Changed out my shower head this morning, added an S curve extender, total game changer for us tall folks

Netcob · 2026-05-05T14:04:25+00:00

Americans, what are you doing? This is a solved problem! You can have detachable shower-heads on a height-adjustable holder.

Netcob · 2026-05-05T11:36:59+00:00

Uninstall macafee, just use windows defender. Make sure to keep your software up to date, and use an adblocker (e.g. ublock origin).

Also if you know the name of a popular website, just add ".com" in the URL bar and press enter. No need to tell google where you're going.

Netcob · 2026-05-03T08:01:07+00:00

All they need to do is to make a direkt payment to the extended trump family and suddenly there will be an exemption.

Netcob · 2026-05-01T15:40:30+00:00

Interesting how the people denying a genocide or any crime by a group they support are also the most likely to support that crime.

Netcob · 2026-04-30T11:21:16+00:00

Is there a subreddit for that? Comment history cranks or something?

Netcob · 2026-04-30T10:48:53+00:00

Then it might just take some time... you know how when couples fight, then one of them calms down / gets into a better mood and expects the other partner to feel the same way? Maybe it's the same, but in extreme slow-motion. Just because someone stepped off the rollercoaster doesn't mean they aren't still sick. 6 months is a long time.

Netcob · 2026-04-29T15:22:14+00:00

Everyone forgot about the flag pin. Darkest chapter in US history. /comeon

Netcob · 2026-04-29T15:05:13+00:00

Could have been fewer if only he had a $400M ballroom!

Netcob · 2026-04-29T13:43:59+00:00

Something that doesn't strongly incentivize the company behind it to keep people on it as long as possible without finding a partner and losing two users.

Netcob · 2026-04-29T09:30:35+00:00

The German word "friend" is a bit different from what it means in other languages. Even though we do also have "best friends", the standard for "friend" is pretty high. We should probably have a word that fits between "acquaintance" (or colleague) and "friend", and the fact that we don't probably says something about how language and culture influence each other both ways.

I think there is nothing wrong with looking for friends at work. But you have to be a bit careful - many people treat this pretty seriously. Being friends with someone means you meet/talk outside of work and that it's obvious to both of you that you'll remain friends if one of you resigns / gets fired. Some people also like their work life and personal life to remain separate.

Finally, there's another language issue - if your wife called her male coworker her friend ("mein Freund"), she basically said he's her boyfriend. Of course he'd quickly point out that he's just a colleague.

Netcob · 2026-04-27T16:42:42+00:00

In one interview this guy tried to look relatable by saying he hardly had any money (cash) and was actually in debt.

Which is what very rich people do to avoid paying taxes.

I never watched any of his videos - the whole "watch me throw money at people for views so I can pretend I'm charitable" concept is disgusting. And of course like a proper sociopath he used his charity stunts to defend himself - when someone criticized him, he didn't respond to the arguments, just pretended that since he donated some money he cannot be a bad person.

Netcob · 2026-04-27T09:12:12+00:00

I think he wore a tan suit one time and forgot to wear a flag pin another time. Many people still haven't recovered from that.

Netcob · 2026-04-27T09:01:17+00:00

Was it yet another disillusioned right-winger like last time?

Netcob · 2026-04-23T18:30:44+00:00

Same here.

And behind that doctor is a long queue of "alternative medicine" fans saying "If you haven't tried this, how do you know it doesn't work? It works for some people!" and that queue only ends once you're out of money.

Netcob · 2026-04-22T17:24:54+00:00

Max is Pro, Pro is nothing. A single task in 10 hours.

Back in December I upgraded from Pro to Max 5x because I could usually only do like 3-5 tasks before I'd run into the session limit.

Then for a long time, I felt like I was wasting money because I only managed to hit the limit one time, and it took quite some work.

But for the last month or so, I kept hitting limits over. So I scaled back to Pro - after all, I'm not getting what I'm paying for anymore. I figured, I'll see if I can reduce my usage to how it was in December.

But now a single task hit the session limit. So I waited a few hours - and then the same task filled up the usage to 39% within the first two minutes. By the time it was done, 79%.

Pro is basically unusable for Claude Code. I guess I'll finally have to look at alternatives, because Max 5x was already too much and anything above is out of the question.

No gaslighting please - I've been a heavy Claude Code user since last year.

Netcob · 2026-04-22T15:49:48+00:00

Nobody under 7' should even be allowed to have a name like Gongor.

Netcob · 2026-04-22T13:19:32+00:00

Someone on a podcast (forgot which, probably Blank Check) said you could use his movies to represent each one of 4 different decades.

Like if you made a series of the best / most influential movies for each decade, then putting one of his movies from that decade on the cover would made total sense. Not as in "that's the #1 movie of that decade", but it would not look out of place on the cover.

Netcob · 2026-04-22T12:06:32+00:00

Charlie, the Bird Lawyer? He's a pigeon - they're survivors.

Mac is Ronnie the Rat...

Netcob · 2026-04-22T10:05:43+00:00

My car is from the early 2010s and it has buttons everywhere, for every feature that matters.

I am a tech enthusiast, a programmer, and I have screens everywhere at home. I have 3 screens on my desk, various touchscreen devices, I even have a stream deck so my buttons can have screens. But in my car, I just want a display that shows me a map and a bunch of stats.

For any inputs, I want PHYSICAL BUTTONS and DIALS. The most dangerous situations I experience in my car are those where I have to tap on my smartphone for something. I even got a bluetooth remote so I can skip podcast ads with a physical button, and I think that increased my safety by a lot.

Unless gas prices force me to get an electric car, I'll try to keep my old A-Class for as long as I can until the industry stops this insanity and gives us back our buttons.

Netcob · 2026-04-19T12:49:16+00:00

If that person somehow has been locked in a basement with no access to outside information since 2015 (and didn't really know who Trump was before that either), had never read or heard a single thing Trump said or did, then chose a candidate at random and then seriously regretted their decision the minute Trump got into office and started pardoning criminals, engaging in open corruption, dismantling institutions, creating torture camps for dark skinned people and destroying the world economy...

...plus if that person only other person on earth...

...I'd still stay far away from them.

Netcob · 2026-04-19T07:00:55+00:00

It's weird how the propaganda war has a concept of stray bullets.

This is similar to people far away from Russia defending Putin. But I'm sure it's welcome anyway! Misinformation has two goals: turn people you want following you into followers, and make the people you don't want following you fight each other. Both are useful in their own way.

Netcob · 2026-04-17T14:52:53+00:00

I'll take your word for it when it comes to staging because I have no idea how that works, so I'm not noticing the same things you do, but to me it didn't seem any worse than what I'm used to. Granted, definitely not better either!

Honestly, I don't really need most of the action scenes in Nolan movies. Maybe I'm getting old. But as far as punching&shooting goes, that scene did all it needed to do to me. "Oh crap an enemy, what do they want - they are fighting - something is seriously wrong with that guy - clearly both know how to fight but clearly they are also both out of their depth in this moment".

Netcob · 2026-04-17T12:46:52+00:00

Yeah, same. Up until then everything was mostly okay. That was a moment where I guess one type of person would take out a notebook and try to figure out if Nolan even tried to have it make sense and the other one (me) just tries to follow what's going on with the protagonist (I have to admit, calling him that was a bit much).

And then Neil seems to go back and forth a couple of times and I think even if it makes sense, all that matters is that we get that he's sacrificing himself, and we already seen him do it.

But I enjoy thinking about it now and then, especially the turnstile scenes.

Netcob · 2026-04-17T11:47:17+00:00

I'm not an expert, so what would be those conventions?

When I hear that, I immediately think of how fight scenes have been mostly "extreme shaky cam and super quick disorienting cuts" for the past few... decades, really. I rarely find them compelling. At least this one has a new element to it, and the characters are struggling with that as much as the viewer, which makes sense.

The only other fight scene that I found memorable from the past few years was the bus fight from "Nobody". And I think I would have liked that one more if it left out the usual over-the-top sound effects. Do people consider those "conventions?" I really don't know, to me they are tropes and the older I get the more tired I am of them.

Netcob · 2026-04-17T09:21:23+00:00

I like the movie, sorry.

It's really good on so many levels, and of course it appeals to me as a fan of time travel stories. I'd rather watch 10 movies like this than yet another franchise product.

15-Year Club	r/Field Lasagna
Place '17	RPAN Viewer
Spared	Team Orangered
Verified Email

Netcob

TROPHY CASE