Robin Williams for me, too. I’ve often used comedy as a coping mechanism for depression, so I always looked up to comedians who spoke openly about their mental struggles. His death hit me really hard, because I thought to myself “if he - with his wealth and fame and success and adoration and near-infinite support system - couldn’t make it, then what hope do I have with none of that?” That news really made me spiral for a bit.

I later learned about the Lewy body dementia diagnosis, and that definitely changed things for me.

Kinda echoing other comments in here, to say that lengthy segments where the author is describing the appearance of something can be rather annoying to me. I can’t see it. No matter how many flowery words you use, I can’t see it. I know what it is that you’re describing, I already got a good-enough understanding with the first few sentences. But I can’t see it. Please, please just move on to the actual story.

I really wanted to get into Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. I made it to the point in the first book where two characters spend an extended amount of time in a pitch black tunnel. Oh. My. Fucking. God. I can only take so many pages of “Boy it sure is dark in here” before I lose my patience. I’ve started that book at least 5 times, and could never manage to make it past that section because it’s just so infuriating to read. It’s almost like the book is mocking me, as if to say “Hah hah, get a load of this goober, can’t even see the darkness!”

I don’t blame authors for this, though. It’s not their responsibility to cater their art to my neurodivergence. It’s just a minor frustration I’ve learned to live with. But it’s also part of the reason why I don’t read much for leisure. I think this is why I’m generally more tolerant of films that aren’t as good as the books they’re adapted from, because the alternative is that I’ll likely otherwise never experience the story at all, so I’ll take what I can get.

They’ve been adding AI chatbot integrations into the browser lately.

If it could be prepared in a way that didn’t directly remind me of the animal they came from, definitely. There’s a reason they make chicken nuggets look like anything but a chicken.

All life forms are just goo in shells.

Unless you wrote it yourself, never assume that an app won’t inevitably enshittify itself. People thought that about Firefox, too.

For those who can’t easily see the full URL in their Lemmy client:

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/baby-woman-sentenced-brutal-killing-friends-nonverbal-toddler-autism-spectrum-disorder-autistic-child-iesha-harris-detroit-michigan-killed-harmoni-henderson-babysitting-babysitter-murder-murdered-abuse-guilty-plea-drugs-weed-smoking-cincinnati

Seems like a rather archaic SEO technique.

How do you?

“Phobia” doesn’t mean “fear”, necessarily. Fear can absolutely be a factor of a phobia, but not a requirement. Technically, “phobia” just means “aversion to”. For instance, hydrophobic materials aren’t “afraid” of water, they just don’t interact with it.

That said, when it comes to homophobes, fear is definitely a common factor. Misinformation about human sexuality leads to people being afraid of being “converted”. But there are plenty of homophobes who aren’t as much afraid, as much as they are just plain hateful.

But if a movie bombs, that’s a bad thing.

Reminds me of a certain somebody who got really into stimulants back in the 30s.

They’re attracted to the heat your devices put off. If possible, keep them powered off when not in use, instead of in sleep/rest modes as those can still keep some systems running warm enough to be inviting to pests. Keeping things elevated also helps, so if your PC sits on the floor, you should consider clearing some space on your desk, instead.

If possible, nothing that’s plugged into a wall should rest on your floors. Elevate everything you can; your computers, your TV, your game consoles, your router, the brick for your laptop charger… Keep it all on a desk or shelf or something, if possible. If you have the resources, use an IR camera to scout for hotspots on your floors, as a lot of devices will put off more heat than you may assume.

I find only fans to be quite hot, actually.

I want an emergency shutdown of Musk.

No, but it can make them hateful and alter their grasp on reality.

Chances are that you don’t actually have their name; that’s likely the name of another victim. Your credit card was never the hacker’s goal; that other person’s ID is.

Stolen credit cards are effectively worthless on their own. Your card is just a disposable tool for them to validate the ID with, and to see if it passes basic security checks like buying an airline ticket. If they are able to get through the purchase without being flagged, they know they’ve got a high-value ID to work with. They already know that the credit card is burned the instant they make a purchase with it, so they’re likely not poking around further into your financials.

That said, any personal details of yours that they managed to capture in this breach, may also be used to try to steal your ID down the road, so start locking down any details that were ever given to that breached site.

I think they mean “Ken ‘Indicted for state securities fraud’ Paxton”.

Now?

Yup! One of them had a backlight issue, where the bottom third of the screen was dim. The other one had a speaker go out. Last time I buy Insignia.

Honestly, Best Buy’s service plans are slept on. I had to use them for a couple TVs that both started failing a few months after the manufacturer warranty ended. Ended up getting a free upgrade on both units because they stopped making that particular model (I wonder why) so they replaced both TVs with a slightly bigger display.