Had that experience at a festival in Germany. Walked from my tent to the stage and someone came up to me to ask "Hey, do you know where Rick is?". 40000 people at the festival, I had never seen that person in my life, but annoyingly, I did know who and where Rick was. He had walked past me just a couple of minutes earlier.

"The world thinks we are efficient and have no humor. In reality, our trains are a joke."

Basically they don't have the manpower to maintain a whole Chromium fork that still supports manifest v2. Even if they kept it in for a while, every upstream change might break things on their end.

It sucks and it's the main reason why I recently switched from Vivaldi to Floorp, at least on some of my machines. Vivaldi's ad blocker just isn't comparable to uBlock Origin.

"Oh no, I sold my CPUs to a small Japanese company called Nintendo. 183 million handheld consoles may not be quite your league but I'm happy."

The point is that you need to figure out which advice and criticism is useful. You shouldn't dismiss everything but you shouldn't accept everything either.

In my interpretation, this is not about "I know better than everyone else" but about "That person has hurt me so much in the past. Maybe I should not take their criticism to heart anymore."

Have you considered https://givin.gifts? They see themselves as the unofficial successor of redditgifts (they even let you import redditgifts gallery posts back when they were still online). They opened their Happy Holidays 2026 signups a couple of days ago and any premium user could also create a custom fediverse Secret Santa exchange.

I took part in every givin.gifts Happy Holidays exchange since redditgifts shut down and I'm happy with it. If there are any problems with your gifter, their team is really invested in smoothing things out and getting you a rematch if needed.

Absolutely. I haven't been told the final costs of the renovations yet but from what I've heard, they had to completely rip out everything from the room you can see in the background to get rid of the (lead-contaminated) soot.

Also, it was pure luck that everyone got out unharmed. I rent that place twice every year to spend a couple of days with friends who live all over Germany. One of them had all his stuff in the room behind the fire. The only reason he hadn't been in there when the battery exploded was that the night before he hadn't slept well on his air mattress and had moved to a couch upstairs. The room has a fire exit but depending on how fast he would have woken up, he might not have found it through the dense smoke.

Tell that to the person who wanted to be cheap and used a car battery.

Put it on a wooden shelf and let it sit. You certainly won't regret it.

This is the aftermath of a spicy car battery that was used as backup power for some emergency lights in a community center. Blew up in the early morning, burned the plastering from the wall and covered the whole basement in smoke and soot. Fortunately someone was there and heard the fire alarm, otherwise the whole building would have burned down.

Because the original SE is the smallest somewhat modern phone you can get.

The Post title is literally „nutty putty“

Yeah, no, knowing what that comic references, that’s not a price I‘m willing to pay for therapy.