It has a flattening effect. The things that come out the other end don’t sound human. They sound like the collective mouth of reddit and blog spam.

I don’t know why you’d use it for journaling. what feedback do you even need for journaling? Shouldn’t that be your thoughts and not your thoughts filtered through the machine of averages and disembodied?

It happens to me every time I pick up a book. If you can hold your focus for a page or two, then it starts to flow. Once you have the flow, as long as you’re not in a very distracting place, its smooth sailing.

I deleted the bird app off phone and deleted my shitposting account and it’s freed up so much time, I’ve started reading again.

It was sorta reading before, but then I started just getting better at it when my attention wasn’t being stolen. I challenged myself to finishing a book in 4 days while taking notes and it was honestly really fun and I was really pumped when I finished.

It’s a skill but also a muscle if that makes sense. I don’t think adhd inherently makes reading harder, but it definitely makes it harder to get into the groove.

Typically volume of a track is chosen by the producer/person mixing. You could theoretically get an average volume and scale the tracks gain. This could have the effect of compressing or chopping parts of the song that are purposefully loud while the rest of the song is purposefully quiet.

I think it isn’t done in order to maintain the intention of how the track was mixed. Typically people won’t have playlists of quiet classical mixed with maxed out edm so a general rule is hard to predict and the authors of the music player just leave it as is.

Look into the cd loudness wars of the 90s where record companies were mixing their tracks louder and louder to compete, which produced notoriously terrible album mixes.

there’s this awful venn diagram of circles with no overlap, where you cant get a smallish phone that gets updates. Even asking for it to be well made is a pipe dream.

Add onto the desire for an unlockable bootloader and your only options are the phones designed to be thrown into a river after the job is complete.

I wish those unihertz devices were serious whatsoever. They ship on old android versions and get maybe one update in their life cycle.

Android is such a clusterfuck of an OS too. kernel/driver space is an absolute mess so every OEM has to basically ship their own kernel. Qualcomm is the devil and hides everything behind NDA’s so you can’t really write an open OS from the ground up on any hardware that can do any real processing.

I just think its good.

The way I see it, you can have an OS that breaks less often and is hard to fix, or an OS that breaks a little more often that is easy to fix. I choose the latter. 99/100 times, when something breaks with an update, it’s on the front page of archlinux.org with a fix.

The problems I’ve faced with other distros or windows is the solution is often “reinstall, lol”, which is like a 3 hour session of nails on a chalkboard for me.

twist: Cotton got robot legs, is off somewhere doing something absolutely awful

She had a greek last name. So she’s probably greek and naturally has some of the features brittish makeup tries to emulate

The soldiers stationed at Honolulu could have done something really fuckin funny

My mom once tried to make it out like wages were bad when she was young, and she mentioned how little she was paid in a secretary job in the 80s. We ran it through an inflation calculator and she was making like 70-80k as a secretary while my wife was making 40k modern bux with a college degree.

God please don’t let Firefox die.

I can’t handle any more slop. I can’t go back to chrome.

So uhhhh…what am I supposed to do in the meantime while waiting for a job?

Real talk, this is a bit of a crapshoot but it can work, it’s worked a couple times for me.

Go hard on personal projects.

Make what you want to make, rewrite it when you’re done and realize how stupidly you wrote it the first time. expand it, connect it to other projects, put it all on github, put a decent readme of the whys and hows of this project, it doesn’t matter if you’re the only one who uses it, that’s called internal tooling.

When you run into an issue with a library you’re using, learn to contribute to open source, file a pull request, get a feel for it.

Put your github at the top of your resume. Prune your top repos so people see what you want them to see first.

This wont be a silver bullet but if you apply to smaller shops that like/support open source, it makes the nerds interviewing you like you more. I’ve skipped programming challenges completely because I was able to talk in depth to the designs of my personal projects, so they knew I actually wrote it because I understood it. So if they wanted to see how I wrote code, they could trust I wrote what they’re seeing.

The benefit to this approach is you also get a lot of experience. You’re forced to learn to architect your stuff from first principles, you’re forced to learn from all your mistakes.

This market sucks, these projects will feel like a full time job, but it can pay off, and its a better bet than waiting. Nerds like working with other nerds. People on projects like working with others who can break down problems and figure things out, even if they don’t know the solution immediately.

There is hope.

To be honest, I don’t think it’s enough reason for me to stop playing with the thermal printers anyway. A printer that never needs ink, what an invention.

damn I’ve been playing with thermal printers and custom cutting sheets from larger sheets. Not the thing I wanted to see.

They’re gonna wish they did a Xiajiang style re-educate and release style program. Boys have been born in this camp, aged out of the women and children camp, and put straight into a prison with adult men who were doing actual terrorism.

Basically an extremism factory, almost as if it was done on purpose.

A lot less money than I would have thought tbh.

“I hope that’s a clean wet!” flashback to the urinal

> carrying around my crossbow. Has a rapid reload rate of 1 bolt per 10 minutes

> in a field made up of ~90% cow shit

> shoot my shot at the english sporting peasant during this season’s duke’s entertainment battle

> miss.jpg

> that’s okay, let me get out my crank dohickey for 60 revolutions to reload

> english sporting peasant has long bow

> he just notches an arrow and pulls back

> I receive an arrow to the breathing humor

> mfw my tactical crossbow was insufficient

the first THUG game felt old during the 360’s time, that shit is hard retro by now.

I just remembered the second part of this story.

Originally I had just 1 top one removed, I wanted to do top and bottom separately.

By the time I got around to the bottom one, it righted itself and was no longer dangerous to rip out. I cant even remember which ones I got out at this point, I know I only pulled 3/4. That’s how unproblematic the fourth was. I only got the other pulled because they were getting cavities from their bastard positioning.

The dental surgeons looked at me with disdain when I didn’t fund their car payment on unneeded work. Simply waiting made it go from “very risky” to non-issue and not a single dentist/surgeon thought of it as a possibility for me.