on phone while shitting
“Ugh, there’s nothing on lemmy”
closes lemmy app
bored, reopens lemmy app
I am sure this is totally healthy…
Don’t even know what to do on it half the time. But wtf else can I do? I can’t really play a game, I’m at work. But there isn’t much to do so scroll on my phone. It’s an activity I can drop immediately if needed and doesn’t seem to look as bad as if I was playing CDDA.
for activities that can be dropped immediately if needed i recommend crochet :)
you can make so many cool things even when you work only in very small bursts between other tasks!
i’ve been making summer hats lately
My wife has recently picked up crochet for a similar reason.
She’s on maternity leave and needed something she could pick up and put down quickly. She’s having a great time.
I work in an office, don’t think that would be a good choice sadly.
??? Most of the best crochet stuff that I have was made by people working in offices vita literally the perfect activity for working in an office, what do you mean?
You might have been doing something work-related on your phone. There’s no plausible deniability of that if you’re crocheting.
I have the same problem. I can’t read a book or knit in the office, even if there’s downtime. Because the higher-ups can’t know there’s downtime. It’s our disgusting corporate culture that’s stopping me.
Work-related on your phone personal? I’ve never had a job that would let people use their phones willy-nilly because there might be something “work related”.
Probably some managers don’t like it.
Ouh, do you have any good straw hat pattern?
this is the kind of hats i’ve been making! :D
i started with this tutorial but got confused at some point and started winging it.
to make the hat above it did roughly this:
magic circle for 6 stiches,
then increase in each stich for a total of 12 stiches, then i mark the last stich done this way and continue without rows as one contionous row. the marker acts as a way to know when you’ve made a whole loop.
top: after the increase in every stich i do a basic circle method - so an increase every second stich, then next loop is every third, then every fourth, every fifth etc. until i reach the loop where i increase every 15 stiches. after the 15 stiches loop i stop increasing (because that’s how big my head is, for smaller heads, stop increasing sooner, for bigger, later. though finish most of the hat before judging the size, as at first i thought it’d be too big but then it turned out perfect).
hight: and then i do 13-15 normal loops, basically keep going until it reaches just above or just over your ears, depending on what kind of hat you like wearing
brim: here i used this random tiktok video for how to start the brim. i do exactly the same thing as with that basket, but outward and increasing every 15th stich. after that loop it’s normal increases again, every 16th, 17th, 18th, until you have a brim you’re happy with :)
edit: oh yeah also i used a 250g thread “suitable for macrame crafts” whatever that means, and a 4mm hook :)
edit 2: all single crochet
Welp, it looks great… thank you for the details, Im gonna try it!
i started with a pattern but halfway through i began winging it lol! i can describe my process when i get home though
I know this pattern, lol. I followed it many many times
I totally didn’t ruin 3 good Noita runs at work today.
You don’t ruin good Noita runs. Good Noita runs ruin you.
Usually my own wand ruins me.
I know it’s not much, but can you maybe walk around the office and act like you’re going to meetings or something? At least you can get some steps in. You can also listen to music, podcasts, or audiobooks on headphones while walking around.
I’m a truck driver for the dairy industry and pick up milk from dairy farms. Sound is incredibly important as I need to listen to the pump on my truck for anything wrong or I could burn it out and send shit into my trailer. I also need to listen for when the tanks is empty as it can make a soft noise to tell me it’s time to pull the hose.
I can’t listen to music. I can’t listen to things with headphones. I need to be alert and at the ready in case anything goes wrong. So most of my time waiting is just spent scrolling Lemmy because I can just kill my phone and put in my pocket in an instant if something goes awry or when the milk tank is empty.
I cycle to work so it’s not like I need to get a few extra steps in. Problem with headphones is that my job is to answer phone calls and that would delay putting on the work headphones quite a bit.
Just play without sprites. They’ll be crowning you employee of the month for how deep in the numbers you look like
CDDA has sprites?
Half joking, I do often play it over SSH though.
What’s CDDA? I thought you were talking about listening to music (Compact Disc Digital Audio).
Cataclysm: Dark days ahead
Also check out their specs if you are worried gaming will become impossible with RAM prices.
Everything else costs too much.
There are legitimately people trying to figure out how to monetize it, but sitting outside and watching the sunset is still free. I wish we had more than that left.
Well, yes and no. When I shut down the laptop at night, I’m putting away Lemmy and videogames. When I pick up my phone immediately after, it’s to read Wikipedia in dark mode until I feel sleepy enough, like it’s some kind of nerdy bedtime story.
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Same lol
