deranger

@deranger@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technology Connections - The simple, clever sensor behind automatic windshield wipers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who has avidly been reading manuals since the early 90s, car manuals have always been pretty good. Home audio/video equipment has also had great manuals over the years too. I don’t recall a time these turned to shit.

  Motherboards / BIOS documentation comes in dead last, and has always been shit. Dozens and dozens of proprietary settings that are not described by the manual nor the built in help, and there’s only conjecture online. At least now the English is mostly correct, but they’re still very bad at describing what niche settings do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had me for a while there⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A United States. You wouldn’t say “a uniform”. You would say “an underling”. First one has a y sound to start, second has a u sound to start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t pay for donations as that encourages risky behavior. People who shouldn’t donate will if they can make money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Photo of new Iranian GMD (Gyatt of Mass Destruction)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a flex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you and your friend go out to your car to get high in the bar parking lot and get back to the smoking patio.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of people, at least at one time, used clambake to refer to a hotbox. “Clambake weed” returns plenty of results, although it does appear the inverse sausagefest definition is more popular. Why can’t it be both?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you and your friend go out to your car to get high in the bar parking lot and get back to the smoking patio.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clambake has always meant smoking weed in an enclosed space to me, typically a car. See also: fishbowl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A moment can be fleeting⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have way too much fun Shazam-ing birds with the Merlin Bird ID app. Constantly listening for new calls now, it’s like Pokémon hunting IRL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨15 Underrated Indie Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing, I don’t want to go to the video. At all. It could have been a text post altogether. Reading is so much faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨15 Underrated Indie Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Could have been a text list