It would be great if Plasma gets a kiosk mode option some day, that seems right up KDE’s alley as far as the “simple by default, powerful when needed” philosophy goes.

I’m blaming Hexbear.net no matter who wins

I’m in a similar position. I’d love to go back to school for a number of reasons, but I just cannot get to the point of committing to doing so since I strongly suspect that it will mentally annihilate me. And in the end, I will just have quit a decent job, lost a shit ton of money and what’s left of my self-confidence and hope after flunking/dropping out from the stress.

I think in my case it has to at least partially just be self doubt and a fear of failure, and who knows maybe the structure and routine of living on campus would actually help, but I just don’t know.

Has anyone had a notably positive or at least unexpectedly tolerable experience in postsecondary school and have some tips/info about it?

4k video

this machine used to kill fascists

huh. i just found out the only emoji i ever used was in my first post

i am constantly subjecting myself to my own little sisyphean punishments for no reason

life is laggy

to me absurdism isn’t so much about looking at existential meaningless light-heartedly as it is about reconciling with the notion of it—by spitting in the face of the universe’s cruel indifference and arbitrarily inventing personal meaning.

it’s like aiming to live a life that you alone feel is purposeful just because you can, in spite of the will of any higher power or lack thereof that tries to rob you of it.

obs, flameshot/sharex, and 7-zip

vlc media player hat

also, the sponsorblock addon works on mobile and there is an addon that allows videos to play in the background if you need that. i haven’t tested this with youtube music in the browser but i wouldn’t be surprised if it also worked.

pipepipe and rimusic is what i use. youtube in the browser is fine too, if you disable that “open in the youtube app” popup (firefox for android with ublock origin addon is what i use, although i have experienced some regressions with the ad-blocker not working after youtube updates something, but ublock is usually on top of it and fixes stuff quickly).

marx cannot be telling anyone to touch grass

grey pill

put it in the dog’s food bowl with dinner heehee

also syncthing, if you’d like to synchronize a directory to act like a shared folder and be identical on both devices

KDE Connect

it’s definitely on my radar for next winter if i need to bike; i would love to stroll past all the lifted f250s stuck in the snowbank

i used to ride my bicycle every day but during the winter i decided not to get squashed by trucks and started walking instead (the sidewalks didn’t get cleared, so i couldn’t bike on them and i absolutely wont share an icy road with cars).

but come spring and summertime, i just preferred to keep walking. i think it’s mainly because it’s more leisurely, which makes it easier to transition between work brain and leisure brain during the commute.

on my bike i still mainly stuck to the sidewalks (which is somehow fucking illegal here btw) since at least half of all american drivers want to either maim or murder bicyclists on the road, but i have to carefully move to the road if there is a pedestrian on the sidewalk or whatever ahead of me. so even though while walking i still have to be on fairly high alert for the red-blooded american patriots who think the stop signs in residential areas are suggestions, walking is just a more pleasant experience.

i feel incredibly lucky that i live close enough to walk and bike to my job, especially so considering how deeply carfucked my city is, so my heart goes out to everyone who is forced to endure commuting by car or playing chicken with your life against american motorists as a bicyclist. wear a helmet.