Transcendant

There's also an amazing book I found very helpful, by noted Mind Wizard, Derren Brown. It's just called 'Happy'. It's available as an audio book if you don't enjoy reading... stars off going over why common self help techniques are ineffective, then gets into mental techniques to strengthen our mind and increase our happiness.

I'd say it made me about 25% happier, priceless (literally cause Audible offer one free audio book to new members!Just make sure to cancel within 28 days, you get to keep the audio book)

As someone who struggles often with depression (bipolar II), something I find really helpful is the concept that we feed our consciousness like we feed our stomachs. If we put bad food in, our health suffers; and similarly if we consume a lot of media that's stressful, anxiety inducing, or stuff like horror / reality TV... Unsurprisingly it can plant seeds of anxiety and stress that make stressors in our life more difficult to deal with.

When I find myself getting quite sad I fill my mind with comedy, silly TV shows like What We Do In The Shadows / Parks & Rec / It's Always Sunny. Or stand-up. Anything that makes me laugh. Do you have any go-to shows that lift your mood?

Not sure if it's a real fact or one of those made up things we Al collectively believe... But don't we have a hard limit of thr number of close people we can keep track of based on our initial tribal evolution? Iirc it's around 50. So yeah if someone drops off the radar on social media it's hard to notice sometimes.

Reaching out is often intimidating, it comes with the risk of being rejected which can hurt way, way more than being forgotten.

Really sorry this has been your experience. I've moved around a fair bit from a young age and I learned pretty quickly that if I don't make the effort to stay in touch with people, very few of them will check in. Only a few true friends.

If I rationalise it, it's because few people are genuinely selfless; most of us are wrapped up in our own lives and problems. Also, please don't let social media interaction dictate how you perceive the world. When we're less active (or inactive), sites like Facebook decrease the amount we're shown to other people. At the moments when we need social interaction the most, social media can make it more difficult to get genuinely caring interactions.

I don't have any suggestions for how you can fix it other than to try and find some IRL connections / groups / activities where you can have some genuine experiences and hopefully make some connections with kinder people.

Not sure if you'll see any of this Stamets, as maybe you blocked me after our interaction the other week when you said I was being aggressively negative about Modern Family. But you are clearly well liked and respected here on lemmy, that's not imaginary or fake. Hopefully you can find a way to make similar connections irl in 2024 and make some kind friends!

Yep I definitely took it wrong, one of the problems with text only communication... No body language or audio cues! No worries.

The devs of my audio interface have definitely been asked a fair bit about Linux compatibility... But considering they've not even bothered bringing their new DAW to PC, it seems they're strongly focussed on mac ecosystems only for the foreseeable.

Personally I think compatibility should be a two way street pun not intended! But unfortunately companies tend to vote with our wallets, so until Linux becomes even more established I doubt they will dedicate much if any resources to making their devices work on it. Shame.

I bought a new audio interface for live work a few months back, went for an audient id24 partly because it's Linux compatible (although no native drivers). So I will get stuck in at some point. I started using PCs back when floppy disks were actually floppy so I'm not afraid of command line stuff!

Tell Sauron, he's a GOD DAMNED WHORE!

Lawyer: you do realise I can't tell sauron anything, because he's dead?

None of the main adobe suite works on Linux either, so let's not pretend my use case is so narrow. Literally none of the programs I use to work (Cubase, Audition, After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere, yes I can install a virtual windows machine but that completely defeats the purpose) works with Linux. And from what I gather last time I researched this, hardly any audio interfaces are Linux compatible. Most of the games I want to play also are not Linux-compatible.

Fact of the matter is, despite the large dedicated userbase (which I appreciate), it still has a giant gap where many prosumers and casual users cannot utilise it. It's no good saying "ahhh well YOU'RE not compatible with US! No u!". I'd love to switch and tbh am strongly considering a setup for live PA that's Linux based, in the hope that it brings greater stability. But it's going to be a large investment of time, and I'll have to buy a different audio interface if I have a hope of making it work.

I hate to defer to a random comment because as is well established, Einstein famously said "don't believe everything you read on the internet"... but the dictionary has to be deferred to, and it backs up your comment. I stand corrected, thanks for the info!

I looked up the dictionary definition in a fit of pedantry earlier and they're right, they do refer to distinct different things. The more you know ey!

You see it across all kinds of media; whether it's a song you like, or a game, or a film, or a TV show... If you dare to say online you're a fan, someone will swiftly be along to inform you that your opinion is wrong, your show is bad, your taste is bad, and you should feel bad

I've started to give way less of a fuck about comments like that. Some people are very sad / small, and can only make themselves feel less so for a brief moment by trying to ruin the enjoyment of others. It's OK not to like things, there's plenty of things I don't like 😁 but it's fine to me if other people like those things, different strokes for different folks.

A distinction I did not make, good point. Maybe I misunderstand, I thought emojis and emoticons were the same thing.

Or is it an "all emojis are emoticons, but all emoticons are not emojis" kinda situation?

How much of the current lemmy base are ex-reddit? I remember emoticons being heavily frowned upon there. It may be a cultural hangover from the rexodus peeps.