I'll second this. OP you don't even need to leave the house (altho I will advocate for a trip to library in that it will do your mental health wonders).
Reading has a low point of entry (find a book and open it), a close to zero failure rate (so long as you're base-level literate) endlessly scalable and has a tonne of bonuses. Education? Check. Escapism? Check. Free? Check (your library might even have an online service for eBooks, or you can hoist the black flag.
Also, if socialising is tough for you, being well-read will give you more to talk, make you more interesting, and my favourite? Join a book club! You can engage with people over a shared interest.
I just canceled our last holdout (appletv+, who put out a surprising amount of S-tier content) in order to pay for real-debrid.
I've switched over from mulitple apps (including plex) to a single stremio+torrentio and I don't understand why I didn't do this sooner. Anything I want to watch streams immediately in 4k. altho I might upgrade to premiumize.me instead because they use usenet and ddl links, so more likely to have older content.
I don't have a proper solution for my iOS phone yet tho, but I rarely watch content on my phone anyway.
depending on how often you do it you could buy a little butane stove from bunnings. We changed to induction and i'm in love with it, even tho i thought I would hate it. But yeah, I use the little camp stove for stirfrys and charring vegetables.
That some day all of the good things in my life could disappear, without me even doing anything. The fleetingness of real happiness and the fact that constant euphoria is unattainable. That I’m not living up to my potential, that I’m being exploited and under valued, that I’m never present for my emotions because I self medicate and distract.
Also my dad just died and I didn’t think it would affect me much because we didn’t have a great relationship. But yesterday I woke up from a dream where he was alive and the happiness I felt to see him again was immediately crushed by the relalisation that I would never see him again, and he’d miss everything from here on out. I was inconsolable, still am tbf
But also I’m in therapy and take prescribed meds that work for me, so I’m doing my best.
This might not be an answer but my worked also requested us come in 2 days a week. So I ride my bike in around 11am and back home about 1pm. WFH the rest of the hours. I’m all about malicious compliance.
I have about 15TB of media stored, I like 4K HDR DV content and tend to rewatch stuff a lot. I don't store anything that I have access to on a streaming service (unless it's not available in 4K)
Same attitude as not helping the needy from other countries because we have needy of our own here. Using money for one thing does not mean less money for another, equal, thing. Unlearn this.
Well, for one, you’re reducing your lifespan, so you’ll be less of a burden on the healthcare system later in life because you’ll be dead. But that’s obviously ignoring the massive burden on the healthcare system you’ll be when you’re being treated for various cancers.
Sheets and productivity tools libre office or Apache open office
YouTube - Invidious or even better, odysse
Google search - duck duck go, SearXNG, StartPage, etc
Gmail - not a ton of great options. I’d probably recommend proton mail but the FOSS email world is definitely lacking, or gets blocked or goes down, harder to self host etc.
And I agree for sure. In order I use firefox (and brave sometimes), Proton Drive, Apple Productivity suite (pages, numbers etc), and either startpage or qwant, and proton mail. I do still use use YouTube Premium, but the point is Google doesn't need to have its fingers in every aspect of my digital life.
i immediately got defensive at this, but that's just my sunk cost fallacy speaking. The fact that it's a suite is what originally sold me; cancel my 1password/dropbox/PIA and still have money left over. But yeah apart from proton mail everything else is halfbaked, and in the case of protonpass i'd call it undercooked/raw.
I've switched away from 1password to proton recently.
it's fine, it's far less accurate than 1p was. Let this be a caution, 1password is great for user experience, I hardly noticed it because it always worked. Proton can't see every login field, doesn't know when to suggest a new password, won't save passwords after it has suggested one, doesn't update login credentials after updated passwords etc etc.
I'm unsure about bitwarden in particular, but I can vouch for the fact that a less intelligent app might be a dealbreaker for some.
I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, my point is more steeped in caution. The uninformed don’t know there is a difference between the software and the instances run by the devs, I just don’t want this federated space to be associated with controversy while it’s young. There is plenty more we can say to promote reddit alternatives.
Yeah this is where I fall in my thought process. Lemmy is a tool like any other software, it can be used by good and evil for good and evil. I just want to exercise caution when advertising a reddit alternative that one such alternative is already experiencing controversy (earned or not).
Maybe a “viva la fediverse” would make more sense if someone wanted to cause a stir on r/place
I'll second this. OP you don't even need to leave the house (altho I will advocate for a trip to library in that it will do your mental health wonders).
Reading has a low point of entry (find a book and open it), a close to zero failure rate (so long as you're base-level literate) endlessly scalable and has a tonne of bonuses. Education? Check. Escapism? Check. Free? Check (your library might even have an online service for eBooks, or you can hoist the black flag.
Also, if socialising is tough for you, being well-read will give you more to talk, make you more interesting, and my favourite? Join a book club! You can engage with people over a shared interest.