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Pen caps being separated from their pens (i.e. pens that should have caps being capless)
This bugs me.
This also makes me quite the opposite of my mom--she has been completely fine with losing pen caps (and using mismatched pen caps) as far as I can remember.
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This is why click pens are superior.
You know what's amazing?
You know that you can unscrew click pens, right? And if you do, you can see there's a spring-based mechanism inside?
This one time, a click pen unscrewed itself inside my pants pocket and the spring fell out and was lost.
I still don't know how the fuck that happened.
I actually have what I can best describe as a bad habit of taking click pens apart and putting them back together.
Sometimes I'll take two and make frankenpens out of them....
Really Opera, you're going to tell me that "frankenpens" is a word. But "internet" isn't?
That makes me want to make another thread.
What is this, 1989?
Who capitalizes "internet" anymore?
Friggin Opera.
@glennmagusharvey: My click pens have a bad habit of coming apart inside my pencil case. I have no idea how.
Oh god, I do that too. Though a good 40% of the time I end up losing the little spring and rendering the pen entirely useless. -_-
@topic: I...don't mind this with pens, so much, because usually if I'm buying pens that aren't the clicky kind, it's a cheap pack of Bics from the dollar store and I sorta have the attitude that they're entirely disposable.
It does bug me with flash drives, though...the stupid OCD "purity" thoughts don't help. "What? One's missing its cap? Then we must take the caps off all of them, or it won't be pure!"
I do that all the time.
Chrome is better...
*cough*
If only Chrome were on iPhones too...
If only Google didn't own Youtube...
Chrome would be better were it not spying on me whenever I use it.
I do have it, I just only use it when both Opera and Lunascape aren't working.
To be fair, everybody is getting spied on by their ISP by virtue of using an ISP. So unless you only use wifi spots, chances are people have already accumulated a decent chunk of data about you. The good news is, chances are you're not interesting enough for them to bother looking at it.
Yes, but Chrome (more generally, Google) is worse about it than other browsers.
So I've been told by people who are more tech-savvy than me, anyhow.
I've never actually heard anything concrete about that other than "it's made by Google."
Me neither.
But I'm not taking the chance. I'd rather distribute the services I use over many different vendors.
But...wouldn't that just mean that more people have your information? I mean, Google's already watching me just by virtue of using the internet, so I see no reason to let other people get in on the act too.
It's really never been a bother. I think they might try to use it to tailor ads to you, but since I put in an ad-blocker I never have to deal with it.
Yeah, Chrome's just easiest for me, and tailoring ads just seems like a bonus.
No, there's no more information going out about me.
It's just the same information, but it's more distributed. You might need entities sharing information to put two and two together. This is a hurdle to doing anything with it, so that works for me.
Also, I sometimes use Duck Duck Go, IxQuick, Yahoo, and Bing, alongside Google, for my searches.
And I know my ISP can have a record of all my internet usage. Don't really know of a way to get around this, apart from using another computer or internet connection elsewhere.
And yes, I know if I use my own computer it's technically traceable to my MAC address. I can also use other computers, but if people are really keen they might pick up on my browsing patterns.
That said, they would have to go to these lengths in order to find out anything about me. Someone would have to have both motive and means to be able to pull this off, and they'd have to put in significant time and effort--even if they can strongarm their way to the information, they'll need the time to piece it together.