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Ironically: toilet paper.

It looks suspicious a.f., I grant you, but even when I had a desk job in an office, I’d have a toilet roll in easy reach on my desk for use on spillages - drink spillages - and for wiping my fingers and face if I was eating and needed to use the computer or to answer the phone. Also for blowing my nose, but I’d try to leave the room with enough in hand to do that so I wasn’t subjecting people to that unmistakeable noise.

I buy the cheapest TP the supermarket sells. It’s generally cheaper than most other paper products and works just as well.

Not terrible for it’s original purpose either, but I prefer something slightly better quality for that.

Yeah, I used pods for a few years. Went back to plain old liquid because this would happen once in a while. Or else this stuff would start gumming up the seals or out of sight waiting for the next time I used the machine.

As for the cause(s) take your pick from: water too cold, not enough water, tangled item(s) creating temporary pockets that only open up late in the cycle (which could be caused by:), overloaded machine.

Out-crazy them. Turn up at 12:20 and be ready by 12:25. Shout at them for not being ready when you are. Then when they start turning up at that time, move back to 12:10. Then 12.

And then when they’re turning up and ready at 12, go back to 12:35 and tell them you don’t know what they’re talking about, you’ve always started at that time, it says so in the official documents and you’ve never varied. Tell them they’re crazy.

I mean, hey, if you’re going to quit anyway, might as well have some fun before you do.

That’s about it. Mbin also provides a direct interface to the microblogging side of the Fediverse. Yes, you can already see posts from Lemmy on Mastodon and vice versa, but there’s no way to actually microblog from Lemmy. Mbin has that.

I’m currently on fedia.io which is an Mbin, but the main reason I’m here and not on a Lemmy instance is personal preference. I wasn’t keen on the Lemmy / tankie connection, and I liked the kbin/Mbin interface better anyway.

Unfortunately all the high traffic Fediverse groups (communities / magazines / what-have-you) have ended up on Lemmy instances, perhaps in part due to the problems the kbin creator had in his personal life and with the flagship instance, meaning people lacked confidence in spinning up their own instances and went Lemmy instead.

A true VHS versus Betamax moment.

Well, back then it was the Soviets, and now quite a lot of what we see in the west is being guided by the hand of Putin, so it basically is the same thing happening all over again.