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gerryflap

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  • Euro bottles are so much better now

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  • Many of the new bottle caps I encounter will actively push back into the closed position, meaning I have to keep them out of the way when pouring if I don't want to pour over the cap. Since I tend to encounter them on drink cartons rather than bottles, because I don't drink soda etc, it becomes even more annoying. Bottles you can turn whichever way, but drink cartons need to be kept at a certain angle for optimal pouring. Quite often the cap is in the way and there isn't really a nice place to put it.

    This is even more frustrating because I never lost these caps anyway, I always threw them away with the packaging. I understand that it probably helps in the bigger picture, but for me personally it solves nothing and is incredibly annoying.

    Edit: two examples

    This one is fine, it snaps into a position that's handy and out of the way:

    This one is very annoying. It'll stay in this position and requires constant force to keep out of this position. When opening or closing the packaging the attachment point also rotes, meaning it's always in the wrong place:

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    c/unixsocks for more

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  • Day one and done

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  • I guess it's similar, but here in the Netherlands we have "fresh" pizza's at the supermarket. They're kind of in-between frozen pizza's and a pizza delivery in terms of price, but imo they're actually by far the best. For 6-7 euros you get a pretty big pizza with fresh toppings, that's done faster than a frozen pizza or waiting for delivery, and also tastes really good. In the Netherlands it's common to live very close to a supermarket, so for me it's be like a 2 min bike ride to get myself a pizza.

  • Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men

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  • Kinda makes sense though. I'd expect images where it's actually labelled as "an Indian person" to actually over represent people wearing this kind of clothing. An image of an Indian person doing something mundane in more generic clothing is probably more often than not going to be labelled as "a person doing X" rather than "An Indian person doing X". Not sure why these authors are so surprised by this

  • Rule

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  • I was beginning to think that I could go this day without any "joke" or remark that would exclude me from the group "men" because I'm not into women, but here it is. I was almost getting worried that it took so long today :/

  • what u actually signed up for

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  • True. Guess I misread. I've already switched to 36 hours and I totally aim to go lower once I earn more. Work to live, not live to work

  • In the first Autonomous Racing League race, the struggle was real

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  • Haha, when I heard about it I was expecting as much. It'd be pretty impressive if it went smoothly with the amount of testing they seemed to have done. Still an interesting project, curious how it'll evolve.

  • what u actually signed up for

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  • Disagree. I used to spend time on more energy-intensive hobbies like programming and music production. But I've had mono and COVID in 2020 and I've never felt the same thereafter. Also working 40 hours a week drains a lot of energy

  • what u actually signed up for

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  • Yeah sports were my first attempt to solve it. I'm running twice a week usually and have done a few half marathons now. It's helped a bit, but my energy is still not amazing. It's probably related to having issues with mono and COVID in 2020, I've never been the same since then. Working 40 hours per week didn't help either.

  • Happens Too Frequently

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  • I'm the same. I hate dark rooms, they make me sleepy and downbeat. I prefer natural light, but any light is better than sitting in a dark room. I also prefer to sleep in a room that's not totally dark and have no issues with sleeping in a moderately light room. I don't like pitch black darkness, makes me feel uneasy.

  • (Read before Comment) Why you don't like GIMP UI?

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  • You call it "quick to judge and superficial", but imo that's the wrong attitude. Every tool we use as humans should be designed to be as intuitive as possible. It makes it easiest for people to learn how to use a new tool. That doesn't mean that a tool cannot be complex or customizable, but the default experience should make it easy for new users to quickly achieve something. Once they grow accustomed to the tool they can tailor it their own way.

    No tool has to do this, but if it wants to be widely used then this is kinda necessary.

    There's a reason why there are whole fields of study into human media interaction, and why software companies hire UI designers. Everything that doesn't have to be explained in words and text because it is intuitive saves mental overhead for the user and makes the application more accessible.

  • what u actually signed up for

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  • I'm supposed to have energy as an adult?! I have way more time than energy. Most of that time is spent doing useless shit like watching YouTube because I'm too exhausted to do anything useful

  • Are we Wayland yet or Whats missing?

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  • I recently tried to get Wayland working. Followed a simple guide to enable some NVIDIA boot parameter. Somehow it fucked my complete grub and I couldn't boot until I messed around a fair bit with live usbs. Cost me a whole evening.

    So I guess what Wayland is missing is normal support from the GPU manufacturers.

  • We text now, stop calling me.

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  • I'm from the EU. I do the same. I hate getting calls. It forces me to drop everything I'm doing and suddenly switch contexts, which I absolutely hate. So I usually don't answer unless I expect the call or know the number. If it's important they can enter a voicemail or preferably send a message, either of which doesn't require an immediate response and is therefore a lot less annoying.

  • (Read before Comment) Why you don't like GIMP UI?

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  • Can, but not by default. The default setup is what leaves an impression on most users. Most users opening GIMP for the first time expect to be able to find stuff that they need, not have to first spend a lot of time getting familiar with all of its options. It shouldn't be needed to first spend time opening all the sane default windows and re-aliging stuff every time you boot it for the first time. At least, that shouldn't be the case of GIMP wants to be as popular with non-technical users like Krita is.

    Also, the tool bar still doesn't have the nice separations between tool functions, and it still feel a bit more chaotic. Not sure of it's the icons or the order.

  • me🦊irl

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  • Yuppers. I need CUDA for my machine learning projects, both for hobby and professionally. I considered AMD and their alternative at the time, but it wasn't supported on their consumer cards back then, and I also didn't fully trust their commitment. It's getting better though, so hopefully AMD can convince me for my next GPU in a few years.

  • (Read before Comment) Why you don't like GIMP UI?

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  • Now admittedly I'm not someone who often uses drawing programs, but my biggest issue in GIMP is that I never seem to be able to find what I'm looking for.

    In the two images you posted you can actually see an example of such a case. In Krita all the tools (or whatever you'd call them) in the bar on the left are ordered in a logical way, and separate types of tools are also visually separated by separator lines. The bar with tools is also only 2 icons wide, which makes scanning for the right tool a bit easier, since you can mostly just scan along the vertical axis. In GIMP it's just a pile of low contrast icons in seemingly random order. Unless you've used it enough to know the order, you're gonna have to do a lot more searching. And searching will be way harder since you'll have to search horizontally and vertically.

    It's like reading a website where the text is taking the whole with of the screen and without paragraphs (GIMP) vs reading a website where the line length is constrained, the text is horizontally centered, and there are proper paragraphs.

    I feel like this example reflects my personal experience with both. I've used quite a few different types of image editing programs, and with most of them I can fairly easily find the stuff I need. Using GIMP however, I used to be quite lost. Nowadays it's gotten better because the windows are not all floating around and I've used it more. But still, I only found Krita after using a fair bit of GIMP, and yet I felt instantly more at home because the UI was easier to navigate.

    Edit: That being said, GIMP is a very cool program. I don't want to hate on it too much. It's helped me countless times. The UI has already improved a lot since the floaty window days, and I hope that continues.

  • me🦊irl

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  • Me after I spent a whole evening being unable to boot into grub after trying to get Wayland to work. Wayland will have to wait for a bit longer...

  • 1950s teenage girl's audio letter to her parents

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  • Damn, it's so weird hearing the kind of rebellious teen mind in a voice and culture from so long ago. She sounds so mature, so aware of what's going on. I remember thinking how hypocritical adults were, wanting to break free of all these stupid rules, yet also wanting guidance. But I never put it this eloquently. And yet I suspect that her rebellion wasn't fully positively received, despite how nicely it actually was put.