I’m at an uncomfortable crossroads of knowing enough to hate Microsoft, but not knowing enough to trust myself with switching to Linux. I’m like just barely tech-literate enough to wander into places like Lemmy, but beneath some surface level shit I’m probably one of the dumbest motherfuckers here when it comes to not setting my devices on fire.

So… a ‘Linux for dummies’ sounds exactly like what I need!

The metric that’d be the most useful for the average lay-idiot like me would time estimates for multiple usage cases. Like, "this phone has a 50-30-4 battery, meaning:

If you don’t have a bunch of shit running in the background or things like Bluetooth turned on, you just take it out of your pocket occasionally, send a text, then turn the screen off before repeating in a few hours: 50 hours,

If you have a “normal” amount of activity for screen time and other battery-consuming activities: 30 hours,

If we turn on EVERYTHING - screen at max brightness, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, location, flashlight, and play the speakers at max volume while recording a video, it’ll go from 100% to dead in 4 hours.

Text-to-speech is your friend here.

I use a website called “speechify” but there are a lot of options.

Still helps to read along with it, but having that auditory input in tandem with visually reading will keep you on track like you’ve never experienced.

If we’re talking that shitty highschool cafeteria pizza, I swear doing this made it taste better.

To hell with calories or fitness or any of that crap - it’s the noms that matter.

SHUDDUP! He can qui -hic!- he can quit any time he wants!

It sued itself in it’s confusion!

I’ve heard and experienced WAY too much supporting anecdote to just wave it off as confirmation bias. Official statements by telecoms and such be damned, this shit is 100% happening.

This song gets under my skin. Those monotonal long notes just never stop.

70% of this song is

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

and

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

rips ears off

“Yay I get to run around outside for a few minutes! I hope I can breathe well enough to keep up with thi–” *dies*

— Pugs

Halo’s been fucked since 343. Paramount was just kicking a corpse.

It didn’t become one of my favorites until after I saw the vid. I’d heard it prior to that, and took the stage thing literally - like, okay, you’re performing on a stage… that’s what you do…? Then I watched the video and “Oh. Oooooooh. Oh shit!” It’s a metaphor, and they pull ZERO punches. Extremely critical of humanity, but without being whiny or doomy (well… in a ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ kinda way: it doesn’t feel doomy but the actual message… yeah…). And they pulled it off with fucking marionette puppets somehow without making it feel silly. HOW?!

So damn good!

One of my favorite songs is The Stage, by Avenged Sevenfold, and I honestly think the THX sound has a large port of it. First 30 seconds are basically just a solid THX sound… huge nostalgia hit hight out the gate. The rest of the song is fucking epic on its own, but that first bite is just… chef’s kiss

Some old Pastafarian: “Uuuuse the forks!”

White House erupts into a giant mushroom cloud. Like, literal mushrooms, and trace amounts of marinara and noodles.

Krusty doesn’t deserve this.

Sponsorblock

How have I never heard of this?! I just installed it, trialled it on a YouTube video, and it’s instantly one of my favorites.

Thank you!!

For anyone in a similar boat:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

Dry needling doesn’t (always?) use electricity. I’ve had it done too, and the explanation I got was that it basically just pisses off the underlying tissue to promote an inflammatory response and thus blood flow to the target area.

Depends on the setting. In a nurse-patient situation, you don’t ever bullshit them in the hopes of tricking them into some kind of benefit.

If your grandpa is raving on Facebook about how acupuncture is working better than opioids for post-knee-replacement pain management, then… “Hey that’s great you found something that works for you!”

YetAnotherUser makes a good point about not enabling a culture of scams or pseudoscience as well.

Discretion is key here.

Yeah if someone’s benefitting from a placebo effect, the worst thing you can do is point out that it’s a placebo. If you convince them it won’t work, then you’ve just destroyed the therapeutic effect their brain was giving them. Just shut up and let the placebo do its thing.

Neck is the last of that guy’s worries… his shoulder is dislocated as fuck!

Edit - Looking closer, I think his radius and ulna might be flipped too. Yeah this guy’s not having a good day.