register form tripped me up. 3rd time worked; https://piefed.world/u/m3t00

never was all that good, but declining coordination and a desire to quit investing time/money playing games made me stop. Asynchronous social interaction is more my speed now. also gave away my guitars for similar reasons. quit driving last year. if you are still having fun, keep going. I can still type, sort of.

if you’ve ever used a radar detector you know, people drive like they are always being watched. not often in my experience. doubt these dolts are real sophisticated. fear is their main weapon.

yeah pretty much never trust a public wifi without vpn. bring your own router. cell data is pwned. technics aren’t in their curriculums.

smol loaf;

loafing zone

prices for solar are continuously falling. bleeding edge is expensive, as always. cheaper helps it grow. big oil wants to kill it. too late.

a lot of the comments were offended that it made fun of bib overall wearing types. heck i love wearing bibs, lol. hadn’t crossed my mind

Dad owned a low rent apartment house. people would put chicken bones in the drain and then call because the drain backed up. and take bulbs out of the hallway lights. He’d laugh about it then fix the stuff because he wasn’t a good slum-lord. Probably never broke even

did similar for years with sick time which was use or lose 10 days a year. boss complained my calling in sick Fridays and Mondays had become a pattern. well yeah. worked at a community college in illinois. not a slave.

friend rescued a roof dog. common to put chihuahuas on the roof for security in Mexico.

spent years reading/drawing schematics. simplified bridge rectifier circuit used everywhere. like your phone charger. <sarcasm> magically keeps face glued to phone</sarcasm>

downvotes for German? in my browser, highlight -> right-click -> translate to English. ‘I have adopted two stray cats, but the apartment I rent is very small, so that cat hair often float in the air. I bought a used Philips air purifier and change the filter about every two weeks. I bought a plush cloth that is wrapped around the filter, so that I do not have to replace the expensive filter, but only the cloth. A large roll can be used long after cropping. When I changed it, the cloth was full of cat hair; I think it still works. But I sneeze frequently in winter, and the doctor said it was allergic lashing. I would like to know if there is a better air purifier that absorbs cat hair. And the cat hairs on the bed are also difficult to remove.’

fedi is mostly German and French. lemmy needs a translate button.

at what point is it cheaper to just pay taxes than buying politicians? mindless greed from control freaks.

okay. but without a link, hearsay. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/lunik-loan-space-age-spy-story not really science, more spy craft

https://xkcd.com/730/

in a system where money is the only goal, those with the most start believing they are also smarter than everyone else. mostly luck and mass hoarding opportunities at the expense of everything else. follower counts also have similar effects when they are the only goal. buy the follower system and just edit counts until satisfied. never enough. hoarding anything eventually buries the hoarder. dark is a general term for a hoarding fixation. change the goal and they will fixate on the new goal.

reddit links from searches are the only times i land there.

might be brain damaged but haven’t noticed a slowdown or seen any ads in occasional use.

you got off easy. decorating