My wife recently told me about some post she saw online. In this post, a very innocent man discussed his new CNC setup, then was quite surprised by the dichotomous responses he received.

Before your gif loaded for me, I thought there was going to be a cup involved.

That’s probably an indicator that you spend too much time on Lemmy.

You may be correct about it being personal; I was just theorizing. I’ve been mini golfing twice but never been on a real golf course so, of the two of us, your theory is certainly the more informed one.

I know nothing of the topic, but my guess would be the owner of a facility where a lot of balls are lost might buy one of these and employ someone to walk around with it, collecting lots of people’s balls. Perhaps even selling their own balls back to them, how emasculating.

Years back I was briefly into creepypastas. One I read was a guy who had a habit of chewing his nails and that people around him always made a big deal about it but he thought they were overreacting. At the end it was revealed that he had long ago chewed away his fingernails and was now chewing through his actual fingers without realizing it. As a result he was institutionalized for his delusions, I think.

This picture makes me think of that. Thanks, I guess.

For me, it’s specifically the HP printer my wife has. It has one of those subscription models where you pay per page (or per some unit, I forget) and you can’t use it without an account and an internet connection.

I bought a Brother that offers but does not mandate a subscription and tried to get her to use it, but she is convinced the awful disgusting subscription model is easier.

Every time I see it it makes me a little sad and a little mad, but I had her put it on my network that has guest isolation, so it can’t touch or spy on any of my other devices and only impacts her.

(My feelings about it aren’t quite that strong in reality, but this is a thread about appliance beef. If her printer weren’t isolated, I might actually feel pretty strongly about it.)

I used to live near a restaurant called, IIRC, China 88. Do you think it might have been the 87th sequel?

I would guess it might be in Intercourse, PA but definitely not in Blue Ball, PA.

Adventure Time for me. The first two, IIRC, seasons are explicitly “anti canon” per the creator and drove me away as a result. At a friend’s insistence, I persisted until season three and it ended up being among my favorite shows, it just kept getting better and better.

My wife has recently been watching a YouTube channel called “Adventures with Purpose” which features, among other things, scuba divers investigating missing persons who are likely to be found underwater. Perhaps seeing some of those cases resolved might help alleviate any fears?

Excellent!

I watched Kevduit play a version of this game and one of the early quests was “abandon your first base.” Now I don’t know what to think.

I was thinking Tom Lehrer.

You should read Sourdough.

Lies! Lies and slander! Accusing gentle Bender Tamago of a misdeed?!

The dollar store near me recently did the same. Almost.

The self checkout machine is still physically there. Presumably all the internals are as well. It’s just turned off and now, as you said, it takes three times longer to buy things.

Dude! What does mine say?

Where’s my car?