Last night I turned off a small metalic lamp that's next to my bed. I then heard a tapping sound like a small dripping water hitting the metalic lamp.

I turned the lamp on. I saw no water. The tapping stopped. I looked at the ceiling. No sign of water. I looked at the lamp. No water. Turned the light back off. Rolled back over, and got comfy.

Tap......tap.......tap..........

Turned the light back on. Tapping stopped. Still no water.

Turned the light off. The second the light was off, I heard the tap again.

Turned it back on. Still no water.

Got up, got out of bed, checked all around my night stand. Checked behind it. Nothing out of the ordinary.

While standing next to the bed, turned the light off. Tapping resumed.

Turned the light back on, and walked to the living room. Layed down on the couch.

Light on in the bedroom. I'm in the living room. Turn the living room light off.

Now there's tapping inside the pipes inside the walls. Totally different tap. Totally different place. Totally different tapping sound. This didn't sound like dripping water. This sounded like someone hitting the pipes with a wooden spoon with the same cadence.

Tap......tap.......tap........

But it always stopped when I turned the light on.

So I went into the bathroom, and took a shower.

Now, here's the kicker. I live alone. I have no pets. I have no rodents in the walls.

The whole thing came off like someone playing a prank on me. Except that person didn't exist. It felt like I was living some 1930s comedy skit. Some Abbot and Costello skit. Except this is just me, alone in my apartment, going insane.

1d ago

Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop

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Lost_My_Mind @lemmy.world 1d ago

Every computer on every operating system, will inevitably face an issue of some kind at some point. Something you need to troubleshoot.

And if 100% of the troubleshooting is to copy/paste commands into terminal? Yeah. It IS necessary to type things into terminal.

This isn't a case of "Terminal is the easy way, but you can find help tutorials using the GUI."

This is a case of every tutorial is "copy/paste these commands into your terminal, and if something goes wrong you better know what the errors are even saying"

So when a non techie sees "python error", their reaction will be "THERE ARE SNAKES INSIDE MY PC??? THEY'RE CAUSING ERRORS!!!"

1d ago

Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop

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Lost_My_Mind @lemmy.world 1d ago

It really isn't for most people though.

You're expecting that people will seek out alternatives. I expect the more likely reality. People will just stop using PCs completely outside of work.

It's not a matter of how easy something is. It's a matter of human perspective. Right now they think of PCs as being "Windows". In much the same way some of our moms would say "I bought you a Nintendo game for your xbox!"

And instead of buying non-compliant software, she actually DID buy an XBox game. And called it Nintendo.

Same way down in the south you might overhear someone order a coke. To which the waitress asks "what kind?" And the reply is "Sprite".

Kleenex/Tissues.

You get the idea. To them PCs are made by Windows and thats all they know. They just know they don't like the AI they gwt forced to use at work. So instead of using it at home, or using an alternative, they figure they can just watch youtube on their phone.

YOU use a PC as a PC. Most other people use PCs as a browser to go to facebook, and youtube, and instagram. All the things that make you cringe, thats what a PC is to them.

So when you say "You can customize everything in linux!", their response, from someone who used WindowsXP for 15 years and never once changed the wallpaper, will be "but why?".

Hopefully that can help you see the difference between "it's easy" and "it's a thought that runs through their brain at all"

1d ago

I like to travel

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Lost_My_Mind @lemmy.world 1d ago

Bonus: If you are a guy and you are looking to get lucky, whatever topic the young lady/gentlemen/non-binary broaches should become the ABSOLUTE MOST interesting thing in the world to you.

Her: "So I'm really into Hitler!"

You: "........uhhhhh......."

1d ago

Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba resigns as New Jersey U.S. attorney after disqualification

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Lost_My_Mind @lemmy.world 1d ago

Who wants chilli?

1d ago

Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba resigns as New Jersey U.S. attorney after disqualification

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Lost_My_Mind @lemmy.world 1d ago

Wow. Now I understand American politics! Now if only I could finally understand how to set the clock on my VCR.

1d ago

Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns

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Lost_My_Mind @lemmy.world 1d ago

Cool. That's a quality contribution to this disscussion. Really adds a layered nuanced perspective to the topic at hand.

GUYS! WE'RE GOING TO BE OKAY! STOY SAYS THEY DON'T CARE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T AFFECT THEM!!!! WE'RE SAVED!!!!

1d ago

Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns

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Lost_My_Mind @lemmy.world 1d ago

I'm not ICE, but in my state you need digital ID verification for that.

1d ago

TIL: There are roughly 2.5 million ants per person

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Lost_My_Mind @lemmy.world 1d ago

Don't listen to this guy. Stick your hand in MY bag. There's no bullet ants in here. Just reach in, and grab the handle inside, and shake it to release the ants.

Yeah girl, shake it real hard! Just like that! Yeeeeaaaahhhhh.......

1d ago

posting an actual shitpost each day till I stop seeing regular news posts here #1

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Lost_My_Mind @lemmy.world 1d ago

Or.....OR.......You keep posting shit posts here until....forever. You know. Because thats what community this is.

1d ago

Enjoy Nature!

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Lost_My_Mind @lemmy.world 1d ago

It absolutely is NOT.

I'd say the majority of America is farmland.

We have a little bit of every terrain. You forget how MASSIVE this country is. One common thing Europeans have difficulty grasping is how varied and vast this land is. I hear every now and again Europeans say they'll start the day in NYC, then drive to Disney World by night, and then drive to California the next day.

WRONG!

Not gonna happen. The trip from NYC to Orlando would be AT LEAST 12 hours alone. If not longer. And the drive from Orlando to California would be measured in days, not hours.

You think this whole country is one massive condensed urban deadlock? If that were true, we would have population in the hundreds of billions. For reference, all of earth has about 8 billion total.