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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Damnit. Thanks for the heads-up!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

~~Suunto is a Finnish brand. I don't know much about them, but I'd explore them once my Garmin reaches the end of its lifecycle.~~

Edit: Suunto was sold to a Chinese company, read the reply to this comment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

@[email protected], where are you? Now this was absolutely a surprise to me, that this was, in fact, not real, just a satire (which I learned from the comments).

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Zuckerberg has mental illness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Don't use your phone at night. If you absolutely have to, enable adaptive warm light (if there's such a feature on your phone), which gradually turns the white balance to warm in the evening. This is because staring at the screen will send the signals to your brain to wake up, especially the blue-ish spectrum of light, plus whatever content you're engaging with (news, social media, texts from friends) will make your mind occupied.

But again, best is to not use your phone at all.

Read a book. Pick a topic you're interested in, buy a book and just read before you sleep. Yes, I see the contradiction - an interesting book will make your mind occupied too. Yet I find that a book relaxes me in my own world, while on your phone you'll meet many different topics, lots of quick stimuli, maybe that's why. I don't know.

These strategies work for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thank you for showing me this valuable piece of information. No, I haven't seen these before.

Until now, I'm 100% confident that it's impossible to convince someone on the far-right of anything that's against their views, because I'm from a country that is 15 years ahead of the US on this tragic path into the dark future far away from common sense, thus I have a somewhat clear prediction for the general mental state of the people in the coming decades, which likely cannot be reversed in a century.

Yet, I'm thinking quite often, what I could do as an individual to at least somewhat better the situation in this miserable world. And so far all my ideas are based on withdrawal of content (much like how you take drugs away from a junkie) instead of adding arguments, which is obviously hard to pull off on a large scale.

Not that I could do anything though. Today you need to be rich to achieve something.

Nonetheless, maybe this is the missing piece to the puzzle. I'm considering to pay those extra bucks for that publication, also Welzel's book; they look promising. So thanks again for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Possible, but better not make it. When an algorithm has to promote something, there's bias behind it, whether it's a good intent or not. Even if it's all good content, some other, also good content might be missed, because the algorithm or the authority behind the algorithm misses it.

In my opinion, Mastodon is perfect as it is. You see what you're following. Or on the home page you see everything.

People should really really really learn to seek for quality content and develop a sense for quality and also to exercise critical thinking while trying to separate quality content from garbage. Pick what you wanna see and don't let yourself be influenced by a stupid algorithm.

Just consuming whatever an app pushes into your face makes you a brainless zombie in the long term.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I got the joke right away, I don't think there's any problem with it.

The thing is, no matter how obvious a contradiction is, far-right folks won't understand any of it, because they're so dumb. You cannot give them even the most basic, easily digestible facts and explanations, because even that requires a brain, which they don't have.

So I think, these kind of jokes are perfectly fine for our entertainment, and no amount of facts and information will ever convince the dumbest of the people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Use less for checking contents of files. Many people use cat all the time, but I don't like it, because if you do that often, your terminal window quickly gets flooded with stuff, and then you have to scroll up and down if you wanna see a previous output. With less, your file opens in a different "frame", which you can close when you're done.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Nothing. I picked a distro that works for me out of the box. On top of that I only installed stuff, instead of replacing stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's a great resource for when you know what you're looking for, but I wouldn't use it for learning new stuff. It's like if you were trying to learn a language from a dictionary.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's basically how I learned programming. I've bought a book I was interested in, an as I was progressing, always typed the sample codes by hand and tried them.

Even today I buy a bunch of programming books.

 

I'm looking for book recommendations in the topics mentioned in title.

I often find myself feeling down and not being able to accomplish anything, and the tendency has been increasing.

I cannot even work on my hobby projects, because I'm just staring at the screen and my brain is not functioning, which leads to launching a game or watching YouTube videos and waste time.

I cannot find the way out of this madness, and my last resort is to find some books that might help with my issue.

I don't wanna rely on search results on the internet, because I don't trust random compilations of "read these 10 books to be productive".

Well, this is optional, but in case the book you recommend indeed helped you, I'd be curious how permanent the impact was for you, if that makes sense. I know mostly it depends on the person; it's me who has to make the effort, not the book. But I'd be curious how easy it is for you to consistently maintain what you learned from the book.

Regarding the format, it has to be in epub. And I'd very much prefer DRM-free books, price doesn't matter. If the only good books are all DRM-enshittified, that sucks, but I'll consider that too if I have no other choice.

Thanks in advance if anyone can help with recommendations!

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