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.
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.
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.
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
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?”
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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always go out in public in pjs & slippers like many of my neighbors
I’d love to tell you, but…
I’ll often order stuff from Ebay/Amazon even though the shop is right next door. It’s partial anxiety but also mostly pure laziness.
Or, OR, retail doesn’t understand that it’s all a convenience purchase at this point, which means they have to have inventory if they want money. I swear to god, every time i go to a store they never have what i want in stock, so i get my phone out and order it online while standing there angry.
we went to walmart awhile back to pick something up that was in stock in our store.
the asshole behind the electronics counter said “we don’t have that in stock”. didn’t even look. didn’t want to check his handheld after we showed him what the web site said.
we stood right there and ordered it online… for delivery from the store.
we finished up there, swung through arbys drive through, then filled-up the car.
and we barely beat the delivery guy from the store home.
Maybe a hot take, but this is something that I’d ask to speak to the manager about. I don’t want to do my job either, but I still do it. I’m certainly not going to stand in front of a customer and refuse to do my job.
It’s… Walmart. I mean, it’s … Walmart.
It’s still a job. If they don’t want to deal with customers, they should find a role where that isn’t one of the basic requirements of the job. They could stock shelves at that same store, work in a warehouse, cook in a restaurant, or pretty much anything that isn’t customer-facing.
I was once shopping for an office chair, and since you can’t tell what a chair is like to sit in by browsing online listings I went to Staples to try out their chairs on display. I found one I liked, and was ready to buy it. On a whim I used my phone and the store’s wifi to look up the same chair on the Staples website, where I found it on sale for less money with free delivery included.
Still sitting in the chair in the store I ordered it online, saved some money, and then went home without having to take a heavy chair with me on the bus.
Holy environmental damage, Batman (unless they had an electric vehicle).
Frequently use voice to text because I can’t be bother typing. This is an example but it doesn’t always work well.
