Wrench Wizard

I live inside a firetruck

I think cars are cool, but I prefer fire trucks.

I think you’re onto something. U.S citizen here and I actually love driving stick but where I live it’s a few hour drive to anywhere which makes driving a manual seem like more of a hassle, whereas those long trips in an automatic feel leisurely and I’m more well rested when I arrive.

Couple that with manuals more commonly found in larger trucks around here. I work on vehicles, see many and can’t remember the last small car or truck that was manual. It’s all semi’s, dump trucks, dualies, you know? Big trucks which adds another barrier to people.

I feel like if there were smaller manuals in my area then perception would change. As it is they’re reserved for work, big work at that.

It’s sad to lose manuals in society but I’m seeing them less and less, everything seems to be going electric now, even companies known for diesel manuals.

It used to work at Apple tech support like a decade ago. I know bc I worked IT and our little program gave us a heads up about A: how long people had waited in cue and B: if they had cussed a.k.a were angry. When angry customers got to me there’d be a little angry emoji on the screen lol and those customers still tended to be cussing when I picked up. Anyway, I was always told that was how you skip cue and confirmed bc on days where the average wait time for a cx was say 20 minutes I’d get angry cussers that had only been in line for a few minutes. On the flip side I can confirm this doesn’t skip cue for Verizon (noticeably) as I’ve cussed that robot 10 times to no avail. Dmv doesn’t care either, but Apple once did.

Refer to your bio for being unduly rude

I miss when devices came with infrared transmitters… Also it had a mini sim & built-in Bluetooth/wifi at that time, wow.

What a coincidence I discovered the site around 2011 and it was the API changes that did it for me too. They’d already made the site terrible and the only thing that helped make it tolerable was Boost (for me) with that out the window and them basically extorting the devs I just couldn’t in good conscience keep using it.

I’m one. First found Reddit around 2011 iirc and yeah, the changes of the past 5-7 years took much of what brought me there in the first place away. The most recent API changes, killing the app that made me a daily user in the first place were just the cherry on top and what really crosses the line for me. Censor it all you want, hated that but what site isn’t censored to the brim nowadays? But take away my favorite apps and basically extort the developer? Nah.

Do love Firefox though, but opera is stiff competition right now and has features I can’t find on Firefox.

Stuff like the built in VPN, I don’t pay for one currently and Opera’s free built in one really helps.

Also it’s very friendly with syncing between devices.

Opera GX is actually badass too, it’s super fast and there are so many cool mods that allow me to add background music, key press noises, themes from my favorite shows etc. Reminds me of the old days of windows themes and I’d missed it the sound effects and key presses are actually very satisfying.

But they’re horrible with privacy which is sad bc I thought they used to be good.

Sad that Firefox can’t do just some of that bc with just a few additions it would easily be the best browser imo.

Exactly. Of all those I graduated with, the ones that became cops were all either meatheads or were bullied by the meatheads. The hall monitor type would also for sure make sense

Like the back of my head is my good side

I’ve always thought they wanted the power like cops or something

Wow not even super niche communities either beard advice and whoosh used to be “popping” as they say

Fuck the redshit board

Also I’ve stopped capitalizing the R and changed a d to an s bc I’m pretty and childish

It’s not much but hoping it catches on like the amber turd thing

It’s beautiful

Unironically yes. Of course when I was around that age I didn’t but now I really do. As far as maturity I don’t see a major difference between an 18 year old and 22 year old. So you attended school a few more years? Entered the workforce for a few years? That’s not maturity imo but maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I wouldn’t say child but definitely still in the teenager category imo although they’re not actually teens ofc