Jimmycrackcrack

@Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some of you are too young to know what this is⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Never seen one like that. The video store I worked at had one that was huge and looked like an alien ware PC. You put the disc in and after a deafening horrendous noise for what felt like a full 60s or more you’d pull out an astonishingly well cleaned near scratch free disc. I didn’t actually put 2 and 3 together that the DVD cleaner was of course buffing and so inherently destructive and I thought it was kinda neat so for a little while there I started buffing discs with only superficial damage that hadn’t had complaints 😳.

  The awful noise it used to make got worse and worse over the lifetime of the machine too. Crazy thing. Did it’s job really well though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol it really was. Also the reason I thought to call the council was it was supposedly the council’s parking as per signage and also the machine unused to pay for tickets and yet these guys said that some arbitrary invisible line in the carpark marked the point where it wasn’t technically council parking anymore even though that’s who you’re buying your ticket from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everytime one time I was on the middle of having one of those obtrusive thoughts in a carpark with the drain near my car and thinking “why do I always have these stupid thoughts?” And then dropped keys right down that drain as I was just about to go to work.

  I was pretty lucky actually, it was an enclosed storm drain not connected to any sewer or anything so the keys couldn’t go anywhere and it was completely dry inside and I was able to call the number for the local council and ask for help who called these two guys that apparently actually technically don’t work for the council who told me that in fact the council weren’t really able to help with that anyway and in fact they wouldn’t normally either because of something tondo with the carpark being private property but because they happened to be out dealing with something else right near there anyway they’d swung by to help me out and they used a tool to open up this drain, hop in and pick up my keys that were visible through the grating. They did it all for me in about 10 minutes flat. I offered to buy them a slab of beer but they said they weren’t allowed to accept gifts from the public. I bought them each a coffee anyway. Universe was really looking out for me that day. I was only about 10 minutes late for work after the whole thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is putting black beans in my chili a bad idea?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend to prefer black beans actually. For some reason kidney beans have this funny effect of dulling the flavour of the whole dish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is stack overflow so horrible?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently came across a horrible piece of software called Silverfast which now doesn’t have a manual anymore. They still have their manuals up to some windows xp version which may or may not still be how certain parts of its operation are done, impossible to know. In lieu of a manual they’ve posted some videos on YouTube, some on Vimeo, different narrators each time, some terrible quality, some just fine, some of them seem from the screen recording to be a couple of versions old, some are more recent. They’re covering single topics so that it SORTA functions like a replacement for the manual in that you can search for topics like one would in a manual and hopefully find a video but it doesn’t function like a manual does since it’s obviously not static and not a proper reference and you’ve got to imprecisely try to seek around to get back to bits where the info you needed was. To add insult to injury, of you search the website for the manual, they have a document referred to as the user manual so you think you’ve finally found it, but it turns out it’s a quick start installer guide which would annoy me at the best of times because normally I’d say the steps are so basic that this document need not exist because it would be impossible to have the level of competence necessary to operate the software without also possessing the necessary competence for basic install but, but astonishingly those instructions are WRONG!

  The frustrating thing is that the videos broken up by topic aren’t a bad idea at all, IN ADDITION to a real manual but as a replacement!? I was so pissed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way this egg peels in infuriating⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok so what I’m about to say does come with the caveat that I do the pricking a home in the bottom before cooking and also pouring cold water on immediately after boiling thing so maybe that’s why it works for me but honestly I think this will work even if you don’t. Your problem is that you want to remove the membrane between the shell and the egg WITH the shell, otherwise it becomes very hard to peel in one go and it takes little chunks of cooked egg whites with it at variable depth. To do that, I smack the top and bottom of the egg on a hard surface to precrack them, then I roll the whole egg very gently on that surface to create little cracks allover, it’s important not to press too hard especially if it’s softer boiled because it’ll just bisect in the middle with shell on in broken fragments. Then, the crucial bit, once you’ve precracked all over, you HAVE to start at the bottom of the egg, that’s the fatter part. There should be an air pocket in there that the precracked shell has sorta of collapsed in to, but it doesn’t break off in shards because it’s all held together by this membrane, so if you pinch that loosened cracked eggshell at the bottom between your thumb and index finger to gather and collects it you can kind pull it up and off to the side a bit which will clean tear the membrane allowing you to just kinda push the rest of the shell off in one piece because you can just sorta ease it off, sometimes it likes to come off in a nice big chunk like a jacket, sometimes you need to do a continuous spiral but as long you did that pinch technique you’ll be pulling the membrane off at the same time as the shell attached to it and in so doing you don’t have to pull off little bits of shell by themselves and they can’t take chunks of the actual cooked egg under this membrane with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeh what happened to them. They added a bit of colour round here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Had to have been at least one generation that at least had never once been part of any human dicks depending on at what point you drew a line and decided people were officially homo sapiens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are all billionaires and fortune 500 companies famous?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you mean here and it’s a solid instinct, but based on this and a lot of other posts I think they’re pretty sincere and don’t have any I’ll intent here. They’re just trying to create something that touches on topics of special importance to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friend Charlie is back....⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not just me?!? I have to IMMEDIATELY jump out of bed and stand up and rub my calf or the pain is going to intense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI generated t-shirts...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am become door

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How recent is this history. Because I remember many years back now something like an AMA or some other post by the CEO of Brave, promoting it ahead of it being released I think and getting a pretty frosty reception on Reddit once people asked a bit more about how it was supposed to work. As time went on the reception seemed only to get worse as rumours spread of crypto scams and dodginess and even just on a basic level, questions of “why would we use this when we could just use Firefox with an ad blocker?”

  I get the impression though that Reddit has been changing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  With what you were willing to tell us, there isn’t enough there for a story. It’s some character background, but if that background is going to play a big part in the story then yeh that sounds interesting, I wouldn’t describe it as “stupid” at all. If it’s just background for a bit of detail and motivation but not a major driver of the story then your friend and also I don’t have enough information to form a conclusion, because that’s not a story yet, but it’s still an interesting little bit of background that I can’t see why anybody would immediately jump to “stupid”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subtitling a video, what is that noise at the end before they scribble on his face? This time, no tools to cut it out because it sounded distorted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah that’s really insightful thankyou

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subtitling a video, what is that noise at the end before they scribble on his face? This time, no tools to cut it out because it sounded distorted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reboot first eh? Seems counterintuitive. Why’s that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subtitling a video, what is that noise at the end before they scribble on his face? This time, no tools to cut it out because it sounded distorted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subtitling a video, what is that noise at the end before they scribble on his face? This time, no tools to cut it out because it sounded distorted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What show is that? It looks fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a hell of a surprise when I cut open a peach and the pit was smaller and softer than usual and it split in two in my hands and a little slightly drowsy looking winged ant crawled out of one of the halves and started walking around on the counter. Little guy must have had such a long journey. I don’t know how the hell they got INSIDE the pit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do not speak to me of the old magic, I was there when it was written.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The City of Encinitas, California is removing a protected bike lane to replace it with a painted bike lane. Cost? More than $3 million.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They should replace him with a painted corrupt shit stain instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more likely a collection of not mundane unconscious observations using all of your more normal senses that get very quickly consolidated in to one intuitive sense of dubious reliability but which in the absence of better information keeps you a bit safer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean why was there a big surge around that time? Not referring to the later drop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what happened around 2018ish

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t understand how you arrive at the big heavy ball attached to the handle with a sturdy metal chain. If you’re a poor farmer and you don’t have anything better than your two little spindly wooden sticks attached by a little hinge in the middle, where do you get a heavy spiky iron ball? And a complicated chain, and how does your threshing flail built only to support the weight of another wooden stick not snap when you use it? And if you had access to a spiky metal ball, couldn’t you just attach it to the end of a longer thicker wooden stick and make a standby spear? Or moreover if our had to have some parts made despite your limited means, surely the capacity to have any of the constituent weaponised flail parts made would put you in a position to have something way better forged. It seems like almost anything would make more sense than that. Hell even a big iron club to bash people with at least wouldn’t involve trying to deal with a swinging chain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying all I have to do is drink a lot of coffee and take a lot of uppers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you use your browser the last time you used it? Maybe simply browsing your browsing history might actually be better than trying to retrace it through Lemmy since you know roughly when you used it. Still a big search space but maybe doable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeh I’ve alwahs appreciated how these loyalty cards and memberships etcetera don’t insist of verifying or anything. Most just want an email so I just use a generator or make one up on the spot. It’s good too because they often have cheap deals for signing up today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm yeh that’s definitely a pressure point issue there. I guess I do self-censor somewhat in that I know the type of reception that can be expected on that topic if not following the orthodoxy so unless I’m prepared to vigorously defend something I have to say on it, then I generally don’t say much on it, wouldn’t want to go in half-cocked or try to persuade any one of anything unless I was pretty sure it was a new insightful take that might be able to ride above the fray and bridge some fundamental disagreements.

  From my perspective, it’s difficult to say how your comments exactly contravene this rule 1 as stated directly. But then you did go ahead and suggest Russia should be wiped off the map as part of your defence of why it isn’t reasonable to use corruption as a pretext to wipe another country off the map. I think suggesting that as a fait acompli conclusion and the only option was bound to raise a few eyebrows and while it doesn’t neatly explicitly fit the categories mentioned in rule 1, I guess one could say that that suggestion dances around a mixture of 3 of them. Maybe someone was trying to shoehorn the statement in to one of the existing rules as pretext.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure I remembered it being easier, but basically if you access the Lemmy instance in question via a browser rather than an app (might work on apps too but not mine), there’s a modlog link at the bottom of the page which shows you the mod activity generally, and then on that page you can filter by user and type the name of the user who’s modlog you’d like to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When it comes up, which isn’t too often, I find I’m not really the model archetypal .ml user in outlook and have run afoul of a few people that took exception to that there, but that came in the form of angry comments about the thing I said and either the literal meaning of it or sometimes what they took it to mean, and for a forum that seems entirely appropriate. I was briefly banned from one of the communities there once too because I was accused of being a bit. Funnily enough I actually didn’t notice that and it had been overturned by the time found out there was a modlog and figured this out.

  It would be hard for me to know obviously, but based on this experience, it doesn’t seem to me that they’re particularly ban-happy, particularly not instance wide. Kind of a bummer that happened to you. I’m fairly happy basing my account there and speaking my mind when I see fit. I do pick up the prevailing winds and can accurately presume what would and wouldn’t be taken well, but I don’t generally feel a need to self-censor or worry about bans.