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Io Sapsai 🌱

@ IoSapsai @lemm.ee

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  • [FO] The printed kit I got from a Babushka in Sofia.

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  • Thank you, that's so kind! I admit, I mostly enjoyed working on it. I know I complained a lot about certain things but it was a fun project!

  • How to say the number 92

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  • Only 21-99, after that you say the hundred (thousand, million, etc.) first.

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  • That sparkly quartz kitchen top? Yeah...crushed quartz and glitter to make it sparkle. As I said, it's everywhere.

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  • Seeing the comments here and people don't even realise how widespread glitter is. It's in everything and used in a variety of industries. From pharmaceuticals to construction, to transport, vehicles, military... in fact the one of the biggest consumers of glitter is kept secret so who knows, could be the military. It won't surprise me. We really need to find an alternative.

  • Youtube videos with English titles but foreign language content, especially from Indian content creators

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  • While I agree, I live in an area where the tech I can afford is similar to what seems popular in India and SEA. I'm a visual learner and often times I end up on that part of YouTube when I need to repair something, and the best I've got is an Indonesian dude breathing solder fumes in the backyard of his makeshift shed at night. And you know what?

    That was the most useful repair video I found and it helped a lot. And I found it because the title was in English.

  • Another WIP Wednesday has been thrust upon us!

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  • Oof I missed to post last week's thread and almost forgot this week's. You beat me by two hours! We're planning a short vacation and it turned out more stressful than I expected. Also work is draining me... I really need that vacation! Anyway I'm mostly done with the cat.

    I have some more work to do on that boooooring blue da bi Dee da ba da book, as well as the porcelain throne. I gave myself some... creative liberties with the TP as metallic grey isn't the best paper colour. Once I'm done with that, I'll do the backstitch. I admit, I don't like working on this as much as I thought. The solid block really made it a grind.

    The greenhouse of oddities is on hold until I finish this. I kind of want to get back at it but if I do I'll end up leaving this on hold indefinitely...

  • My phone is slow and I think it's by Google's design. Is there anything I can do about it?

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  • Sadly best I have are posts by people claiming to have worked for HMD Global, talking about planned obsolescence by slowing down the phones intentionally. While I'm not really sure Google is doing it too, the experiments with old wiped android devices seem to point that way.

  • My phone is slow and I think it's by Google's design. Is there anything I can do about it?

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  • I'll try that. Thanks! Already bricked another broken Nokia by not making a recovery when it wasn't even supported 🙃

  • My phone is slow and I think it's by Google's design. Is there anything I can do about it?

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  • That happened after a wipe of the device. It can't be the app.

  • Saint Olga of Kiev, who killed her husband's killer and slaughtered an entire empire as revenge fir her husband's death.

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  • Is that how people from there prefer it spelled?

    Yes, especially after certain events that happened in early 2022. Some people don't care but using the Russian spelling might get others offended. Of course I'm not exactly an authority on that, I'm like 1/4th Ukrainian who never set foot there.

  • Don't mind me, just admiring my own backside

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  • That's also a front!

  • Don't mind me, just admiring my own backside

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  • That's a front 🙃

  • And they'll likely only read parts of it

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  • Terry Pratchett comes to mind with the Colour of Magic Discworld book. He describes it as "a bunch of essays" but it all reads like D&D sessions transformed into short stories. You even have

    gods playing dice and rolling for the fate of the characters.

    He gave up playing after a while, unhappy with the game becoming more complicated with further editions though.

  • What type of lie do you tell most often?

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  • "Good morning". Nothing good in me having to wake up at 5:30 and dealing with nincompoops actively trying to poison themselves and their children with Tylenol or whatever.

  • The United States has Florida and "Florida Man". What state/province/region has your country's version of Florida Man (stereotypically home to crazy people)?

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  • Bulgaria has Pernik. A declining polluted mining town near Sofia which is infamous for people wearing (counterfeit) Adidas tracksuits, driving VW Golf, and settling their scores with long pieces of metal. Think Russian gopniks.

  • What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?

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  • That's true as well but you can't store drugs at 35°C. Good ventilation and regular disinfection takes care of the germs.

  • What's the coolest thing you've found in a thrift store?

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    • PS2 with a barely working optical drive. Easily fixed by adding a cannibalised HDD from a broken laptop.

    • last week I found a solar powered water fountain pump that we used for a bird bath.

    • Metal tapestry needles to finish my crochet projects

    • A really nice LED lamp that I use for cross stitch and crochet at night.

    • A couple of crochet kits with missing hooks, one of them is missing the buttons too. I have yet to start those.

    • Garden chairs!

    A lot more things but these are what I was excited about the most.

  • What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?

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  • I thought that if enough time passed old photos would turn black and white like how they were b&w in the 80s and turned colour in the 90s.

  • What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?

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  • If you were cold then you would catch a cold.

    There is a startling amount of people here (most people I know) that believe this. I work in healthcare and we constantly have arguments about the AC in summer for that exact reason. Yeah cold weather can make it easier to catch a cold but it's interesting to see how many people believe that you need to get warm to avoid catching a cold.

    Carrots will allow me to see in the dark if I eat enough of them.

    Partially true. If you're vitamin A deficient, your night vision worsens and carrots can help with that. But you won't get Minecraft night vision