I hope you have fun as well, whether your account is deleted or not!
One note about the complaints and drama in response to your suggestions though: I see your instance is lemmy.ml and that fact alone will make a lot of people respond to you with hostility, regardless of what your personal political beliefs actually are.
And I don’t know the latest of who is defederated with who, but you may also not even see some of the more decent communities.
Im tired of smartphones consuming everyone’s minds.
Resisting the standard smartphone addiction just makes the addiction of some others so much more apparent. My own wife is still pretty badly shackled to hers.
I love hearing the individual specifics. All the variety and niches that make life interesting.
It’s funny you mention getting back into Japanese, because my big focus this year has been rebuilding and upgrading my koi pond. It would be neat to learn the language, but knowing how I function I don’t think it’s in the cards for me.
Then for my more physical activities, that was carpentry and construction driven by the damn pond. :D
It’s perfect for me though. I am a builder and creator to my core, and my career is in software and electronics, so outdoor wood working perfectly offsets that.
Oh same here! My reduced phone usage has been part of a much larger overall improvement in my well being and being able to live in the moment and be content.
I recently saw a video from a harvard dude talking about how we NEED to be bored. It’s when we fall into our baseline mental state and start thinking through shit and figuring life out. And not doing that can lead to anxiety and depression and other bad shit. Given my experiences, I certainly cannot disagree.
Smart phones are simultaneously such a wonder of human engineering and have become such a disappointment of human greed.
This whole situation has made me just care less about my phone, and use it less in my life while I use Linux PCs much more.
I don’t see my phone as a “computer” at this point, really. It’s more of a communication appliance. If I’m launching an app that’s not texting, calling, GPS, or music, it’s probably a replacement for a website I’d normally use on a PC.
Linux phones could change this though. The idea of your PC being your docked phone would work great for most use cases. Unfortunately though, even though I would love it I don’t really see the general public jumping at the chance to get back to the desktop experience. I could maybe see a little traction in the business world.
For simple edits to single text files nano has to be my most used editor. Vim is a close second though.
For editing code, I’ve used just about everything for one reason or another but it’s usually just my IDE with the directory open.
That silly program can’t trick me! I used Vim last year and I’m totally able to use other programs!
…I just have to use Vim also at all times!
Ah crap how did I set my battery charge interval again?
history | grep battery
history | grep bios
history | grep sudo smbios
Ah! There you are you little shit!
edit to add: Actually, I think the last time I did this I remembered some numbers I set it to before. So it worked well with something like “history | grep 75” even though there were a bunch of results.
I use Linux Mint Cinnamon, which is the main full-featured flavor that basically looks like the win10 desktop at first startup.
It runs like greased lightning compared with Windows on the same machine, or any windows install I’ve used recently.
That was one of my favorite things about switching to FOSS in general. It is made by people who care about it being good at it’s purpose, and probably use it themselves. Compare that to commercial software, where the list of stakeholders in major decisions is a mile long, and the primary stakeholders that everybody wants to please (shareholders) are often not associated in any way with the creation or the use of the program.
"WELCOME TO CLOCKO COM
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE"
Using a modern package manager in Linux after being used to windows for a decade or two was absolutely stunning.
But it was not unique. I see that kind of difference all over the OS as well as in FOSS vs commercial apps.
The difference in design motivations and important stakeholders is pretty obvious!
oh jeez, lol. Edited to fix for any future readers.
Modern user-friendly Linux in a nutshell:
“Hey that kernel update finished in the background, unless you were bored enough to stare at this window for the last 3 whole minutes. It would be best to reboot your machine as soon as it works for you, boss! 😎”
Please note however that modern user-friendly linux does not use emojis in notifications about system updates. That was just for fun.
I use mint btw
The trick with my ADHD brain is to refer to documentation when I’m hyperfocused on how the thing works for some reason. It doesn’t have to be because it’s broken, but it could be, lol.
Sweet.
Mine are dogs, turtles, and fish.
Haha, very fitting and a great quote from a great show.
This comment just gave me a flashback to one of my first big business trips from almost 20 years ago for some training in another state.
I got fettuccine Alfredo (or linguine alfredo or whatever version that place had) at whatever nice restaurant we went to and they brought that shit out in a punch bowl!!
I remember it was good, I ate a lot, and that it didn’t feel great after. I cannot remember if I finished it though. There’s gotta be no way, but I do know back then at occasional large meals (everything from Thanksgiving down to business trips) I would eat like 3 times what I will now.
Hell yes! Mint 4 life!
I am convinced that I will try Arch or similar some day in the future simply because of SteamOS switching over to being based off of it. But for now, I develop software for embedded Linux systems all day at work. When I get home it’s either family time inside or it’s playing “engineer turned farmer” in my back yard. Literally digging in the dirt and building stuff out of wood. Feels good man.
For years I have been one foot into the engineer turned goose farmer meme, with the other foot left in my normal job.
It works alright! I don’t worry about work while at home in my suburban zoo, and when I’m at work I am not dying to get the hell out of there like I remember being several years ago.
If you zoom in, it looks like that thing is actually a messed up comma that barely has a tail. It’s like the spork of punctuation!