cobysev

@cobysev@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents told me about a time when people were scared they would get spied on if they had a phone in the house. And this it talking about a rotary land line…

  For the record, old phone lines were always connected. You’d pick up the receiver and just ask the operator to connect you to a line, no pressing buttons or turning a dial or anything. Sometimes you could pick up the receiver and hear phone conversations your neighbors are having because a neighborhood might all be connected through the same switchboard. It was super easy to eavesdrop on your neighbors through the phones.

  Rotary phones gave you an independent line, and allowed you to manually connect to another line instead of asking an operator to do it for you, but the mentality stuck for a while. Some people continued to be paranoid that someone might be listening to them through their phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quietly installing? Heck, I keep getting notifications asking me to try out Copilot’s functions on my PC. I finally turned off all notifications about it today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So uhh.. how often should I be washing me towels?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a kid, it was one and done. I grabbed a clean towel from the bathroom closet every day. Even though I was clean coming out of the shower, I also knew that showering loosens dead skin cells, which I was rubbing all over the towel. Over time, those skin cells would decompose, giving off a musty smell. I learned that from my dad, who almost never changed his towel. Ick. It made me extra paranoid about reusing them, so I swapped towels daily.

  When I became an adult and had to do my own laundry, I realized just how miserable it was trying to wash 7 towels every week. (Why did my mother let me use so many towels as a kid?!) So I started reusing them. I used a towel for a week before throwing it in the laundry.

  Now, I’m recently retired in my late 30s and shower every 2-3 days (or anytime I leave the house). Since I’m not showering as frequently, I will reuse a towel for about 2-3 weeks before replacing it. If I go to dry off after a shower and the towel smells a bit musty, I’ll toss it on the floor and grab a fresh towel instead. I think I’m on week 4 with my current towel, but it still smells clean, so I’m not too worried about getting a few more showers out of it.