"ARRRRROWED!!!"

"Ow, my skin!"

We got married in DC and saved so much money on locations. We booked the Jefferson memorial 6 months in advance for like $50 (saved a couple thousand), and a boathouse on the Potomac for $800 (saved 8-20 grand) because we knew someone - wedding still cost like 33k. We were so cognizant of cost too - no flowers at all, DJ instead of a band, bought our own booze, etc.

I think people don't realize how much more expensive cities are, and also do a terrible job accounting for all the true costs of things. Food was obviously the bulk of it and other big things like booze, rings... But I kept impeccable records, and what really added up was the little $100 here, $300 there things. Hotel and plane tickets for destitute father-in-law, all the meals at restaurants you're taste testing to see if you wanna have the rehearsal dinner there, tips, food while the bridal party is getting ready, gifts for bridal party, the officiant, etc etc.

I wouldn't trade it for the money back because I'm notoriously cheap, so I pinched and saved and was super proud of our wedding's price to quality ratio, but I'd be lying if I said the final tally wasn't super painful and didn't delay our house a bit. It worked out in the end, though. Thanks interest rates!

What's crazy is "Fred" used to mean the exact, literal opposite. It's the only word I know of that has come to mean the full opposite of what it meant (except maybe "literally", but that's usually used for emphasis)

Fred used to mean the dude who showed up in jeanshorts on a huffy, who everyone was like "are you sure you want to join the group ride?", and then he ends up pulling the pack the whole way. Somewhere along the line it ended up meaning dentist, which is the slow dude who buys all the expensive gear. I literally don't understand it.

I just replaced the honk in my car today, so I can assure you they very much do.

In related news, Subaru has yet to do a recall on a very important safety device going bad, despite the Internet being awash with 2016-2018 Outbacks having bad clocksprings. At least it's a relatively easy fix.

Ah, gotcha. Well, best of luck. I'll let you know what I think when my beta invite comes in. Still waiting.

Have you looked at direct integration with Garmin Connect? My guess is they and probably Fitbit have the huge majority of the market.

I'm actually dumb and my Garmin tracks my steps, so I DO know exactly how many I take (27,689 weekly). Damn I need to use my treadmill desk more consistently. That's low.

I saw in other comments wearables don't work. That's kind of a bummer. I like to leave my phone charging on my desk and let the watch track.

I signed up, happy to try it out and give feedback. No idea what my average number of steps is because I don't super care about that, but I'd expect it to go way up if I suddenly did care (through a gamified app).

FreeCAD is free and parametric. It's what I use after Fusion changed their subscriptions around. I don't need to be forced into a subscription once I put in the time to learn how software works, thank you very much.

Chainmail bikinis

You mean women's armor?

Walkabout mini golf and eleven table tennis are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. It is very literally unreal how unrealistic they are.

Everyone calling it a shooter MOBA is right, but more basically: It's Smite. It's just Smite, but good. I played the Smite 2 alpha and it was very lame, no verticality, gunplay felt bad. Deadlock has an original theme, gunplay feels tight, and there is clearly a huge skill ceiling. I don't know if it's 100% yet, which tracks cuz it's an alpha, but it's already better than Smite and I have faith they'll make it better.

Anyone using bots that are openly bots would be limiting their shit to robots.txt. Anyone who is out trawling the whole website is probably obfuscating what they're doing by spoofing new user agents.

We had a Eufy baby monitor that was so bad (replaced three times when trying to update firmware, the fourth time it died it was due to a drop) that it has actually made me think less of Anker as a company. If they stick to that being their low quality bargain brand, maybe I'll consider Anker again, but for now I'm out.

Yeah, it seems like they finally invested in firmware and software programmers. WAY fewer issues than back in the day, still amazing hardware quality.

DOTA popularized and also invented the battle pass mechanic.

You're both sadist and poetic boor.

Yeah I didn't realize votes were essentially public already. This will 100% change my voting patterns. The problem is, I'm an idealist who still follows old school reddit voting guidelines of "this adds to the conversation" or not..so I upvote stuff I don't agree with as long as it is well thought out, well said, or at least civil and trying to have a good conversation. When I remember to, I also tend to downvote vitriolic nonsense or pithy nothing comments even if I agree with the values, because I don't think it helps anyone to have annoying angry echo chambers. That's like...the entire Internet right now, and Lemmy is already bad enough with that. It doesn't need to get worse by making sure everyone is voting in lockstep lest they get brigaded (which there are no inherent protections against).

It pops up on steam and says you've been invited to a game test.

Sent. Should come through in a couple hours I guess. They're pretty slow.

Sent. When you accept will send.

Yeah no prob. I think most people just...don't read their owners manuals. Not just sedan owners either. You see it with big trucks too where people haul stuff that's WAY too heavy for their brakes, or load trailers with the weight all towards the back (asking for fishtailing). Sometimes I think it's a miracle any of us survive day to day.

If those are highway legal I might be very interested once I sell my project car. Thanks!

Good, cause I played the Smite 2 alpha and it was kinda garbage. I literally said out loud "this is like Dota for babies". It didn't even have good FPS mechanics to make up for no depth.

Where would we meet you? Outside? I don't go there, I'm too addicted to DOTA.

Then me! I'll do whoever is next in the chain!

Got one over on the reddit thread. Still waiting for it to come through because apparently there's a delay, but I'll invite some folks once it comes in.

IKEA and home depot both have loading zones typically where after you're done shopping you can go get your truck, bring it to the front, load up, then be on your way. Costco and Best Buy will let you do it too for big TVs or furniture, and I'm sure other places don't care either. I've definitely parked in the fire lane in front of a Harbor Freight to load up a super heavy hydraulic press and no one cares.

I've done that too back when I lived in the city, with the bed boxes all the way up into the front of the car, interfering with my stick shift if I hit a bump or slammed on the brakes, and just generally being unsafe. My point isn't that it's impossible to buy things at IKEA without a giant truck, my point is if you own a giant truck, for work or because you DIY constantly or own a boat or RV...this is literally the exact situation it's built for. You CAN handle the situation other ways, but why would you if you already own a truck?

I hate giant fuck off oversized trucks as much as the next guy, and if this was sitting in someone's driveway as their only car, with nothing to haul, a clean bed, and you only see them take it to the grocery store... Then yeah let's all shit on them together. But everyone is so carried away with hate they're dunking on a guy doing one of the best use cases for this truck and actually being polite about it!

"Wow, your bed is in such good shape." is great subtle shade throw at a truck owner.

Not that everyone doesn't do it (I definitely have on my Subaru Outback), but cars typically have really low weight allowances on top since they're usually not designed for hauling on the roof. Even my Outback, a car that comes with a rack and all kinds of accoutrements for it, has a 150 pound limit. So you really don't wanna put much IKEA furniture out there to risk damaging your roof, especially if you hit a bump. Also, damaging your roof or the frame can sometimes total your car, because it is a main safety feature for accidents in which you roll over.

Every time I read this take I am a little surprised it's so prevalent. I guess I just go to the hardware store or IKEA or get free furniture on the side of the road more than nearly everyone else on the Internet. I would LOVE a truck, since my Subaru often isn't big enough for what I need/want to do. Now granted, I want a small truck with a full size bed that can fit a sheet of plywood, not a giant hauler for a boat or RV*, and certainly not an inexplicable 4-door truck for hauling people with a 6-ft bed like you mention, but it's still wild to me that there aren't more heavy DIYers or even new home owners like me on Lemmy. Maybe I'm on the wrong instance.

*Technically we could probably get away with a truck like that since my wife needs to haul giant boat trailers for work, but they provide a rental. We'd probably make more money with a reimbursement using our own, but I don't have space to store a giant F350 or whatever because we DO have a giant RV, but not a tow behind because I don't like them.

I mean, the meme says at an IKEA parking lot. If ever there were a completely valid time to use that truck and park it in a lot, that's it.

On windows at least, that sort of already exists. You can hold down Alt and use 3 numpad numbers to "compose" any ASCII character you like. It's fun!

Either the SAS survival handbook because it'd be one of the most useful books to have completely memorized, or maybe the Bible just to dunk on fundamentalists by quoting obscure passages that contradict each other.

Neither sounds super fun, but those are the first that come to mind.

most of the people I’ve spoken to on various linux discords

Might have a teensy sample selection problem there haha

You ruined your country.

Ah yes, I really fucked up back at the constitutional convention when I designed a system that mathematically guarantees a two party system, leading to inevitable gerrymandering, entrenchment, and no incentives against unlimited fundraising . Same with that electoral college that allows minority rule via farmland. I think I got a lot of rights right, but in retrospect I probably should have worded the 2nd amendment differently, or at least foreseen the exponential development of weapons' destructive power and not implied that citizens should have equal arms to the government. Maybe I could have even got rid of it, I don't know. I definitely fucked up when I allowed slavery to continue for a while and then after we got rid of it, decided redlining was fine and wouldn't affect things for multiple generations. I probably also fucked up when I was running all those lobbying firms in the 50s and destroyed American communities to make room for automobiles, and simultaneously started the military industrial complex subsidizing the rest of the worlds defense in exchange for not having healthcare.

I really fucked it up bad, totally my fault. Crazy that I managed to do all that before I was born, and despite voting in every election for the only people who want to slightly change some of that stuff. But you're right, my bad. I should fix it by voting for a rep in... Oh wait, I forgot I lived in an area without any actual representation for a while. I guess I shouldn't have created Washington DC!But it's ok, now I live in an area where my vote means nothing because our system is mathematically designed for gridlock. Guess I should just soak in the unfixable path dependency, instead of trying to go contribute to a different country that has none of these problems. But I was born here, so it's my...duty to fix all those mistakes I made before I was born rather than going somewhere else, because it's my responsibility. And you're probably right to want to keep me out, because I just wanna come... steal your good society instead of contributing to something that more closely aligns with my values. Good read on the situation, you got me!

Average American man is 5'9.3" (and has been around for a long time). So not only is the graph misleading it's just wrong.

In case anyone was wondering, within America: White 5'10", Black 5' 9", Asian and Hispanic around 5'7".

Don't mention landlords, unless followed by "... deserve the guillotine."