Was at a coffee shop last week and a guy next to me said I was pinching the screen by grabbing it from the corner. Turns out you're supposed to lift from the center. My hinge has been crooked since 2021. Anyone else find out they've been doing basic stuff wrong forever?
I used to browse dedicated game forums for a specific MMO around 2018 and there were these huge threads with years of strategy, lore debates, and even fan art. Now every community is scattered across a dozen Discord servers where the same questions get asked every day and good info just disappears into the scroll. Does anyone else miss when game communities actually archived their knowledge instead of drowning it in reaction emojis and memes?
The thing ran nonstop for 4 months and never dropped the humidity below 65%, so I finally got a proper one for $280 and it fixed everything in 3 days - anyone else waste money on cheap solution that just made things worse?
Been trying out a linear switch board for the last month after using clicky blues for years, and I think my typing speed actually dropped 15 wpm because I miss the tactile bump to know when a key registers.
I was over at my brother's place last weekend and his 14 year old son was watching me play Dark Souls on my PS3. He asked why I was staring at a 'please wait' screen for 45 seconds between deaths. I told him that's just how games were back then, you got coffee during loading. He pointed out that modern games load in 5 seconds on his Series S. It hit me that we normalized waiting as part of gaming when it's actually terrible design. Now I'm wondering how many other things I just accepted because everyone else did. Has anyone else had a younger person call out something you thought was normal?
I started a YouTube channel back in April just to document me fixing old Game Boys and Nintendo DS systems. Nothing fancy, just me soldering and swapping screens in my garage. Hit 500 subs last week. I know that sounds tiny compared to the big channels but I started with zero and my first 5 videos got like 12 views each. Then one video about fixing a scratched DS Lite hinge randomly took off. Now I've got people commenting asking for advice and I've even had a guy from Ohio mail me his broken GBA to fix. For a hobby I started just to have an excuse to buy a heat gun it feels huge. Has anyone else hit a random number like that and had it feel way bigger than you expected?
Found my original Game Boy Pocket in a box at my mom's house last month. The screen was dead, just a blank gray rectangle. Watched like 4 different YouTube tutorials and tried cleaning the ribbon cable with rubbing alcohol. After a week of frustration it finally flickered to life last Tuesday. Now I am playing Tetris on it during lunch breaks at work in Austin. Anyone else still messing with retro handhelds or am I just being stubborn about old tech?
Was sitting at a coffee shop in Austin last month, tried to log into my account, and the authenticator app just showed a blank screen. No code, no nothing. I had recovery codes saved in a Google Doc, but those had expired. Instagram's support is basically a bot that asks if you tried turning it off and on again. After 18 days of submitting ID photos and waiting, an actual human finally reset it. Still don't know what caused the glitch. Has anyone else had the recovery codes just stop working?
I turned off my Datacolor Spyder after getting tired of the dim screen, and my color grading freelance work actually got more consistent without it fighting my room's awful lighting. Has anyone else found their own eyes beat a tool when the room setup is bad?
I was dead set against remote work for years. Thought people just wanted to slack off in their pajamas. Then my office shut down for 3 weeks last March and I had no choice. After day 4 I realized I was getting more done without the 45 minute commute and random drop-ins. Been fully remote for 2 years now and my boss actually told me my ticket resolution rate went up 30 percent. Anyone else have a complete 180 on something they used to mock?
Back in 2019 I spent like $150 on a fancy mechanical keyboard with clicky switches because everyone said it would make me faster in shooters. But after a year I got tired of the noise and the way crumbs would get stuck under the keys. Now I just use a $20 Logitech membrane keyboard I grabbed at a thrift store in Phoenix. It's quieter and honestly my K/D ratio didn't change at all. Has anyone else ditched the hype gear for something simpler that just works?
Three years ago I had maybe 30 unplayed games in my Steam library and I would actually finish stuff. Now I'm sitting at 247 unplayed games after that Summer Sale last month and I find myself just scrolling the store instead of opening anything. I spent $80 on the Halo Master Chief Collection in 2020 and still haven't touched it because I keep buying newer stuff. Does anyone else feel like having too many choices ruins the whole point of gaming, or am I just bad at picking what to play?
I spent 20 minutes in the store trying Sony and Bose models, thought the XM5s were fine, then wore them on a 6AM bus ride through Denver last week. The low rumble of the engine and random chatter from passengers completely changed how they sounded compared to that fake store hum. Has anyone else had gear totally flip on them once you got it into a real situation instead of a demo?
I spent last season running 18 PSI on my dirt tracker because some older guys at the track in Tulare swore by it, but my lap times stayed mid-pack until I dropped it to 12 PSI on a whim. The bike hooked up way better in the corners and I shaved 2 seconds off my best time in one night. Has anyone else found that going against the old-timer advice actually worked out better?