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I once pirated a book because I didn't want to get it from another room.

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[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I once threw away sink full of dirty dishes rather than hand wash them. They had been there for like two weeks and were really nasty. I think that was the height of my depression.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Been there as well

And I tried to save a pan, but the fat and dust would never get of it, and I needed to throw it away anyway...

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[–] Duranie@leminal.space 14 points 1 month ago

Depression is expensive. I lost a couple crock pots that way. Finally found disposable liners!

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Fr so liberating

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I made an script in Python to batch rename like 10 images in a folder.

[–] g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago

What's the point of automation if not to save seconds by wasting hours?

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

This immediately came to mind

Don't forget the time you spend finding the chart to look up what you save. And the time spent reading this reminder about the time spent. And the time trying to figure out if either of those actually make sense. Remember, every second counts toward your life total, including these right now.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

That's valid

[–] HostilePlayer@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I got a pair of slippers with brushes on for when you clean the floor, I put it on a remote controlled car so I didn't have to get off the couch.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

That's not lazy, that's brilliant

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[–] tunetardis@piefed.ca 34 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I once pirated a book because I didn’t want to get it from another room.

I pirated a game I legit bought. This was way back in the days when some games had this annoying copy protection where you had to look up words from the manual before you could play. Enter the 3rd word on line 7 of page 28. This sort of thing.

It got old really fast, so I disassembled the binary and saw where it was calling on a random number generator to select the page. I changed just 1 assembly instruction so that the generator would always return 0. Then it said look up so-and-so and the word turned out to be "time". After that, all I had to do was enter "time" at launch and I tossed out the manual.

[–] Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

That's a lot of work in the short term to be lazy in the long, and I am impressed

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[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ordered delivery from across the street because it was raining and I didn't want to…

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A friend of mine at least once ordered delivery from the Mexican place that was directly below her apartment. She said the delivery guy was a little confused. She had a lot of depression at the time.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 7 points 1 month ago

I did that with a pizzeria that was in my building.

Instructions for delivery : Go upstairs.

I wasn't depressed or anything it was more a little bit of a joke to the delivery man.

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[–] slowtrain33@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We rented an apartment for 5 months after listing our house for sale because we didn’t want to have to clean it and leave the house fora few hours every time someone wanted to come do a viewing.

In our defense… we had a 3yr old, a hairy dog, and were preparing to leave the country permanently, which took 10 months of nonstop preparation on top of working full time, so I still think it was worth the money to save us the extra work. But yeah, probably the laziest thing I’ve done.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

That's not lazy, that's just good planning. The last thing you need before a massive move like that is more stress.

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

I totally understand this move, we did something similar to avoid having to pack up our cats every time someone wanted to see the house.

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[–] Chewbaccabra@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I dunno if laziest but my landlord certainly thought so. I had bedbugs and there's so much crap you have to do prep for the extermination like remove all your clothes and wash them three times on hot, flip through all your books to check for them, the list was ridiculous. I'm way too lazy for that so I paid the extra $600 out of pocket for the "good" treatment where they just super heat your entire home to kill them and all you have to do is remove things that might melt or explode.

Thankfully the exterminators found the illegal fireworks I had hidden and forgotten about, removed them, and didn't say anything to the landlord.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The heat treatment was the only thing that worked when I had to deal with those little fuckers. I'm sorry you had to deal with them, but I'm glad they're gone now. Those things aren't just physically irritating, they fuck with your head.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How hot does your room get in such a process?

[–] Chewbaccabra@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

55 C or thereabouts. I was at work when they did it. When I came home it felt like I'd left the heat on full blast all day

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[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 19 points 1 month ago

I put off procrastinating.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Pissed out of a window rather than walk ten feet to the bathroom.

In fairness, I had the flu, and was a teenager. Feeling like hammered vulture shit, with a window right there and open anyway? No way was I getting out of bed. The window was just barely above the top of the mattress, so all I had to do was roll over, kinda prop up, and let 'er rip.

Surprisingly, not only did it not go horribly wrong, but the little forethought I had with a fever that high managed to prevent any drips from being a problem. Well, a problem then. Still had to wash the towel later, and that left me without a clean towel for fever sweats, but I had bandanas I could use for that.

Look, I was creeping into dangerous fever levels lol. Not the best set of decisions, but it worried out in the end

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

In hindsight, you could've used a bandana for the drips

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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Instead of history | grep whatever

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

I never remember this when it'd actually be useful

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[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your mom. Sorry if this had been mentioned already, it's a long line.

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've found alternate means of watching a show because I couldn't be assed to open my authenticator app more than once.

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[–] ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Checked my phone to get the current weather. The alternative was walking a meter and opening the curtains. But then I had to get up.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

The curtains won't tell you the high for the day

[–] Dispassionate@quokk.au 13 points 1 month ago

I didn’t read a book because it was in the other room.

[–] texture@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

when my apartment gets too messy i just move

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't wash stains on walls from dogs or kids. I just paint every few years

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[–] pwxd@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I SSHed my laptop to turn it off, even though my laptop is not that far away from my bed

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago

I WoL my second computer to turn it on, even though it's at an arm's reach (but I'd have to stretch a bit to reach it)

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Back in my teenage years, when you used to change TV channel by walking over to the TV and physically pressing a button, myself and two friends (likely all a bit stoned), sat on a sofa opposite the TV, invented a ~3 metre long "TV prodding device" from gaffer tape and "anything we could find within arm's reach".

I think we spent about half an hour building this device, rather than any of us standing up, taking a few steps forward and physically pressing the button.

The device succeeded.

It fell apart after a few uses.

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[–] LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

I literally spit coffee reading this lol

[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

I was watching "In Bruges" on TV, and couldn't understand the version of English they spoke, so I downloaded it with subtitles and watched that.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I'm too lazy to keep track of all the lazy shit I do

I have no way to gauge it

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did the same. I wanted to watch a TV series of which I own the box set but I was too lazy to get the box, put the disc in and go through the menu for every three episodes or so. So I pirated it.

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[–] lemmylemonade@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I buy new socks instead of washing them.

[–] tunetardis@piefed.ca 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I remember when my grandfather died, we were going through his belongings and found a drawer full of electric razors. Why did he have so many?!? Then we noticed every one was full of hair, and concluded that he bought a new one every time it filled up rather than emptying it.

Then years later, my parents became snowbirds who went to Mexico every winter, and they stayed with this other family who were locals. They got good at Spanish and one day I guess, my dad was talking to the other dad and they burst out laughing. I asked what that was all about, and he said the Mexican dad's father also had a drawer full of electric razors, and he never understood why?

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

But you should always wash clothes before wearing them for the first time???

(Seriously though, they have all kinds of dirt and chemicals on them)

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[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 4 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Using a state of the art local LLM and an agent to ask it to find all files with a certain extension, because I always forget how to use the find command on linux and I can't be bothered to read it.

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