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31·21 days agoTo a lot of laptop manufacturers, it certainly seems that way as of late - that’s why I’m ever hopeful that a modular laptop, such as the framework, might give us the option of how we want to control a mouse cursor.
Fingers crossed for a touchpad with physical buttons.
It’s easy to get a home studio, just pick a piece of furniture you don’t use any more, and get rid of it and make a tiny studio in its place. Then you allow your studio to grow until it fills the room.
Examples: “I could just sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor, then I can get rid of this bed and use the space for a studio”
“If I just eat cold food, or microwaved food, why waste space on this oven, or these cupboards of ingredients. This space could make a great studio”
23·1 month agoCan you encourage them to hurry up with a bit of “Push It” by Salt-N-Pepa?
“Push it”
“Push it real good”
I got detention off of a teacher for saying “Hitler the Shitler” or “Hitler is a Shitler” or something suchlike during a lesson, even though several other kids had already said it and didn’t get in trouble.
Technically, the detention was for swearing, though I chose to interpret it as “Miss Teacher loves Hitler and he is her boyfriend”.
I instigated a petty campaign of cartoons, blackboard messages, textbook graffiti and just general rumours that this poor teacher was genuinely a Hitler-loving-Nazi, and had a Hitler shrine in her house. As I was generally honest, well behaved etc, it was readily believed and spread quickly.
As she was relatively unpopular as a teacher, many of the other students joined in, goosestepping past her in the corridor, nazi saluting behind her back etc.
After a few weeks, upon entering the classroom to find a full blackboard chalk cartoon of her and Hitler getting married, she started crying and shouted at us and we all felt awful.
I apologised to her after the lesson, and she actually apologised for unfairly singling me out for punishment “to set an example” and oddly, we actually got on pretty well after that, and the Hitler jokes faded out naturally.
I thought it was based on “became a teenager/young adult” at the turn of the millennium? (I know they’ve moved the definitions a few times though)
You can mod almost everything in Dwarf Fortress, down to the shear strength of a single beard hair - but you can’t mod the threading :)
Was one of the records “Largest Dwarf Fortress Fort with a playable frame rate”?
…or they just live with someone who needs to be drinking more water.
3·5 months agoReminds me of the two explorers from That Mitchell & Webb Look (youtube link)
“Of course not! Not North Wales! That’s ridiculous! It’s nothing like North Wales. No, South Wales of course. The resemblance is uncanny”
That’s brilliant. Apparently he used to be a giant shopping mall in Ohio as well.
The following people could easily be confused with place names:
- Greg Lake
- Grace Park
- Damon Hill
- Jeff Bridges
- Grant Orchard
- Denny Lane
- Anson Mount
- Jimmy Cliff
- Graeme Garden
So if you’re struggling to name your Cities Skylines districts, this may or not help, depending on your sense of humour.
I hope this helps.
Did you save a bunch of baby spiders a few years ago? Because it sounds like you’ve got an army of defence spiders protecting you from bitey stingy stuff.
If you use the NewPipe android app to watch youtube, you can download directly from there, as video or audio, in a selection of formats.
I can’t see them from Jerboa.
[Edit] Though I can long-press on the broken image and “Open Link” and then see it.
Ah, so it depends if you want to buy a house so you have somewhere safe to live that you can’t be evicted from, or whether you want to use it to destroy society for your own immoral personal profit?
[Edit] Sorry, I’m probably being a bit severe there
Though it’s probably technically social media, it’s very different from everything else at the moment (other than perhaps reddit).
I feel this is much more like an old forum. It’s pretty anonymous, you subscribe to things you like and want to hear more about. Comment if you like, lurk otherwise. Nobody’s interleaving my subscribed posts with “suggested” posts and adverts. Mainly, it’s small and probably almost nobody I know in real life uses it.
There’s currently no big corporate users, far-right news channels, “influencers” etc, just nice, safe “Cats, Dad Jokes, Star Trek Memes, Linux News”.
If we consider vapourwave/synthwave etc to be fairly interchangeable terms, there’s a bunch here:
Horizon Chase Turbo (2018) - not quite so neon, but same gameplay heritage
List of Synthwave Racing Games on Itch
(I’m kind of going by visuals or my perception of gameplay - these might not all fit the description)
In combination with the exercise it sounds like you’re doing anyway, have you tried a bit of Yoga and a bit of listening to meditative sounds before/during bed/sleep/end of day? You may have tried similar things already, but if not, maybe worth a go? It’s not going to pass/waste time as such, but might put you into a better position to stop your mind racing with negativity, especially in that crucial pre-sleep phase.
Particularly looking at “Yoga for Anxiety” or “Yoga for Mental Health” type things, moreso than general strength and fitness Yoga. You’ll find a bunch online. You might find something like this Yoga Healthcare Alliance 10 Week Course works for you (it’s promoted by the UK’s NHS for some conditions). It’s focusing on basic de-stressing, de-tensing muscles, breathing focus, and may help you feel calm and relaxed - which may give you a good nights sleep - which could potentially do wonders for beginning to recover.
I’d also suggest combining it with some “sleep headphones” - a fabric headband with some really flat headphone speakers inside it - then listen to a combination of “meditation for anxiety” or “8 hours deep sleep ambient soundscape” type things whilst you lie there.
Ideally you’d do the Yoga sat on your bed, then drop straight into something like “a nice man tells you you’re great and everything will be fine” followed by some sort of “inner peace meditation that lasts 8 hours or longer”. Obviously, you’ll find your own preferred voices/sounds. I’ve also used white noise style “starship engine sound” or “on a night train” audio.
If you watch them on your phone with “Newpipe”, you can save them as videos or just as audio files - which you can then set up as playlists in VLC. No point in downloading the same thing every night.
This whole set of things might not work for you at all, but if you’re up for hours anyway, what do you have to lose?
Personally, I found this process helped me massively on my way out of a similar patch (combined with exercising more, quitting caffeine for a while, CBT therapy - it was a multiple angle approach).
Regardless, I wish you luck and pass you my best wishes in your recovery.