Performative anything is so cringe, and performative toxic masculinity is the king of cringe.

Toxic masculinity is so rooted in fear, it’s like dressing up as a scared mouse. Wow, you’re scared… of different skin colors? People with different outdoor hobbies than you? What a weird sad thing

yeah but a good cardigan is softer than a hoodie and warmer because it’s like cashmere or wool and not cotton/poly blend.

Also makes me look like an old fart

Oh my favorite flavor: depleted uranium cherry

I’m very curious what the details are. A Linux Vision Pro sounds very enticing. It could be a lot of fun for inventing new user interaction modalities.

That’s fantastic! Sounds like you’re very well adjusted!

Whatever do you mean commas are an important part of sentences and they are the best way to separate phrases to prevent run on sentences my commas have not been stolen they are safely locked up in my grammatoreum vault that is guarded by a particularly unchill poodle named Feathers who patrols the grounds most diligently and often can been seen chasing off would-be punctuation bandits.

I am really stuck in the final boss and this game the real boss is the camera controls and mushy platforming

Some parents I know actually never really get angry when their kids do stupid shit and instead talk it out. I have to do wonder if those kids will be super well adjusted or totally deranged. I kind of feel like they’ll be so different from me as to barely be the same species, but probably in a good way, like more evolved

If souls aren’t real, it makes our existence even stranger. Like two people rawdog one time and now there’s this conscious sentient being with hopes and desires and depression. That needs food water and shelter for 80 years

Also why is our existence so dystopian, we have untold wonders available to us and nearly free food, but it’s like the constant ability to compare what we have with others makes us crazy. We’ve been granted nearly global telepathy and it makes us all go mad

There’s an nbc interview where it seems he’s on some serious blow barely able to string words together into coherent sentences

I can second these and add

• yoga
• guided meditation videos
• breathing exercises
• long walks with a heavy pack

Ew my old waterbed used to have a green slime inside, I had to put in this liquid to kill it off.

I’ve been hosting Home Assistant now for about nine months very smoothly. So far the only outage has been when I moved the server into a different room last week because it was cluttering up my office. Feels good to have it tucked away in a closet. I’ve got my thermostat, and all my upstairs lights running through it. I keep trying to get these moisture sensors to work for my plants but they just keep losing signal or something and rtl433 just stops seeing those but meanwhile detects every other damn hardware on the whole block. I’ve got 500+ entities that aren’t my three sensors lol. Once I figure that out my Plant Cards dashboard will work again which is super cool.

Other than that, I’ve been hosting Jellyfin for home media and digging it. Much less success with the 'arr suite, it works and stays up but it really struggles to automatically find the weird-ass old niche media I’m looking for. I generally have to handle that part manually, but at least they are good as wishlist of what I’m looking for so I can use that just to keep track.

All in all these two servers (home assistant OS on an old laptop, jellyfin and arr on my former Ubuntu desktop) have been great and just work really without any issues.

Oh last week when I moved them into the closet, they got assigned new IP addresses, so I figured out how to lock them so my clients and bookmarks still work.

all that fiber keeps you regular

I’ve always assumed it was based on an older siege meal, General Tso’s Horse

Walking, and add a weighted vest or backpack. Start light, like 5lb/2.5kg for a week or two, then increase by that much a week until you get to 40% of your body weight in a few months.

I find that 30lb/15kg is a great place to stop though, much more feels pretty rough.

Then just walk around. You can listen to music, podcasts, nature, bird sounds.

Do that 45 a day and you’ll be significantly healthier in a few months.

I seriously hope it’s like the rendering at the bottom of the article with two physical button areas (4 each), two physical joysticks, and two touch pads. That feels like the best of all worlds.

I want to love the Steam Controller 1 so much but the missing right joystick and the touch pad for the left dpad just feels so bad for so many games that were designed for two joysticks. It’s so hard to get the muscle memory right. I’m always trying to use the left pad as a dpad and tapping it wrong.

I wish someone could show me what I’m missing but it feels so frustrating

But also maintain an older car for as long as possible, shop at thrift stores, do your own cooking, garden, save meat for special occasions, collect rainwater, get some older used solar panels, and have a small monthly hobby budget. You’ll find you can live so well on so little. For some reason we’ve all been conditioned to act like we’re wealthy for no reason at all. True wealth is freedom from the grind, not a stupid new toy or status symbol.

Become Hobbit pilled and realize the good life isn’t about isolation and stupid stuff but deep connections with friends and the earth.

I honestly am to the point that I wonder if all our automation is catching up with us and we need to collectively bargain for a 20 hour work week. Now we need twice as many skilled laborers because we’ve automated so many jobs.

Or an automation tax that’s paid back to every citizen as a dividend. If your company uses software or AI then it’s taxed more aggressively.

If we don’t do something in thirty years there just might not be hardly any jobs left.

That is so frustrating. That is outside my wheelhouse unfortunately, so I don’t have anything to give other than sympathy for the legitimate frustration that we have an economy that cannot seem to employ every talented, educated person. I don’t get it, it feels like we’ve reached like a moment where labor (even skilled labor) is lower in demand than ever before. A hundred years ago we could just walk up to a building project and start adding labor on day one, and knowing how to read and write meant an instant job as a clerk. But now we toil for decades to learn skills that just… suddenly aren’t needed? Sure, some folks win big in tech but that’s just as fleeting, I know a dozen out of work senior engineers. It’s a strange and baffling time to try to earn a living. Something has to give.