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I once pirated a book because I didn't want to get it from another room.

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[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 88 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I once threw away sink full of dirty dishes rather than hand wash them. They had been there for like two weeks and were really nasty. I think that was at the height of my depression.

[–] Duranie@leminal.space 20 points 5 days ago

Depression is expensive. I lost a couple crock pots that way. Finally found disposable liners!

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 18 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Been there as well

And I tried to save a pan, but the fat and dust would never get of it, and I needed to throw it away anyway...

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

Instead of history | grep whatever

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

You can just do CTRL+R (in bash at least)

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago

I never remember this when it'd actually be useful

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[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 71 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I made an script in Python to batch rename like 10 images in a folder.

[–] g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 74 points 6 days ago

What's the point of automation if not to save seconds by wasting hours?

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 47 points 6 days ago

This immediately came to mind

Don't forget the time you spend finding the chart to look up what you save. And the time spent reading this reminder about the time spent. And the time trying to figure out if either of those actually make sense. Remember, every second counts toward your life total, including these right now.

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[–] tunetardis@piefed.ca 44 points 5 days ago (17 children)

I once pirated a book because I didn’t want to get it from another room.

I pirated a game I legit bought. This was way back in the days when some games had this annoying copy protection where you had to look up words from the manual before you could play. Enter the 3rd word on line 7 of page 28. This sort of thing.

It got old really fast, so I disassembled the binary and saw where it was calling on a random number generator to select the page. I changed just 1 assembly instruction so that the generator would always return 0. Then it said look up so-and-so and the word turned out to be "time". After that, all I had to do was enter "time" at launch and I tossed out the manual.

[–] Aninjanameddaryll@sopuli.xyz 24 points 5 days ago

That's a lot of work in the short term to be lazy in the long, and I am impressed

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[–] Chewbaccabra@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago (9 children)

I dunno if laziest but my landlord certainly thought so. I had bedbugs and there's so much crap you have to do prep for the extermination like remove all your clothes and wash them three times on hot, flip through all your books to check for them, the list was ridiculous. I'm way too lazy for that so I paid the extra $600 out of pocket for the "good" treatment where they just super heat your entire home to kill them and all you have to do is remove things that might melt or explode.

Thankfully the exterminators found the illegal fireworks I had hidden and forgotten about, removed them, and didn't say anything to the landlord.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The heat treatment was the only thing that worked when I had to deal with those little fuckers. I'm sorry you had to deal with them, but I'm glad they're gone now. Those things aren't just physically irritating, they fuck with your head.

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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] texture@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

when my apartment gets too messy i just move

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[–] HostilePlayer@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I got a pair of slippers with brushes on for when you clean the floor, I put it on a remote controlled car so I didn't have to get off the couch.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

That's not lazy, that's brilliant

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[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ordered delivery from across the street because it was raining and I didn't want to…

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

A friend of mine at least once ordered delivery from the Mexican place that was directly below her apartment. She said the delivery guy was a little confused. She had a lot of depression at the time.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 12 points 5 days ago

I did that with a pizzeria that was in my building.

Instructions for delivery : Go upstairs.

I wasn't depressed or anything it was more a little bit of a joke to the delivery man.

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[–] pwxd@lemmy.zip 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I SSHed my laptop to turn it off, even though my laptop is not that far away from my bed

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 10 points 5 days ago

I WoL my second computer to turn it on, even though it's at an arm's reach (but I'd have to stretch a bit to reach it)

[–] slowtrain33@lemmy.ml 37 points 6 days ago (3 children)

We rented an apartment for 5 months after listing our house for sale because we didn’t want to have to clean it and leave the house fora few hours every time someone wanted to come do a viewing.

In our defense… we had a 3yr old, a hairy dog, and were preparing to leave the country permanently, which took 10 months of nonstop preparation on top of working full time, so I still think it was worth the money to save us the extra work. But yeah, probably the laziest thing I’ve done.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

That's not lazy, that's just good planning. The last thing you need before a massive move like that is more stress.

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[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Laziest thing I've done is nothing. Much lazier than doing something.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Back in my teenage years, when you used to change TV channel by walking over to the TV and physically pressing a button, myself and two friends (likely all a bit stoned), sat on a sofa opposite the TV, invented a ~3 metre long "TV prodding device" from gaffer tape and "anything we could find within arm's reach".

I think we spent about half an hour building this device, rather than any of us standing up, taking a few steps forward and physically pressing the button.

The device succeeded.

It fell apart after a few uses.

[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Called someone in the next room to bring me something.

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[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your mom. Sorry if this had been mentioned already, it's a long line.

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've found alternate means of watching a show because I couldn't be assed to open my authenticator app more than once.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Pissed out of a window rather than walk ten feet to the bathroom.

In fairness, I had the flu, and was a teenager. Feeling like hammered vulture shit, with a window right there and open anyway? No way was I getting out of bed. The window was just barely above the top of the mattress, so all I had to do was roll over, kinda prop up, and let 'er rip.

Surprisingly, not only did it not go horribly wrong, but the little forethought I had with a fever that high managed to prevent any drips from being a problem. Well, a problem then. Still had to wash the towel later, and that left me without a clean towel for fever sweats, but I had bandanas I could use for that.

Look, I was creeping into dangerous fever levels lol. Not the best set of decisions, but it worried out in the end

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[–] ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Checked my phone to get the current weather. The alternative was walking a meter and opening the curtains. But then I had to get up.

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[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 25 points 6 days ago

I put off procrastinating.

[–] Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don't wash dishes I use paper plates and forks.

We can't get a dishwasher. The pipes to the house are too messed up. The sink was designed for someone way taller than me so I have to lean forward and get soaked on the cabinet that tilts forwards towards me instead of back towards the sink.

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