@tannat @liquor_american Yeah, odds are that’ll be something important 😅

I've never spent more than $30 for a pair of wireless earbuds and this article makes me feel not terrible about it https://www.androidauthority.com/earbuds-recurring-cost-3318424/

Also, though I've never tried a more expensive pair, apparently the sound tends to be not dramatically different for 10x the cost? https://www.androidauthority.com/cheap-earbuds-vs-expensive-earbuds-3299108/

The funny part is that my oldest, still working pair cost $15, is about 3 1/2 years old, and thoroughly abused.

(Well, not really a pair anymore, since I lost the right bud down an airport toilet. But left side's good enough for podcasts)

@abs0 That could be where I'm weird. I don't really use earbuds for calls.

Usually I'm at my desk with a headset or a Jabra speakerphone. Otherwise, I just use the phone's mic & speaker

@TheDarkHorse @randomgeek Ooof, I moved to PDX from Detroit and dang there are a lot more allergy sources here 😓 This bottle of flonase has been a fixture on my desk for the past few months

@randomgeek @edebill @TheDarkHorse Congenial spider relationships reminds me of a summer when I was a pre-teen:

Wasps burrowed or found their way into my room through the window frames. Got stung in bed at least once.

But, within a week, spiders had set up camp at all the entry points and started a tidy business of dismantling every wasp that wriggled in.

Kinda brutal until the holes got caulked up, but I've had a peace treaty with spiders ever since

Trying to remember the name of this sci-fi story that I seem to recall reading in the late 80s or early 90s: had something to do with this scientist who bumped himself out of alignment with his original universe.

Things kept changing. Like color of his car, then model of his car, then he rode a motorcycle. He knew something was wrong but didn’t notice the changes like the reader could. Somehow he changed just enough along the way to not remember.

I want to say eventually the atmosphere became toxic and that was the end of him. Neat story, albeit with a bad ending

What i do remember about the story, though was it felt like horror to me as a reader. Like at first, I felt in the dark about what was going on, until the changes got entirely obvious. But then, it was obvious that the main character wasn’t figuring it out and I couldn’t help them. Kind of a gimmick, but it worked on a pre-teen me.

Pretty soon, Legend of Zelda will have DIY mecha https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRKqnohp/

@craigmaloney You can build some neat stuff in the sequel, I hear