Right? I thought I was in /c/greentext@lemmy.ml for a minute.

Let’s all block each other.

I mean…

There are games I pay for, but only on Nintendo consoles. Aside from that, it’s strictly write it myself or go without.

I definitely should donate to more FOSS projects, though.

Well damn. You’re right. The ones I’ve been releasing were all invasive ones. I didn’t think to check, but now I’ll have to revise my approach. Probably the freezer thing.

I’ve had some stink bugs too, and it seems like most of the means the internet recommends for dealing with them suck in some way (only some of them literally like what you resorted to).

• Squashing is universally contraindicated.
• Sucking them up with a vacuum can make your vacuum stink.
• Putting a light on a bowl of soapy and/or vinegary water would work, but is kindof a messy pain to deal with.
• Pesticides are generally dangerous to humans.
• My preferred option – catch them gently and take them outside alive – runs the risk that they’ll just find their way inside again

But I guess I find that last option the least offensive.

There was one I dealt with differently, though. I dropped him into a spider web a spider had built over my kitchen sink. I like to think the spider was very appreciative.

Some vaccines don’t really guarantee anything beyond reducing your chance of ending up in a hospital (and they can be less good even at that if the particular strain that you get isn’t the one you were vaccinated for.) For some vaccines, even vaccinated, you can still get the disease you’re vaccinated for and have anything from a couple weeks of being sick to life-long debilitating effects.

All else being equal, unless you have some particular reason why you’re not a good candidate for a particular vaccine, the significant majority of people are much better off vaccinated than unvaccinated, but vaccinated doesn’t necessarily mean safe to go lick doorknobs or, case in point, dine with a dozen relatives, whether those relatives are vaccinated or not. And of course there are plenty of reasons why OP might be at higher risk than most.

Did you consider wearing an N95 and washing hands thoroughly upon departure

Not OP, but if the main attraction of the “holiday event” is a meal, it’s not like you can wear an N95 mask to eat. I suppose it’d be an option to make a quick appearance and then bow out before the meal, but it sounds like OP’s family’s would just be assholes to OP if OP showed up just to leave early (and was also assholes when OP declined to show up entirely.)

I will never understand why an almost-entirely-text-with-a-few-images blog entry (that’s not even all that long) cannot scroll at a rate of even 1fps on a Raspberry Pi 4.

My pixels too are insufficiently numerous.

One egg white omelet with a side of yolk.

And that’s before he soaks it in the blood of innocents.

I use Lemuroid on Android. Works well. On F-Droid. Nothing about it has prompted me to search for alternatives, so no idea how it stacks up against other options.

Also, EasyRPG Player on Android for RPG Maker games. (I played the original Yume Nikki not terribly long ago via EasyRPG Player.) Also on F-Droid. Also worked great.

Bookmarked that shit so fuckin’ hard.

Weirdcore: World is broken so I’ve been slamming Monster energy drinks for 48 hours straight and now I’m delirious and hallucinating the nineties.

Curl.

“Clown.” Some of my best friends do clowning as a hobby.

“How do I build a better guillotine that starts with B?”

(There’s a guy named “Magnus Carlsen” who is arguably the best chess player of all time.)

That was pretty much exactly the main joke that Dave Chapelle told during his monologue when he hosted Saturday Night Live in season 50 episode 11 January 18, 2025.

You mean “Em—Dash”?