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AsklemmyI once pirated a book because I didn't want to get it from another room.
I put clothes on hangers and hung them in the doorway between the kitchen and the rest of the house to take with me when I eventually head in that direction. I left the clothes there for over a week while I had to twist to get around them, and only took them to my room to put away when I did laundry the next week...and ran out of space to hang the clean shirts.
I have remoted in to my desktop from my laptop or vice versa many times to close a video that either I left playing or the cats have unpaused by walking on the keyboard
I got on Fediverse bc I was too lazy to consume what the algorithm fed me
Called someone in the next room to bring me something.
Adhd?
yo pass me some adhd
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Instead of history | grep whatever
You can just do CTRL+R (in bash at least)
I never remember this when it'd actually be useful
when my apartment gets too messy i just move
I don't wash stains on walls from dogs or kids. I just paint every few years
maybe we're related
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I SSHed my laptop to turn it off, even though my laptop is not that far away from my bed
I WoL my second computer to turn it on, even though it's at an arm's reach (but I'd have to stretch a bit to reach it)
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I did the same. I wanted to watch a TV series of which I own the box set but I was too lazy to get the box, put the disc in and go through the menu for every three episodes or so. So I pirated it.
go through the menu for every three episodes
So many providers these days STILL don't get that the more control you take away the less incentive people have to buy their product. Oh I have to see a mandatory FBI piracy warning splash screen and the speed control is locked at 1.5x max? Jeez it's a shame you can't compete with the pirated file that has no nag screens and I can blow through at fucking 20x if I want.
I dunno if laziest but my landlord certainly thought so. I had bedbugs and there's so much crap you have to do prep for the extermination like remove all your clothes and wash them three times on hot, flip through all your books to check for them, the list was ridiculous. I'm way too lazy for that so I paid the extra $600 out of pocket for the "good" treatment where they just super heat your entire home to kill them and all you have to do is remove things that might melt or explode.
Thankfully the exterminators found the illegal fireworks I had hidden and forgotten about, removed them, and didn't say anything to the landlord.
The heat treatment was the only thing that worked when I had to deal with those little fuckers. I'm sorry you had to deal with them, but I'm glad they're gone now. Those things aren't just physically irritating, they fuck with your head.
Illegal fireworks? is that code for explosives?
I did a quick check and looks like there are two categories of fireworks above what regular people can freely buy in a store...
https://eclatsetincelants.fr/blog/reglementation-feux-artifice-france
Fireworks are explosives by definition so yes
Pretty much everything is illegal here except maybe like sparklers and snakes. I only had pretty tame stuff like Roman candles I bought a county over from mine. Lotta wildfires here.
Depending on location they can all be illegal. Firecrackers specifically are illegal in my region, IIRC.
I buy new socks instead of washing them.
Pro tip: If you buy tons of the same type of socks such as 20 pairs of black you can wash and dry them and they pair easily. It's less effort than going to buy new ones.
This is exactly what I do. I have like 30 identical pairs of socks. They just get dumped in a pile in my sock drawer, and I grab two off the top of the pile every day.
I do this, except for the part where they're all identical.
Gosh I've been trying to force myself to do that for like 5 years already. I'm just too lazy to spend some time and choose a good fit (instead of just buying random socks every once in a while). What brand and type of socks would you recommend??
Dickies Dri-Tech in whatever length you need. They’re my go-to because I wear safety boots for work. They’re way more padded than typical socks, and they’re extremely durable.
I legitimately think my boyfriend does this. That man has more socks than any person needs.
But you should always wash clothes before wearing them for the first time???
(Seriously though, they have all kinds of dirt and chemicals on them)
Black socks
they never get dirty
The longer you wear them
The blacker they get
Someday, I'll probably launder them
Something keeps telling me don't do it yet
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I remember when my grandfather died, we were going through his belongings and found a drawer full of electric razors. Why did he have so many?!? Then we noticed every one was full of hair, and concluded that he bought a new one every time it filled up rather than emptying it.
Then years later, my parents became snowbirds who went to Mexico every winter, and they stayed with this other family who were locals. They got good at Spanish and one day I guess, my dad was talking to the other dad and they burst out laughing. I asked what that was all about, and he said the Mexican dad's father also had a drawer full of electric razors, and he never understood why?
Are they really cheap socks, at least?
yea they are
Back in my teenage years, when you used to change TV channel by walking over to the TV and physically pressing a button, myself and two friends (likely all a bit stoned), sat on a sofa opposite the TV, invented a ~3 metre long "TV prodding device" from gaffer tape and "anything we could find within arm's reach".
I think we spent about half an hour building this device, rather than any of us standing up, taking a few steps forward and physically pressing the button.
The device succeeded.
It fell apart after a few uses.
A fing-longerer
I once pirated a book because I didn’t want to get it from another room.
I pirated a game I legit bought. This was way back in the days when some games had this annoying copy protection where you had to look up words from the manual before you could play. Enter the 3rd word on line 7 of page 28. This sort of thing.
It got old really fast, so I disassembled the binary and saw where it was calling on a random number generator to select the page. I changed just 1 assembly instruction so that the generator would always return 0. Then it said look up so-and-so and the word turned out to be "time". After that, all I had to do was enter "time" at launch and I tossed out the manual.
I pirated a game I legit bought.
I would argue that this is not possible.
It definitely is, and I've done it several times.
One example is Minecraft, which I legit bought but no longer legitimately own, because when Microsoft took over they forced people to make Microsoft accounts and no longer allow Mojang accounts to be used to authenticate. Because I didn't make a Microsoft account, I no longer own the game, so now I play a pirated copy because I can no longer legitimately play it.
Another example is some games made by studios that went bust and there's no longer any legit distributor of the game, so the only copy you can download is a pirated copy.
It's still piracy if it circumvents the intended method of distribution and validation that you own a licence.
You can disassemble programs like that? and see what's inside? can you explain like I'm four and three quarters?
Yes. Assembly is barely abstracted from the actual machine instructions, to the point where the process of translating it is easily reversible. Reading assembly code is a thing all on it's own, though.
There's specialised software available for this kind of reverse-engineering now, too, if you're doing something more complicated than just looking for and cutting out a system call.
Yeah. At the lowest level, the CPU reads a program as a bunch of numbers, where each number is a very simple instruction such as "add 2 values together". Assembly language is a more human-readable version of machine code, where you can see something more like add r1,r2 instead of 35397176 or whatever numeric code means "add the value in register 1 to 2" for some hypothetical processor. (Registers are where the processor keeps values loaded in from the RAM.)
So in my case, if I saw that the program was making some system call to the random number generator and the calling conventions used by the operating system always put the return value in register 0, I could replace the call with something like clr r0 (clear the value in register 0). It's a pretty simple hack. So the "generator" now always generates zero.
These days, programs are often code-signed and if you start messing around like that, they'll get flagged as malware. But it worked fine back in those open and trusting days.
That's a lot of work in the short term to be lazy in the long, and I am impressed
I once threw away sink full of dirty dishes rather than hand wash them. They had been there for like two weeks and were really nasty. I think that was at the height of my depression.
Depression is expensive. I lost a couple crock pots that way. Finally found disposable liners!
Been there as well
And I tried to save a pan, but the fat and dust would never get of it, and I needed to throw it away anyway...
That's why I like stainless steel cookware. If there's a tough mess stuck to them, I just switch from my usual sponge to the stainless steel scouring pad and wear it back down to the metal.
Can do similar with cast iron, but it can turn into more work if you need to reseason it.
Fr so liberating
I made an script in Python to batch rename like 10 images in a folder.
What's the point of automation if not to save seconds by wasting hours?
This immediately came to mind
That's valid
Your mom. Sorry if this had been mentioned already, it's a long line.
Can I take a number? I'm in line for their dad already.
Using a state of the art local LLM and an agent to ask it to find all files with a certain extension, because I always forget how to use the find command on linux and I can't be bothered to read it.
How are you getting a local LLM to read files for you?
Take a look at pi.dev (or similar tools)
I did that kind of thing once, had Qwen-3.5-122B as a fancy find-and-replace because I couldn't be arsed to write a find and pipe it to sed
ls *.txt?
No that would be just in the current folder, I needed to search recursively
find -name "*.txt"
Iirc. Though it might want a regular expression instead of a wildcard.
That would work for a single directory.
Most file managers have a global search.
ls -R *.txt?
I got a pair of slippers with brushes on for when you clean the floor, I put it on a remote controlled car so I didn't have to get off the couch.
That's great though, because it makes cleaning the floor fun. You get to drive a remote controlled car instead of just mopping or whatever.
That's genius
That's not lazy, that's brilliant
Ordered delivery from across the street because it was raining and I didn't want to…
A friend of mine at least once ordered delivery from the Mexican place that was directly below her apartment. She said the delivery guy was a little confused. She had a lot of depression at the time.
I once had a cheap German everything fast food restaurant downstairs. I went there so often to eat in because I didn't want to cook and clean.
I did that with a pizzeria that was in my building.
Instructions for delivery : Go upstairs.
I wasn't depressed or anything it was more a little bit of a joke to the delivery man.
We rented an apartment for 5 months after listing our house for sale because we didn’t want to have to clean it and leave the house fora few hours every time someone wanted to come do a viewing.
In our defense… we had a 3yr old, a hairy dog, and were preparing to leave the country permanently, which took 10 months of nonstop preparation on top of working full time, so I still think it was worth the money to save us the extra work. But yeah, probably the laziest thing I’ve done.
I'm pretty sure that's what I'll have to do as I can clean but I have trouble maintaining. Plus I have too much stuff for the space I have, so I'll need a place for my stuff anyways.
That's not lazy, that's just good planning. The last thing you need before a massive move like that is more stress.
I totally understand this move, we did something similar to avoid having to pack up our cats every time someone wanted to see the house.
Checked my phone to get the current weather. The alternative was walking a meter and opening the curtains. But then I had to get up.
The curtains won't tell you the high for the day
I've found alternate means of watching a show because I couldn't be assed to open my authenticator app more than once.
An authenticator app is required for media streaming app!?
TBF, I'm getting a bit fed up with these logins that require 2 factor text or email.
I put off procrastinating.
Pissed out of a window rather than walk ten feet to the bathroom.
In fairness, I had the flu, and was a teenager. Feeling like hammered vulture shit, with a window right there and open anyway? No way was I getting out of bed. The window was just barely above the top of the mattress, so all I had to do was roll over, kinda prop up, and let 'er rip.
Surprisingly, not only did it not go horribly wrong, but the little forethought I had with a fever that high managed to prevent any drips from being a problem. Well, a problem then. Still had to wash the towel later, and that left me without a clean towel for fever sweats, but I had bandanas I could use for that.
Look, I was creeping into dangerous fever levels lol. Not the best set of decisions, but it worried out in the end
Where was the pee falling to? Any neighbor that could have seen?
In hindsight, you could've used a bandana for the drips
I literally spit coffee reading this lol
I didn’t read a book because it was in the other room.
I'm too lazy to keep track of all the lazy shit I do
I have no way to gauge it
I was watching "In Bruges" on TV, and couldn't understand the version of English they spoke, so I downloaded it with subtitles and watched that.
That's not too bad. Back in the days when Nintendo Switch came out, I heard that rich people bought digital version of games because they were too lazy to get up from the couch and walk to the docked console to switch cartridges.
