I specifically looked online before replacing my last one – it didn’t just beep, it screamed at the top of its lungs.

Now a happy owner of a silent LG microwave. (You hold two buttons simultaneously to put it in silent mode)

One thing that I feel hasn’t been addressed enough by the comments:

**Stay. The hell. Away. From. Social. Media. **

It is toxic, and will bring nothing but misery, jealousy, and insecurity.

We had ours late in life, so had the hindsight of having our circle of friends going through parenthood before us. You mentioned ‘social’ pressure, norms, expectations, etc. All of them are amplified 10x by social media, which presents an unrealistic, curated view of parenthood. Not to mention the 50 different ‘advice’ on what you ‘should’ do as a parent. (You should breastfeed or your baby will be a serial killer. No, just start with formula, it will make your life easier. No, you should give them organic goat milk to help them grow better).

We deleted all the apps just before the baby was born. It has now been a few years since we touched any of them (except FB Marketplace, because buying anything new is ridiculous. And, I guess, Lemmy). The only pictures you’ll find of our little one is in our family chat group. The only advice we’ll take are from the midwives and nurses that keep track of the baby’s growth, and has a 24h hotline for us to ask literally anything.

People you know, including parents, will give unsolicited advice. Feel free to listen to them, but know that most of the time you can tell them off or ignore them. This is your baby. Your family.

And feel free to ignore this advice from a stranger on Lemmy 🙂

that one dude who wore the hoodie and had the stroke and then turned out to be fucking insane

I hate this timeline. Living across the Pacific, I actually know about Fetterman.

An Australian shouldn’t know the names of so many American politicians. But it’s hard when y’all are trying to out-crazy each other every second day.

I couldn’t even name our current speaker of the house, yet I can identify Mike Johnson whenever his mug shows up in the news. This is truly the dumbest timeline.

It’s hilarious that they say

Swiss made nail clipper with two functions

Followed by not mentioning what the other function is…

Forget the alpha male; this is the year of alpha-gal.

Yes. IIRC it’s based on latest LTS kernel with Google patches. So it’s been “year of the Linux phone” for a while now.

It’s unfortunate that the slop they put on top of it is such a privacy nightmare. PostmarketOS is trying to change that and supports Plasma, Gnome, etc. But it’s early days yet and still rough around the edges from what I’ve been reading.

I’m going to have to kindly disagree on some points about manuals.

1. Manuals are still popular in Europe and many parts of the world, on all levels of cars.
2. I have a friend with a cheap(ish) Suzuki Swift that comes with manual transmission and adaptive cruise. Yeah it won’t change your gears, but still makes interstate trips much more comfortable.

I myself now prefer to drive auto, after moving to a city known for its traffic jam, and I am inherently lazy. So that’s one good argument from me.

Another is that if you injure one of your foot, there’s a 50% you can still drive your auto. Which was really handy that one time I dislocated my left ankle. In a manual, that chance is 0%.

And the person has waay too many benches to last ten lifetimes. And yet, instead of using the benches to help people needing benches to sleep on, they choose to use it to trip kids.

Huh. I always thought homonyms need to both sound the same (homophone) and spelt the same (homograph). But a quick search showed they could be either.

My whole life has been a lie.

Huh. I actually had to look this up, and you’re right; they are largely monogamous and share parenting responsibilities.

My sincerest apologies. Say hi to them when you get home.

Apologies for the very personal question, but were you homeschooled by a pigeon?

I love English. Where “fuck it” (let’s do it) and “fuck this” (walk away) have completely opposite meanings.

Hello, fellow old person 🤝

They have been pretty good on popular technologies like python & web development.

I tried to do Kotlin for Android, and they kept tripping over themselves; it’s hilarious and frustrating at the same time.

Also turn off the adblocker at some point. Kids gotta learn what’s an ad and what’s not.

And install Windows while you’re at it. Ransomware builds character.

The chronic pain relief by itself was enough to keep me motivated. Asthma, joint pains (hypermobility sucks!), etc are now down to manageable levels – if not completely gone.

And yeah, I don’t enjoy it and sometimes look for excuses to slack off. And right on cue, my knee pain starts flaring up after a couple weeks. Followed by the rest of the body.

Yeah that’s the one!

> qbasic nibbles.bas

Was Encarta the one with a trivia game? Or was that Britannica? Cause I remember my antisocial young self playing it to death.

I still got some useless facts stuck in my head, taking up valuable space… I can’t conjure any of them on demand; but someone could randomly mention a species of frog and I would go, “oh yeah, they’re native to Madagascar!”

SPAAACE!!