It’s probably habit, but it just feels somehow wrong to blow my nose without a piece of paper snugly against my nostrils. Like trying to poop without being seated on a toilet bowl.

In general, I wish more things would have a common design that manufacturers get to reuse and incrementally improve upon. Take, for example, plastic chairs and office chairs. There’s probably a million variations in existence and someone had to model, prototype, and make tooling for each and every one of them. Sure, there’s varying price points, design languages, and use cases. But even for the same price point there’s at least several thousand chairs with the same overall look and feel. All of that duplicated work and effort, only to make several thousand variations, none of which have a distinct advantage, and each with their own completely solvable problems. Why don’t they just pool their efforts and design one example with as few flaws as possible for that overall design and price?

Perhaps a design where both mating surfaces are plastic with metal for the rest of the body? A lot of vacuum insulated bottles have plastic bonded to metal in the cap, they just have to repeat that with the bottle itself

They come in handy when air drying heavy, damp shirts

Reusable water bottles, especially their lids. They build up microorganisms faster than a petri dish and the more complex the bottles are, the worse it is.

Worst offender are the ones with integrated straws. Sure, they look nice and are a good idea, but cleaning them thoroughly is a nightmare. Also, I don’t know how people tolerate the ones with exposed straws or mouthpieces. Isn’t that incredibly unsanitary?

More generally, why doesn’t anyone except for Nalgene make reusable bottles without rubber gaskets? Gaskets get stinky, then you have to peel them out, scrub like mad, and then awkwardly stretch them back in. I’ve been looking for a metal water bottle without a gasket for ages. They literally just need to shove the Nalgene-type screw-on top into a metal body.

Bonus points if someone designs a gasket-less bottle that opens in the middle so I don’t have to fiddle with a bottle brush every time I wash it.

Same here. Gives me a new appreciation for in-app language settings, in case an app is too complicated or weirdly translated.

1. Separate rubber pieces from earbuds
2. Plug drain in sink and wash rubber pieces in soapy water, then let dry
3. Fold a sheet of tissue paper over and saturate with 70% isopropyl alcohol from a dropper bottle
4. Wipe earbuds thoroughly with the saturated tissue and let dry
5. Reassemble and repeat once every 1 to 2 weeks

A modern, power-efficient replacement motherboard for the Thinkpad X220/230

Would be absolutely fine if it were just a low-profile SBC that sat in the SATA compartment with some barebones connections out to the ports, keyboard, display, speakers, and battery. It can’t be that crazy of a product. There’s already million super-niche SBCs out there, literally the only hurdles would be interfacing with the proprietary keyboard (a solved problem) and the battery.

I’m jealous of my friend’s workstation that has an easily accessible filter in front of the case fans

I fancied the opportunity, but there were no other speakers of the language at my school.

Ungoogled Chromium flatpak

No, I don’t want to attract thieves and weird fans.

Reminds me of a time in biology class

Q: What’s a resource everyone has access to?

A: Water

Skin.

Perhaps several years due to socks and shoes wearing out. The rest should last several decades, assuming I quit using the dryer.

Agree with most of the other posts here. Some of the cheaper faucets I’ve come across have these miserable plastic valves that set you back $15 a pop and last only a year until they break. Then it either jams or water starts dripping.

That said, an Ikea faucet I got on sale for $20 five years ago still works like it did on day one. In fact, I got two more while it was still on sale, fearing it would break like the other cheap ones, but they’re still sitting in their boxes under the sink.

Only the part with youtube. Don’t know if they are pulling some tricks on uBlock users, but about 10 tabs of youtube can get nasty, even with a somewhat recent workstation.

Someone from an advanced spacefaring civilization

You know those stories about people who insist they remember their past life? But there’s no way to confirm it? I’d like my memories passed down like that.

Approximations for yesterday since neither have a proper screen time counter

• Phone: ~1.5 hours
• Computer: ~7 hours

Kinda scary to see how many hours of the day I was seated in front of a screen. Should I feel less guilty that over 4 hours of that was spent writing documentation?

What I don’t feel guilty about is screen time accrued while waiting in line. That makes me feel productive, or at least like offloading my scrolling to otherwise idle time.

The effort needed to neuter surveillance equipment in modern cars without compromising functionality is comparable to the effort of sprucing up an older car. Possibly biased from driving and maintaining a decades-old car. Is there a particular reason you prefer a modern car?

I use debian btw