I need to keep things new or hopeful, so trying new systems, new supports like therapy, or arrangements with friends to do a little work and exercise. DBT has a lot of small things that help https://dialecticalbehaviortherapy.com/.

Systems I’ve tried:

• On/Off days: I can push and try to be normal, and expect it will make stuff harder the day after and probably crash
• Straight outta the house: work from a coffee store instead of home esp if I feel laggy
• Improve the moment (dbt) I’m going to stay in bed, what are two things I can do to feel less shitty while I do, usually this is take meds, drink water, pee.
• do something different, I was depressed as hell and not leaving bed more than a few times a week and kinda decided to try standup, going and watching gave me a lot of inspiration and realized these people aren’t that great. I’ve moved onto Improv, but a lot of the people I met there keep popping up
• Choose a depression station, maybe a chair that isn’t bed or a relaxing couch. This video has some good ideas on maintaining mental boundaries if physically isn’t possible. https://youtu.be/snAhsXyO3Ck?si=bgJ6xhT2VfxbvM7x I like how it suggests to think of the hygiene of your different stations.

I still have down times, and still using a tonne of supports. But happy to talk about it as it’s shit and not fun for anyone.

The monthly log in bullet journaling, along with the life logging thing where you just write things down as you do them, has a nice spam->review cycle, your most important stuff tends to bubble up anyway.

Affinity was an affordable and featured alternative to the Adobe suite, but just sold to canva so yay capitalism

so in twenty years this comment will be “we only ai generated like respectable men” under an article about the formerly Twitter X Friendcorp LinkedIn For Friends headquarters being invaded by naked Taylor swift robots

I like VPNs because you get a colorful selection of who to potentially get man in the middle attacked by.

That’s also assuming true artificial intelligence isn’t just an emergent property of electrical grids, networks and computers. Like that thing where it seems like computers are listening, maybe they are.

Affinity photo has a free trial and a buy once keep forever alternative for indesign, illustrator and photoshop. Gimp is none of those.

I had no idea this was happening and I’m so relieved it hasn’t.

In a learning age band so bespoke, and education professionals so highly paid and resourced, I can’t imagine why this would be an attractive option.

Maybe we let professionals decide what tool is best for their field

We do this every single windows release, the major downside of faster version cadences is we’re going to get multiple versions as the “best version”.

What they don’t mention is that some of their printers don’t work on the 5ghz band, which means that it’s difficult to get it to work with newer routers and band switching. This also breaks usb printing and wifi direct printing. Print anywhere barely works and other fun times since trying out one of their printers.

Compared to other sites, and their relative costs to run, and amount of ads. YouTube has been fairly ok. They have balanced the consumer friendly skip this video and sometimes short ads with the probably higher engagement metrics from them.

However YouTube the lite plan being discontinued right before this mostly means I’m going to move from Gmail to Zoho and wait for the ban.

The final YouTube lite plan didn’t include removing ads from music, which seems to suggest the reason why YouTube music is bundled and maybe even exists, is in part the music industry being shitty.

But that’s expensive and they can’t sell it

Isn’t there a setting in loop habits that disables accidental click protection (the long click)

Purposefully not descriptive enough. People do it on the R site too even though there’s no real benefit or way to see that you’re getting people to click through.

I think there was a combination of what’s the point just make a better one (paint 3D), move fast and break things (onenote win 10, not going back and making the original better), real fear of if it’s not broken don’t fix it, the rest of windows code being a complete mess, a decade worth of updates to legacy ui components and frameworks starting with windows 8 finally passing triage, and dedicated ui teams like the one lead by Jen Gentleman arguing internally for not sexy projects that match or improve how people actually use the OS.

Stuff like the windows terminal and vscode must have been pretty humbling for internal teams working on monolith legacy projects like visual studio which all professional developers were assumed to graduate to eventually. It’s been interesting times

Others have said it better but sorry that you had to experience that

If lemmy doesn’t support expanding remote hosted images from platforms like imgur or whatever that’s probably a good feature to look for in a new platform. If it does, things are obviously getting to a point where you need to reduce what you need to worry about, to help focus on moderation and keeping things running. Block listing urls is easier than running and hoping on an ai.

Otherwise I think disabling images or giving the ability only to financial supporters or strongly verified accounts via upvote counts, number of reputable or discussed posts, or and age of account are the only sane moves.

Personally I don’t mind clicking through for an image if it interests me.

Personally it’s not that it’s slow, it just holds on to weird patterns for way too long, kinda like how new outlook just feels like old outlook with a new skin. Whenever I open edge, it loads. Whenever I open firefox, it’s the “Firefox is installing updates” window that’s probably been there since the 90s. Refusing to honor the ‘close multiple tabs’ etc. It’s minor stuff but when there’s an objectively better way to do things, it’s just annoying.

Not incredibly surprising given how little it’s been updated and how things like clicking links doesn’t work. Definitely exhausted by how aggressively things are just getting worse now.