I highly appreciate envelopes which open on the shorter side.
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Unpolished and sincere obscure YouTube vids. The kind where someone is clearly passionate but is doing it solo and in one take, warts and all.
100% agree.
And insanely underrated passion channels with excellent quality stuff (looking at you, Down from the Attic!)
When the dish soap makes bubbles in the air. Magical every time. I am over half a century in years and that is still unfailingly delightful.
Absolutely. I’ve tried to figure out how to force it to happen, but it’s never the same. It’s an organic whimsical moment of tiny little bubbles and it always makes me feel like a little kid for just a moment
Seeing a random cat outside.
I have four cats. I see a cat roughly once a minute, because there is always a cat.
But seeing a random other cat brightens my day.
Obscure keyboard shortcuts.
This is the one. My favorite was the alt-ctl-arrow to flip the monitor direction
We did this so many times in elementary School on school computers. Teachers has no clue on how to fix it 😅. Great times
Windows Shift S
You’d like Linux, GNOME has some great obscure compose key shortcuts and Vim would keep you entertained for years.
Vim is sorcery: you choose mystic incantations from your eldritch knowledge on the fly and suddenly your text is doing exactly what you want.
I’ve used, administered and coded on Linux for a very long time. So yup
Vim user chiming in. I love it
I used to have vim-mappings for opening a browser with RickRoll triggered by a typo I used to make a lot. Fun times.
If you are on windows, try Ctrl+Windows+Shift+Alt+L 😉 You won’t regret it (spoiler: you will)
That is the most ridiculous and random “shortcut” ever. I love it.
It’s actually an office key + L, but the office key is only on a few keyboards and they mapped it to ctrl+alt+shift+win, so it works even without it. here is a hilarious discussion about implementing it in KDE Plasma on Linux.
The emacs-type or the vim-like?
My turn signal once was in sync with a car opposite of me.
I have tried for almost 30 years of driving, no luck
There’s a warning sign with a silhouette of a deer on it to warn drivers to be on the lookout, and somebody graffitied a little guy riding on its back. It’s been that way undisturbed for at least the couple of years since I first noticed it.
I was on a bike trip and some random swedish town had damn UFOs over their “city skyline” city entry sign
Stepping on single fallen leaves on the sidewalk. I’m also more disappointed than I should be when they are not crunchy.
Little kids concentrating, like 2-3yo. When they are just about to “get” something, and they know it.
It is really cool to see.
I was out for a walk the other day, and fuck me if the leaves weren’t beautiful. Near sunset, moody dark clouds letting through some low light reflecting off green, yellow and red. View to the water. I tend not to notice that sort of thing too much, but it was so nice I started going “hey, is there something in this water?” and regretting not bringing the camera.
Small wordplay and rhymes that come to mind from time to time
That smell you get after a summer rain in the forest. Everything just seems to be so alive.
Petrichor!
Yes!
Thank you, another word added to my vocabulary.
Petrichor?
Thank you. Amazing how you and @RBWells@lemmy.world wrote your answers at exactly the same time :)
Towel warmer
Unfathomably silly
The smell of a new book.
oh man. there’s my drug from back in the day.
Or old books! I just love the smell of books in general.
Hotel mini soap bars
Seeing a rainbow in the sky. I know it’s just sunlight refracting through the water droplets but it is so gorgeous. I still get like the dude from the double rainbow video years ago because I still feel that way.
Dude, like 3 weeks ago, i was on a long arse bike wide, and it started chucking it down. I had full gear on, so I stayed really dry and warm. But as I was heading home along a sunny fast speed road, I’m on for about 15 minutes doing 60mph. And there was just this rainbow. I caught it in the corner of my eye, and I smiled? Like, it was just joyous. I thought it’ll leave soon. But it didn’t. The entire 15 minutes, I was just looking at it. As someone who suffers from mental health issues, it was beautiful. A reminder that just because I’m not happy with myself or the way I see things. There’s hope in nature. Humanity won’t be around forever. But nature will be. And nature is, well, it’s indescribable.
After a while, it turned into a double rainbow, too.
