My brain: Uncomfortable image of slamming the lid shut

I have quit sugar, caffeine, nicotine, weed, and am trying to get my alcohol consumption under control.

Sugar was almost automatic. I just don’t have much of a sweet tooth, so consciously avoiding sugar was really easy. I can’t say I’ve noticed much of a difference since, although overly sugary things like Coke now taste disgusting, and I can immediately tell when something has been sweetened with sugar, even if it’s really subtle. It’s like a 6th sense. You’ll be surprised at the stupid shit people put sugar into. Pickles, mustard, tomato sauce… these things do not need sugar!

Caffeine had the most intense withdrawal effects. The caffeine headache is unlike any other headache I’ve ever had, and I’m a migraine sufferer. The brainfog was horrible too. Coming out the other side is great though. Plus having a coffee from that point on is a fucking glorious experience.

Nicotine took me years, and I wouldn’t have accomplished it without switching to vaping first. I’ve written about this before but that makes it sound easier than it was. There were many many many failed attempts before I put down the vape for good. This one has had the best benefits though. You don’t realise how good breathing is until you’re fully quit for a while.

Weed was really not my choice. I really really overdid it, and I now can’t touch the stuff. I’ve tried, and it’s always a terrible time. I just withdraw inwards and become an anxious, paranoid mess. What’s worse is it takes me days to recover as well. Doesn’t matter how little I have or how “no really this weed is super mellow dude” it is, I consistently have a bad time now. I miss this one the most. I used to really enjoy what it was like in the beginning.

Alcohol is my fucking kryptonite. I cannot get it under control. I think my only option at this point is really to go teetotal. it’s not really bad enough for me to what to be so drastic with it though. I’m not an angry drunk, I don’t spend more than I can afford on it, it’s not really negatively affecting my life… I just drink too much and too often, and I worry for my health.

Ah yes. Who hasn’t dropped a tab after a long day of work to unwind and rela…

Wayland […] will really mess up NVidea gaming

What? I use the proprietary drivers and Wayland just fine? What am I missing here?

re: Distros. Tuxedo is a strange one. I’m not saying it’s bad or anything, it just doesn’t normally feature in these discussions. I don’t know much about it, so I couldn’t say if it’s a good option or not, but I’m curious what drew you to it?

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

Lol, what did you try to register? downwithdomainnameregistrars.com?

sigh all I’m hearing is prices for every fucking thing are going to skyrocket… globally…

re: The warning/grammer checking system.

What you’re describing is called a linter, and they’ve existed for ages.

The only way I can really think of to improve them would be to give them a full understanding of your codebase as a whole, which would require a deeper understanding than current gen AI is capable of. There might be some marginal improvements possible with current gen, but it’s not going to be groundbreaking.

What I have found AI very useful for is basic repetitive stuff that isn’t easily automated in other ways or that I simply can’t be bothered to write again. eg: “Given this data model, generate a validated CRUD form” or “write a bash script that renames all the files in a folder to follow this pattern”

You still need to check what it produces though because it will happily hallucinate parameters that don’t exist, or entire validation libraries that don’t exist, but it’s usually close enough to be used as a starting point.

Cool! What’s VR on Linux like generally? I’d like to get a headset again, but not if it means going back to Windows

What? I respectfully disagree. The reason I struggled to stay on Pixelfed, and recently Loops too, is because as a new user all I was seeing was classical art, and landscapes (and the odd weirdo) but nothing actually entertaining. Loops at least has people copying stuff from TikTok. I’m not condoning that behaviour, I’m just saying as a casual new user, that was pretty much the most compelling content.

Maybe I was doing it wrong, but IMHO the content creators are the core of any social media. Pixelfed and Loops will both live or die by the creators they attract

ETA: I love weirdos by the way, that wasn’t meant as a negative. If anything, more please!

LLMs not being able to tell us what bread tastes like has nothing to do with intelligence. it’s a qualia. I think you meant it cannot KNOW what bread tastes like… although I still don’t understand why you’d think that’s a requirement for intelligence

btw

I mean, yeah! They didn’t sign up for this shit!

The best piece of advice I was given, that I seldom see repeated is this: learn how the filesystem is structured.

It makes everything else easier

wait until you hear someone describe Nirvana as “an excellent example of late 20th century music” like some kind of fucking archeologist!

Unfortunately that’s not going to happen. They’re something people have become accustomed and addicted to. There’s no going back now. The only hope for combating them is to come up with something at least as compelling, but hopefully less harmful. Like vaping is to smoking. What that is though, I have no idea.

Ha ha ha, ye, practical it is not! In my defense, it started as trying to solve a real problem I was having. The keyboard doesn’t have a capslock/numlock indicator, so I had the idea of using the backlight as an indicator.

Got that running, but I was having fun so I decided to make a little snake game

Showed that to a friend who made the usual joke of “ok yeah, but what about doom?”

I knew it was going to be unplayable, but I’ve never actually put doom onto something weird before and it felt like a rite of passage, so I thought why not. It was surprisingly easy! Only took an hour or so thanks to doomgeneric

I got Doom running on my RGB keyboard

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And this is why I went back to an iPod classic