helmet91

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[–] helmet91 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can do just that. Before you begin the quiz, there's a link to skip the quiz and directly enter your preferences.

[–] helmet91 21 points 4 months ago (11 children)

I'm not from the US, so I don't know how accurate this is, and I also don't know if this thing has ever been updated (I found it a long time ago), but there's this tool that might help with deciding: https://www.whereshouldilive.co/

[–] helmet91 7 points 5 months ago

I mean, if the words "Israel" and "interrogation" are in it, it pretty clearly conveys what you just described.

[–] helmet91 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm using Qwant. Works better for me than DuckDuckGo.

[–] helmet91 9 points 6 months ago

The amount of people not knowing what a "web app" is, is seriously concerning.

Anyway, I tried "old" and Alexandrite, but I just ended up sticking with the default. I find "old" ugly, and on Alexandrite, I couldn't find my saved posts. Maybe it has been fixed since, but the default one works for me best.

[–] helmet91 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've switched to Gboard on Android back in the days, when it was the only one with proper multilingual features, and been using it ever since.

I've experienced the opposite: I actually found it rather more helpful than not, despite the occasional errors like you mentioned. But nowadays it's quite rare that it "mispredicts" a word. And what I've found extremely helpful is, that nowadays it doesn't only correct individual words, but it picks up other grammatical errors as well in the sentence. So it's working for me.

[–] helmet91 22 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Oh there's a lot.

  • When I was a kid, parents and teachers used to teach, if you have sore muscles a day after an extensive workout, you need to work out even more in order to reduce the soreness. In fact, however, you need to rest those muscles.
  • I thought, pepperoni was pepper. (Like bell pepper, just smaller; similar to chilli). Then my girlfriend enlightened me after a confusing conversation, that pepperoni was a kind of salami. And then recently, at a company event before ordering pizza and after a very confusing discussion of what toppings we order, it turned out pepperoni was actually a kind of a salami, but not everyone agreed. So by now I've learned that pepperoni is neither of them. It doesn't exist. It's listed on pizza menus, and when you order it, you'll get something for sure, but you won't know in advance what it would be.
  • This isn't new, the realization was several years ago, but fits this list nicely: I thought, perfume was something for women. It turned out, there was perfume for men too.
  • Parents used to teach, if you read in the dark (on paper, not on a screen, I must add), you're ruining your eyes. But if you think about it: wtf does low light do to your eyes? By that logic, you're constantly ruining your eyes while sleeping.
  • For some reason I used to think, you could simply delete related entities bound by foreign key constraints in postgres, if you ran the query in a transaction. Once when I finally needed to do this, I learned the hard way I was wrong.

There's a lot more than this, probably I'll update this comment in the future. Or not.

[–] helmet91 2 points 7 months ago

I find it weird to look at my thumbnail video, so I almost never do that.

  1. If I have the chance, I don't even enable my webcam. It depends on the workplace...
  2. Generally, I always look at my notes, because I'm unable to keep all the necessary things in my mind while talking.
  3. If no notes are needed for whatever reason, I just look at others in the meeting.

If I look at myself, that happens maybe at the very beginning to check what's in the picture, but I always hate looking at myself.

[–] helmet91 26 points 7 months ago

Luckily I'm not involved in this smart-TV saga in any way, as I haven't been watching TV since my childhood (there were no smart-TVs back then, but TV shows in my country were shit).

Now my biggest fear is, if enough people realize that smart-TVs are shit, then desktop monitors will start to become "smart" too. My life will be doomed if that happens.

[–] helmet91 3 points 7 months ago

Milk chocolate without any nuts.

[–] helmet91 2 points 8 months ago

At first I wanted to say sushi, but basically anything I order online, because they're so expensive. But during those few occasions I really feel like royalty.

[–] helmet91 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I set the timer on the dishwasher to finish approximately when I get home after work. However, that day I didn't really know what time I would get home, as there was an after-work BBQ event.

When I arrived at home and stepped into the kitchen, the timer showed 0:00 and shortly afterwards it switched off.

My proudest achievement in like two years.

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