Random thoughts

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

A Rams Super Bowl baby named "Champ"??? Well guess this also means he's going to get the kid fixed.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Can Android make a screen-freeze feature allowing you to hand your phone to someone else to look at a photo without it going bonkers? Can they?

It happens all the time. Someone will hand me their phone, "check out this picture that popped up in my feed"
I accidentally brush the screen with a finger and the picture is gone. Then they spend five minutes scrolling and scrolling trying to get it back.

Screen freeze will save the world!

Along the same lines, if you BRUSH either of the analog sticks on a PS4 while playing a movie it immediately starts fast forwarding or rewinding the movie as fast as possible. It's like the fucking thing has a dedicated chip for it. I'm going to get a different movie player simply because of that terrible, awful feature.

[Jizaboz]

Can Android make a screen-freeze feature allowing you to hand your phone to someone else to look at a photo without it going bonkers? Can they?

It happens all the time. Someone will hand me their phone, "check out this picture that popped up in my feed"
I accidentally brush the screen with a finger and the picture is gone. Then they spend five minutes scrolling and scrolling trying to get it back.

Screen freeze will save the world!

Along the same lines, if you BRUSH either of the analog sticks on a PS4 while playing a movie it immediately starts fast forwarding or rewinding the movie as fast as possible. It's like the fucking thing has a dedicated chip for it. I'm going to get a different movie player simply because of that terrible, awful feature.

Bro let me tell you about the time I set down my controller to hit a cigarette (back when I smoked) and that sensitive shit triggered my Dark Souls character to hit the main blacksmith NPC, therefore pissing him off and forcing me to fight him before removing him from that game

[AArdvark]

I turned off the compass and temperature display in my car. It's mostly useless information that is unnecessary

[Casual Observer]

I turned off the compass and temperature display in my car. It's mostly useless information that is unnecessary

Have you already disabled the seat belt nagging bell? That's the first thing my dad always did with a car.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

The compass! Unnecessary! Shocking! I can't say I am constantly looking there, but I have no understanding of how anyone can sense a direction. Like, none.

[AArdvark]

Re: seat belt reminder. As soon as the car was paid off those wires under the seat got cut.

Compass...there's gps when traveling someplace new. We all have a built in compass in our heads, it's just a matter of using it instead of relying on tech. Checking direction is as easy as looking at the sun. Besides, when do I go somewhere new? Superfluous information is just brain-clutter.

[Flack]

I moved halfway across the country in 1996 and I am still amazed that I survived in a new town for two years without a GPS. I remember having a real fear of getting lost and not being able to find my way back to my apartment. There was a real sense of adventure in setting out and finding new restaurants and stores by simply driving around. A few of mine moved into a new house five years ago and I still have to use my phone's GPS to find his neighborhood. I do feel like thought technology, I've lost something.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I was printing out maps constantly and writing directions down and nothing ever "stuck" - all hail GPS! The gas savings alone has kept the planet cooler!

[AArdvark]

I don't go anywhere that I need a compass. We use the other car for trips and stuff. One of the things I've been working on is limiting the amount of useless information that is being funneled into my brain. Having the outside temperature and direction of travel constantly in my rear view mirror is unnecessary. It's a small thing, I know, but small steps are steps.
I got to wondering about the last time there was a really great thinker. Stephen Hawking, perhaps? I believe one of the reasons there arent any really great thinkers is because the sheer volume of daily garbage we all consume in our heads. Limiting that garbage will make me a better person

[odyssia76]

Re: seat belt reminder. As soon as the car was paid off those wires under the seat got cut.

Why disable a system designed to help you do something that saves your life?

[AArdvark]

I will always wear a seatbelt in the car. I fasten my seatbelt before I start the engine in most cases. I do not want or need the car to remind me. I am a grown up person and everything and can think for myself. The reminder chimes are for people that dont like wearing seatbelts and are designed to nag at them to be safe.

[Tdarcos]

One reason for leaving the warning on is in case you don't completely lock the seat belt, or the buckle has failed, meaning you're in a sitting time bomb, and if anything happens, you're endangered by the illusion of safety. So just put the damn thing on before you even insert the key (or use the transponder), and don't remove it until after you remove the key (or press the 'engine stop' button).

In roughly 25 years of driving, I can probably count the number of times I drove without a seat belt on one hand, and whenever I did, it was always for one reason. Not laziness, not forgetfulness, but because I was too fat to get the seatbelt on. In which case, I would very carefully drive to the nearest dealer for that car to pick up a pair of seat belt extenders. You just ask for them at the dealer; if they don't have them in stock, they'll order them. The price is very reasonable, at only $0.00 each. Yes, they give them away.

[AArdvark]

I'll never be a sitting time bomb, I promise

[AArdvark]

24 hours without power makes one realize what a lousy caveman I would be.

THE
EXTINCT
AARDVARK

[pinback]

How could you do a "24-Hour No Power" challenge, but without having everything actually be broken? What would be the rules?

You can't use any of your phones, computers, or lights, you can't eat anything out of the fridge or cook anything without building a fire. What are the rules for the 24-Hour-No-Power challenge?

[AArdvark]

It would be like 'Survivor' only without cameras and challenges and shit. That ordeal thing they do in the boy scouts, like that

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

One reason for leaving the warning on is in case you don't completely lock the seat belt, or the buckle has failed, meaning you're in a sitting time bomb, and if anything happens, you're endangered by the illusion of safety. So just put the damn thing on before you even insert the key (or use the transponder), and don't remove it until after you remove the key (or press the 'engine stop' button).

In roughly 25 years of driving, I can probably count the number of times I drove without a seat belt on one hand, and whenever I did, it was always for one reason. Not laziness, not forgetfulness, but because I was too fat to get the seatbelt on. In which case, I would very carefully drive to the nearest dealer for that car to pick up a pair of seat belt extenders. You just ask for them at the dealer; if they don't have them in stock, they'll order them. The price is very reasonable, at only $0.00 each. Yes, they give them away.

Seatbelts are pretty much all magnetic-locked these days.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

It would be like 'Survivor' only without cameras and challenges and shit. That ordeal thing they do in the boy scouts, like that

I can do no internet, I can do no computer, but it gets very difficult when it's no internet AND no computer.

[Jizaboz]

I actually enjoy random internet and power blackouts.. gives me an excuse (or forces me) to do something else. Though last year when I lost power for a couple of days in an icestorm my GF couldn't take the cold and we got a hotel room in town for the 2nd night. That kinda sucked. Cost over 80 bucks and I spent more time watching TV than sleeping. But, at least we were clean and warm for the night and morning. Why is It yr almost always due for a shower when the power goes out in the winter?