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[-] radix@lemm.ee 103 points 1 year ago

Don't mess around with partitions on your disk when it's past midnight, you're extremely stressed, and you don't have (easily accessible) backups.

[-] whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Classic, “what the fuck did I do here and why did I think this was a good idea,” material.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

I am in this comment and I don't like it.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Additionally don't do maintenance on your computers when tired, learned from experience

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[-] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago

That if they stop loving you, they won't start again no matter how hard you try.

[-] Deez@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

This one hurts. I’m sorry, friend.

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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

I found out that I could disassemble my vacuum's dirt container further so I can clear it out easier. The container has a big plastic tube that runs through it and I've been squeezing my hand around it to grab clumps of pet hair that get stuck. The other day while I was trying to clear the container, the plastic tube fell out. Turns out I just needed to twist and pull the tube. I've had this vacuum for 8 years.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Lmao nice. Here's a similarly embarrassing story: my refrigerator light was burned out and I was too lazy to replace it for a few years. When I finally got around to it, it turned out I had the exact replacement bulb in my possession the entire time 🤦. Ofc replacing it also only took ~30 seconds.

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If you are a dude sit down to pee when you are home.... feels weird for like a day but it is fantastic. No more trying to aim on the middle of the night while trying to close your eyes, no more rouge pee stream, just a like moment to sit and relax.

[-] swordsmanluke@programming.dev 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rogue: deviant from the norm.

Rouge: a shade of red.

If your pee is rouge when you stand, you need to see your doctor.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Or maybe you just ate a lot of beetroot.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 10 points 1 year ago

I learned this lesson pretty quickly, once I started to have to clean my own apartment.

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[-] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

When using Google Maps for driving directions, you can swipe left and it will show/speak the next upcoming step. I had no idea about this and I've been using Google maps for ages.

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[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Making ends meet" i use to think it was, "Making ends meat" like all you can afford is the cut of bits off of undesirable meat. I never saw it written down before, and now I feel dumb.

[-] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had only ever see trebuchet written, i had never heard it spoken. So young me thought it was pronounced tray-bucket. I was in my 40s before i finally heard someone discussing catapult vs trebuchet and realized it was french.

[-] charlytune@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

Well guess who's pronouncing it tray bucket from now on

(It's me)

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[-] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

That's a wonderful eggcorn.

I was watching a video talking about how eggcorns are an unusual category of error because they require intelligence and creativity to make. The argument was that the process goes like this:

A new word or phrase is heard, but not understood. The brain makes sense of it using existing vocabulary that has sounds that are close enough. This is accompanied an explanation for why those specific words make sense in this new context.

For example: the original eggcorn was a mishearing of acorn. Egg because it's roughly egg shaped, and corn is sometimes used to describe small objects similar to how grain can be.

All this to say, it's maybe not something to feel dumb about. Your brain did something neat.

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[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

There is no animal called "cow".

Cow is a term for females of multiple species.

The animal that gives us milk is called cattle. Female cattle are cows. Male cattle are bulls.

I always thought cattle was a synonym for livestock, but it is a species of animal.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Words mean how people use them. There is absolutely an animal called a cow, regardless of sex, and it's a synonym for cattle.

You are also correct that cow means female is many species.

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[-] waz@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Similarly, and also often misunderstood...

Peacock only refers to the males. A female is called a peahen.

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[-] just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

This summer I found out I’m autistic. I’m 60 years old.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Late diagnosis sucks in a way. You finally understand why you’ve had so many difficulties in life. Why you maybe didn’t fit in, why people treated you differently, etc. I mean, it’s such a relief when you understand why you had all those issues, but the other side of that coin is that you also understand how much of your life was lost to the untreated and misunderstood part of you. Maybe people get physical and/or verbal abuse as children because parents can’t get a diagnosis because they don’t understand, or think you can be forced to be “normal”. Peers don’t get you, you’re the wierd kid, friendships are difficult. Missing out on connections that can help move your life forward. Lots of stress and anxiety.

It good to know now, but it hurts to know that life could have probably been different if you’d been understood and been offered tools to help yourself.

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[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My daughter swears I’m autistic. I was talking to her this morning and said, “I spent every year with my desk right by the the teacher’s desk. I would have wondered if they all got together and planned it, but that’s where I was at, multiple schools in different states.”

She replied, “Dad, go get diagnosed. Seriously.”

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[-] traches@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ll interpret “just learned” as in the last year or so

  • Lifting weights is good for you and you should do it
  • Running is only bad for your knees if your form sucks, your shoes suck, or you overtrain. Done correctly it’s good for you in basically every way.
  • Eat an inconvenient amount of protein, it’s also good for you.
[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

Knees don't fail from wear, they fail from tear. If you're not actually injuring yourself, they get stronger from use, they don't wear out.

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[-] _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 30 points 1 year ago

You never know how far you'll go to save a pet until it happens.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 27 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, it's not always that black & white with an assured outcome. I just had to make the difficult decision to put my cat down, kidney failure.

As a result, everything in her was shutting down. It would have taken several days and thousands of dollars just to stabilize her at an inpatient animal hospital. The cost aside, it would have required much more stress, pain, and separation for her, with pretty much the same unfortunate result. So I declined, and it was the right thing to do. I miss her terribly...

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[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

before you get married to someone you might want to discuss this. some cultures/families/people would happily spend a hundred thousand plus on chemotherapy etc on an old pet, while others draw the line at $200. understand their values.

[-] shroomato@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

That West Berlin was an enclave deep within GDR, completely encircled by the Berlin wall. For some reason I thought that Berlin was right at the border between FRG and GDR with the wall splitting it in half.

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[-] helmet91@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

With UEFI bios you no longer need a boot menu like Grub for choosing an OS to boot. You can just use the boot menu of the bios.

(You still need Grub for booting Linux, but no need to show it for long seconds just so you can select Windows from it, if for some reason you have a Windows installed too.)

[-] drbluefall@toast.ooo 13 points 1 year ago

I personally find it easier to use my bootloader's menu (I use systemd-boot instead of GRUB) to decide what to boot into. It's a lot simpler than clicking through to the boot submenu in my BIOS.

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[-] traches@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

You don’t even need grub to boot Linux; the kernel can be its own bootloader.

[-] TheActualDevil@sffa.community 26 points 1 year ago

At 4 AM this morning I learned there was a smoke alarm in my office. Also that the beep it makes when the battery is dead is loud as fuck. Loud enough to wake me from a dead sleep in another room.

[-] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

It's always at 3-4am. Every fucking time

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[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

Economics. I never understood it that well having taken two years of high school classes for law and government, then watched a single Economics Explained video and understood so much that I hadn’t understood before.

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[-] Codename_goose@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

I realized too late in my life that friendships of any kind or flavor all have a lifespan. This can mean anything, five minutes in line at the movies, childhood into high school, a semester of college, or your whole life.

Context: the friends I’ve (m35) had since childhood and into my adulthood have slowly and silently withered away due a multitude of reasons but mostly because we each have things going on in our life and those had taken precedence over cultivating and caring for our friendships. Sure we text for holidays or birthdays, but it all feels hollow compared to what we had together for literal decades.

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[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

“Conifers” comes from “Cone” as in Pine Cone

“Mammals” as in Mammary glands

Those are the two that come to mind but there have been several more in the same vein of these as I rapidly approach the conclusion of my fifth decade…

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[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just learned that in the sky there are things called contrails, and they are made by machines that fly high above us called aeroplanes.

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[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The actual rules of Scattergories. I had no idea that the rules I grew up with were not the actual rules, and the actual rules make the game much easier.

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