+1, Henry is a G. I bought mine 10 years ago and he’s still like new. My parents are self-employed cleaners and have a Henry they use pretty much every day (and have done for 20 years) and he’s still going strong. I can’t bear any other vaccum.

I’ve had to use Dysons in previous jobs and oh my god, they’re so needy. The tiniest amount of hair will block the whole thing. Henry could suck up a horse and keep going.

I ended up getting Bluetooth headphones when I upgraded my Pixel. I deliberated over it for AGES.

Charging them is less annoying than I thought it would be (I bought my headphones in January and have only had to charge them about 4 times??) but it annoys me that you can’t just plug them in and they work. Talking to anyone on the phone using them is terrible. Bluetooth cuts out sometimes, randomly. I miss my wired headphones :(

Giving support to a bill that benefits workers through collective organisation is precisely what unions are for. Why are you against people wanting a better work/life balance? Unionise and you can have one too.

Everyone should be in a union. I’m happy to hear teachers are successfully unionised in the US.

No, you can take a picture of something and it will pick out data from the image. e.g. You could photograph a menu in another language and translate it. It’s also a QR code scanner. It might do other things I don’t know about.

Edit: ok, reading this thread it does lots of other stuff 😆

I have electric panel heaters so there isn’t a thermostat. I’d normally turn one on in the main room and bedroom for a couple of hours each day during winter, but last winter my electricity rates were so high that I just used them on the coldest days. The thermometer in my bedroom dropped below 10°C, it wasn’t fun.

I want to know this too! I haven’t heard of any beef with etsy before.

If people have zero time to talk to you then they’re not a friend, no, but I’m talking about expecting instant replies. I very much agree with you about not giving time to fake friends, and that’s what I was referring to about unhealthy friendships in my previous comment.

I think the majority of interactions with my friends just happen in person so most conversations aren’t taking place on my phone, apart from those that live far away. And I have like 200 friends on Facebook because I made a new account and only added people I care about (which I highly recommend for any social media!).

This sounds like you have really unhealthy friendships with poor communication. Sure, an acknowledgement of your invitation at the very least is respectful, but I also would never expect any of the people I love to feel an obligation to be tied to their phone or to have to speak to me if in that moment they don’t want to. People have lives that don’t revolve around me, and I know that doesn’t mean that they care about me any less.

Maybe their anxiety is playing up that week? Maybe they’re depressed? Maybe they’re really busy? None of these things are an insult to me, and if you care about each other then you’ll make time at some point.

Absolutely not. It’s slavery, and forcing humans to kill other humans for the cause of some sociopaths that hold power is abhorrent.

My great grandad was conscripted in WW2, he escaped twice just so he could hold his baby daughter. Good for him. I might not have got to meet him if he hadn’t done that. Seeing his friends get blown to bits for nothing changed him forever.

There shouldn’t be an expectation to always be “on”. I’ll reply to people, but sometimes it might a few days or a week later.

But then I’m old enough to have had pen pals and remember conversations that would go on for years with weeks or months inbetween each exchange.

Yes, but only because the communities I used to be part of on reddit just aren’t the same here, in number of users or content. Maybe that will change, and I hope it does, but I keep seeing people being put off as Lemmy has been down so much or people have trouble creating an account and give up. I don’t dislike that Lemmy is smaller, it’s nice to have more real conversations with people, but the subreddit I used the most was my local city’s, and there just isn’t another space like that online. I miss it.

Non-tech! I’m a buyer for a large wholesaler and distributor.

Cool, thanks :)

Genuine question, does this affect your phone signal at all?

This is so frustrating, and another reason I’m going to try to stop using Google.

Ok god yes, kill it with fire. Any pop-ups that open on the home page of a website actually. Are you trying to get me to immediately leave your site??

100% agree, this was going to be my answer. I still occasionally have night terrors about him and I’m in my mid-30s.

You’re so right about how creepy he looked when he was sick - all pale and white like a 1980s dog poo.

Yeah I’ve been using Squabbles but it’s a bit too nice. I need some cynicism to fuel my day.

My local city’s subreddit. Someone’s made one but no one is posting. It was the main way I found out what was going on.