Sadly best I have are posts by people claiming to have worked for HMD Global, talking about planned obsolescence by slowing down the phones intentionally. While I’m not really sure Google is doing it too, the experiments with old wiped android devices seem to point that way.
I’ll try that. Thanks! Already bricked another broken Nokia by not making a recovery when it wasn’t even supported 🙃
That happened after a wipe of the device. It can’t be the app.
Terry Pratchett comes to mind with the Colour of Magic Discworld book. He describes it as “a bunch of essays” but it all reads like D&D sessions transformed into short stories. You even have ::: spoiler gods playing dice and rolling for the fate of the characters. :::
He gave up playing after a while, unhappy with the game becoming more complicated with further editions though.
“Good morning”. Nothing good in me having to wake up at 5:30 and dealing with nincompoops actively trying to poison themselves and their children with Tylenol or whatever.
Bulgaria has Pernik. A declining polluted mining town near Sofia which is infamous for people wearing (counterfeit) Adidas tracksuits, driving VW Golf, and settling their scores with long pieces of metal. Think Russian gopniks.
That’s true as well but you can’t store drugs at 35°C. Good ventilation and regular disinfection takes care of the germs.
PS2 with a barely working optical drive. Easily fixed by adding a cannibalised HDD from a broken laptop.
last week I found a solar powered water fountain pump that we used for a bird bath.
Metal tapestry needles to finish my crochet projects
A really nice LED lamp that I use for cross stitch and crochet at night.
A couple of crochet kits with missing hooks, one of them is missing the buttons too. I have yet to start those.
Garden chairs!
A lot more things but these are what I was excited about the most.
I thought that if enough time passed old photos would turn black and white like how they were b&w in the 80s and turned colour in the 90s.
If you were cold then you would catch a cold.
There is a startling amount of people here (most people I know) that believe this. I work in healthcare and we constantly have arguments about the AC in summer for that exact reason. Yeah cold weather can make it easier to catch a cold but it’s interesting to see how many people believe that you need to get warm to avoid catching a cold.
Carrots will allow me to see in the dark if I eat enough of them.
Partially true. If you’re vitamin A deficient, your night vision worsens and carrots can help with that. But you won’t get Minecraft night vision
Wait how is that pronounced? I’ve always read it as Mah-Ca-Burr. It’s one of these words I learned through text exposure rather than English classes…
Last time I was down with the Plague™, I was in bed, chugging jugs of thyme tea (helps a lot with wet cough), and taking ibuprofen/pseudoephedrine for the fever and stuffy nose. Also I watched the entire history of the Earth documentary series while sorting out my mystery embroidery floss. That helped a lot to keep me busy. Sleeping is good but I feel like I lose track of time and that triggers my depression. But I usually recommend it a lot to my patients.
Some brands seem to make it crunchy. I just eat that like cereal with soy milk or yogurt. I made the mistake of buying cheap muesly from the local convenience store and it was exactly how you described it. It was the “let sit overnight” type. Except it had cornflakes in it that would get soggy and fall apart.
I forced myself to eat most of it, the rest went to my local murder of crows who picked at the dried fruit and cornflakes and left the oats to the pigeons to deal with. I guess I wasn’t the only one who didn’t like them.
As for the crunchiness, maybe try making it into granola in the oven? Not sure if that would work but it’s worth a shot.
You have a pussy
I have a dick
So what’s the problem
Let’s do it quick
Ausländer is good too. Maybe some Mann gegen Mann part if you’re looking for a boyfriend (assuming you’re male).
Why would anyone even put a Rammstein stanza on their tinder? It’s edgy and rather cringy in my opinion for both initiated and uninitiated.
Half of the people I regularly talk to are on WhatsApp. I don’t like it but that’s reality, it’s hard to get them to migrate because this means that people THEY talk to would have to do the same. Also a good chunk of them use rakuten Viber. Now why do they use THAT? It’s bloated, ad-ridden, and buggy. Almost nobody I know is on telegram. In fact most are still using Facebook messenger.
My mobile plan. The standard is signing for 24 months. I can’t really choose a plan that suits me, they stick virtually unlimited calls (which I barely use), and add mobile data that I can’t use up either. Settling for less barely reduces my bill if at all for whatever reason. On top of this, despite me signing for a set fixed amount to pay, they decide to “index” an extra 10-15% every year due to “unforseen circumstances” like inflation. And every time I sign a new contract I get an extra 10% on top of my bill for the same features I don’t use. Oh and they add a “happy call” where the call signal sounds like a piercing annoying very low quality melody, despite me denying the service. Switching to another telecom doesn’t really remedy the problem, the other two on the market here seem worse than mine in every respect.
Looking at the prepaid features, we’re looking at a 40-50% reduction in monthly fees, just paying for what I use, whenever I want to use it. It’s needlessly annoying switching from a subscription to a prepaid plan. You’d have to switch telecoms for a month and switch back to the one you like the most if you want to keep your number.
So yeah, as soon as my contract expires, I’m done with renewing. I’m sick of this.
You mean titles are meant to be read? Whoops!
Terminator-2.
I remember the info campaign of my country’s change of currency when it got pegged to the Deutschmark after it did a Venezimbabwe. It was by a popular children’s/teen tv show host.
I was about 2 or 3 but the only thing I remember is the news anchors repeating the word “Chechen” all the time. I understood nothing but it sounded funny.
We had a stereo with an inbuilt vinyl record player, as well as cassette tape player.
I played NES games on Terminator-2. Post-soviet collapse flooded the market with knockoffs which were decent for the price.
I remember watching Bill Clinton’s scandal on the news though I had little idea what happened, nor what impeachment meant.
This is exactly what I’m doing right now. I play a game that I can play for 2 hours daily max and it’s fine, I can do without it easily. I also fell into the OW2 trap and I became unbearable to the people around me.
I feel like I didn’t word myself properly because I haven’t played WoW or any of the “problematic” games for 6 months now. I managed to keep myself occupied with cross stitching and books. It’s when I see footage/hear music that I get these feelings of wanting to play again.
It’s generally legal and heavily subsidised. See also animal agriculture.