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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    Meh, there’s 0 chance of my crying making anyone’s interest.

    That said I don’t post videos of anyone’s kids.

    Fifteen minutes of fame, flash in the pan, there will be another crying kid tomorrow, only the grandparents will remember, and chances are very good that the data will be wiped from the servers in the next 10-15 years.



  • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldtocats@lemmy.worldTiggy
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    2 months ago

    Our first pair, one went from kidney disease (many years of diabetes before this) ten years ago, the other left us 3 weeks ago (18 years) but was possibly a disguised vampire who feasted on her sister as her first victim (evidenced by: her long life and a string of very unfortunate puppys, her blending into the night, and her somehow being allergic to cats)

    Here’s to Tiggy and Fluffy hanging out in the good place. (My wife swore she would never have a cat named fluffy, but it fit her too well, within a year she was fluffy and she remained fluffy her whole life)




  • This makes me happy, not giddy, not excited, but there’s something waiting for me that’s absolutely incomprehensible.

    Twenty years ago it would’ve kept me up at night and made me cry silently into my pillow.

    Many years ago I noticed I’d get those thoughts when I stayed up too late into the morning wasting my time away, and I would panic and spiral, but when I woke up I’d barely have memory of those thoughts.

    Now when I stay up to late and I get those thoughts I know it’s time to go to bed, I just accept that they come, and I know that they’ll be there, they just don’t bother me. Very much like my eventual demise.

    If they’re intrusive you probably haven’t had enough time to contemplate them. Live with them a while and you’ll find them to be another part of existence, and they’ll make you appreciate your existence, no matter how temporary, even more.

    And don’t ever believe anyone who says they know what happen to them/you the moments following your demise, they only hope to make your time with this existence benefit themselves.






  • The screen protector is peeling just a little bit around the edges, but it’s put on really well, and I don’t want to use the replacement just yet, but it’s slowly ever encroaching and leaving more and more of a dead zone in an area I don’t touch all that often, but when I need to I question whether or not it’s time to put the new one on.

    It’s been like this for almost a year now.

    Also no ir blaster, so I can’t subtly mute the commercials when I’m at the in laws.



  • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldEarbuds
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    2 months ago

    And the noise cancelling/amplification is something wired headphones probably would never do, and they aren’t more expensive than ear buds, unless you got the cheapest ear buds (that probably sounded like shit and had cords that would fray within months of use), oh and if you used them at all “actively” the cords would eventually wear out even in expensive models. I’ve got a 20$pair of ear buds from 3 years ago(wanted to make sure I wouldn’t lose them before investing in expensive ones, now I don’t actually like my expensive ones except for airplanes, and still use my cheapos). Oh and you couldn’t be more than 3 feet from your phone if it was charging, and you couldn’t fast forward, rewind, play/pause (if you had a great pair it had a volume control, that didn’t actually change the volume, just added resistance to the signal).

    Ask my wife, I was one of the biggest sticks in the mud about losing my headphone jack and changing over to Bluetooth, but since I made the change, I’ve found plenty of reasons to be happy with it. I still miss my old phones built in infrared blaster though. And easily replaceable battery. There were some neat things you could do with the aux jack (credit card reader), and there was some convenience to having things corded together (especially if you’re absent minded) but it’s not as rosey as many would insist it was.

    The rose tinted glasses people use when looking back (car technology, streaming being worse than cable, the Internet sucking (though much better arguments for this one)) is really a burr in my side.