I once pirated a book because I didn’t want to get it from another room.
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I SSHed my laptop to turn it off, even though my laptop is not that far away from my bed
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)
I buy new socks instead of washing them.
I remember when my grandfather died, we were going through his belongings and found a drawer full of electric razors. Why did he have so many?!? Then we noticed every one was full of hair, and concluded that he bought a new one every time it filled up rather than emptying it.
Then years later, my parents became snowbirds who went to Mexico every winter, and they stayed with this other family who were locals. They got good at Spanish and one day I guess, my dad was talking to the other dad and they burst out laughing. I asked what that was all about, and he said the Mexican dad’s father also had a drawer full of electric razors, and he never understood why?
I once st
Using a state of the art local LLM and an agent to ask it to find all files with a certain extension, because I always forget how to use the find command on linux and I can’t be bothered to read it.
ls *.txt?
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.
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.
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.
That’s a lot of work in the short term to be lazy in the long, and I am impressed
Your mom. Sorry if this had been mentioned already, it’s a long line.
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.
Depression is expensive. I lost a couple crock pots that way. Finally found disposable liners!
Fr so liberating
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…
I made an script in Python to batch rename like 10 images in a folder.
What’s the point of automation if not to save seconds by wasting hours?
This immediately came to mind
That’s valid
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.
The curtains won’t tell you the high for the day
I literally spit coffee reading this lol
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.
That’s not lazy, that’s just good planning. The last thing you need before a massive move like that is more stress.
I totally understand this move, we did something similar to avoid having to pack up our cats every time someone wanted to see the house.
Ordered delivery from across the street because it was raining and I didn’t want to…
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.
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.
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.
That’s genius
That’s not lazy, that’s brilliant
