My partner is also allergic to mosquito bites and he got a HeatIt and it was life-changing. He previously had to stay home and permanently ice his bites to not get blood poisoning and was in huge pain, but now since it’s always with him on his keychain, he can treat the stings right away before they get too bad and can go out and do pretty much everything now. He still needs to treat the stings regularly, but it’s so much more portable and accessible than the ice packs he used before.
Compared to the larger devices like BiteAway, it performs a bit worse and it’s a bit pricey and the durability is kinda shit, but the fact that it’s always on him and ready to use (as long as you bring your keys and phone), he can treat the bites right away on the go, which makes a huge difference in effectiveness.

Maybe it’s for the same reason Moscow Mules are served in copper mugs. The container conducts heat well and therefore feels very cold to the touch when you put your lips on it, which enhances the feeling of it being refreshing.

Not every day, every living minute, but quite regularly and throughout the year, the first 4 beats of “Deck the Halls” on infinite loop in a 6/4 beat so after the 4 beats there’s 2 beats silence before it begins all over again. Weirdest thing is after all these years I don’t even know the text, just the melody.

Does ash count?

I have a friend who regularly shares the latest news that brings him mental anguish, followed by messages along the lines of “the world is doomed, society is trash, how can anyone sleep soundly at night knowing the terrors that are happening this very second”. I don’t know why he still follows them. It’s not like he takes action against these things, and most often he can’t do anything against them even if he wanted to, and this feeling of powerlessness, helplessness, hopelessness, is weighing him down so much.

Definitely dishwashers. When we were poor students moving out of the dorms into our first real apartment, we cheaped out on as much as we could but shelled out more than 1k on a proper good Miele one. Got one with less features but better energy and water efficiency and it just does its job and does it well. Every time I am at someone else’s place and they have to prewash their dishes I feel more validated in this choice.

Totally depends on the pet then. My cat is not a good predator, so breakage is not a problem, but she’s very picky with what she wants to play with and most new toys can’t keep her interest for longer than 2 weeks, so it’s absolutely a waste of money to spend more. The only toy that she consistently plays with is still a random piece of rope 😅

So the pet’s personality plays a part, but seeing the other comments, I also see a cat vs dog difference.

Also just ordered mine. Since I started working fulltime remote a year ago, I found myself not wanting to spend more time on my desk after work. That translated into me almost giving up gaming even though I used to love it. Moving to a place where I can have a second desk would cost me one Steam Deck per month so I just went with a Steam Deck lol

Not sure about white and male without people talking about it, but tech nerds for sure. Saying this as a non-white non-male tech nerd myself.

It does get a bit monotonous in here…

If you’re willing to go down this rabbit hole: I have a Planck keyboard. It’s super tiny, only weighs 300g and feels good enough that I use it daily for work (programming) even though I bought it for travel. Don’t get too discouraged by the missing keys. It does have a slight learning curve and in my case I also tweaked the software quite a lot to get exactly what I want, but if you’re up for it, it can be super rewarding. I got the pre-built Planck EZ but it’s discontinued but there are other Planck-style boards out there.

I switched from Yt Music to Tidal because of audio quality and it’s audible. But the difference between Spotify highest quality and Tidal is truly minimal. I did the tests and I couldn’t hear it. I kinda prefer the UI and generally like supporting market alternatives if they’re good and if they pay artists better, then that’s even better. I don’t listen to podcasts either, so those are my personal reasons for choosing Tidal over Spotify.

I have never really used Spotify, but my partner insists that the recommendations on Tidal are actually better. I also think the recommendations are great, but work best for genres that Tidal is strong at. Of the genres I listen to, I’ve had really good experiences with the genres hip hop, rap, lofi, misc. electronic music, western pop, and less good experiences with classical music, soundtracks and more niche genres like J-Pop, African Pop and random trash (on Spotify, our we used to like to prank our friends by adding stuff like gangster’s paradise kids bop version or “female orgasm sounds” to their playlists. I haven’t really found prank-worthy stuff on Tidal yet).

So it’s really a personal decision and tbh, I think Spotify is the better choice for most people.

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Not sure about this webcomic in particular, but I can highly recommend the app Tachiyomi. It’s a free and open source manga and webcomic reader and allows you to add a huge number of sources, so if you found a good webpage (good translations, good image quality, up-to-date chapters), you can search for that source in Tachiyomi. Because of the questionable legality of most content (copyright-wise) it’s not on the Play Store but you can find it on F-Droid or install from web.

Recently had a similar discussian with an Australian-German who went to elementary in Australia and a German life guard and the “how” is certainly interesting as well. Apparently, you get drilled to crawl in Australia (which is just called “swimming”) because that’s the only style that’s powerful enough to save your life in the face of strong ocean currents. Meanwhile, Germans start by learning the breast stroke in elementary because it’s the most efficient/least tiring form of swimming and the most dangerous water scenario here is people swimming too far out into lakes in forests in the middle of nowhere with no life guards, so the no. 1 priority is stamina to get you back on shore.

10y ago. Was hobby artist. Looked at personal gallery. Painted many fairies at time. Many fairy blue.

Fair ^^" In my defense, I can be at least as preachy about Linux, but I think we’ve all heard this one before.

Affinity suite over any of their open-source competitors. I love Krita for painting, but for image editing, Affinity Photo is just so much better-suited and unlike Gimp, it’s modern, actively maintained and has a much more thought-out workflow. I heard that Inkscape was fine, but I personally didn’t like it either (but then, I also didn’t really like Illustrator all that much, it’s really a fully subjective opinion). But even if you did like Inkscape, you don’t have the seemless integration between the products as Affinity does. You can create pixel graphics in Photo, import them in your vector graphics in Designer, and can seemlessly embed any of the two into your documents in Publisher. And each program has a special mode (“persona”) that gives you the basic functionality of the others, and the UIs and workflows generally feel very similar and unified between them. For the hobbyist who doesn’t want to pay for an Adobe subscription, it’s truly unbeatable and the only reason I still need Windows every now and then.

I think that’s just because that’s still a hot topic for many of us here. It’ll die down and then hopefully, we’ll form our own communities and do our own thing here at some point, not just lament old reddit. At least that’s why I’m still here and waiting :D

The one built into Edge is less of a good conversationalist and more of an AI-enhanced web search and is exactly meant to answer things like the first 3 questions.

And Edge’s built-in vertical tabs. They’re so clean and neat and the groups are colored and feel good to use while with most other browsers, vertical tabs feel like a hack, like you’re going against the browser’s intended usage. A year ago you’d have a hard time convincing me to use any Microsoft products but after using Edge at work for a while, I switched away from Firefox on my personal machines as well.