‘Adventures in OCD (and Other Mental Shenanigans)’ has had about a hundred and fifty thousand sequels at this point and I’m beginning to wonder if I’m maybe growing a bit tired of the overdone and recycled plotlines.
Other than that, mostly meh. Some good, some bad, it’s a veritable everything bagel. I could do with a bit less seasoning, though, if I’m being honest. Like maybe bring it down to a chill poppy seed affair. That’d be nice for a while.
Kinda funny how easy it is for me to lose complete interest in something and also just how freeing that can be.
It’s nice.
I’ve been waiting to see how they’re going to fuck up NSFW subs and I’m willing to bet that’s where this is going.
I can only hope it affects the ones that focus on self-promotion, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they just decide to charge users directly for access to NSFW subs entirely, since they already removed it entirely from the free API, which apps like RedReader use.(*)
I know I’m not the only one who basically only has an account for that stuff, although a lot of those subs have turned to shit over the last year or so, anyway. AI generated nonsense, self-promotion even when it’s discouraged, bad moderation, some disappearing entirely because they were abandoned back last year…
(*) Technically, you can still view that content without an account via Old Reddit (or at least you could a few months ago, haven’t checked recently), but that’s inevitably going to be killed as well, it’s just a matter of “when”.
It was confirmed Sublinks a little while ago:
Thanks very much, I appreciate that.
I hope the same thing but in the meantime, just gonna try to practice some mindfulness and let it flow.
Thanks for the kind words!
Unfortunately, it’s a little too complicated and I think I just need a break from most stuff, including the ranting, lol.
Thanks for asking, though. Really appreciate it.
Not great.
To be honest, I feel quite hopeless.
Just a lot of bullshit not in my control that’s taking its toll.
Think I might be in early stages of a hypomanic episode, but not sure.
Need to chill somehow. Running with assumptions, though. Might just be a bad few days; just haven’t had them this suddenly in a while.
Might end up making this comment and by the time next week’s thread is started in a day or two, I’ll be feeling fine(-ish) again. Wouldn’t be the first time.
Could really do with something interesting like the Olympics right now, but that’s still almost a month away.
I don’t even enjoy most sports, but it’s a nice distraction. If I’m being honest, all I’m really interested in is the women’s football portion, although there’s at least more Euro 2025 qualifiers and a handful of friendlies in a couple of weeks to hold me over until then.
Edit: Lol, never mind, already feel better.
I feel kind of bad.
I really don’t like killing things, but ants have literally invaded my home, so I’ve had to do something.
Sprinkled some diatomaceous earth today. Watching a few stragglers just kind of meandering and basically not knowing what the fuck to do while they dehydrate and succumb to death has depressed me a little.
On a basic level, the way it works, it’s just cruel. Yeah, they’re not “sentient”, they’re mostly drones, etc., but still. Seeing this lonely ant kind of just… slowly dying and not knowing what to do is a bit heartbreaking.
I personally blocked all politics and news communities, found much less bots and trolls since then.
Same. It’s a much more pleasant experience in general.
Too many fucking ants.
Getting some diatomaceous earth and we’ll see what happens.
My only worry is the spiders.
I like little house spiders. Never really bother them and they don’t really bother me, and I really don’t want to kill any, so I hope whichever ones happen to be hanging around (if there are any) won’t get too close to the floor.
Lol.
Wasn’t paying attention and it seems like I deleted some important folders in either the .config or .local/share/ directory.
drkonqi is having a field day eating up my processor and I’m too tired to figure out what exactly I fucked up (I don’t even know how considering the folders were empty, but maybe I did something else, I don’t know).
Need to do a fresh install anyway, so might as well get on with that.
Other than that, constant thigh pain and too many fucking ants in this house.
Got a new router. Frustrated. I hate networking shit.
I live in a shitty part of the world where it’s not uncommon for power to go out, so I have a backup UPS/power bank for my current router.
When new one is plugged into power bank, it powers on fine, but for some reason won’t register the WAN cable as connected. Plugged directly into socket? Suddenly the cable is connected.
I legitimately don’t fucking understand this. Even tried another power bank with more juice, and same result.
It’s very annoying. I’ve needed a new router for years because the one I’ve been using is like a decade old, has zero firmware updates, and feels insecure all round. It’s also really low on features and I can’t even change the fucking username for logging into the device.
So this has been a fun two days of troubleshooting.
Sometimes I hate technology, if I’m being honest.
Edit: Lol, fuck all that shit. Turns out it had trouble keeping a stable connection with the cable regardless of power source, so seems I was just “lucky” the first time I switched them.
Weird that the cable works fine and is locked in on my other router, though. Finicky on this one. Return it, I shall. Still, technology has been having a lot of fun fucking with me over the last two years. At this point I’m afraid to buy any new tech.
Very tired still due to my overexertion, but I feel like I’m finally back in the headspace where I can hopefully pay more attention to the spoons I’ve got.
Already feel better than I did earlier, so horizon looks good right now.
/r/all was a fucking nightmare on reddit, and I don’t think the equivalent here is that much better either, if I’m being honest.
I find that life is more pleasant when I stick to local and/or my subscriptions, block the communities I’m not interested in, and filter out whatever remains.
What kind of art and writing do you do? Are they always separate, or do you sometimes write and illustrate a single story (i.e. comics or scene illustrations between paragraphs/pages, etc.)?
While I can go with the cliché “just do it for yourself” line (I do think that’s an important approach, though), I’m sure people here would be more than happy to see what creativity you’ve cooked up.
And I bet there are plenty of people here who would enjoy your art and writing as well.
Yes please! I’d personally love to see/read it.
Hrm. Haven’t been pacing well lately. Need to sort that out. Fucking exhausted.
In good news, I had my first appointment with the new psychiatrist yesterday. A pleasant experience, which hopefully bodes well.
Nice, that looks incredibly helpful. Thanks for the rec!
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