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cobysev

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  • Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that

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  • I voice chat with friends on Discord pretty regularly. I have one friend who, instead of laughing, will click a laugh track on our soundboard, filling the voice chat with boisterous sitcom laughter. I don't know why, but that's kind of unsettling.

  • IP stealing machine gets its IP stolen by IP stealing machine. Cries foul play.

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  • Same. How could a machine steal its own IP address? It doesn't make sense!

  • How to stop a dictator | I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

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  • TL;DR: "Making democratic threats legible," i.e. spreading the word about how every action Trump takes is a threat to our democracy. It has been proven in several other countries run by authoritarian governments to be effective at stomping out fascism before it can take hold.

    Saved you a click.

  • How often are your windows open? What about during Winter? or during Summer? Do you open windows to let in fresh air?

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  • I live in a forested countryside in the Northern Midwest. Leaving the windows open invites in bugs and other small critters. Even with screens on the windows, insects crawl through the cracks, and I've definitely had several field mice chew their way through screens. I also have rabbits and possums who tend to nest up against the foundation of my house, and if a lower window is left open for prolonged periods, I sometimes find babies nesting in the window frame.

    If I open my windows, it's for a limited time to get some fresh air moving through the house. I'll turn on strategically placed fans in various rooms to encourage rapid airflow through the house so I can close the windows sooner.

    I only open windows in the winter if I need to cool a room quickly. For instance, I'm renting my first floor to a friend and I live on the second floor. But I only have one HVAC unit and thermostat for the entire house. The first floor always stays a few degrees cooler than the second floor (heat rises), so I keep it a little extra hot upstairs to ensure I'm not freezing out my friend. But I'm always hot in general, so I'll either have fans on me all winter, or I'll occasionally shut myself in a bedroom and open the window for 15-20 minutes, just to lower my body temp a bit and help me tolerate the hot house.

    There have been a few winter nights where my wife and I have left the bedroom window open to cool down our bedroom, while burying ourselves in thick blankets. We don't sleep well if we're sweaty and stuck to the bed. I usually get up a few hours later and close the window, so we don't freeze overnight.

  • Deadname removal service

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  • As much as I like this idea, I feel I need to point out that the fae don't just take your name, but rather they use it to control you.

    Somehow, I feel that's worse than giving up your deadname. Being controlled by your deadname sounds like a nightmare!

  • me watching that f1 movie solely for brad pitt

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  • Interestingly enough, the reason Brad Pitt is advertised so heavily is the reason I still haven't watched it.

    Don't get me wrong, I think he's an excellent actor and I enjoy seeing him on screen. I just don't understand why an F1 movie needed Brad Pitt. I'm here to watch race cars, not some famous actor behind the wheel!

    If they cast an unknown in the lead, I'd be more intrigued because I'm interested in Formula 1 racing. But putting a famous guy in the lead makes me feel like this is gonna be some dramatic feel-good fantasy story, not something more grounded in reality.

    And yes, I know this movie is just a giant advertisement for Formula 1. But that's a real motorsport race, so I'd be more invested if the movie felt like watching a real person's story, not an actor telling a fictional story in the setting of F1 racing.

  • Water, Hazelnut Coffee and Strawberry Fanta <3

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  • I laughed at this joke, then looked over at my end table...

  • Always there, just waiting.

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  • I know this is a shitpost, but to answer honestly... the last pear I had was when I was a child, and I'm in my 40s now.

    I still remember their wonderful taste and I haven't been intentionally avoiding them. I just never came across an opportunity to eat one since my childhood. I've primarily consumed apples and oranges over the years and I can't even remember seeing pears at the store.

    Maybe I should go check out my local grocery store and buy a few.

  • When you wanna watch something but for whatever reason using a big screen is inconvienient, would you just watch it on your phone or wait till you find the time to watch it on the big screen?

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  • This is why I keep a tablet next to my bed. When I want to recline in bed but watch something, I can do it on a decent-sized screen instead of squinting at my phone.

    But my couch also has two "zero-G" recliners on either end of it, which basically means they recline so far, my feet are slightly elevated over my head. So I don't really need to go to bed to lie down and watch something.

    It's more about if I'm trying to settle down for the night or not. I have wireless headphones for my TV, so I can watch shows late into the night without disturbing anyone, but if I'm gonna fall asleep myself, I'd rather be in bed already so I can just set down my tablet and sleep without any more effort.

  • What’s your favorite sad song?

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  • What was good while it lasted?

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  • I barely got grandfathered into a pension program with the US military. They went away in 2015. I had served over a decade at that point and they still let me retire in 2022 under that program. The new program is a sort of 401k type system, but I didn't have enough years in service to contribute to it for retirement, so they didn't even give me the option to switch over.

    Granted, I retired after only 20 years served so my pension is not very big. But it's money in my pocket every month for the rest of my life, so I'm not complaining. I'll never starve or go without shelter.

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Two of my childhood friends helped develop that game. One of them wrote the music for it, the other was a programmer who helped code it.

  • Anyone else having issues with YouTube?

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  • I was gonna say, "what ads?" I haven't seen a YouTube ad in years now. If they ever force their way through, I'll just stop watching YouTube videos. I'm not tied to the platform; there are other ad-free places to watch videos from.

  • 'Later found dead': Dem lawmaker flags explosive Trump allegation in Epstein files

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  • I saw this article with a giant photo of Trump's face and the line, "Later found dead" and I got my hopes up for a moment.

  • Random Screenshots of my Games #67 - HELLDIVERS II

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  • There was a moment in that fight where Pink got killed and dropped a bunch of grenades when he went down (an ability one of your custom uniforms grant you). And we all happened to be grouped a little too close together, so we all got blown up by him. That's my one death in that mission - a team kill. I wonder if that did enough damage for his score, or if he kept flagging people with his rifle while shooting enemies.

    That's one of the interesting things about this game. Some players have asked the devs for the ability to turn off friendly fire, but they refuse, saying that friendly fire is funny and part of the ridiculousness of the game.

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #67 - HELLDIVERS II

  • All Steam Deck models out of stock in U.S., with fears that memory shortage will prompt price increase

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  • Right? The way I hold controllers, I can barely reach the bumper buttons without shifting my whole hand, so it's much easier to just use those underside buttons.

  • All Steam Deck models out of stock in U.S., with fears that memory shortage will prompt price increase

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  • This is my situation too! I bought the original LCD one when they were on pre-order, then my right bumper button broke (a common issue with the first models) and I took too long to request the free fix/replacement from Valve.

    So my wife encouraged me to just buy one of the new OLED ones that had just released and she'd take my old one.

    She hardly games on it anyway, and when she does, I showed her how to remap that bumper button to a different button. Almost no games use the trigger buttons on the underside of the Steam Deck, so those are always available.

  • With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet

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  • Good to know. I'm always on the lookout for a better, more secure option. eufy is my best option at the moment, but if you (or anyone here) knows a better choice for home security systems, I'm all ears.

  • With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet

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  • This is why I a.) live out in the countryside, and b.) replaced my dad's old Ring cameras with eufy security cameras.

    eufy doesn't require a subscription service (although you can get one if you want to trust their cloud service). If you buy a HomeBase, you can store all your security footage locally on a small box. Easy to hide and/or grab if you need to get out.

    Sure, there's a security risk of storing data locally. But I trust myself to protect video recordings of my property over some company's cloud service. Ring complies with police when asked for your video footage, and they don't even notify owners most of the time. Cops could be looking through your video feed without your knowledge, which is a nightmare if you have cameras inside the house.

    And now, apparently, so can your neighbors. Fuck Ring.

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #66 - StarRupture

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #65 - Vampire Hunters

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #64 - Enshrouded (Revisited)

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #63 - The Alters

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #62 - PEAK

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #61 - The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #60 - inKonbini: One Store. Many Stories (demo)

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #59 - Far Cry 5

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #57 - Aperture Desk Job

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #56 - MiSide

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #55 - A Way Out

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #53 - LocoCycle

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #47 - Cult of the Lamb

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #38 - Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #12 - POOLS

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #7 - Battlezone 98 Redux

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    Random Screenshots of my Games #1 - Enshrouded