Think like if you stuck a Q-Tip in your ear, but the tip is more like a miniature toothbrush. Then twist it for a bit.

That’s the best way I can describe it, very unpleasant and painful.

I just spent a good hot minute or 10 looking for advice I posted months ago for you, and anyone else for that matter…

https://lemmy.world/post/8391598

I had this happen to me a long time ago. I woke up hearing the thing scratching/chewing at my eardrum, and it’s extremely painful.

Cockroaches cannot walk backwards, so when in a confined space like that, they’ll naturally try to chew their way forward.

Advice, should this ever happen to anyone else, as long as you catch it early and don’t have a hole in your eardrum, is to pour rubbing alcohol in your ear, then of course go see a doctor.

Rubbing alcohol will like immediately kill the little demon, preventing any further chewing, but of course you’ll need to see a doctor to get it out.

I feel really bad for the woman though, sounds like she didn’t catch it early enough, as apparently more damages were done which prompted surgery. If you catch it early enough, it should be about as simple as killing it and removing it with tweezers.

Luckily I have absolutely no hearing loss after my experience, largely because I thought quick to kill it with rubbing alcohol.

I hope her landlord pays up, that’s really messed up.

Meanwhile, after they mastered the process of making LEDs, they were quoted to have a half life of around 400 years, meaning that after 400 years continuous use, they’d be expected to emit about half as much light as they did new.

Now what did they go and do? They ramped up the power and made them blindingly bright, yet only last like 5 years or so, if you’re lucky.

And the cycle of enshittification continues…

Ah, but that’s just it, lightbulbs were the beginning of enshittification. Once lightbulb manufacturers realized people weren’t coming back to buy more bulbs very often, they started deliberately making them to burn out a bit faster, to make them more of a consumable product.

Do note, there’s a difference between a conspiracy theory and an actual conspiracy. This actually happened yo, and we’re still suffering with this sort of deliberately short lived shit today…

https://youtu.be/ulUI7JsFjZU

Once upon a time, stuff was made to last…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light

At the time, for the iPad 2, yes. The touchscreen is not sealed to the LCD on the iPad 2, it’s only glued to the edges of the frame with double sided tape.

Neither part was broke, it was just that the frame was slightly bent by the volume buttons, jamming one of the buttons in. It was such a subtle bend that I really didn’t see any good reason to go through all the trouble of disassembly, as even that risks breaking the touchscreen.

I fixed a bent iPad 2 using a rubber mallet and a short piece of wood on a good flat wooden bench. Hey, I didn’t feel like busting out the heat gun and all that nonsense for the glued on touchscreen just for a bent metal frame, so I took a chance.

At worst, the touchscreen might have broke in the process, but that would have only set me back $7 and an extra 45 minutes. But it worked perfectly, flattened out correctly, didn’t break anything, and I got to go to lunch like 45 minutes early.

I don’t recommend this approach though.

Of course I wouldn’t expect any emulator to run faulty instructions by default, but it seems to me that it would be an interesting option for digital historians to study, if for no other reason than shits and giggles…

Sure, because screw artists with unique talent and style, let’s just have AI crank out the same style crap every day…

I’m rapidly getting tired of this new AI art era, looks like the same shit every day anymore.

Where’s the human factor anymore? Where’s the talent, where’s the skill?

Do Saturday Night Live skits count?

The Ambiguously Gay Duo

That’s a funny looking zebra…

19, 65, 9, 17

4, 1, 2, 6

IYKYK

Edit: OG Sega version, dunno if those cheats apply on other platforms.

Locally, indoors? Silence.

I like to be able to hear whatever is going on outside. Ideally, that would also be silence, but if something is going on outside, I like to be alert and aware of it.

I’ll also take a little rain and occasional thunder outside, as usually people aren’t acting a fool outside during rainy weather.

Challenge accepted!

I’ve rebuilt guitars before, don’t see any reason I can’t built one from scratch with all the proper parts.

Meanwhile, there’s also Lay’s Stax

I’m one that doesn’t tend to block anyone, unless it’s outright obvious I just need to. I haven’t blocked anyone on Lemmy, hoping I don’t find any reason to do so.

I think one person blocked me though, oh well.

Spez blocked me from Reddit, but like who cares right?

Edit: Obligatory FUCK SPEZ!

Hey, at least in Idiocracy, once they determined the guy to be smarter than everyone else, at least they put him in charge of things…

Camacho for president!

You spelled present day wrong.