If you live in a society, you’ll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary symbol sequences.
I’m talking, of course, about place names, people’s names and … what’cha call’em … words.
(Disclaimer: I’m not in a shower right now.)
I’m probably a minority and very biased, but just for the record: I don’t know why with Debian people always complain about complex or long installation. Are you guys installing the system 5 times a day or what?
I’ve installed Debian few dozens of times over last 15 years and it never really bothered me at all. Yeah, maybe the disk setup could be a bit more straightforward (given that in the last 5 installs i always wanted pretty much the same thing (ie. encrypted disk with LVM on on it and a 1-2G /boot aside), but even there, even if I get a little bit annoyed, since that part can ve pretty dangerous (eg. if installing along other data) and hard to change later. It might be for the better that this part forces me to think.
And no, It’s not just practice over those 15 years; I never complained about the Debian installer at all.
Sure, I get why people would want to just say “use my disk” and “i’m from this city, shut up”, but then again, to me Debian is just not the distro for that. I’m actually happy that the installer is not hiding the steps. And heck, even for a patient beginner, it might be helpful to see a bit what the “anatomy” of the installation is, really about. I get the simplification in the article but no, the installer is not asking you several times where are you from. Location/TZ, apt sources URLs, language and keyboard settings are different questions and people may gain from thinking about them separately.
Again, I get that many people just want to install OS and move on, but then again, isn’t this why Debian derivatives exist? I will probably never install anything else than Debian on my HW but at the same time I would never recommend Debian to an “average” desktop user (unless I know they have the curiosity, bravery and opportunity to undergo the process of learning how their distro works, warts and all.)
Too bad we can’t really do that with movies & series. Cinema aside, I basically start at step 4.
Disclaimer: I’m no expert on any of this whatsoever, I just say what kind of works for me.
First, make sure your body has enough nutrition. For me what helped most is to primarily focus on protein. Because I already know that too much sugar is bad, the next thing is protein. And the funny thing with protein for me is, the protein LED warning light on my control panel is just next to the sugar warning light, so when I’m low on protein, it feels a lot like craving for sugar.
Fat is another question but personally I don’t bother with it too much. That one just kind of becomes sense. Depending on where you live, most things that contain significant amount of fats are either highly processed foods (which you should avoid anyway) or things that also contain protein.
Second, a huge part is sleep. Nutrition is great but it goes to waste if you don’t sleep enough. Lot of things that your body uses all that expensive “fuel” for are happening during sleep.
Personally for me, tracking sleep kind of helps, esp. if I feel depressed, then seeing the stats can help me anchor my mood back to reality. The depressive thoughts and ruminations tend to be heavily speculative, so It helps to add a little bit of fact into the inner dialog. Like “Look maybe we really are a failure and a bad person and a worthless piece of *. Maybe. We’ll never going to be sure but it’s possible and it could explain our current mood. But the other thing that could explain it is also this cold hearted, undeniable fact: we only slept 12 hours of total for last 3 days, sooo… choose your adventure”. That usually helps me to choose to go to sleep and the next day i just feel much better, the “demons” are much much weaker already.
In case you tend to ruminate instead of falling asleep, well, having enough physical activity helps a lot, but other than that, my 2 most powerful tools are physiological sigh (look it up) or “what’s next” meditation: all that is that if i catch my brain ruminating, I try to “ask” it what’s the next topic of rumination. Really, just ask a question with curiosity: after we finish this, what’s going to be next. It works surprisingly well.
My naiive interpretation of why it works so well is that maybe my brain is not all that super interested in the ruminations in the first place, especially if i remind it that ruminations are speculations, which can be useful but—not unlike salt----only to small extent. Maybe it’s kind of just doing it because it’s bored and unfocused, so by asking this “what’s next” in an honest way, it will kind of stop and say “umm, interesting, i don’t know” and start looking into distance. (Here being OK with saying “I don’t know” might be really an important piece.)
Final thing that helped me is to never allow myself to get dragged down by failures to keep up. Sure, skipping for “wrong” reasons (such as forgetting, or just not feeling it[tm]) is bad and all that, but at any point in time, 90% of the win is here: am I going next time? I mean, even if you skip for a year, schedule a next training session and try to focus on getting your a** there.
If you fail to go, just repeat. Don’t let your inner demons convince you that just because you have skipped for “oh such a long time” you are somehow not fit for getting fit. That’s just bollocks and the thing is, if you starve your brain of the other things it needs, it’s more likely to go into this depressive mode which tries to use every trick in the book to convince you not to do anything. It’s worth noting that yeah, depending on how deep you are, going from that point to a better point might need to feel like a leap of faith – that’s expected.
Again, there are legit and important situations when you should rest, and but if you’re like me and tend to fall back easily on the nutrition and sleep side, you can bet that 90% time if you encounter these toxic worries and ruminations, it’s because of these purely technical things for which you can actually make very concrete actions to start improving.
In order of preference:
Streaming services are evil and i wish for them to fail. …but more seriously – I get why streaming services exist. Although I will almost certainly will never use one in my life, in principle it’s fine, I get the point. When I’m online I’m actually OK to stream from an indie radio (eg. soma.fm) or from a RSS based podcast player (eg. Antenna).
The problem i have is that, AFAIK, the business models are almost always abusive and hostile to both user and the artist. Some kind of federated system could work better, but I’m not sure it’s doable. As it is, I’m afraid this middle man model just won’t ever work properly without heavy regulation – which is kind of a problem in the globalized world.
should be “My Cat demonstrating Tool Eat”
All cheese is made by bacteria who live there, so it’s pretty much a building to them!
So I hereby define every cheese by relationship to a building.
(I’m fun at parties.)
That’s only if the exponent is greater than 1.
Future generations will look at people who think AI/Robots are humans as the gullible useful idiots they are.
In this scenario, alcohol is less bad than soda
If by “scenario” you mean you only want to observe single parameter, then fine, but that’s not really useful.
Alcohol is much worse than soda.
the risk of data loss at that point is high. you will miss things
that’s what makes it exciting 😓 😓 😓
Why would it be “practical” to do it during the conversion?
They could just go to the toilet like normal people (before or after).
I mean, I don’t plan to eat anymore until tomorrow, therefore it’s practical that I shit myself now?
I used to love Sailfish OS.
I guess I still do, but the problem is that while they recently expanded amount of devices they support, for some of them the “support” is just not what you think. Eg. I got Xperia 10 V just for the SFOS, but even though on their main list the device is listed as supported, turns out that camera, Android support and fingerprint sensor, these don’t work. To be fair, this info was possible to find on their forums, and I did not have to pay for SFOS (they offer 6 month trial), so they have nothing to gain from communicating so badly, but it is what it is.
So in case you want to try it, just really make sure you know to what extent your device is supported.
OpenTTD player
It’s nice when people guess which AI i used to generate my avatar.
…well, technically, yes.
If you are well-versed in the guts of the distro (grub, /etc/fstab, /etc/crypttab…), and have extra space, you could spend part of your weekend shifting partitions around and moving everything to the encrypted side, and eventually re-configuring your install and removing the old part. (Oh and don’t forget to chown your /home data if you have multiple users.) I’ve been there, it’s not fun. It’s fun[tm]. It’s just far easier and less error prone to re-install if you can.
(Yeah, I’m stretching the definition of “enabling it” reeealy thin here… 🙃 )
“job” … I mean, I barely did anything but I’m happy to take the paycheck for my grandgrandgrand…(cell, or a weird pool of mixing liquids or whatever…)