cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71277481
I once pirated a book because I didn’t want to get it from another room.
Move away in videogame to try to get away from own, real life fart.
If you have slightly more energy, you can blow it away with the right timing.
Ate raw noodles. Didn’t feel like boiling water.
installed linux just to escape the windows disaster. turned out it was the right(and laziest) thing i could do. after initial setup it just sits there…working like clockwork since day one and hasnt skipped a beat. no surprises. just works. if it ever doesnt work, there has been a thumbdrive permanently hanging out in the back of the box with timeshift updating every day. waiting. prepared for something to go wrong. so far havent had to use it. in fact i keep forgetting it’s even there. i suppose i should switch it out once it fills up.
I called my girlfriend’s phone while she was in a tent 5m away from the spot I was sitting in.
Didn’t feel like getting up or yelling.
I don’t feel like yelling all the time. Why yell when we have digital telepathy?
Not exactly the laziest but I was in IT collaborating with a dev on a project for our MSP’s control panel. They were ignoring my meeting invites, emails and IMs for a few days and I was getting annoyed. They were upstairs in a separate building across from ours. Kind of a hike.
Rather than hunt them down like a normal person, i browsed to their drive and stuck a batch script in their startup folder that drew a cheeky Matrix-style animated graphic (first one was out then) that after 30 seconds or so faded out to a message asking them to contact me. I set it so it would pop up and maximize if they rebooted. I tested it a bit but wasn’t sure if it would work or even if they ever rebooted since we had dedicated workstations.
But apparently they shut down their machine every night. So the next day they stood up and freaked out yelling that they had been hacked before they saw the ensuing message.
They were pretty pissed off once someone calmed them down and they figured out what i’d done, but we got the project completed after that.
That’s the opposite of lazy.
Seems like your coworker was the lazy one
Once picked up the kids with the car instead of walking. I was feeling weird maybe a cold or something, and didn’t want to walk. It’s only about 1Km.
I was chilling on the couch watching tv when my roommate came home. She left her purse on the kitchen counter, then came to join me on the couch. I realized after she sat down that I was thirsty, and I’d missed my opportunity to ask her to grab something for me when she was in the kitchen. So I sent a text to her phone, which was still in her purse on the kitchen counter.
She groaned, then got up to check her message:
“Hey, since you’re up anyway, can you grab me a soda from the fridge?”
So did she get you the soda?
She did. It was, however, mysteriously very shaken up. No idea how that happened.
This is only a few steps away from evil genius.
It’s at least evil clever.
This deserves a slow clap.
That’s not lazy. Genius burns calories.
Took a photo of my floor with the flash to find where i dropped a chip rather than get up and turn the light on
Maybe not taking a picture but using a flashlight to find a small thing you dropped usualy works.
Hold the flashlight parallel to the floor and look for the shadow.
It was a potato chip
Do they not have shadows where you live?
I do not need shadows in order to find something the size of a potato chip. I though you might have been under the impression it was a microchip.
This is actually genius? I’m gonna do this all the time when I drop screws or whatever. Might result in nothing but could be so much less time on my knees. Life hack.
Instead of scrolling back up to the top of a website, I refresh the page.
I use a simple mouse gesture bound to scroll to top, or the Home key on my keyboard. Those are no more effort than a refresh.
that is pretty lazy, especially on a pc where if you’d just have the energy to move a finger over to the right side of the keyboard to tap HOME once is all it would take.
Yeah, my right hand is on the mouse and my left hand rests on the left cmd/ctrl key to easily hit shortcut combinations. So it’s easier to hit cmd/ctrl+R or F5 instead of reaching across to the Home button with my left hand or letting go of the mouse with my right.
I’ve had so many discussions with fellow nerds about the efficiency of hand placement and movement. Mostly they and I agree, but for some reason I’ve never understood, no one approves of using the heel of the hand for modifier keys, especially Ctrl. It doesn’t work on laptops but on external keyboards it’s always seemed the most efficient to me!
Firefox always dumps me at the bottom of the page after a refresh!
ctrl-f5 should take you to the top after a full refresh. takes longer, though, because it forces the browser to re-fetch any resources like media and scripts that exist in its cache.
Paid $30 for a $6 meal to be delivered to my house using DoorDash instead of driving myself to the drive thru.
I pirated a movie because I didn’t want to plug in my external hard drive.
I think this is a common shared behavior of lazy nerds. I once torrented The Big Lebowski because I didn’t want to get out of bed and put the DVD in.
I’d like to think that The Dude would abide.
This is one of the reasons I use Jellyfin.
I don’t have shoes with laces.
slip-on shoes aren’t just for little kids, the elderly, or others that can’t tie shoes.
they. are. awesome.
i always loose-tie my sneakers anyway so they could be slipped-on and off easily, but stretchy ‘no tie’ laces are a huge upgrade from that.
I have never in my life tied and untied shoes every time I put them on, even though all of my shoes have laces. It takes a lot of force, but I slide into tight-ish dress shoes as well. With my hiking boots, I just pull the string over the clips. I have also known how to tie shoes decently quickly for as long as I can remember.
Velcro, or just slip ons?
Slip ons only. Velcro might as well be laces. Still have to bend over or sit down.
All my shoes have laces. High insteps. Shoes without laces either don’t fit or it’s a massive struggle to get them on. It only takes me 3 seconds to tie laces.
The topic was laziest
I’ve got a high arch and it took a little bit to get used to not having tight laces. I had at some point found out that I had been tying my shoes too tightly for years and after the initial jarring change my feet do feel much better. The tops of my feet would get itchy because I was restricting blood flow.
I also wear boots most days and lacing boots is quite different than tying shoes and a Chelsea boot is way more comfortable.
Added benefit, when shoes need to come off, they’re just off.
Probably a lot of other things I cannot remember, but the example I can think of it backing up a CD so I don’t have to use either my external USB disc, battery hig Discman, or internal disc drive ( only on my old toaster desktop ) to listen to it. Hell, at one point I had my external USB disc drive connected to my toaster desktop at one point in order to not have to reach behind my old monitor.
Once I jerked it rather than having sex because it didn’t want to put the effort in to have sex with my gf at the time.
This backfired though, as she caught me and then she talked me into going down on her as punishment
i wouldn’t mind being punished like that.
In retrospect I’m not complaining, but at the time I was tired and just wanted to cum and go to sleep.
But relationships are about compromise, and later on she more than paid me back.
I once pirated a book because I didn’t want to get it from another room.
Based.
