First (and only for over a decade) would be iPod shuffle. Best is my M1 Air. Absolutely ridiculous how much battery life and performance you can get out of it. Starting to wish I’d gotten more than 8 GB of memory (curiously, bloated JetBrains IDEs run fine, web browsers cause more issues) so I might pass it on to my mom when M3 comes out and upgrade to 16 or 32 GB.
Within the last month or so, I’ve stumbled upon reddit links a total of ~3 times. It’s still damn useful for looking up info and the best links on Google are often reddit. Ublock origin was enabled of course.
Lifting weights is fun and feels pleasurable. Cardio feels like I’m trying to get somewhere but I’ll never arrive. It’s frustrating. I think it’s because I have ADHD and, well, most monotonous activities are hella hard to keep up for any period of time. Doesn’t help that I’ve been off my meds for a year since developing high blood pressure.
For cardio, I’ve tried different things to trick myself into doing it. Some worked better than others. I used to do long and hard warmups before lifting weights. Of course it had a negative effect on the weightlifting itself, but it was good for my health. To increase effort, I just added 5 minutes each session. Started off cycling 15 minutes at a leisurely pace on the stationary bike, and towards the end I was doing 45 at a much harder pace. Watching the average power climb up each week was fun, it was like a game to me. And the weightlifting at the end of it was the reward to make my monkeybrain accept the annoyance that is cardio.
Of course, then I had surgery (nothing major, a scheduled quality of life surgery, septoplasty to be specific, but I was told to lay off any exercise for 2+ weeks) and then a month later I injured myself. So now it’s been over a year again. Not because my injury was very serious, but because it’s incredibly hard to start, maintain, or re-start healthy habits with ADHD. Incredibly easy to start, maintain and re-start bad ones though -.-
Another thing is, pick a podcast (preferably something funny or informative, not depressing), put it on, and go on a walk. Not the same as running, but on a physical activity for your health scale, if being sedentary is 0% and running is 100%, walking is at least 80% if you ask me. Way closer to running than to doing nothing.
I understand the last bit is difficult for people living in unwalkable cities, but for those who can do it, it feels way better than most other forms of exercise, because you’re getting dosed with happy hormones while you’re walking thanks to the podcast.
You’re welcome! I try to share this with people whenever I can, hoping that it makes someone’s day better. It certainly gives me a lot of joy when I can respond to something with a relevant http cat, though the few people I do it to might be getting a little annoyed.
But then people would think they are a teapot
It’s discontinued as a code, but perhaps we could get people using 102: Processing as a response online when someone says something unexpected or stupid-sounding.
I have no questions, but I want to let people here know that there are two excellent websites related to this: http.cat and http.dog, for looking up HTTP status codes.
For an example, if http.cat/418 doesn’t brighten your day, I don’t think there’s much that can.
Gentoo’s own handbook is very handy. If you’re ok with Arch, you’ll have no problem with Gentoo. And if you have questions, you can join my tiny Gentoo community here: !gentoo@lemm.ee
Gentoo!
Even started a community with a whopping 16 subscribers and almost no posts! !gentoo@lemm.ee.
It’s taken a bit to get accustomed to it, but I am finding that I can go longer periods without checking the feed now, so overall it’s a positive effect.
Same tbh. I’m a backend dev. I love tinkering. I have a desktop PC to tinker with, if I fuck up my Gentoo install, I’ll just boot into Windows or use my Macbook till I get it fixed. If I fuck up the software on my phone, I won’t be able to take phone calls for probably a couple of hours (if it’s a simple fuckup) to like half a day or more if I manage to fuck up the recovery or something.
Ends up being that you need a secondary phone to tinker with, but I have little use for two phones, so I don’t keep them around much, I’d rather let someone else use my old phones because I don’t usually break them.
I didn’t like where the newer OS versions on my Oneplus 7 pro were going and I couldn’t for the life of me get my bank app to work with a custom ROM. It was around this time I found out that Apple does 6-7 years of software updates and to be fair, I’d never heard any of the iOS users in my circles complain about any iOS updates. So I bought an iPhone 13 mini last year.
I’d previously had some phones with relatively vanilla Android (quite good) and I’d tried other peoples’ Samsungs in about 2011 or 2012 and that alone was enough that I decided never to buy one (no matter how good they may be now - in the early 2010s they were borderline unusable compared to something like the Xperia lineup).
Had Google announced the in-house designed SoC a few years earlier for there to be a 2nd or 3rd generation out by the time I switched, I might have chosen to remain with Android. But at the time we were on generation 1 of Tensor with lots of people complaining the phones weren’t behaving nicely with Android 12 and going with anything with a Snapdragon SoC would’ve meant max 3 major versions of Android updates.
Either one protects you from outside threats, but Android does allow you to do more damage on your own.
If you’re smart enough to not install shady apps and give them the rights to absolutely everything, it doesn’t matter which one you use, but if your parents or grandparents are getting up there in age and are prone to just clicking on things that look like they should be clicked on, iOS might be safer for them (Android’s workflow for installing apps from untrusted sources is just too simple IMO).
You getting ads will give them like a dollar a year and you’d absolutely have to have tracking enabled for them to even get that, unpersonalized ads are deemed pretty worthless because you don’t click on things that you aren’t into. The extra power consumption from loading ads + extra spying on you will cost you about as much as the instance would get from it.
If you donate 5 dollars a year, you’re doing more than you would by seeing ads.
Problem with geothermal is that it costs like 20k EUR all-in to get it installed. Regular air to air heat pumps are better for your average person because they’re way cheaper, work most of the time, and also work as air conditioning.
Either way it’s better than gas though. But power grids in many countries haven’t been built to handle it, so the change from gas to heat pumps needs to be gradual (though I do wish it was faster).