[–] 2 points 5 hours ago

I'll say it's not that odd to me, as someone who used to work retail in a store environment that sold TVs in the US 75% of truck owners never use their truck for 'truck' purposes. Of the remaining 25% the majority still maybe do once a year typically as a favor for someone and not for personal use. Hardly anyone ever had something basic as bungee cords in their truck let alone ratchet straps when we would recommend keeping the TV upright and strapping it down. Literally after a while we just stopped even bothering to ask and we just broke company policy and would lay it down flat even though it risked it being damaged because we were tired of getting bad customer surveys about it when we would tell them if we lay it down and it is broken they can't return it.

Basically the vast vast vast majority of truck owners should it best just own an SUV (and don't get me started about how many don't understand how big their vehicle is when it comes to driving or parking; these days I drive a Ford t250 work truck for work and truck drivers continue to drive me insane)

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I don't know if it's still true but years ago basically the cost for the cup and straw for the business was greater than the cost of the drink itself.

    So if anything bringing my own container would save them a good chunk of the cost of a fountain drink.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I feel this one. Used to daily drive Linux but due to a work requirement had to switch to Windows several years back. Windows has been getting shittier and shittier and I no longer need to use Windows for work and it only just gets shittier so I just switched to CachyOS and love it. Except the one and only issue I haven't been able to fix is audio. I use a Bluetooth speaker on my computer and it cuts out randomly even using low bit rate audio streams. Tried switching pulseaudio to pipewire because the internet said I could increase the latency and that that would fix it but no dice.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Definitely second this recommendation, especially if they have otherwise been supportive of your transition. We had a member of our discord server who was openly trans relatively early on and had a very strict anti-bigotry policy and of course we're very accepting the lgbtq+ community. Because of this, we have a good chunk of regular members who come out relatively early during their transition. Because of this, particularly when playing fast paced games with them, I accidentally misgender them because their voice hasn't really changed yet to match their gender. I always tell them from the get-go and remind them from time to time that anytime I do so to please correct me and politely scold me because it's not something I do intentionally. It's just stupid monkey brain and that hopefully by correcting me I'll be able to reprogram monkey brain.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I will say as someone who lives in a cold climate, but that typically likes cooler warm air. It would be nice to sometimes be able to set how cold the air is coming out of the vents and not the temperature I want the cabin to be. But other than that, yeah I think my Honda Civic handles this pretty well as well

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