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Fact: there's a Dead Thing smell in the house Fact: smell is intermittent, coming with the AC --BUT ONLY SOMETIMES Fact: the humans and pets of the house are alive and accounted for Concern: something's dead in a place we can't reach

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I don't have a huge personal stake in the AI discourse, but I will say. As someone who regularly uses "whilst" in everyday sentences and literally read the thesaurus for fun as a kid I resent my burgeoning assumption that anything written with fancy words is AI. I resent it, but it's there.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

SUPER fun times working down a troubleshooting list of Why My Keyboard Didn't Work (Sometimes) -Shift key sometimes didn't work with the letters J, K, L, M, and R -Ctr key sometimes didn't work for keyboard shortcuts. Didn't figure whole list, but definitely not Cut/Copy/Paste or Select All

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Currently, the Something Positive webcomic archives show 2001, 2002, and 2025. Nothing inbetween. Trying to figure out if that's the website's fault or if I turned on more privacy settings and broke things

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Let's play a game! The game is called "Wait and See if the Soured Drink Poisons Me" and it's super fun, you should try it

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Oh for the simple days when iMacs came in six primary colors, Bill Gates was the richest man in the world, and our biggest tech stressor was realizing that two-digit years were a bad idea

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I just spent Way Too Long researching browser privacy because of wildly conflicting recommendations And this time when I say I "went down the rabbit hole" I mean I ended up on some kind of hacktivist fringe theory kill the capitalist cancer NEOCITIES website. Like STRAIGHT from y2k, I'm agog

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Listening to Smosh Reddit stories is all fun and games until you get to the Journals. If you know you know

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

What... do you do when your cheap craft knife blade snaps and pings across the room and you can't find it Asking for a friend

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Apropos of nothing, what do we CALL these? "Tweet" is embedded in my brain but that's not it anymore. I'm defaulting to "post" and it feels lacking

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

I habitually proof-read everything before I send, but I just found two tragically uneditable posts with autocorrect errors

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

You'd think actually USING some of my hoarded Someday materials would make it harder not to hoard, but in reality it's easier now to recognize "yeah I used it --and shan't again"

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty much the ONLY place I see ads now is on dumb little phone games. Here are my unsolicited yet strong and Correct opinions:

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment