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Anti_Weeb_Penguin, in How many tabs do you have open?

7 at most

ani, in How do I stop my cats from eating my plants?

Contract a trained dog to watch out for your plants. Then the cats won’t have the courage to eat your plants before you anymore.

Kouran,

I think the dog wouldl end up becoming theirs, as well as all of my other possessions.

sandayle, in Anyone else no longer remember snoozing their alarm?
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I have a friend who sets his alarms one hour earleir just for snoozing.

9point6, in Anyone else no longer remember snoozing their alarm?

Set one alarm you actually need to wake up for and never snooze.

You’re playing with fire if you set alarms that are okay to snooze, because one day you’re gonna snooze them all

fastandcurious,

Gotta snooze ‘em all

I’ll see my way out

meco03211,

Fun fact. Clocks used to have a limit at 2 hours (unsure if it’s still that way). If you snoozed for 2 hours after the original alarm, it stopped alarming altogether. Ask me how I know.

Moops, in Do you disable notifications for all your apps?

Yes, and UberEats in particular is big mad about it. It brings me joy to tap “Deny” everytime it asks me to turn them back on.

The only notifications I get are texts/calls, and a couple smart-home things that are set to warn me about temps or when a light-timer turns on or off. Not even social media, especially not social media, get to interrupt my day.

athos77, in How do I stop my cats from eating my plants?

It's a natural instinct for them to chew at plants, so I agree with the cat grass suggestion s. If there's one particular cat that's the problem, ask the vet to check it's teeth at it's next checkup: sometimes they chew more plants when there's buildup or something wrong with their teeth.

Kouran,

Thank you! It’s vaccine time for the small one today so I will ask. I will also try the grass, it’s not even expensive so it’s worth a try.

spittingimage, in What companies have made your blacklist?
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Nestle. They’re our closest living example of an evil corporation run by a cartoon supervillain.

TheBlackKnight,

They’re holding hands and skipping their way to hell with Monsanto

intensely_human, in Anyone else no longer remember snoozing their alarm?

I woke up this morning three hours after my alarm (work started quite late so I was fine in that regard), with my phone sitting next to me (I keep it across the room). What’s more is I also had a salt shaker next to me, and a big pile of salt underneath me.

So apparently this happened:

  • My alarm went off
  • I got up, went across the room, and turned it off
  • Then I went to the kitchen and got a salt shaker
  • Then I shook that shaker over my bed for a long time. Or, I unscrewed the cap and poured the salt then screwed the cap back on. It was a lot of salt. Like a couple tablespoons at least
  • Went back to sleep
tal,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Or something was standing next to your bed while you were asleep and thought that some salt would make you taste better.

intensely_human,

Dear god that’s terrifying. Am I not tasty enough??

AnonWyo,

JEFFREY DAHMER HAS ENTERED THE CHAT

ElderWendigo,

Do you have a carbon monoxide detector?

Whelks_chance,

Yeah, this one is worrying

intensely_human,

I’ve got some kind of detector on my ceiling. Unsure if it’s for smoke or carbon monoxide

moody,

On the ceiling is smoke detector. Carbon monoxide detectors go down low.

Bitrot,
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Some are integrated in smoke detectors. Down low is a myth based on many detectors using an outlet. CO is lighter than air but widely disperses in a room.

intensely_human,

Then no I don’t think I do. I’m not having any headaches, and no other weird changes. I might get a CO detector anyway though.

dingus,

I dunno. Maybe they are just a sleepwalker. My brothers have done weird things in their sleep before.

intensely_human,

Holy fuck what if I have bedbugs?

Chee_Koala,

The ritual is almost complete, now all you need is the tears of a newborn unicorn!

Coreidan,

Sounds like you need to see a doctor

mycatiskai,

Are you on Ambien? I heard that shit can make you wake up in a Walmart with your car keys in your hand when you went to sleep in your bed.

Chetzemoka, in How do I stop my cats from eating my plants?

Push and pull technique.

Push: bitter spray or cayenne pepper on plant leaves to discourage biting

www.chewy.com/dp/504510?utm_source=app-share&…

Pull: cat grass and lots of cat toys. Seriously, buy more toys. Give them something else to focus on.

Kouran,

Love this! What kind of toys do you suggest? I have lots of sticks with feathers and small mice or balls to chase, but at some point they get bored of everything.

Chetzemoka,

I dunno, cats are so individual. One of mine loves this ball-in-circle toy so much, she’ll play with it for hours on and off. My other one wants ME to play, no matter what toy it is.

Here’s the ball-in-circle toy:

www.chewy.com/dp/193219?utm_source=app-share&…

I think you have to just try different things and see what they like most. Maybe try a catnip stuffed toy?

I also find that they are just like humans and the things they like most are whatever is new. So I buy them like one new toy a couple times a year. It’s almost Christmas; I’ll get them a new toy as a gift haha

illi, in Anyone else no longer remember snoozing their alarm?

I hve alarn for 6m at workdays. I regularly remember snoozing for the first time around 6:30-6:45

Knusper, in Do you disable notifications for all your apps?

I generally only use non-commercial apps, so never really had any problem…

SoleInvictus, in Anyone else no longer remember snoozing their alarm?
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.world avatar

Yep. I just woke up, it’s nearly 13:00, and I have no idea how I slept this late. I went to bed at midnight. I set the alarm for nine!

amio, in Do you disable notifications for all your apps?

No, but I tend to disable a bunch of the categories. If it makes it hard to avoid BS/irrelevant/uninteresting/"fake" notifications, notification perms go away, or the whole app does, usually with a free one-star rating. (As if that realistically matters)

spittingimage, in Anyone else no longer remember snoozing their alarm?
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Oh, my alarm doesn’t have a snooze function. I’m not responsible enough for that kind of power.

dingus, (edited )

Not having a snooze button at all seems even more dangerous. Have you not inadvertently shut it off and went back to sleep???

I used to do stuff like that all the time (and still do on occasion), so I have a second backup alarm across the room that keeps me in tow.

1984, in How many tabs do you have open?
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Usually not more then 30 before I close most of them with “Close all tabs to the right”.

I have browsing history so don’t need tabs.

namingthingsiseasy,

Agreed. My rule of thumb is: if it takes enough more than a second to figure out why I had the tab open, then I might as well just close it and re-open it if the need to have it available reemerges. It takes a lot of effort (several seconds and a lot of mental energy) to create the mental context that I need to make use of the tab. On the other hand, opening it takes a few seconds and requires little to no thought whatsoever.

So I just close them. In fact, having too many tabs open just makes it take longer to find the open tabs that I’m actually currently using.

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