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  • That one time I bought a pair for a joke at a party a few years ago, I just searched on Amazon for high heels in my regular male size. Apparently, some chinese companies custom-make large-sized lady boots on demand this way. I think I ordered them from “Only Maker”, their models seemed to be safe to walk in with wide heels… I checked before whether you need to order a different size - turns out there is no significant difference. Simply order whatever standard size you usually buy. Just make sure that you pick a model with a wider front. Male feet tend to be wider there, which cause the majority of problems when walking. This is especially true if you have issues with normal shoes being a bit narrow in general (like rubbing at your outer toes when walking for a while).

    Also remember that high heels tend to be in the category of “sitting shoes”, not “walking shoes”. I learned that at said party fairly quickly.


  • wakatoRight to RepairHyundai Paywalls Brake Pad Changes
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    1 month ago

    Security concerns aside, IMHO this is more of an intelligence hurdle so people who can jump that are smart enough to not bodge this simple but very critical repair. To put simply: If you aren’t a professional auto repair shop with ODB-Tools, just know that these parking brake servos are self-adjusting.

    Hyundai is also not the first one with these restrictions, lots of manufacturers have quietly implemented such hurdles everywhere in cars, especially Stellantis.

    Also with “super cars” like the Ioniq 5 N (specifically the N variant) meant for rich guys, you usually don’t care about repair. You just pay the dealer for that. For comparison look for repairability in high-priced cars like some Ferraris, Porsches, Mercedes, BMW, Audis, etc. It’s a shit show all the way in the high-price terrain. Except Stellantis is doing this in the low-price range as well now. God I had Stellantis. Never again.




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    3 months ago

    Obligatorischer Hinweis auf das Hinzufügi “Mir sind Kekse immernoch egal” (Gemeinde-Ausgabe) für Brennfuchs und dessen Krebsgeschwüre, Fe2Cr4CO und dessen Oxidationszustände sowie Kante (auch nur ein Oxid).


  • So if an average phone user charges his phone daily for 3 years, he’ll reach 1000 cycles or so. Doing 100-25% as the worst possible daily every time, that battery would have 90% of its original capacity. So 5 Years should be something like 1800 cycles, which should be 85% capacity on a 5 year old phone. I’d probably use those 15% up within 2 hours, and my phone can do about 1,5 days on average on a 100% charge. 5 years is IMHO good enough for a daily phone.

    I think I can live with charge whenever however long. But I keep an eye on keeping it cool during charging, which I think is more important for battery life.






  • wakatoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    7 months ago

    Throwing out lots of stuff right now, I am absolutely shocked and disgusted by myself with how much trash I accumulated with such a low long-term value. I’ve switched to that japanese mindset: If it does not bring joy or has actual value, it’s getting removed from my life, either as trash or sold on.

    So would I buy things I want but don’t need (i.e. not daily necessities like food, petrol, etc.) from now on? It highly depends. I will look into renting or borrowing stuff first if possible, then used stuff. Only if those are not an option, I will really REALLY think about where that thing will be in a year from now. If it’s most likely in storage or already binned and will have lost most of its value, I will choose not to shoulder the burden of owning it. There’s nothing to be gained but loss in such a thing.

    On stuff that appears to keep value, boy do you need to evaluate a lot. General rule of thumb: Do you use it almost daily and similar items only slowly lost their value in the last years, consider buying it. Else avoid owning it, reduce cost.

    On Tools, go for a base set of tools and a set of preferably multi-use tools on top. Everything else: Rent it. Why buy that special repair kit you will use once on your car when you can go to a hobby car workshop and just rent that thing? Sure, the rent is gone, but it’s way less than what that repair set would’ve cost you, which you will not sell on until it has lost most of its value, is outdated and whatnot.

    Same for cars. Buy a cheap used one that’s easy to maintain and simply gets you reliably from A to B. Rent a beautiful car once in a while or for long trips. By numbers (including value loss, maintenance, etc.) you will most likely come out cheaper than owning an expensive car - without the risk of high repair costs on it appearing out of nowhere - as long as you keep it down to a few times per year. Something like once per month for a full weekend usually is fine, but this calculation is VERY country specific, so calculate your own total cost of ownership of a nice car and compare it to owning a cheap, easy to repair get-me-around car with occasionally renting really nice cars. Just be realistic with time frames.


  • I managed losing 20kg within a year without major exercise using a combination that fit me. Baseline calories about 2000kcal/day, so restricted to 1300kcal to give me some room for error. Next was switching to Keto, so I could manage hunger a lot better. Next I wrote everything in my food tracker app, often planning my entire day in there. Put the sauces away, found a good low-carb curry ketchup and used that a lot, was also low calories. I made lots of mistakes, often hidden calories, salad sauces, remoulade alternatives that just weren’t, and what hurt the most were sugar alternative products. If you want to lose weight, there is no alternative.

    What helped me get through was adding a “cheat day” every sunday, which was not a sugar cheat day, but one with 2000kcal more in keto stuff (only the basics, not any of these replacement thingies) and some protein puddings which was the only exception.




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    8 months ago

    Ist heute schon das dritte Maimai mit dieser Optik auf feddit, die definitiv von irgendeiner KI ausgerotzt wurde. Dass jetzt meme-Generatoren das ernsthaft als Quellbilder hernehmen, stimmt mich noch trauriger. Jetzt ist es auch noch an den Machern von Maimais, vorher das Bild zu checken. Dir sei dieses Mal verziehen, das ist dann wohl definitiv neu.

    Keine Ahnung warum, diese Optik sagt mir einfach nur “Ich hab fast keine Arbeit hineingesteckt, hier die Phantasiebilder irgendeiner anonymen Bildgenerator-Instanz”.







  • wakatoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow do you do your interior styling?
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    8 months ago

    Lots of good advice for possibilities here, but let me take it a step back for you, since you most likely heard those written advice a lot already.

    What you actually need to figure out is why this room mirrors your current inside. This photo tells me the person living there (assuming he did not just move in and set up a base camp to work from) has no need to go beyond basic entertainment, does not value comfort a lot and may live way more inside his head instead of the real world. With no need to expect guests, there’s no need to show others his feelings, so he keeps those inside.

    If that is you, you are at a starting point, not a dead end. Life is a wave. Having big Highs and big Lows is normal. Having small to no Highs and Lows is possible, but not healthy in the long run. I do understand that it feels alright having smoothness ahead, but at the same time it’s so damn meaningless that even something infinitely large like death seems like just another day. Life is not about bringing a perfectly shiny well kept body to your deathbed - it’s about getting there completely burned out, tires squeaking, barely alive, screaming “Wow, that was one hell of an amazing ride!” - It’s the journey, not the stops that you will remember as your best moments in life.

    So what you need to do first is connect to others outside your living area. No need to tell others how you live, just pretend to be interested learning other peoples ways of life to improve your own. It will naturally take a few tries/persons, but at some point it’ll “just click” and you can just do your thing. If inevitably you’ll receive guests, tell them you had to restart your life from scratch or something and have no idea how to live properly and ask for inspiration by those instead of some internet voices you showed a picture. Asking someone you have a connection with works completely different - do not be ashamed or something. BUT: stay open to new ideas!

    It is THEN that you will receive actually good advice how to furnish your own room in a way that you enjoy. Just remember to sell on or bin things that do not spark joy or don’t have value anymore. If possible, be considerate to your environment and enjoy things for what they are in the store first, but refrain from buying them if you think that joy will be gone withing a very short amount of time.