I feel ya. I very rarely replace my devices and the internet speeds suck where I live anyway, so 720p is my go-to.

In my brain 720 is standard and 1080 is fancy, until I watch something at a friend’s house and sometimes it looks so good it’s unsettling

Oh shit, I didn’t even think about that. What the hell.

This sucks for so many. People use timestamps for content warnings or to help viewers avoid spoilers. Commenters use timestamps when talking about the content of the video. It’s insane to change this once it’s so ingrained in how people use the website.

You just unearthed a memory of a girl asking “Yoda? Ain’t he that dude from Mario?”

My 15yo self was soooooo snobby about that.

TIL how many potato-related words I can think of

Reddit is so useless. I write occasionally, and whenever I hit a wall researching a character’s background, everyone tells me, “ask on Reddit!”

I stopped asking on Reddit five years ago, because I can’t get any feedback besides a handful teenagers making wild guesses. Thank you for trying, kids. I guess.

Tacky blue Walmart employee polo 🙁

But honestly I own enough leather jackets to be the bad boy in a cartoon. Put me in a plain T-shirt and jeans and then draw me sweating profusely since it’s 100°F where I live.

This is so mean, I know my family tries…

I know a lot of adults are into figurines and toys, but I’m not. I have a small apartment and dusty surfaces stress me out. Plus there’s a bug problem courtesy of my neighbors, and it’s important to be able to clean up after those fuckers quickly. I just don’t like a home with a bunch of tiny knick-knacks taking up surface space.

Every birthday and Christmas I get a dozen small toys, usually for things I liked as a kid. I try to mention that I want kitchenwares or craft supplies, but my family just doesn’t remember things I say very often. The fact that they’ve started remembering my birthday, after I mention it all month long, is a victory.

I don’t want anyone to see their gifts in thrift stores, so I try to sell them on ebay, but it’s slow.

Unfortunately not. I left out some stuff because it’s an unpleasant memory but on my walk there I saw him driving, and he pulled over to beat a dog in the backseat. Animal cruelty isn’t really prosecuted here so it’s weird he’d be that bothered by a witness.

I was nervous and keeping an eye on him after that and sometimes I wonder if he thought I was up to something and got his buddies on the defensive. Or maybe he was a garden-variety creep and saw a fem-presenting person walking alone.

A guy followed me around the grocery store when I was around 20. I didn’t have a car and didn’t want to walk home with a stranger following me, so I just walked around the store for ages.

At one point some guy asked me if I noticed anything strange about the guy following me. I don’t remember what I said. At another point, a friendly stranger started making small talk with me, and asked my name. I was nervous but that’s really common around here and I didn’t know how to leave the conversation.

I saw both guys reporting back to the guy following me.

Don’t know what they wanted. I ended up hiding in the women’s restroom for a few hours.

Hey same! It’s so hard to make time. I’ve been trying to color a picture of one guy for ages now.

How far does this go? Are haircuts lies? What about clothing?

I’m a big believer that we should embrace our natural features, but nobody is trying to mislead you into believing they don’t grow facial hair.

The only thing funnier than people thinking Pink Floyd is apolitical is people thinking The Wall was right-wing.

Also met a strange amount of republicans who like Rise Against. When I was first getting into them I saw someone say they turned out to be fash, so I asked for more info and it turned out it was because they said they didn’t want racists, misogynists, or homophobes at their concerts.

I use “you’re welcome” in customer service, but nowhere else. It somehow always just sounds stilted and clumsy, even though it’s something everyone else has said fine for years.

Otherwise I usually just say “of course”, because I feel like it’s the same sentiment but rolls off the tongue easier.

My personal boundary is that I can bitch about work to them, but I keep it light when talking about my personal life. Trusting someone with heavy shit when I’m not offering them friendship feels wrong to me.

I’m sure my coworkers think I’m a robot but what else is new.

Y’all have cool dreams.

I dreamed I lived at home and my family was yelling at me. That’s most of my dreams

Sometimes you don’t have sugar or water onhand and can’t actually make lemonade. You just gotta eat the lemons. It sucks but you gotta.

Nah, this entire thing is about US control. They’re upset that it’s a different government that’s spying on us this time. No sympathy for TikTok but there’s no good way to spin this.

Btw, you know if TikTok sells to a US company, they’ll be just as rancid, right?

Same. I’ve had shit joints since I was a kid. Sometimes I feel like I got a head start on aging 😛

Oh, that’s true. I’ve spent so much time on Lemmy I lived in a world where “who else is still listening to this wildly popular song in 2024??” didn’t exist