I'm pretty sure that's it! I still have it installed on my phone. Give it a shot and see if it's helped after like two weeks. I depended on it while I traveled for power plant outages and worked 7 12s per week.
Idk if it still is a thing, but like 8 years ago I used an app that I think was called Sleep For Android. This was before smart watches were a thing, so this was a tool to help monitor my sleep, especially for my weird and irregular work/sleep schedules. There were two awesome features that it had which I highly recommend you find a way to make use of:
Bedtime alert. Based on your waking alarm time and trending sleep quality stats, it would tell me when to start winding down for bed and give me a target time to be tucked in with eyes closed, ready to sleep.
Variable waking alarm. Based on its estimation of where you are in your sleep schedule, your alarm may shift up to like 20 minutes before your target alarm time to pull you from a lighter sleep state so you feel less groggy.
I'm hoping this app or something like it is available to you so you can get back on track!
Running and jumping all the time without issue. I'm not old per se, but I'm no spring chicken. I'm only 35, in decent shape, and I have a pretty active job, but I still cringe at the thought of the sheer impact of landing from jumping as high as I can. I was not kind to my knees in my late teens and early twenties. And I'm so goddamn tired.
America? Wanting instability in an oil-rich region? That's pretty much as optimally equidistant from the most major first-world economies as is possible?
Hey look, another bigot who can't tell the difference between gender, sex, and the congressional industrial military complex. It must be confusing thinking that non-binary people might be tanks or cruise missiles or whatever. But it gets easier to figure out once you get that high school diploma.
And it's not wrong to call them that. We are entitled to social programs that we paid into. The issue is the popularity of people saying that some are "entitled" instead of "self-entitled".
I heard Tenet sucked, so it was firmly in the maybe column on my list of movies to watch. I finally watched it and was really fascinated by it. I didn't like it nearly as much as Inception and Interstellar, but it was a fun movie with unique ideas. I don't know how it got such a shitty reputation. I think people were just dumb and rather than admitting that they didn't get it they said that the movie was bad. It was certainly flawed in several ways, but it didn't deserve the level of criticism it got when it came out.
Rest is important. Doing nothing during your time off may be a sign that you're in need of more rest than you're typically giving yourself. But that's not necessarily the case. It's important to understand the difference between feeling guilty for doing nothing while you're off vs being distracted from your unhappiness while you're at work. If it's actually the latter, make sure you're getting sunlight, fresh air, healthy food, vitamins, and enough sleep. Once those needs are met, it's time to move on to feeding your mind, body, and soul the things that it wants. Puzzles, exercise, and art. Puzzles could mean playing Portal or building something with Lego or rearranging your kitchen to be more efficient for you to use. Exercise could mean going to the gym or riding a bike or hiking or dancing. Art could be drawing or playing a musical instrument or fucking around with some play-doh or visiting a museum or making a video and editing it even if you don't plan on showing it to anybody; feel something or make something you can feel a sense of accomplishment for having created.
I personally like to get chores and errands done early on a day off and then I feel momentum from that to actively enjoy the rest of my day. My go-to art these days is cooking for my wife and I, sometimes throwing together cocktails to enjoy while we chat and I prep and cook. Life is precious and finite, and doomscrolling is endless. Put the phone down every once in a while and challenge yourself to be comfortable with being bored, and then reach for something new to end that boredom. It's hard to start but like anything else it gets easier and you get better at it with time and practice.
No joke. I've been blown away by what my old used Steam Deck is capable of to the point that I've already decided that I'm done with Windows. I'll probably build a new PC soon (my 2015 laptop is only about as powerful as the Steam Deck) and I'm currently favoring Nobara as my replacement OS when I pull the trigger on parts and get started building. As somebody else pointed out, some games like Call of Duty use kernel based anticheat so only Windows will work for those games, but the only competitive online multiplayer game I ever play is Rocket League and that works pretty well on my Steam Deck as is. If you're already a PC gamer, you're used to having to do some troubleshooting here and there, and it seems like it's maybe 1-5% more work to troubleshoot those occasional issues when you're running Linux. I'm not a computer whiz or anything, just semi decent at eventually figuring out logic. If you can figure out how to get a Lemmy account and use an app for it on your phone, you can figure out gaming on Linux.
I'm using the Pixel 5a. Solid phone, low price, unlocked so it can move networks, virtual SIM ready, 5G capable, and it has a headphone jack. Mine is a few years old and still cruising along just fine. I think they were under $500 at launch, so don't believe anybody's bullshit about headphone jacks drastically raising costs.
I just checked and even new, base model ones are right around the price point I said. I'll keep an eye on Nissan. I have heard good things about Kia/Hyundai EVs too but I haven't done much research. I'm hoping to not need a new vehicle for a long while, so I'm not particularly motivated to dig deep yet.
So Biden blocked Chinese EV from entering the American market in order to keep automaker CEOs wealthy af? I feel like this is a silly question to bring up, but why is it that a car can be built in China, shipped to the other side of the planet, eat the cost of tariffs, and it's still either so good or so cheap that it is dangerous competition to American automakers? It kinda feels like we only encourage free market capitalism until old money gets challenged by innovation. It's frustrating. We want boring, basic sedans with limited features with EV tech slapped inside instead of ICE tech, and we want to pay under $25k for it. I'm all for phasing out ICE vehicles, but every EV is a luxury vehicle at a time when half the country is living paycheck to paycheck. We need uncool, cheap EVs to replace uncool, cheap gasoline cars. We need a Prius or Yaris of EVs. We need Civic and Accord EVs. Taurus, Impala, Neon, Escort, etc. Average Americans don't want and cannot afford a goddamn EV Escalade or whatever.
I operate a ZLD plant processing blowdown for a combined cycle power plant. I have two computers at my desk. The left computer is for email, data entry, training, and monitoring a few power block and BOP things via PI; this is with two monitors, one above the other. The right computer is for operating the plant directly and monitoring native trends; this is with four monitors, 2x2.
I'd say I don't need more than this, but I would feel some pain if I had fewer. I would love to have another monitor or two to display camera feeds, but my plant never figured out how to get the cameras set up so we just climb ladders to look into sight glass windows once in a while. Or I might be the only one who actually bothers with that lol. Really the 4 monitor rig could and probably should be replaced by a big 4k screen if the software supports windowed instances instead of full screen like we have been running. It wouldn't surprise me if this POS program can't do that though.
I'm pretty sure that's it! I still have it installed on my phone. Give it a shot and see if it's helped after like two weeks. I depended on it while I traveled for power plant outages and worked 7 12s per week.