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.

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!

Not sure what all happened there, but…

FAT ≠ NTFS

I’m sorry to hear that.

Found the psycho 😂

Yes indeed.

I posted this as something of a template of an idea for Lemmy lacking polls…

Suddenly?

All of the sudden?

All of a sudden?

You do have a point, though in terms of common everyday language, that’s a bit disappointing.

Alternate question…

What the fuck is a ‘battleground’ state, and why does the media even have the nerve to use that term? I mean I know what it basically means, they should stick with ‘swing’ state, instead of putting the word ‘battle’ into nutjob’s heads just before an election.

I don’t care what people’s political opinions are, but we already have enough gun nuts out there, and at least a couple attempts on the former president’s life.

You can’t even feel safe sending your kids to school in numerous areas, and can’t even always feel safe in a Walmart these days.

Are you sure we’re not already in a civil war?

Not for me, but then again I have residual nerve damage in my pinky fingers from a case of meningitis back in 2004.

However, I do still use my left pinky for the left shift key, and my right pinky for the enter key. At least those keys are big enough that the mild numbness doesn’t cause me to miss those keys.

And a yacht, right? Can’t forget the yacht…

LOL, I dunno. When I first checked, there wasn’t even a Subscribe button 🤷‍♂️

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