Keeping the weekly post warm until @alyaza comes back 🙂
What’s everyone been up to? Any plans for the weekend?
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Just gave me flashbacks to when I forget my debit card pin.
it was a pin I’d used for years, used it multiple times a week if not every single day
Then one day I went to the cash point and just blanked. Lost it entirely. Poof.
Had to go through the hoops of requesting a new pin and I wasn’t able to get any money out at the time.
Wasn’t really a big deal at all…. But I totally get that weirdness of just banking on something that you had used so many times before without issue. Freaked me out for a while about how my brain could have just randomly deleted that bit of information that had seemed so solid before.
I’m not trying to compare my little inconvenience to your situation but just that you aren’t alone in the camp of suddenly forgetting a password that you’d known for ages.
About six years ago, I changed the password to a secondary email account I had and promptly forgot it. I mostly used that email address for junk, but it was connected to some accounts that I either still used or wanted to delete. Over the past several years, I have tried every password I could think of or find scribbled on a scrap of paper somewhere. I attempted account recovery, then advanced account recovery (where a human reviews all the information I can give them about the account). When I got a job at the company that runs this email service, I tried the internal account recovery method twice, but still was not able to convince them that it was my account.
A few weeks ago, I tried a new writing exercise. I got an old, empty notebook and started writing. I turned the page, and there it was written: the username and password to this account.
Sometimes answers appear in unexpected places. I hope you figure out your password.
Work has been crap but as long as I compartmentalise that bit the rest has been lovely.
Have had a really enjoyable (and knackering!) weekend with friends and family.
Week is going OK, busy like everyone else, but some lights at the end of some tunnels. Going to build a Docker instance on the home server this weekend to play with self hosted Beeper. Very hot where I am but also hoping to get some outside time anyway.
I arrived in Boise this weekend. I’m here for the month then moving on to my next stop. Looking forward to exploring a new city, getting in some cycling, and meeting some new people!
Week is going well! Planning to get some beers with friends after i finish my 12hr shift today. Starting school in two weeks and kind of dreading that but I know once i start doing it again it will become part of the flow.
Sorry to hear so many people are having a rough time. Remember that you’re not the only one going through it and fluctuation is a part of life. Sending everyone love and good vibes!
My grandpa hit his head and lost most of his motor function
I’m sorry to hear that. I hope he recovers.
Someone stole my identity, and the bank that they used keeps telling me they can’t help me if I don’t contact them with the email address I used to sign up for an account. Reminder! My identity was stolen! I didn’t sign up for shit!
Like a colonoscopy: Uncomfortable, embarassing, and with a shitty ending.
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Hope your weekend has a better prognosis
Went pretty well.
Work sucks but Pikmin 4 rules so it ain’t all bad.
Sorry to hear that things aren’t going well 😔 hello fellow Pikmin player! How does it compare to other games in the series?
Well I only played Pikmin 2 before this and it was when I was a teen. At the time I didn’t finish it because I got intimidated by the mid to late game difficulty.
The way Pikmin 4 introduced elements over time it felt like a new start. The first credit roll wasn’t too hard to reach and now I feel like I might end up committing myself to 100%ing the game.
Also Oatchi. Oatchi is everything. I think it will be hard to go back to playing without the dog because it is so convenient. You can carry your Piks over obstacles, he can be an initiator tank in a fight, and you can divide and conquer by sending him to another location to guard or dig up treasure while you and your Piks do the work elsewhere. Plus he comes back to you on his own. He’s a good boy.
Thanks for this, looking forward to it! Oatchi sounds like the goodest boy ever ☺
Lots of fires at work but otherwise deece, thanks for asking!
My sourdough is being lame but my fermented goods are amazing.
Shifting the pin for this week, thanks for posting this while alyaza is out 😄
Some virus managed to wreck inflammatory havoc around some of my nerves and the right side of my head has been numb since Thursday, my ear in pain, and a zoo of sporadic symptoms come and go 😅 So I have been in the computer a lot. I’ve been working on setting up a lemmy instance and I also played in the canvas.
As for the rest of the week… I have been procrastinating on thesis writing, and I need to be done before September, so I am trying to find a source of will-power to force myself to write. But this infection is not helping me 😬
What kind of thesis? Is it the MA or the PhD? I’ve completed both. First step is to get some glue and a paint brush. Second step is to slather your ass with the glue. Then, you sit in the chair. If it’s MA, you can probably get away with less glue. Do this after you get better. Just get better really soon. Then glue your ass to the chair. You’ve probably learned how to write a lot by now with your ass glued to the chair. Feel better! Ass gluing isn’t good for you right now.
PhD thesis! 😅
Gluing my ass to the chair won’t be sufficient. I think I have some form of computer distraction addiction or undiagnosed ADHD, because when I am sitting at the computer I find it really hard to do what I need to do. I am able to find a universe of distractions by slightly moving my fingers, and I have an inordinate ability to psychologically (not rationally!!!) justify it as being somewhat useful. The only thing that saves me is that I can be very efficient when I do focus, but this has become more difficult as the complexity of the work increases, and so many different figures, tables, and concepts have to coalesce together to tell a story that I genuinely believe…
I would probably have a better chance trying to write with pencil and paper in an isolated island than with LaTeX in my computer…
I would probably have a better chance trying to write with pencil and paper in an isolated island than with LaTeX in my computer
As a fellow PhD student that’s a mood lol
Overleaf intimidates me
If it’s any consolation, I glued my ass to the chair and wrote the PhD thesis, and even got tenure in academia. I quit my job after being tenured and promoted. So it’s all good. It’s nice, though, to finish the fucker. The best way is gluing the ass to the chair. I can attest. Get well soon!
Thanks! It is some consolation. 🫂
I’m glad, because that’s the pressure that’s on you, no doubt, in finishing this dissertation. Life is funny. Your whole self worth is not this. It’s a transactional relationship. Your committee is hopeful, so you should be. Get the shit done and get on with your life, which has many surprises in store for you, don’t I know? You’re definitely worthy. Nobody flunks the dissertation stage, so just write the thing. You’ll be fine. Trust me, if your life is anything like mine, there is a life beyond the dissertation that is far more challenging and will wipe the glue right off your ass.
oh no :( i hope you get better soon, that sounds terrible to deal with!
Thanks! I’m at 90% now :) Things that affect the nerves are scary, but the doctor helped calm my fears as symptoms were consistent with a not-too-serious sinus infection.
This Saturday marks the annual get together for my mother’s side of the family, always held at my grandparent’s old house, which happens to be in the next town over from where my wife and I live (everybody else travels for hours). It’s always nice but stressful at the same time, with ~20 additional people who each have expectations of you. This week is all about making it look like we don’t have a million irons in the fire.
Sounds intense, hope you get some time to unwind afterwards
I was invited to meet some OSM users. It was the first time I have ever met a Linux user in the wild. And I met several. It looks like we are forming some sort of local group of mappers. So, I suppose the week started off with a surprise.
Exciting. I miss going to Linux User Group meetings and meeting other OSS enthusiasts and seeing all the cool projects they were working on. Sadly, all our LUGs died out and are no longer a thing in my country, and I suspect it’s the case in many parts of the world.
