:boost_requested: Anyone on here use "ring braces" for fingers?

Got sized for thumb and pinky but they're so expensive and I would love to try a cheap knockoff.

I am afraid to spend a bunch of money on some custom thing I've never seen.

I want to know that it fits well and actually helps at all before I spend a bunch of money on something made of titanium.

These are the brands the OT knew of, do you know another?

https://www.silverringsplint.com/
https://www.zebrasplints.com/

Today I learned that Office Space and The Office were not set in the same universe.

Wow, that firefox redesign makes no sense does it. Jesus.

Anyway, if you use LibreWolf it's a checkbox. Took ten minutes to get annoyed at how vertically illegible it was, find the setting, and be back to it was before.

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/10/02/librewolf-v157-turn-off-nova-design/

I dunno, sure would be nice to have a formal way to miss this shit, like archiving the old design and keeping it available. At least as long as the switch can be accomplished with a binary checkbox?

Just thought I saw a Tesla truck with gaudy blue wrap in the back of a parking lot. It was a dumpster. Just thought I would share.

RE: https://mefi.social/@ChurchHatesTucker/117328563444234150

See, this is how you do viral marketing on the fediverse.

jesus christ cloudflare fuck off into the sun, I'm not a fucking bot and your captchas are gaslighting me.

#DHL uses a *drop down menu* for month/year.

No, I don't mean a drop down for month, and a drop down for year. I mean this.

You cannot start typing the month because there's a random " / " between the month and year so you have to actually use the dropdown to find the correct expiry date.

Oh, I see, they wrote the #LabView installer *in LabView*.

No wonder it fails mysteriously 75% of the time, fixed by "trying again" with no change to the installer options.

Even when I download the offline installer to avoid their servers (I suppose also written in LabView) that are down 75% of the time.

It would be nice if when it "fails" on a package it didn't force me to start the entire damn installer over from square 1.

When it happens so often it's a bit rude to act like it's unusual.

@researchfairy it's bizarro-world, I think the last SNW episode was actually a star trek episode (!?!?!?!!)

Legitimate moral arguments with modest ambiguity? Caves that block comms? Kirk acting like the Kirk we actually know from the series?

Yes please.

I hope to hell that they mean normal machine learning...

I found an improved command for making brown #noise with #sox on #linux (often builtin).

play --rate 192k -b 24 -c 2 -v 70 -n synth brown

dual channel brown noise with 192kbps (lol) and 24 bit sound.

the dual channels are actually a pretty noticeable improvement, the bitrate and bit depth probably not so meaningful 😂

so much better than white noise to sleep to and maybe even better at covering traffic and talking sounds.

Just saw someone post a bias confirming headline about "data center fervor ignites ohio senate race" only to find that the source is...

an AI generated article. 😢

At least I'm not the only one.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1523172/terminal-is-not-opening-in-ubuntu-24-04

Oh good, it's a "why the fuck does Ubuntu's terminal not open even after rebooting" kind of night.

Never something I can predict. How the fuck do they break the gnome console.

Jesus christ, Duralast, why the fuck would you block visitors using an adblocker.

YOUR ENTIRE WEBSITE IS AN AD I AM INTENTIONALY LOOKING AT ALREADY.

https://duralastparts.com/

Fuck you assholes.

What dipshit blocks people from deciding what to buy from you because they don't allow you to also show them 3rd party ads.

Nothing personal, but I'm not going to approve a follow request if you have no posts.

Does Windows have any kind of version control?

Save As overwriting a file on a Windows computer doesn't put the overwritten version into the Recycle Bin. I accidentally saved outdated versions of files over their current versions and have no way I can find to revert that. So many hours of work.

If I had straight up deleted the old files I'd be able to recover. But since I saved over them I'm SOL.

Does anyone have some solution to this particular kind of fat fingers?

Sometimes I think about how when I was 20 years old and in college, I *always* walked around without a phone or watch and it was fine.

Are people not aware that comics and memes with a sepia background are AI generated?

I see way more of them on the fedi than I expect, but maybe my assumption is wrong. I was taught it's the most obvious tell.

@researchfairy

B'kdel Test

1) At least two named Klingons, 2) who talk to each other, 3) about something other than honor.

(sorry couldn't find attribution)

#startrek