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  • This sounds amazing. It's unfortunate that Graphene OS has so much toxicity around it, but this design decision is amazing. Love it.

    I tried quickly looking for the feature, but I couldn't find it. I searched for "Graphene OS Matrix chat homepage guest user", "Graphene OS chat homepage guest user", "Graphene OS chat homepage", and "Graphene OS homepage QR" but didn't find what you mentioned.

  • This ticks all the boxes! Thanks! I suppose something I didn't contemplate is that I would like to close the chat and still be able to get notifications on my phone. I don't want to always have a dozen chats open, ready for the other party to send me a message. Regardless, I'm glad this project exists!

  • A couple of years ago I tried using the original Atkinson Hyperlegible (the one published a couple of years ago, before "Next") on GNOME and my settings didn't quite work. I had scaling at around 100% and increased the font size a little bit because I was having a hard time reading the font (the irony!). You inspired me to try again, but now with Atkinson Hyperlegible Next!

  • I could be wrong, but I think they’re wealthy enough for money not to be important in that sense. If they accept you, they want to minimize barriers for you to attend.

    That doesn’t mean that most of the people who get in have been trained for years for that and have loads of money. In other words, the problem is social inequality.

  • Depends on whether the team I am in uses Scrum or not.

    If the team uses Scrum, everything is on the backlog, so rarely do I need personal lists.

    If the team doesn't use Scrum, then I set up my own personal Scrum board. That way, I can deal better with people coming in and saying "hey, snek_boi, this task that I just thought of is urgent and I need you to drop everything you're doing and do this now". With the Scrum board, I can then ask them if what they need me to do is more important than whatever's on top of my personal backlog, and often they themselves realize their 'urgent' task is actually not that urgent.

    Since you asked about software, I've used Taiga and Notion.

    Also, I used to do GTD religiously, but now I mainly use Scrum because it forces me to ruthlessly prioritize. Since you asked about apps, I'll tell you that when I did GTD, I used Joplin with Syncthing (or some combination of Syncthing and a local notes app). I switched to StandardNotes before stopping doing GTD altogether. Maybe I'll come back to GTD in the future.

    I also almost started Bullet Journaling, buying the journal and all, but a friend of mine was quite depressed and seemed to need it more so I gave it all to him.

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  • You care about love. You wrote this post. You mentioned someone who loved you as "wholesome". You say you want to stop avoiding intimacy.

    I'd dare to say you care about love, belonging, kindness, safety, and independence. I may be wrong with some or all of those, and I'm sorry if I misread you or made assumptions. However, feel free to write your own list of things that you care about. We humans care where we hurt and we hurt where we care. Think about your experience with love, intimacy, and relationships. Notice when something that hurts pops up. What would you not have to care about for this not to hurt?

    It's also important to notice that brain is trying to protect you. It's trying to avoid the pain it has perceived in the past, the pain it (rightly or wrongly) predicts will appear in your future. It's important to recognize its suggestions, its predictions, its interpretations. In case you don't already do mindfulness practices in any way, you may consider taking it up. It's important to be careful with what kind of mindfulness you do, because unfortunately there's a lot of bad mindfulness out there, misinformation, incorrect takes, etc. Mindfulness as presented in programs like Healthy Minds are science-based and really helpful.

    Once again, the reason I'm recommending mindfulness is because when you notice your brain's advice, it's easier to choose what kind of person you want to be. Once you know where you're standing, it's easier to take steps to where you want to go.

    Just to comment on relationships. You mentioned that in a relationship it's possible or likely that there's "a whole-ass human depending on you or giving herself to you in every way". Yes, some people think this is how relationships work, but it's not the only way. You could read Sue Johnson's Hold Me Tight to see how relationships can be different. The book might also be helpful to you because it explains how humans try to protect themselves even though they want to be close to each other.

    Yes, love can be intoxicating "like a drug". Seeing love through the lens of drugs suggests that we lose control with love. However, if you're mindful about how it feels, you can both feel its beautiful sensations and also soberly choose what kind of person you want to be. Mindfulness, connection, and personal fulfillment can all coincide with a romantic relationship. Of course, it's possible to be mindful, connected, and fulfilled without a romantic relationship, but it seems like you think the path towards a healthy romantic relationship is something you predict could make your life meaningful. You're not alone; plenty of humans seek love in that way.

    Others have suggested getting professional help. If so, you could consider looking for an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy therapist or a Coherence Therapy therapist.

    To readers of this text who have seen my responses to other people, you may think that I see every situation as a nail that I hammer with my EFT, mindfulness, and ACT hammers. On the one hand, I ask whether you truly believe these situations would not benefit from those approaches. After all, they are evidence-based, trans-diagnostic, and have helped millions of people. On the other hand, it's not necessary to follow the resources that I suggest; it's possible to gain connection, awareness, and psychological flexibility in many ways. It's a matter of finding what works for you.

    I hope this helps.

    • Power and Progress and Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and others.
    • There’s also Freedom Rising by Christian Welzel. It’s quite technical, so many won’t find it engaging. I loved it.
    • Violence and Social Orders by North, Barry, and Weingast.
  • Do you know if it yellows over time or with sun exposure? Friends with transparent phone cases usually end up with yellow cases, unless they specifically have some specially treated plastic. I don’t know if that is rare in filaments

  • I have three running bets with friends. I bet ties and suits will no longer exist in 100 years and we will see them in the same way we see seventeenth century wigs. While they argue we will all be dead by then, I argue that, regardless, we will not see any ties or suits.

  • Totally unrelated, but I’m wondering if you saw the Boost post a couple of days ago: it is not private and sends your data to advertisers 😢 Maybe seek for an alternative? There are many ☺️

  • Huh. That’s interesting. Are the MacOS coreutils incapable or not user-friendly in some way? Or is it more that they’re too different for people who know GNU and BSD coreutils?

    I also wonder if their coreutils are open source. I quickly tried searching here but couldn’t find an answer https://opensource.apple.com/releases/