bloopernova @ bloopernova @programming.dev

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I stopped talking to mine when he went batshit because I wouldn't help him get onto Tor/darkweb. He wouldn't say why he wanted to access it, and he got angry when I said I didn't want to get involved.

Then he accused me of being a "tony blair lover" which is kinda bizarre to me because I don't live in the UK anymore.

It was a very strange interaction!

That DM deletion was just pure lazy bland evil.

I'm assuming they did it because they didn't want to spend engineer time improving their message system. Or some old USB disk on a forgotten computer had filled up.

I thought most of his protection detail were true believer conservatives? I think they'd either applaud and go with him, or he'd give them the slip. Via the application of brown envelopes full of cash.

I don't understand why the republicans want to be in power. Climate change disasters are arriving faster and faster now, who the fuck would want to be responsible for governing during that mess?!?

Are you a novelty account or for real?

On the off chance you are for real: nobody, not even trump, can turn your clock back to your good old days.

I bet $20 that trump won't get convicted of anything. But I also bet $20 that he flees to russia if he does.

And the clown music gets louder and louder.

I love them. The weirdness. The Miles Teg speed thing. I really wish Frank had managed to continue to tell the story.

What do you feel from watching it? What exactly about it appeals to you?

With the issues that Lemmy clients have blurring content, and the problems some people have marking things NSFW or NSFL, I think that gore should be kept to its own instance.

I imagine that there's quite a few people who would marry Barack, given a chance.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Said by a friend who, in the late 90s, copied a dozen albums to minidisk for me. He named all the albums and track names using a remote to select each letter one by one. It must have taken him many hours to do it. But he wanted to do a good job. Up up up up A right, up up up up up f, etc etc. Utterly tedious but he wanted to do a good job.

Troodon (sp?)

Wasn't pigozhin 🐷🐖 seen arriving at a meeting with pootin?

Ploopy.

Open source QMK firmware, 3D printed with STL files available. Loads of buttons. It's by far the best mouse I've ever used.

https://ploopy.co/mouse/

I prefer the Adama Maneuver.

This is amazing:

"When you see me taking my glasses off, I’m ready to rock,” Chapman said.

The original book by HG Wells had the aliens die off suddenly, defeated by Earth's bacteria and viruses. So the story has always had that plot of "and suddenly the bad guys all died!"

I'm also using "Finch" which is a really nice self help app. It's best if you can use it with a couple of other people, because it's gamified a bit and people visiting your little bird avatar is fun.

You can add to do items, make them recurring, multiple times a day, etc etc. When you complete an item, your little adventuring Finch character gets a boost.

I highly recommend it for a cutesy fun laid back way to manage recurring self help tasks like "survive the day" and "take a shower".

https://finchcare.com/

Several things worked for me:

• At the beginning of my work day, I have to login to Jira and view my tickets. I visualize myself doing that, and then creating my to-do list for the day from org-mode. It brings forward unfinished tasks from the previous day, so there's a process or workflow: log in, open Jira, start new to-do file, compare file with Jira, update either Jira or the to-do file or both. I guess it works because it's not just the to-do list, it's several other things happening at the same time. So you're not "updating a to-do list" you're "starting work for the day". Reframing the action can sometimes help.
• Gaming it. If I get asked for a status update, I get "points" if I have the information I was asked for already in either Jira or my to-do file. That's enough for a little dopamine reward because I was prepared. This follows a thread in my life where I really value being prepared ahead of time. Like anticipating cars ahead of me and braking before they do. How much of the future can I predict and adapt to with the minimum effort?
• Visualizing. This is a bit woo-adjacent. I picture myself sitting down at my desk and remembering my to-do list. It works for me, but most people look at me like I'm a Sasquatch or something! Visualize doing something the next time you sit at a particular desk, or when you enter the office. I hope it works for others too!

If I think of more I'll add it in other comments. I really hope you can find some tricks that work for you!

For me, I have to write things down to remember to do them. So I've formed a habit around writing in org-mode both as reminders and for planning.

When I plan some complex code, I write out the steps in an org-mode document and move sections around, rearrange steps, etc etc.

Making the experience as smooth as possible can help, but mostly I think my workflow has been "someone asks me to do something. I immediately write it down so I don't lose it."