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What's your useless skill?
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I actually enjoy* fucking around with older-ish computers and making them kinda useful again
^*^ ^involves^ ^lots^ ^of^ ^cursing^ ^and^ ^groaning^ ^when^ ^things^ ^don't^ ^work^ ^and^ ^I^ ^have^ ^to^ ^troubleshoot^ ^or^ ^start^ ^over^
Narrator: "However, that Vic-20 would never be useful ever again, despite what he told himself."
Its a good hobby. I have a 14 year old Iomega network drive that I loaded Debian onto. It will serve audio or samba shares without overloading the 256MB of memory
I can wiggle my ears
I can pop mine by using the muscles that open close the escutcheon tubes
Making a paper airplane that looks like a star trek shuttle
Does it fly tho?
Yep. Long as there isn't an insane amount of wind. Light breeze can carry it quite a ways
I knew someone that worked at an Audi dealer that can recognize everyone's voice and associate their purchase.
I called him 4 years later to inquire about a new Audi and he asked me how my TT was treating me and if I was ready for a bigger car(I mentioned that I was going to start a family soon).
Born politician right there. Seriously, some of the shittiest villains in politics would nonetheless wow you with how they can legitimately work an entire room full of people, remember names, make you feel special, etc.
Honestly, if I was in the market in buying another car, I would love that kind of personalization.
Honestly, I think this skill could easily translate to one of those "lore keeper" or "continuity expert" jobs people have on TV shows.
Script supervisor?
They must have been one of the main markets for Polaroid. They must have been dejected when production stopped.
I can build majority of flat pack furniture without the instructions, first time, every time.
Do you have any leftover screws?
Never! Unless they gave me too many...
But seriously I don't use the self tappers or nails they give you as they awful, made of soft cheese.
Astounding!
I'm in awe of you. Genuinely
My S-tier abitity to hyperfocus on learning useless things to the detriment of everything else.
Well, if there's a choice between learning something relatively tedious and completely useless, and something relatively tedious that's urgently needed... I know what I'm going to pick!
Oooh, an installation manual for a 1935 refrigerator!
Oooh shiny!
I can throw dog treats with absurd accuracy and nearly always bounce/spin/toss them right near my dogs. Until I point it out.
I have this same skill, but with voice actors.
My SO can identify all actors by voice (she follows all films by ear because she's playing some kind of Candy Crush game — several of them, because she runs out of levels). And as a lot of them are foreign, and dubbed, she'll tell me that this was the guy that was doing the voice in (litany of roles).
Of course I have to pick films accordingly. She's never seen Tenet.
Me with anime
Granted I watch mostly >decade old stuff dubs, so it's mostly the same 30 VAs in every show
If it's an elf woman that ~~may or may not be particularly~~ is either extremely horny or ace, i have a pretty solid guess of the English voice actor...
What, I said guess 🤣. Maybe check again I'll try
writing code that doesn't need a browser to run on
Preposterous! What can code run on if not a browser!
most code from the before times, from the long-long-ago, actually didn't need a browser, and could fit on a floppy disk!
Oh man so much love went into crafting code for low end MP3 players in the Rockbox project, then everyone ended up carrying around smartphones with tons of compute and memory resource to waste
Man I still use my iPod with rockbox. A terabyte of storage and a massive battery and I never have to worry about giving streaming revenue to pedo rapists like red hot chili peppers, or worry about rumors being true about pedo rapists like panic at the disco
I used rockbox on a recent holiday for my ipod 6g. It's always my go to for holidays so i don't need to use up my phone's battery
Rockbox was so cool. I had it on my SanDisk Sansa e250. It was so awesome. Better video format support, better interface. And it ran fucking DOOM.
I know we’re all here for the LOLs, but just a quick reminder: it’s ok to enjoy things without being able to monetize them.
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God forbid we have a piece of our lives that isn’t monetized for the grind.
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I know the year most Disney movies came out. Not all of them, but probably more than I should know. Generally, I know the year of release for most movies I have seen.
When it comes to remembering useful things, I might as well have dementia.
My useless skill is software development ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Don't feel bad, I used to work as a writer.
clearly you have a long road ahead of you if you still can't escape your backslashes lol
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My father was frustratingly difficult to watch movies with, because of this exact thing. He would pause the movie to explain that the actor on screen had been in some other obscure movie a decade ago. It was especially bad if two actors had previously worked in the same project, because then he would start listing off other cast and crew they had worked with in the past.
Okay, great, please press Play. I just want to watch the goddamned movie.
Ah shit. I do this and I just assumed my kids were cool with it. Thank you for being the mirror I didn't know I needed.
Your kids might appreciate it. Just ask.
I'd be cool with discussing it afterwards. That kind of thing is really interesting to me. My dad doesn't know shit about fuck though.
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