I feel like everyone’s missing the point. Even 20 minutes a week is almost a day a year of your life sitting at a charger. I fill up my gas tank once a week and it takes maybe 5 minutes which is 4 hours a year that I spend feeding my car, staring at the stupid advertisements for a bacon-egg-and-cheese cinnamon roll covered in maple syrup or whatever other impulse items lie within the gas station. 5 minutes isn’t enough to do anything whereas if I plan for 20 minutes, I’m going to go get a tea or something.

On the other hand, something we can all agree is a waste of time is, “how many hours of your life have been/will be spent sitting at a traffic light?”

I know of a guy who had good intentions. He just wanted to make Germany great again. I can’t remember his name right now, but IIRC, it didn’t end up being good for a whole lot of people.

I had one from Sony a long time ago. It even had a cable you could attach between two of 'em (600 CDs!) so that it could seamlessly start playing another track while loading the next song. I dropped it during a move and the next time I opened the door, it spit gears at me. I had intended to fix it some day, but started watching Hoarders and decided it wasn’t worth it.

Can you elaborate on the scenario this is solving for? Isn’t software RAID a performance hit?

I made one of these when I was a kid using a ton of rubber bands. One of the “arms” flew off and hit me in the face. It was definitely not as fun as the cartoons advertised.

This isn’t what you’re really asking, but I have a bunch of stuff in the freezer that I can pull out when I’m sick, don’t have enough time to prepare a meal or am just exhausted from whatever.

Making lasagne? Make 4, freeze 3. Mex night? I make 20 black bean burritoes at a time. Check out https://onceamonthmeals.com/ for inspiration. Less cooking, less dishes and less food waste. Go pro and pick up a food saver. I make 8 cups of rice and freeze it in a pint food saver bag. It’s winter where I live and I have “soup bags” in the freezer so I can take out veggies that were at their peak when they were frozen and put it in a crock pot so I can have summer fresh soup.

I post videos a few times a year to share events with family. I just posted a few yesterday. I can’t in good faith continue to post to YT and encourage my family to use it as the platform declares war on their users.

But what else is there that allows me to post videos for free and my family can just watch them without having to install a new app, register for yet another service or configure some obscure plug in?

I have one in the kitchen, garage and utility (furnace) room. 2 were given to me by my insurance agent! The 3rd one I bought for my garage because, duh!

Pants!

I should move somewhere warm.

The first step is important and well studied. Double your results with exercise by doing it outside. Again, it’s well studied that being with nature improves your mood, so why not take a hike through the woods or along a river? Put your phone away, leave the earbuds at home and just focus on the moment.

From time to time, when the weather is good and everyone’s still asleep, I’ll take a hot cup of tea outside to the woods near my place and sit on a fallen tree and just be quiet. It improves my mood all day. I did it during the first snowfall of the year during covid and could hear the snowflakes hitting the leaves. I could still hear the yelling from inside the house, but somehow it was not my problem in that moment.

I’d like to echo this point. As soon as you set your objective to pull in Reddit users, you’ve set yourself up as the “Reddit alternative”, you’ll be chasing Reddit features and attempting to please the Reddit users. To succeed at this game is to essentially end up creating Reddit, but never surpassing.

In my opinion, Lemmy needs to have a clear mindset on what Lemmy is and what it isn’t, then stick to that.

What’s the difference between an air fryer and a convection toaster oven. Everybody’s so excited for air fryers but AFAIK, both just blow air around.

Same! I was told that I could not be a pilot because I wear glasses, so I gave up. In hindsight, it was probably OK. I’ve known several pilots and the first few years can be really hard to have a family or even a relationship.

Ironically, 3 of the pilots I know are afraid of heights.

If by “it doesn’t get any better” you mean that the pain doesn’t go away, you’re correct, in my experience. It does get different, though. I heard someone once say that the pain becomes the new normal and I’ve found that to be accurate. It becomes a part of who you are. Over time, you learn how to move on and live. If not, like someone said in another comment, consider finding a professional to help guide you to explore your feelings.

Your exact predicament is common to many and the topic of many poems, books, songs and movies. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind comes to mind.

You mentioned unemployment due to AI. There’s a short story from a while ago that outlined this step by step. It’s a good read if you have the time.

It’s actually the opposite. To my knowlegde, Windows is the only OS that I’ve used that uses the file extension to determine the contents, but then they hide it from the user. So maybe file extensions are only for windows?

shit in my free time

Life pro tip: shit at work and get paid for it. Unless you work at Amazon, of course.

I’m not religious, yet I spend a lot of time in church. Consider this: many of life’s problems are solved by brainpower. I get about 90 minutes a week of uninterrupted time to sit and think about anything I want. Plus, people sing to me while I think.

Did anybody read it to the end? I found myself wondering how many vegans were at the conference around the time they were talking about fish.

link for the uninitiated.