I clean my glasses really thoroughly with very diluted dish soap (non citric acid), first by a spray prewash, then I wipe using the same solution and a little glasses cloth, then spray a bit again, then rinse, then let air dry in the glasses holder thinghy
They look like mint for like 5 minutes after I put them on…
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I would tell you but I don’t want to appear odd to you weirdos.
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I envy anti-hoarders.
What? I completely get discarding things and living a life without the burden of clutter, but having a game in your Steam library is essentially zero cost/burden right?
Clutters the interface, harms discoverability in the backlog, and may point to a game that doesn’t even work anymore.
Especially since you can hide them if you want to maintain a clean interface. That way you can bring them back later if you decide to replay the game, or share it with your family. There’s so few reasons to ever delete a game.
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I hope it’s the loud minority that buys that many games. I think most people don’t have the luxury to think that way.
I have over 200 games (not the largest library I know but still sizable) and most of them are unplayed and never will be. A majority of them come from the monthly Humble Bundle subscription that gives me like 7-12 games a month. I haven’t redeemed any in a while, I mainly keep the sub for the store discount, and the mild feeling of goodwill I receive for having donated to “charity” (since Humble’s acquisition by EA I question how much of this goes to charity).
Games are meant to be played, not collected.
I’m not a gamer myself (the only game I ever purchased are a few chessboards ;) but as a book reader I know many people do buy books they will never ever read. They just collect dust on their bookshelves. It may be sad they don’t get to enjoy the content, but it’s their choice and there is nothing wrong with that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
Tsundoku (積ん読) is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in a home without reading them.
Seems to be quite universal phenomenonemon. I wonder if theres a word for someone who spends a year or two buying books, letting them pile up and then has a few month period where they read for hours and hours every day. If there is, that would be me.
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That sounds good to me. I actually have some major JOMO these days, with pretty much everything. I think the most recent film I’ve watched is from 2019, the most recent music I listen to is ~2011-12, I enjoy listening to people tell me about that party/event/whatever they went to and I didn’t etc. So your description fits better than you knew lol
Can you remove paid games from your library? I have removed a few f2p ones, most notably Apex Legends after removal of linux support. Turns out you can add them back and your hours, achievements will be right back.
this sounds like just throwing your money away. I think it definitely takes the cake for weird/interesting habits.
I agree, it costs nothing to not delete them, and if they ever added a framework later on for reselling or trading, you’re just out money.
Not to mention if you wrote a review for any of the games, I’m expect deleting the game from your library unmarks the game as you owning it, which means that your review no longer contributes to the game’s rating.
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I fully understand not wanting them in the library. How I go about it is I have a category that’s called finished, and when I finish a game, I remove them from all categories, except for finished, and then I hide/collapse that category. Alternatively, you can also filter by installed games.
I have a review for most of the games that I’ve played, but almost none of them actually count towards the game score because Steam has a really stupid way of deciding if a review actually counts or not. basically, for a review to count, you have to own the game or have refunded the game(I’m nit sure if deleting the game counts as refunding). And it must have been purchased directly through Steam. and it has to meet whatever Automated metrics they have in the background to decide whether or not it’s a bot review or not.
I’ve had fully valid games that I purchased through Steam just not get included in the review system because something I sent in the review triggered some form of abuse system.
I’ve been told that my pacing is weird. It seems pretty normal to want to move to think. It happens a lot when I’m on phone calls especially, but I’ll pace while making decisions too
Pacing is definitely good for regulating your thoughts. I like to pace when reasoning through a difficult problem, and it also helps relieve some anxiety.
Speaking of anxiety, watching me pace makes my wife anxious. I understand that, sometimes pacing comes from a place of distress. Other times it’s just a way of keeping the body active while the mind is busy. It’s often subconscious, but when I catch myself doing it, I’ll try to pace in another room so I don’t bother anyone.
I remember visiting a really shitty zoo when I was a kid. There was an exhibit with a leopard who spent the whole time pacing along one side of their enclosure. There was a rut worn into the ground that must have been a few inches deep where it passed. I wonder how many thousand times it made the trip from one side to the other - it wasn’t very far. That makes me anxious.
Exclude meat from my diet
If everyone around you finds that odd… you don’t live in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Boston, or most University campuses
- At home I use the mouse right handed with the left and right click on the normal buttons.
- At work I use the mouse left handed and have the left and right click swapped.
I do it because my right hand is getting sore from clicking but at home I still want to play games.
I mouse right handed up to lunch, then left handed after that.
How heavy is your mouse? I switched to a super light corded gaming mouse (wireless mice weight a ton) and has considerably reduced hand fatigue. I also used to use the mouse in my non dominant hand as well.
Same here. Work mouse is a mirror of home mouse. I started putting it on the left because I use the 10-key a lot. When there was a phone I put it on the left too, so that my right hand (the 10-key hand) would not get confused by the upside down layout of the phone keypad.
At work, mouse and phone (gone now, thank every God) on left, to leave my dominant hand free for the keyboard, basically.
I do this, except I don’t swap the buttons so that I could go back and forth from left to right hand without changing anything. (When I first did it, I swapped the buttons because that seemed more natural but I’ve since trained myself to use it “backwards” on the left hand.).
Get work to pay for an ergonomic mouse for you!
When I WFH I use a trackball mouse (ball is in top). Occasionally I forgot to switch and get confused about why som actions are hard
So … Some people’s brains are wired with directions being absolute, and some people’s brains are wired with directions being relative. One of the easiest ways to tell which way your brain is wired is to switch your mouse to the other hand. If your brain is absolute-wired, then the main button is always on the left; if your brain is relative-wired, then the main button is always the one closest to your body.
Nah, this is simply a question of training. You can train yourself to do it either way.
Someone correct me, but I believe the gear pattern in a manual transmission does not change between right hand and left hand cars.
That’s what I observed when I briefly drove a car in northern India. It was very difficult to figure out because I kept expecting the first gear to be the one closest to my body…
I think this is probably bullshit?
Sure when using a mouse in their off hand some people might use a different primary button.
I don’t think that necessarily provides any insight into how someone’s brain is wired, nor whether or not absolute or relative brain wiring is actually a thing.
Yeah if there’s anything human beings like, it’s symmetry. I also alternate mouse hands but the buttons need to be swapped. Left vs right hand may not matter but primary is always under my pointer finger.
If either of your hands is getting sore from clicking with any sort of regularity you should probably mention it to your doctor - it sounds like it could be a repetitive stress injury in the making.
Even if I went to the doctors what can they do? Its cooked and the only way to fix it is not using it so much
To add to bougie birdie’s reply, a doctor would be able to actually diagnose you and determine if this is a nerve related issue, repetitive stress injury, or potentially early signs of a degenerative disorder such as arthritis, etc. The treatment for a repetitive stress injury, if that is what is causing your pain, could include things like specialized brace to immobilize certain parts of your hand so they can heal properly (especially important during sleep).
My partner had a repetitive stress injury that she had diagnosed and then didn’t see a therapist for (at first). Her injury did not heal even though she was not using that part of her hand until she finally went to an occupational therapist and got an appropriate brace (and instructions for tendon gliding exercises).
A physiotherapist might be able to work with you on some stretches or exercises to relieve pain and strengthen your muscles so they don’t wear out. If it’s documented by your doctor, you might get better coverage under medicare /insurance / worker’s comp / etc. The advantage of going through a physiotherapist is that they’ll be able to tell you if you’re doing something wrong that will worsen your outcome.
I do a few stretches that seem to help me when I flare up. The most effective is when you place your hands palm together in front of your chest like you’re praying 🙏 and then slowly rotate them so that your fingers point towards the ground. I can definitely feel the tension, and if it hurts like a bastard then don’t do it. But stretching for a few minutes a few times each day makes a big difference personally.
Have you tried a trackball?
Nope they look hard to use. I dont think it would help since its not a wrist issue its in my fingers that I click with.
Legit strategy: a buddy of mine does this to fight tendinitis. I don’t remember if it came from his doctor or from online
It might help to get a longer mouse so you hand can rest comfortably on it. The soreness probably is not the clicking but the moving-while-tense. I bring my own to work to prevent this.
I switched to a trackball years ago for this reason. It doesn’t necessarily solve the problem just shifts the task to your thumb.
I switched years ago at work for similar reasons. When I carried it over at home, my left-handed partner at the time didn’t like it - thought it was confusing to use a left-handed mouse. Go figure
I used to move my mouse at a certain rate to do the Google captchas at a slower pace than I physically could. Not sure why I did it, but it seemed like a reasonable strategy.
If you do them impossibly fast, you will fail them.
If you happen to be something like a world class CS2 player… you may be ‘impossibly’ fast.
i’m so fast that may be confused as a robot
I have my mouse speed maxed. No one else I know can run my pc without frustration.
That’s fine if you have a mouse that isn’t shite. I have a coworker who also does this, in his case via having the cursor speed jacked up as far as it’ll go in Control Panel. But the crap mouse he has on his PC means that the cursor now moves several pixels per sample. It’s impossible to move it one pixel at a time, which means some very small UI elements in inexpertly coded programs (like, just to name one example, our inventory control software) are smaller than the minimum movement distance and you can’t place the cursor on them to click them.
He seems to spend most of his day on reddit, though, so this apparently has not impacted his productivity much. Meanwhile, if I use his machine I just become Captain Keyboard Shortcut in self-defense.
I started doing it when I started getting bad tendonitis with a ball mouse in 1999. I could go all the way across my 19 inch screen in 2 inches either direction and my wrist flare ups went down by 75%.
I got used to it and still love it. I always get decent laser mice with a little indent for my thumb to take pressure off my wrist to move it left to right.
I have a connective tissue disease and have to be careful not to get overuse syndrome from too much KB and Mouse work and the speed setting lets me get my work done. Playing FPS games gets my mom called a lot of things because of my quick reaction times from these mouse settings. ಠ_ಠ
i talk while watching movies/tv shows. i genuinely do not find it enjoyable to just watch stuff.
subtitles make this a lot easier imo
as in preventing me from yapping or as in multitasking yapping and watching?
multitasking :3
My spouse does this too. I’m down to MST3K roast a show or movie if it’s bad or I’ve seen it before, but we have an agreement if I care and want to be immersed I’ll let them know…
…and then if it turns out the movie’s bad I’m down to roast it.
Sometimes I’m enjoying a movie and I can tell they want to talk, and it drives them insane, but they respect the agreement.
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Oh I’m positive. The flipside is I watch a lot of reality TV with them as they enjoy our riffing it together; I do not care one iota for most reality TV, including what they make me watch, but I do it for them, and there’s always time later to turn it back to my tastes. It’s a balancing act.
But also I still keep track of external factors if it’s not enough. I returned two shopping carts to the corral and held the door open at Red Robin for some sort of school visit and by my calculations those were enough points to get me a Heat rewatch with them.
I can’t watch movies with anyone else because I enjoy my 85-95% accuracy saying what is going to happen next.
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I love it when they look at you annoyed because they know you’ve just nailed it.
i talk while watching movies
You don’t do it at the theater, right?
no, i will only bother people i know with that.
If I’m in the mood for dessert, I normally just have one bite of something sweet and that’s enough. I’ve had pints of ice cream last in the freezer for several months because after one spoon, I’m good. At work, they think I don’t eat any sweets at all. I’ve been told it’s my serial killer trait.
I am the same with sweet things, I like them but want to taste it, not eat it, sort of.
I have a set of wee demitasse spoons at home so I can put my one spoonful of ice cream in a little bowl and eat it, lol. Just little tastes of very sweet things, they do not feel good to eat in quantity.
Same. Minus the serial killer part.
Glad to hear it. The not a serial killer part.
Sheesh! If you murder people regularly, that’s way more interesting than your ice cream quirk.
Plot twist: the ice cream quirk is a trick. “Nope, no body in this freezer. Just lots of uneaten ice cream. That’s all that’s in those tubs, yes sir.”
Oh…
Germophobia…
🫠
But the more “weird” thing would be:
I use biometrics on phone so the password wont get revealed in public, but I always make sure to disable biometrics before I sleep (or if I would get separated from my phone for any reason, like taking an exam for something, or going through security screening)… sometimes even reboot it if I don’t have any apps that I need to stay opened in the background and don’t mind the inconvienience…
And if somehow the biometrics don’t work, and I have to enter it in public, I make sure to look around for any cameras pointed at me, and try to cover the screen so no cameras can capture the password…
(Do people who use biometrics disable it before sleep, or is that just a “me” thing?)
Also every time I enter a lockscreen password on a phone, I make sure to wipe off the screen and any potential residual fingerprints.
For computers, I just run my fingers through the entire keyboard after entering the password so theres equal amounts of residual fingerprints over the entire keyboard
This is so you can’t try to use some fingerprinting shenanigans to find what keys I pressed and basically recontruct my password…
(I probably look very paranoid lol)
“Germaphobia” is linked in ways to paranoia and compulsive disorders. This paired with the biometrics thing, I’d recommend having a chat with someone just to make sure there isn’t an underlying disorder.
Have watched a family member go from “that’s a bit weird” to debilitating paranoia over 15 years. It started with compulsive behaviours around personal health and security of personal devices that made little sense to anyone else.
The cleaning fingerprint thing isn’t unreasonable in some rare contexts, but thouching all keys on a full keyboard is where it really goes off into paranoia.
Disabling fingerprint biometrics at night…why? What’s the risk you’re worried about? Someone breaking into your house to use your fingers to unlock your phone while you’re asleep? You can get hacked much easier without anyone ever being in your home. Anyone in your house can use Celebrite without touching you.
I’m a privacy and security enthusiast, and I agree, this sounds like the edge of needing to talk to someone. Theres a lot here that no one worried about their security would ever do.
Its much harder to get a cellebrite than just use biometrics
Where do you even get one?
I’m kinda the opposite of you. I use Face ID only for wallet functions on my phone. Everything else is pin/password, but that’s due to interpretations around right to remain silent.
I am not careful about being recorded. I do press random numbers on my door lock keypad.
Fuck yeah!
I don’t do all that but we all should.
I match my shirt color to what I’m going to train in the gym.
As an example, let’s say that’s today is leg day: then I will use a gray shirt. Yesterday was chest day, so it was a red shirt.
I bought a few packs of the same shirts just so I could make this matching game. I’m not sure if someone elss at the gym realized that I do this but I’m fairly certain they would find it odd.
You’re like the gym bro reincarnation of Haruhi Suzumiya.
I like to work on a single screen. Two monitors, tried them and didn’t like that, lots of work to keep stuff on the right one, and I still focus on a single screen and ignore the second.
I’m also perfectly fine with a laptop touchpad and never wanted to replace that with a mouse.
the amount of alt-tabbing would drive me crazy. I have four monitors for work so I can have my main software up, some file explorer tabs, spec sheets and other documents (journals, calculations, etc), and Teams and/or a meeting window.
if I didn’t have so many meetings, I could drop one monitor. if I weren’t required to be so accessible, I could drop another. both of those are smaller 1080p ones only. but I absolutely can not work effectively with just one monitor, 2x 1440p is just enough pixels to fit what I want to see at once
Accessibility comes from setting notification settings right and turning on the volume (I’ve missed a few by putting headset aside, need to turn it off first).
Meetings, either I am an active participant or it’s a background noise.
As for the file explorer / sheets etc, yeah I alt tab. I wouldn’t be able to keep all the stuff on the screen anyway now that I need Xcode VScode Claude-cli Emacs & few terminal windows. If I’m alttabbing that, alttab to Finder or Browser isn’t much harder.
Agreed. I used to use fancy keyboards with cherry clears and orings, then I realized how nice it is just to pick up the laptop and sit anywhere. No turning back. And even at my desk I use only one monitor, because I have just one set of eyes.
I can talk myself out of buying anything, and often do. Even when I actually need it.
Self-gaslighting. I don’t know if this is a superpower or a weakness…
Its literally a trauma response to poverty, its a kind of hypervigilance.
It can be a superpower in many situations, it can be a debilitating neuroticism in others.
I haven’t been in debt for like 2 years now and I still tell myself that I don’t need to spend more money on food. I probably skip dinner (that I can afford to eat) 2 or 3 times a week because the only way I’ll eat something is if I pay for it.
At least I’ve beaten the odds of obesity…!
… sounds pretty rough, not fun.
But, you did make it through it.
I would genuienly suggest that you set up and maintain a 3 or 6 month emergency fund… literally as a psychological means of being able to actually feel ok about spending you can afford to spend, as much as for the actual finance sense.
Like basically, look at your budget, set an amount that always goes into that fund each month.
Once you hit the 3 or 6 month target?
If you have money left over after accounting for all other significant spending… it is actually ok to spend that money as fun money.
Then after that fills over, consider something like high yield savings account. Still pretty liquid, not very risky, but, it is still withdrawable, but but, you have the emergency fund now as a buffer.
I appreciate the advice. I could get fired tomorrow and be mostly ok for the rest of the year. But I don’t think I’ll ever shake the, “are you really spending $20 for a single meal? That won’t even give you leftovers?” mentality.
I was at the pub the other night, they wanted $29 for a burger. I didn’t have it in me. It’s too much money for a burger.
In fairness, that is too much money for a burger.
Damn. Well you’ve got more of a runway than I currently do, so you’re on top of things…
But yeah, I… was homeless for a while… took years to recover from the more acute PTSD type shit that left me with… I guess I’ve just got slightly different version of the long term hypervigilance scarring than you.
The ‘constant potential threat analysis’ variant.
One of these days, we will build a future that is not so bleak.
Somehow, someway … it must be done.
The alternative is unacceptable.
I’m lucky in that my hobbies and interests were able to secure me a decently well paying job and I don’t have any major ailments or dependencies (no kids or family to take care of beyond my dog). I’m certainly not “heterosexual white male” privileged, but I can’t say I pulled the shortest straw by any means.
Sorry to hear you’ve been in worse straights. I was on the brink of homelessness for a month or two like
23 years ago and the thought of living on my own or with people I am not compatible with was terrifying. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.Somehow someway, man. That’s been the motto since 2018.
Keep tough.
I constantly check fluids in my car.
Drove a beater once where all the goo leaked everywhere, after like 50 miles it’d need oil and coolant topped off and or power steering.
Kept it alive long enough to get me to work and back until i could get a car that wasn’t as terrible, which was 2 years because i was more worried about paying my absurd rent over anything else.
Still have the habit of popping the hood when i get home and checking
Still have the habit of popping the hood when i get home and checking
For engine oil, its better to check it 20-30 minutes after turning the engine off, or before turning the engine on. When the engine has been running, the oil is all over the engine, it takes a few moments to settle back down in the oil pan. Depending how quickly after running you check the oil, you’ll get variable results on the dip stick.
For coolant, thats easier because the reservoirs usually have a hot and cold lines so it doesn’t matter too much, as long as its between the lines, you are good.
As a car mechanic I can tell you your habit is extremely good. If you notice the fluid levels are going down, take it to the mechanic and at best you’ll save yourself thousands for not having to fix or change a blown engine.
It’s an old subaru without an in-line reservoir, also have been knocking out all the leaks over the last year and have finally gotten to the last one… which is the water pump I installed 3 years ago which is now the last part leaking. Also the oil leak was a broken valve cover seal and because the engine is sideways it just gushes out whatever was flung off the rockers. Just did the rear diff last week cause the input shaft seal was bad. Next are CVs and air conditioning lines.
My other car is a GMC terrain with a 2.4 ecotec and those are well known oil burners so 🤷♀️
I mean that just sounds like a good habit to me lol
