Sorry links to this reddit.com site don’t seem to work here

Italy too, pretty much everyone that is know wears shoes indoors.

Australia, it’s a bit more normal to ask if shoes should come off when visiting someone, as that might be their thing.

Not just america

I do take my shoes off now, but did not growing up

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Really hard to play ball. Really is this the best defence for manicured lawns?

And the fucking noise from lawnmowers and whipper snippers all day long.

I’d like to relax and read a book outside, on my messy lawn but all my neighbours do is come outside, make noise for a couple of hours and once they have a ‘perfect’ lawn they fucking go back inside.

Get more native plants. Take rid of dogs. Get chickens.

Pretty sure bikes have serviced rural communities since well before cars were a thing

Two times in the last couple of years! I see a trend here those are numbers we can’t ignore

I’ve had some real howlers the other way though (with actual scammers) so I understand the frustration, one woman who was obviously a spam PPE caller yelled at me “don’t you like money!” after I had politely declined,and there’s no dealing with that.

If I can, I keep them on the phone until they hung up on me frustrated. More often than not I can, I used to wfh and be able, in between meetings, to keep them going for a while, while doing my actual work. “Can you spell that url again? No it says page not found” or “of course I want a refund for that iPhone, what do I need to do”. All while typing my work emails, chatting with colleagues or working on a slide deck. Nowadays I’m looking after young babies full time. So even easier to apologise for the background noise and ask them to repeat their whole spiel for a fourth time.

Omg such a waste of time that could have been spent scrolling through memes instead of trying to do the right thing.

Outside the US sure, that was my point.

In the States there’s a mass shooting every Tuesday.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cloud-2-butt-plus/

Would have worked a charm for this particular article

As a rule of thumb people stop to mass murder other people, without guns. With extremely rare exceptions, we don’t have that shit outside of the US and our schools are not shooting ranges.

The other two things you wrote are not reasons, they are a) a slogan that you could put on a 12 years old t shirt and b) something someone who is having a heart attack might say

I have a 12 years old TV if not older. Turns on instant.

How have consumers got to accept something like this as normal?

Some of the eu regulations, you can’t just waive them by accepting an unreasonable EULA.

I have a Linux pc hooked to the TV and it’s very convenient to use while lying in the sofa. In fact that’s all I use the TV for. And the reason I am interested in this post, as my 12 years old dumb TV will kick the bucket on day it the other.

The pc is my server/nas and runs kodi in a container that outputs to the TV. It has no keyboard nor mouse, but I do have a remote controller that I had lying around from an old android TV box. Basically you turn the TV on and kodi is there waiting with all my movies, series, and iptv to choose from. With a great remote controller that works beautifully with kodi.

The remote is a minix neo a2 I have had for years. Highly recommend it. If it dies I’ll do a quick research to see if there is something better this days, but I’d be keen to buy another one straight away.

I’ll build a Faraday cage

Look I don’t care for lemmy trends and I use Apple laptops as I get them from work.

That said it’s hardly a superior ecosystem, and particularly for this specific use. As a million people have said already, kodi on Linux is a pretty good start. Look at libreelec that is an os wrapped around kodi.

a whole lot of programmers would have had to go out of their way to be really, really bad at their jobs.

You don’t spend much time around them, do you?

I don’t understand how this is not common sense. If I’m not able to back in, I should probably not go in there. I can’t think of anything more stressful than backing out of a driveway and onto incoming traffic that I might not be able to see.