Just don’t use your wife’s cutting board, like I did. It had a big crack and I figured I was upcycling. She didn’t notice it was the same and weeks later I got in trouble when she asked where the small cutting board was and I pointed at the butter dish 😅

I made myself a butter knife holder by using a magnet

I guess this is specifically illegal according to the Hatch Act which is supposed to prevent using public service websites from being used to smear a political party.

I was gonna buy one of those Lite phones, but it was expensive so I just deleted time-wasting apps and now my smartphone respects my time. Hardest part was getting people to just text me instead of various social media messenger apps. In the end, I deleted my accounts and now everyone from school thinks I’m dead, but those close to me can reach me easily. Sometimes I still binge YouTube via Firefox on my phone though, so I installed “Unhook” which blocks recommended videos, so I can only see what I search for.

I guess just remember that your smartphone can be dumb too. And still a lot more convenient than a flip phone.

I agree 100%! Butt I’m joking about a façade of optimization. Making code confusing and hard to interface with by making up custom data types. And for more context, their main project is a UI that takes >10 seconds to load and uses 2+GB of RAM. But at least the UUIDs in the SQLite DB are stored as hex instead of strings 😅 (even though I think everything in SQLite is actually stored as a string under the hood?)

I do still admire the desire for optimization - but it might be some sort of coping mechanism to ignore the insanely unoptimized bits of the project

I have a coworker who does stuff like this and it’s always low-benefit optimizations that cost the team time to interface with - but I do still kind of love it