YourHuckleberry

I get routines that, once I get started, it's hard to stop.

For instance, take a shower, brush teeth, go to bed.

If I get really dirty and have to take a shower at noon, I have to actively remind myself NOT to brush my teeth and yes, even not to get into pajamas.

The inherent problem is money. Sites that store and serve text can be very cheaply run. Sites that store and serve video are expensive. The storage and throughput demands are much higher. In order to get videos to load quickly, you need a CDN. Nobody of average means can run a TikTok clone as a hobby.

I was trying to find the video where the guy actually solved the problem, and I stumbled on to this https://youtu.be/mokllJ_Sz_g

Apparently there are more, The Expert videos and they're all spot on.

My younger brother literally learned letters so he could type the DOS commands that would launch the games we had on our family PC. This would have been 1993 and he was 5. Guess who now has a successful career in IT?

Office Depot sells printers at very low (or even negative) margin, and then inflates the margins on cables, paper, ink, and warranty. If you want the best deal, get the printer from OD, and everything else you need somewhere else. That $20 USB cable they sell costs them $1 and you can get the same or better online for $2.68.

Don't buy anything from Amazon. Convince others to join your cause.

So should we display full usernames by default? What's going to happen when someone important, IRL, wants to interact with Lemmy?

If you don't do the important things in life you'll die. Your genes built the dopamine system to make sure you'll do those things. Your dopamine system doesn't function correctly. When you do a life sustaining thing, your broken dopamine system says, "meh, that was a waste of time, don't do that again or you'll die. Do something that does give dopamine."

Here's my hack. Give your brain dopamine. Figure out the things that engage you and make you feel good. If you're engaged and feeling good, it's because the dopamine is flowing. I like reading, video games, TV, and interesting complex problems. Right after I do a boring task, I reward myself with some dopamine. I play a game or I work on an interesting problem. I treat my brain like a labrador. Good boy have a treat. The bigger the task the bigger the reward.

Slightly less helpful but still good is affirmations. When you do something good, take a moment to recognize it, just to yourself. "I cleaned my room, which is good. I should feel good about it." It sounds corny, but it helps.

Is ChatGPT the new LMGTFY?

Or my favorite, "here let me show you how to use a calendar."

Great, next maybe you could teach a blind kid to ride a bike.

Here's me in 6th grade, reading at a college level, learning algebra, picking up coding because it's fun, and you think the problem is that I don't conceptually get calendars?

In capitalism, if you don't work, some capitalist pig will throw your family out on the streets, whereas in communism, if you don't work, some communist pig will throw your family in jail.

I have seen HDDs advertised as WI (write intensive), RI (read intensive), and MU (mixed use). The advertising says that the WI drives will last longer under write intensive loads. I don't know how much truth there is to that.