and the weather rarely interrupts it, and if it does I go to the one under the overpass instead. Ive been doing this for years, extremely regularly, and the fact that its actually fun and I look forward to it has made it far more regular than when I went to the gym, plus ive made loads of friends, learnt actually skills and dont have to put up with gym bros. So to me there is really no downside.

moose_cannon, in What's a good way to prank your coworker?

Ctrl + Alt + up arrow key sets the monitor output to be upside down.

I also am a fan of making the cursor huge and turning on pointer trails.

MythicWolf,

These are good pranks with the right level of irritating. They make it hard to work but not impossible to do the work

perishthethought,

This happened to me. When you didn’t know this is possible in windows, it takes a surprisingly long time to fix, but there’s no real damage done.

HobbitFoot, in Does the reddit style format breed toxicity?

It is a problem of an Eternal September. Reddit was set up where the downvote was supposed to mean more than just disagreeing with people, but the influx of users, especially those only participating with Reddit by upvoting and downvoting, couldn’t be taught what you were supposed to do.

Joe_0237,

Eternal September

i genuinely love that i had to look that up, and i learned something! Thanks!

charlytune, in What's a good way to prank your coworker?

Small post it note over the sensor under the mouse.

Rom,
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Draw something unexpected on it for extra fun. Like dickbutt.

_haha_oh_wow_,
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Damn it, this is exactly what I came here to suggest. Ah well, too late now.

AveragePigeon,
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Scotch tape also works for this.

PrunesMakeYouPoop,

Clear tape works really well, because the mouse will still work, but terribly.

charlytune,

Oooh. Love it.

ryathal, in What's a good way to prank your coworker?

If you are close you can plug in a second wireless mouse and mess with it occasionally.

If they don’t lock their screen, the old take a screen shot of the desktop and make it the background is good.

_haha_oh_wow_,
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We did this years ago, we’d also SSH into random computers and make them say stuff when we were bored.

AttackBunny,
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@ryathal back in the day, when most wireless mice and keyboards had those little dongles, and people used to keep their computer tower either on the corner of their desk or under it, I used to have a prank war going with a coworker. We used to do dumb shit like fill a shit load of little cups up with water and set them everywhere in their office, or glitter/confetti in things that when you opened them it went everywhere. Or wrap everything on the desk in foil or saran wrap type things.

Coworker was older than me, and not the most computer literate guy. I'd go into his office, and disconnect the dongle, while he was away from his desk. Watching him rage about his piece of shit computer was always great amusement.

abbadon420,

I like this. Easy and clever

Lumidaub, in How safe is it to eat raw eggs?
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Depends entirely on how old the eggs are and how they’ve been treated. Fresh eggs laid today are very safe, they have a shell for a reason. Salmonella don’t just magically appear in eggs or chicken would have a hard time procreating. Refrigerated eggs are also probably safe to consume for quite a while although you can’t always be sure whether they were continuously refrigerated. Washed eggs however should be considered unsafe because washing them destroys the protective seal the shells provide. So you’ll need to find out what has happened to those eggs between the chicken laying them and you buying them.

sounddrill,

so if I could work out the logistics of farming chickens, I can crack cleaned eggs into my mouth?

Lumidaub,
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If you can make sure they’re fresh and the seal hasn’t been compromised, I don’t see why not.

cassetti,

For sure. I have a micro homestead with a lot of chickens (dozens upon dozens lol) - we raise them for eggs, meat, and the manure (which we use to make awesome soil for the garden). We keep the coop extremely clean (like multiple times a month we clean it out), and we keep our chickens healthy (constantly treating for parasites, mites, worms, etc) so they live a happy healthy life.

Those eggs come out clean in the nests because we keep them clean as well. I personally would probably rinse it off right before cracking open just because it's me, but yeah there's no salmonella in our coop because we maintain sanitary conditions (probably way more than the average backyard chicken owner).

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