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@carolannie @landley @gvwilson Explain.
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@mhoye I can't use jar wrenches due to arthritis, so I learned to use the flat head of a screw driver by inserting it in a lid and prying. People sometimes use knife tips, but screw driver doesn't bend or break as easily
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@londondreamtime@mastodonapp.uk @mhoye@cosocial.ca downside: alarm
@amy @londondreamtime @mhoye have the phone on the nightstand as an alarm, but in flight mode.
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I threw this up on Metafilter too, but why not here? Lazyweb, a question:
On a whim, I've added zipper pulls to a bunch of my clothes and coats. It's such a small, inexpensive thing but it's an improvement I notice dozens of times a day, especially wearing winter gloves.
So I'm thinking about aggregating marginal gains now, and wondering what other options like this I have. What is the _smallest_ thing - in terms of size, cost, effort, whatever - that has made your life better in some way?
I keep my jewelry in a big screw drawer chest I got at Harbor Freight. Not only is it cheaper than a jewelry box, but it holds more, keeps my necklaces from getting tangled, and makes it easier to find things.
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@mhoye
1. A daily pill case, which sounds stupid because they're already so ubiquitous, but I tried for years to make a pill reminder app on my phone be a thing, and there's no contest. Spend $4 on the daily pill container. Do not try to use technology.2. The BIG eyeglasses cleaning cloths. The tiny ones they give you at the optometrist suck. Get the dinner-plate sized ones and never accidentally touch your lenses ever again.
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Some of my answers to this include:
- A canning funnel. Cheap, and spill-free pouring stuff into containers is a lot easier.
- Oil all the hinges in the house.
- Get a slow-settling toilet seat, so it never slams down.
@mhoye I want to endorse the toilet seat 100%; but I can only endorse it 95%, because after you get them in your living space, you forget that people you're visiting don't have them, and now you're at ground-0 for a slamming seat/lid 😝
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Oh, another one: a jar of binder clips in the kitchen. Don’t bother with ties or big “chip clips” or whatever, just fold the bag over and put the clip on it, cheap and easy.
I use wooden clothespins for that.
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I threw this up on Metafilter too, but why not here? Lazyweb, a question:
On a whim, I've added zipper pulls to a bunch of my clothes and coats. It's such a small, inexpensive thing but it's an improvement I notice dozens of times a day, especially wearing winter gloves.
So I'm thinking about aggregating marginal gains now, and wondering what other options like this I have. What is the _smallest_ thing - in terms of size, cost, effort, whatever - that has made your life better in some way?
I use toilet paper rolls to hold the power cords of small appliances like hairdryers, irons.
Fold the cord in half, in half again, maybe once more, then stuff it into the roll. Much neater and more compact than leaving it out.
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@mhoye eating some food with a spoon, an I'm not talking about soups, but more like stews and small pasta. If it's already bite sized, spoon.
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@slothrop Ah, this is a strong entry. Affordable, too.
@mhoye @slothrop They're also good for stopping most gnat and other small bugs in eye incidents. Ask me how I know!
(I even had a pair with me, I skipped wearing them for reasons and bang, right as I was biking up a semi-busy street. These days glasses instead of contacts make the issue moot at the cost of other issues.)
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@mathewi or a marketing stint
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@mray Encryption is being explored by a FEP
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Ma #TeleMonteCarlo e i suoi #giochi interattivi in #TV ?
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@katzenberger Fair enough, I'm not arguing against that. It's just that encryption isn't easy and will take a long time. I'm using this as a 'research foil' to understand why people use Signal vs encrypted Mastodon PMs.
I totally get that people just want safety baked into everything, I'm not against that in any way. But it is very hard to do well.
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@scottjenson Don't really need encryption just for the DM edge-case. I only need to know where/for who exactly my message will pop up automatically, though.
Suggesting "encryption" exists in mastodon, how can one make sure it is interoperable with ActivityPub AND nobody gets it wrong and falsely assumes encryption is omnipresent, when it is absolutely not.
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@mapache Yes, I know! ;-) I'm not saying no I'm exploring when (as encryption will take longer than UX improvements
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@scottjenson My take (which seems to fly in the face of the zeitgeist) is that Mastodon is not meant foremost as a private messaging app. It is at its core, an *open, social* microposting platform. There are apps that are radically better suited for private and safe comms, and I am a huge proponent of letting things be true to themselves. When you try to shoehorn stuff into a system not intended to do that stuff, it ends poorly.
So, sure, DMs out of the timeline, but no Signal-like hardening.
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@scottjenson I think, given today's climate, encryption should be a priority over UX changes. My thought is not whether microblogging DMs should be encrypted or not, but simply if *any* kind of messaging exists that is not public, on any service, it should be encrypted. It's the sad world we live in now where services can't be trusted. Non-public messaging that isn't encrypted shouldn't exist. Should microblogging services be Signal? Not at all. But DMs already exist, so now it has to be dealt with. Simply telling users "it's not for private discussions" isn't enough.
