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beccaboben, in What piece of song lyric you can really relate to?

“I’ve been on fire, and yet I’ve still stayed frozen”

CAKE No Phone

Wahots, in Do you pay for Discord Nitro?
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

No, I dislike discord and only use it because friends use it. Half the time it seems to switch inputs or beg for subscriptions and I can’t even upload a screenshot because “your files are too powerful” lmao.

It’s basically Microsoft Teams for gamers. But teams at least allows full file uploads.

Eagerly awaiting a superior platform to take over.

MashedTech,

Remembered the days when you had to pay for a Mumble or Teamspeak server?

Philolurker,

Don’t know about Teamspeak, but you never HAD to pay for Mumble. You could just run the server on any machine you wanted, including the same one as your client.

I assume you still can, for that matter.

Aussiemandeus, in What cheap tool/gadget do you use that greatly improves your daily life?
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

Knipex adjustable shifter pliers

They adjust and lock to all the metric sizes and in my industry climbing towers and working at heights, having to carry the minimum is amazing.

these

lazylion_ca,

Is there a tower climbers community on Lemmy?

Aussiemandeus,
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

I’m not sure, i climb tower cranes for work

polle,

LOL, are you me? I recently put that thing in my backpack, because you never know.

RubberElectrons,
@RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

Faaacts, I have one at work and a personal one. Can one buy tools accidentally? I needed to get a bike head-nut off, all it had were two parallel indents on the perimeter.

Saw this for $50 at Sears, been in love with them ever since. W/o question one of my favorite and most useful tools. Sheesh I sound like such a shill haha

macrocephalic,

I have the knippex 100mm pliers, they are part of my EDC but they’re not $20.

silentknyght,

What do you do that you carry special pliers every day?

macrocephalic,

Exist. I have kids who constantly break things. I have a house where things often need minor attention. The knippex cobra xs pliers are tiny and weigh less than the pliers on a multitool like a Leatherman.

Thorny_Insight,

Great tool but not cheap. Infact you probably couldn’t find a more expensive version. Knipex however is worth it. Generally my advice is to first buy a cheap tool and replace it with more expensive one after it breaks but with pliers it’s pay once, cry once situation. These are truly BIFL tools. The 100mm mini cobra pliers are awesome aswell.

prunerye, in What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform?

We do what we always do. We fight the baseless propaganda we hate with the baseless propaganda we like, and then when called out on it, we justify its posting by saying, “Isn’t it crazy how easily this could be true though? It’s like there’s no difference between truth and satire these days!”

/s, obviously

banneryear1868, in What cheap tool/gadget do you use that greatly improves your daily life?

The $8 Munchkin 10oz Sippy Cup. It’s technically made for toddlers but it excels over any other travel mug unless you want insulation. I don’t care about insulation because I don’t want to wait an hour until it’s a good drinking temp. Instead of some stupid spout mechanism that gets dingy and can’t be washed in the dishwasher, there’s a simple silicone lid you can drink from on all sides, and it’s all dishwasher safe and super easy to clean. It also contains a perforated screen perfect for steeping tea leaves or cardamom tea. Of course there’s the brilliantly simple spillproof aspect as well. I’ve had mine for 4 years and there’s zero wear on it.

Waldemar_Firehammer,

You can hook the tiny handles on things too, which is nice when going hands-free.

Jokes aside, that’s a pretty good idea.

banneryear1868,

I got the one without handles so it’s just a round cup, fits in the car cupholders that way. There’s a whole bunch of customizations like that though, you got handles, different sizes, colors, materials, even an insulated one, and all interchangeable parts from what I’ve seen. There’s a stainless steel one that looks like any other travel mug.

Waldemar_Firehammer,

They are interchangeable, my one year old uses a bunch. Thanks for tuning me onto the steel one, I’ll have to check it out!!!

The handle thing was a bit of a joke, though the handles do hook on to stuff pretty well. I can hook it onto my belt when carrying the little one.

Silverseren, in Do you know of any obscure useful websites?

https://maki-chan.de/preventclose.htm

If you have a tendency to accidentally X out of your entire browser with all its tabs by an errant flick of the mouse, then this site as one of your tabs (need to click one for Chrome, as it notes) will have a popup asking if you're sure you want to close everything, letting you prevent that.

snausagesinablanket,
@snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world avatar

or you can just hit cntr shift t

Silverseren,

Or reopen your browser and have it restore the history. Yes, I know. But this helps you avoid even that minor hassle from happening at all.

shinigamiookamiryuu,

I must clarify one thing though for anyone reading this, it sadly doesn’t prevent browsers from crashing. Sorry to everyone who has Firefox or Opera as their main.

anandit0, in What cheap tool/gadget do you use that greatly improves your daily life?

A victorinox pocket knife! Really comes in handy for many purposes

assembly,

I ended up buying an aftermarket belt clip that screws into the Swiss Army knife on Amazon. Best purchase ever. Always on me and used daily for random stuff.

guyrocket,
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

Take my money!

I've carried a SAK for years. I now also have a cheap benchmade knockoff with pocket clip and flipper. So easy to pull out and open that I almost never use my SAK. Hopefully a pocket clip will change that.

Love this idea, thanks. (I know you bought a belt clip and I'm going to buy a pocket clip but you gave me the idea).

elbowgrease,

totally agree in principle. my edc of choice has been the Leatherman skeletool for the last 5 years. pliers, Phillips and flat head and blade have been the perfect combination to balance portability and utility

lightnsfw,

I also carry a Skeletool. I’ve had it for ~10 years now. I love that thing. It’s the best designed multi-tool I’ve ever had.

Screamium, in What are some easy ways that you can improve energy efficiency and be more eco-friendly in your rental apartment?

In addition to the socket sealers on outlets you can caulk any gaps between the outlet box and drywall. (Don’t put anything inside the outlet box)

The same thing can be done with can light fixtures if you’re on the top floor

toaster,

Is here any kind of caulk to be aware of to avoid electrical fire hazard?

Screamium,

I don’t think so. As long as nothing gets inside the outlet box there should be no fire hazard. There are acoustic caulk that don’t dry out and crack, which helps with sound proofing. I’ve heard Red Devil caulk works just as well, but it’s less expensive because it doesn’t have “acoustic” on the label

xigoi, in Do you pay for Discord Nitro?
@xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

No, because I hate Discord and only use it because many people refuse to communicate with anything else.

Klear,

Yeah. It replaced message boards of old but it doesn’t fill the same purpose. It’s next to impossible to build a knowledge base there, for instance. It is optimised for an endless stream of shitty memes, though.

shinigamiookamiryuu, in Do you know of any obscure useful websites?

The first and foremost thing that comes to mind is the wayback machine. It lets you archive and immortalize any moment in a website’s history.

Though I may be cheating a little here because it’s actually a toolbar, another obscure, highly useful “website” is the Hypothesis toolbar. It adds a comment section to any webpage merely by existing.

radix,
@radix@lemm.ee avatar

Do the comments come from only other Hypothesis users?

shinigamiookamiryuu,

On Hypothesis, only someone else logged into Hypothesis can comment, if that’s what you mean. If you notice someone on there with the name ThisInstrumentalBreak, that’s me (you may notice me having used it to comment on this thread).

AngryDemonoid, (edited ) in Do you know of any obscure useful websites?

I’ve been using squoosh.app a lot recently. Found it in a similar thread

EDIT: It is an image compression site where the images never leave your device. Or so the privacy policy says anyway. It took some tweaking, but i’ve had some images with an 80%+ size reducrion with almost no perceivable quality loss.

bappity, (edited )
@bappity@lemmy.world avatar

can you edit in a description of what it does? (I mean it’s pretty evident when you visit at first glance but just for others convenience)

in the mean time, for anyone reading, it’s an image compression site

AngryDemonoid,

Done, thanks for the suggestion. I forget things like that sometimes.

bappity,
@bappity@lemmy.world avatar

thanks :D

Lemminary, (edited )

I’d also like to highlight TinyPNG. It does compress images pretty well and does batching of up to 20 images of 5 mb each for free.

tinypng.com

And, of course, its counterpart SVG OMG with super fine grain controls.

svgomg.net

shinigamiookamiryuu, in What can we do, as lemmy users, to fight fake news being pushed in the platform?

There is a certain compilation of rules/norms (which I’m surprised so many people don’t know about) called The Ten E-cepts (written there in the style of the philosopher Philo) which were made for anyone who may be considered a frequent browser. Commandment three points to something vital, that there’s no measure for that kind of thing. Regarding this kind of thing, each person must decide the difference and have it held to them.

A funny but also sad story related to this. Now everyone has probably heard of the Guinness book of world records, which holds all the world’s records people achieve and was made because drunk nerds in the bars in the UK (hence its name) would argue about world firsts all the time (true story). So I mentioned how I have the world record for the most websites having signed up for, and I got a triad of people at one point say they discredit the program, which turned into an argument over the apologetics and counter-apologetics of Guinness. And at the end of the argument I said something like “to anyone reading this from the Tilted Kilt, drunk arguments may resume”, because apparently nobody is safe.

itsgroundhogdayagain, in What piece of song lyric you can really relate to?

Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true or is it something worse? - Bruce Springsteen

MrShelbs, (edited ) in What piece of song lyric you can really relate to?
@MrShelbs@lemmy.ca avatar

“Your death it won’t happen to you, it happens to your family and your friends, I pretend.”

From the song “I Always Wanna Die Sometimes” by the 1975.

Got me out of a very dark place and made me realize how much it would hurt my friends and family if I went through with it.

We all have suicidal thoughts at some point. It’s when you actively think about how and when you’ll do it that you need help.

debil,

I was in a similar spot a long time ago. Even though in such a situation it’s incredibly hard to see it from outside your black bubble of depression, from your family’s and friends’ POV, it really does help to try.

Esqplorer, in What piece of song lyric you can really relate to?

Gimme that canvas, let me paint some shit/ Pass me some poison, let me take a hit/ I’m just embarrassed and comfortably numb/ But failure is painful and lying is fun

Dress code, cocktails, looking so fancy/ We feel like we’re a little bit classy/ Cheers to the fact that we’re not dead/ Swimming with the sharks, but we’re still not dead yet

Psycho I go right to buy those/ Optimistic magic fix it pills/ I’m so right though, that’s my life, bro/ Underwater, coughing with my gills

Don’t let this moment go to waste/ You don’t know when the feeling could happen again/ Don’t let this moment go to waste/ You don’t know when the feeling could happen again

Touch me, taste me, tell me I’m not fading/ Tell me that I look just like a man/ 'Cause lately, baby, I’ve been going crazy/ Trying not to be an embarrassment

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