I’m curious to see what Lemmygrad does in their free time, apart from shitposting on an obscure internet board.
I went out to a park to chill in the shade and read a book / sleep in the grass.
I also spent some time working on my indoor herb garden. My basil started quickly but since a few days, my cilantro has joined the race as well. Unfortunately there are no signs of the spring onions yet, but inshallah they will grow.
I made banana bread with my gf and afterwards we went to a bar.
Today, I will do a workout and follow my cat’s advice of doing absolutely nothing. It’s too hot and with the sun on maximum UV strength, going outside would mean turning into a lobster very quickly.
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My partner and I are on the last few days of our Summer Solstice holiday. We hiked up a local mountain with a friend yesterday and today we’re recovering on the sofa from a week of hiking, hill walking, and slightly-too-much food.
I’m alternating between reading some sci-fi on my e-reader (currently reading Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks), writing some psuedo-code for a single-user headless ActivityPub server I’m thinking of implementing for fun, and brewing tea. I might watch a movie later, if I get the urge.
Earlier, as part of a bonus Solstice gift, I set up my partner’s laptop with an N64 emulator, a USB N64-like controller, and some old games she enjoyed as a child so she’s on the other side of the sofa full of nostalgia and smiling, engrossed in her games.
Our cat is curled up on my feet and stretched out onto my partner’s lap; her favourite cuddle position.
that’s so nice. really heartwarming image of you two I have in my head! 😍
Ah thanks comrade, it was indeed a cosy day!
Worked 2 jobs, sold drugs, helped a gf w.o a car get to and from work, met some of her friends, watched my aunt’s dogs, questionable haunted experience, did way too much drugs, alienated some people, got a call from my best friend for first time in months, walked through the rain, had a panic attack, sold more drugs, did too many drugs, sexual intercourse, tried unsuccessfully to put my phone down, exported some beats, push-ups, met homeless lady, looked at some clouds, sobered up, collapsed from exhaustion, internal battle between theism/atheism, stole extremely fancy alcohol, made some really bomb burritos, disassociated, dispassionate, disassembled and left the pieces lying around wherever, saw Howl’s Moving Castle for the first time, procrastinated music, wrote a song, asked myself where the time went. All of that shit I guess.
dang that’s a lot of living for 48 hours
I’ve been out the last two days with some family. A short weekend trip to a touristy lake which everyone talks about but I hadn’t gotten to before now. Saw a couple cool old cities and towns and an entire island turned into a botanical garden by some feudal descendants of some sort. Grabbed a couple neat craft beers, had dinner on the lake shore, avoided all but the most mild sunburn. It’s been a decent weekend.
Sounds like a perfect weekend
Contrary to my username, I spent pretty much all of yesterday asleep. Today I’m gonna make the lemmy UI look good on larger screens.
I installed Gentoo alongside Debian and Windows, took me an entire day 😅
Also I saw on distrowatch that there is an open source OS on development that can run Windows stuff natively (.exe programs and all these things), It’s called ReactOS. I tried installing it on my PC but the USB just wouldn’t boot :(
And this isn’t from my weekend but I discovered that I absolutely love the KDE Classic cursors for some reason. I guess it’s because they are so simple and kinda give retro vibes.
ReactOS has been in the pipeline for a long time I believe. Have they made much breakthroughs recently? Would be legitimately awesome if they got it to be usable, kinda have my doubts about its viability as a true windows alternative though tbh, as awesome as it would be.
I tried to install it in a VM to test it a little, and currently it feels like an old Windows version. Performance is not very good on Virtualbox so I gave up on the VM and tried to test it on real hardware, but as I said earlier I couldn’t boot the USB. Not sure how much progress has been made since this was my first time seeing the OS, but I really hope they succeed.
Gentoo! I am a Gentoo user, too. How do you like it so far?
And don’t worry about your first install taking an entire day, my first install took me two days…
It’s being a good experience so far, though I do have to say that installing stuff in portage is not as straightforward as for example apt, since packages take a while to install and sometimes there is “masked” stuff which takes me a few extra steps to install.
Also googling stuff about Gentoo seems to flood the results with “how to install Gentoo” which is kinda inconvenient, but not really Gentoo’s fault.
Well I’m only saying negative stuff about it but I genuinely am enjoying the experience.
reactOS sort of works, but you’re better off using linux imo.
Yesterday, I spent the day with my girlfriend and my roommate, we went to a local Filipino festival (both of them are Filipino), kinda boring, mostly just groups recruiting and realtors peddling their services. Otherwise a good day.
Today, I went for a 25km bike ride around the city, along the beach to the main university for the region for lunch. Total 140m elevation gain. Feeling proud of myself, not the longest ride, but one of the toughest hills I’ve done so far. (NW Marine Drive towards UBC for any locals, feel free to send a message if you are!)
Yesterday, I got breakfast at a restaurant with my family including some who live out of state. I practiced ping-pong, looked at memes, and listened to podcasts. I went outside for an hour and a half hacking at vines with a hatchet (while listening to the audiobook of ‘decolonial marxism’). Today, I’m forced to be at church and there is a church potluck later. I intend to pick berries later.
I stayed inside with a fan
We’re all your fan
thanks Dank
Potty training, unsuccessfully. I think we’ve concluded the kiddo needs more time before jumping in. I’ve never experienced stress on the levels of a walking talking pee bomb before. I’ve been on high alert all weekend, and had to call in some backup today. It leaves you exposed.
Whoever you think you are, wait until a toddler is marching around the house with no sense of reason, no diaper (instead, undies), and no bladder control. You’ll know just how easy you’ll crack under pressure.
It’ll come with time I guess.
You really do sacrifice a large portion of your identity for the sake of your kids. But I can’t wait until they are able to enjoy the things we enjoy. Until then I am but a humbled Sheppard, working on enjoying the things they currently enjoy.
Sounds like you have a great outlook on parenting comrade! Your child seems lucky to have you!
That makes me feel better about this weekend, thanks! Yesterday I was the patient one, we had some success. Today I was not the patient one and we had catastrophic failure. Definitely was feeling guilty. But they bounced back after we decided to pause and was clearly trying to cheer me up. It was sweet. We also have a 1mo, which only compounds the stress 😅.
becoming a parent soon… man, what am I in for
It’s a trip! Full of highs and lows, but, as cheesey as it sounds – nothing is more rewarding! You’ll have sleepless nights, you’ll be grumpy, but one day you’ll be grumpy and your kid will look at you and say “why you grumpy!?” And snap right out of it. Every time my daughter does that I can’t help but laugh. it’s almost accusatory in tone! She’s a cheeky kiddo.
kiddo needs more time before jumping in.
Maybe he would have more success if he sat instead. :P
Worked a little bit on lemmy code base, tried writing a script that can generate an absurd number of posts and comments in my local setup to test some optimisations but I got bored and lost interest. Started reading this book “The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India’s Partition” but have not made much progress.
It’s so hot I don’t want to do anything except drink beer and play Top Spin 4.
I’ve never looked into it but does the subreddit simulator guy from reddit open source his code / model? That might be an interesting way to populate an instance and test stuff.
I’ll check it out. Thanks a lot.
I was performing in a musical, it was pretty cool.
Which one!
Together with my wife trying to not get mad with our 20 month boy in heat and eating very unhealthy food 😁
Saturday I visited my grandmother and I took a pair of pants to be fixed, I looked for my dog that ran away when I saw the garage open, and soon he came home, and in the afternoon I ran 7km, and at night I went out and had dinner.
Your weekend sounds top notch. It’s definitely important to allocate yourself some time to just rest.
My saturday I worked about 13 hours between my two jobs, and then played Diablo 4 with some friends online. Sunday I have to write a test for a course I’m taking that I’ve been putting off, and other than that I’m gonna go attend a football/soccer match in the afternoon and then just relax and try to recuperate for the week ahead.
I always want to go out partying on my weekends but as I get older I have to pick and choose, as it pretty much writes off the entire next day and potentially part of the following day. I have too much that needs to be done for that. At the same time I find it so boring if I’m not out.
Those hangovers do be getting more intense. I go out to party once every few months or so. I used to party like 4-5 times a week some years ago but that’s just not happening these days. I switched to drinking superb Belgian craft beers in bars though. Much more fun to be able to properly talk to everyone and not drink 27 different drinks in one night.
