I’d for sure be addicted to holodeck as long as it doesn’t give motion sickness like VR does. I’d likely be addicted to VR if it didn’t give motion sickness.

Being able to turn the sun brightness down a bit while “outside” sounds lovely. And exploring new places I cant realistically visit. Don’t need anything else.

Oh man I’d never play games where voice was a requirement, other than couch co-op.

My early mmo gaming in my 20s was with wow and guild or pug vent servers and that was mostly ok because if you knew what you were doing as a support character you didn’t need to participate in the chats (my main was a holy priest, so as long as nobody died I didn’t need vent at all). My guild was accommodating, and had several deaf members, so voice wasn’t a big push for us.

I was a raid leader and the main healer of my guild and I did not ever talk on voice chat because I couldn’t be bothered to set up my mic and nobody cared. We were casual, but I mean yeah, it’s a game for fun.

I have absolutely no interest in exposing myself to public servers, or even anything less curated than guild servers, even as temporary as pug chats. I don’t play online games if voice chat is needed.

It might be a you problem if you don’t feel connected with someone making the time to play with you because it’s not your preferred way.

“But it’s not my favorite way! I can’t go that way!”

I’ll take exits to who knows where to avoid traffic even if sitting in it is technically faster. Every time the highway gets shut down for a snow-related accident, my adventure gene lights up and we go exploring the back country. It’s never fun, but it beats sitting in traffic, and it’s never as bad as the time I got stuck on the highway in a blizzard and was stuck at 15mph for a normally 2-hour-70-mph drive that took me some 5-7 hrs to complete… the next morning I took a perfect imprint of my license plate off the ice covering my car. Kept that in my freezer in a box for a couple years until sublimation made it unreadable.

My burner igniters aren’t electronic-control and they still failed in a less than decade old stove that was not heavily used at all (I live alone and use the stove, not even the specific burners that failed, maaaaaaaaybe monthly)

They just make their parts cheap overall. Induction isn’t enshittification-proof. If anything it’s more susceptible, being entirely electronic.

That said I’d trade my gas stove for induction if I could, even with enshittification.

I’m glad we have new(er) willing participants :)

Have you seen this? Green screen on crack.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk

You can’t ask good questions on Lemmy without getting someone to respond with a genuinely informative answer (if they see it, even days later)

We need to increase the weirdo pool a bit more though so the questions get seen.

Dunno about that. Apartment I used to live in had a window installed upside down because they wanted specific handing for the opening, and the shower surround was also upside down, meaning water didn’t drain off properly.

That’s so meta I’d actually be interested to see how they pull it off…

Poorly, that’s a given, but beyond that.

I babysat my cousin’s 3 kids under 5 for the year I lived in their basement (free rent trade)

And above all the noise and hassle and all, the day I knew kids definitely weren’t for me… was the day the parents went out for one of their “be home tomorrow, probably” nights, knowing full well at least one of the kids had the flu.

It ended up being all three of them. All I did all night was give baths, sooth crying, change bedding, and clean up vomit.

I managed to keep them alive and relatively comfortable, but I don’t ever want to do anything even close to that ever again.

I want science to win so that’s a good option anyway.

Question: do I have to actually put my clothes away? Because I don’t usually do that now…

I’d take the kitchen anyway. Even if I have to actually put my clothes away, that entails hanging them, which is easy enough. I don’t fold clothes ever.

Plus between cats and cooking, I make a lot more food dishes than I use clothes on a daily basis.

Uh, yeah I know, I mentioned that in the comment you replied to.

I don’t really care about downvotes, but those of you doing so… you might want to actually look into the research behind it. I picked a couple of random links for it because there’s literally nothing special about any of it, along with an NIH article about brown fat recruitment. The science is solid. It’s not a magic bullet; it’s not a replacement for healthy eating or real exercise; it does work for raw calorie burning and for making your body system more efficient at staying warm through calorie burning long term. That’s what our bodies are made to do. It’s a great calorie balancing supplement with very little actual effort.

Shivering is a great easy way to burn calories, and increase the rate you burn calories later through beige fat recruitment.

This should NOT be used to replace healthy eating or proper exercise, but shivering burns gobs of calories to produce heat, and the brown fat (located mostly in your back around neck and shoulders, used just for producing heat from fat) recruits surrounding white fat and transforms it into beige fat (basically converts normal fat into leaky heat-generating fat) to increase the heat generation, and thus calorie burn, of subsequent shivers.

Here’s some links about it, if you are interested. It may not be actionable in the summer, but if you have a basement floor you can lay on, a tub of cold water, or access to a walk in freezer, you can get a healthy shiver going any time.

https://www.medicaldaily.com/shivering-more-effective-exercise-15-minutes-shivering-may-burn-more-fat-1-hour-working-out-268555

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8341719/

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/shiver-yourself-thin-can-being-cold-help-you-lose-weight

They don’t come around anymore, but I used to say that I was disfellowshipped/excommunicated, whichever was fitting for whatever religion they were selling. If they ask why, which they basically never do, just say “I’d really rather not talk about it, if you don’t mind…”

They don’t actually want to waste time talking to people who were kicked out of the church for “bad behavior”, and in many cases aren’t even allowed to, so they blacklist your address.

No soliciting signs typically do the job, too, though.

Used doesn’t fix the spying problem, only helps with the price. And that’s not even a guarantee anymore. So you aren’t wrong, but it doesn’t help the issue I specifically have with them (which I have with all newer cars).

My current car is 2012 civic coupe, and if I don’t drive it much, it’s perfectly fine for what I use it for without upgrading, other than that it’s starting to need bigger work more frequently, and not stuff I know how to do. Decent mileage and all, but fully ice. I’d like to upgrade to electric or at least hybrid, but they all have the same spying problem. So I just cut driving as much as I can. I live in a rural town, closest grocery store is half an hour away by highway, so zero driving isn’t an option, unfortunately.

I wont buy an ev until they stop being mobile spying devices, especially considering the price tag. Same with any new/more efficient car. If that never happens, I just won’t ever have one. That’s the way it has to be because I am not a product, especially if I’m paying thousands of dollars. If it’s free, I’ll think about it.

I live somewhere that I can’t really survive without a car, but I’ve reduced my driving substantially (once a week now at most) I’d like to get an e-bike, but can’t really justify the spend at the moment.

This is really catchy and upbeat :)

Are you also upset when they do a donation drive and have a pre-article header literally asking for money?

Heck yeah!

I had a Sony atrak 3+ player back in the day (around 2003-4, probably, because I used it at work) which was just an mp3 file compression alternative served up on a special cd player instead of an mp3 player… they tried… anyway I had a re-writable disc that I’d add stuff to whenever I downloaded it, and I think the one cd had like 1800 songs on it or so (and lots of space left)

That didn’t skip, even working a physical job, unless I banged it against something. Part of why I got it. But when I put regular discs in, they would skip a lot if I didn’t have it laying flat.