no one, no one, no one

can get in the way of what I’m feelin’

i find it fun

• don’t get fridges with in-door ice cube makers or in-door water dispensers or other complex features
• if you have in-door water or ice, clean those systems every few weeks. they get disgusting and unsanitary very quickly
• don’t get samsung appliances, especially not with complex features
• chinese appliances can be very hit and miss
• (america) don’t get kenmore appliances
• sometimes a higher price / better brand really is better overall
• top mount or bottom mount freezer are most reliable
• check local consumer reports ratings (not always compatible with technician’s uncerstanding of fridges but usually a great starting point - if you have the means then ask a local independent technician for their appliances of choice)
• keep a bit of space inside the fridge near the walls
• keep space behind and next to the fridge for the compressor to function properly (see manual)
• proper compressor/condenser maintenance like cleaning of the coils can add more years to the life of a fridge and make them perform better
• if you don’t have it, get a surge protector
• if you need an independent freezer, get a chest style freezer

video from an american technician comparing fridges and giving tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n76TXuDcok his channel is great in general for americans who want to buy appliances

I’m glad to hear you’re better. I understand paying for something that works better, but I guess I’m still stuck in ye olden days where software was a one time purchase and if they really needed more money they’d release yearly major updates. And I’m not convinced that switching between a locally run whisper model and something proprietary in the cloud makes that much of a difference. Especially with the privacy concerns. Of course I could probably be convinced, but I don’t want to.

what i find interesting is that this app superwhisper is just AI speech to text, mostly based on local open weights models like whisper (though also giving access to proprietary cloud-only models). they’re charging a subscription for text to speech. and it’s all for the sake of slopcoding faster. amazing. if you haven’t seen someone use speech to text to slopcode, look up videos of people sincerely using AI to slopcode, it’s incredible how the paths of software engineering diverged.

edit: and of course the main bottleneck when having an AI do shit isn’t the talking, it’s the AI actually doing the stuff that by far takes the longest.

edit again: i missed the free plan, oops. still, a speech to text subscription is ridiculous.

ohh i read the transcript and finally understood it. at first i could not see it as anything other than a branch with a cob of corn hanging on it. was wondering what the corn had to do with the artist’s disappearance.

now that you say that, yeah.

true

I’d rather not deceive my partner, even if it’s just with low effort pleasantries like this. It takes the right kind of partner and lots of work, and it only happened in our case because we’re both autistic, but when you can always be 100% honest and accurate it’s a life changer.

the expensive kind

people only want one thing and it’s ducking disgusting

where are these measurable benefits? so far they haven’t really realized anywhere

I’m a horker now

lamb meat

to be fair there will be several big shapes around you as you wake up on the table, with a highlight in the face area (mask or face), so even if your vision is blurry as heck you should be able to punch decently well.

why not both? both is good.

we all want what we can’t have

is this about airflow? that really is valid, people don’t get enough fresh air inside imo.

about the cats, yeah, they definitely deserve a spot next to you.

edit: i checked and yes it’s about co2 buildup. keep the air moving, open that door.

true, you’re right, I didn’t consider that properly in the context of the movie. i apologize.

unrealistic for cishet sexual people (the assumed default)