So disappointing that someone could go from a music video like Praise You to thinking this was a good idea. At least Spike Jones went on to make Her.

Linux doesn’t “make you interact with the terminal.” Many linux users interact with the terminal because it’s a better tool for many purposes-- not just niche ones as you suggest. Your argument leans heavily on popularity: what most people are doing, but that’s kind of the point of the original comment. People are taught on software and OSs owned and pushed by private companies. It creates such a dependency that it’s hard for people to imagine how one can succeed without them. Knowing the terminal can help one understand GUIs better, and makes it easier to imagine building new ones or modifying existing ones. It also allows a person to recognise when a GUI is unnecessary and a task can be completed faster by keeping your hands on the keyboard and working in the terminal.

Not the commenter you replied to, but I change my XDG directory names to be lowercase and start with different letters. For example, Desktop, becomes “drop” (as in pick it up and put it somewhere else) and Downloads is a subdirectory dl. A program that would otherwise save to “Downloads” now saves to “~/drop/dl”. When I setup my machines I run a script including the line xdg-user-dirs-update --set DESKTOP "drop" to update the XDG directory and I delete “Desketop”. So og commenter has the option of updating their userdirs to be nested in their username if they wanted to avoid symlinking. Here’s the relevant arch wiki page and xdg freedesktop page.

I definitely miss the sense of community and building relationships that I had in forums. In particular, one forum I was on was a great size, diverse members with a shared interest, but we rarely spoke about the topic except to reference it. The off-topic section was where we spent all out time.

Lemmy/reddit feel more distant. I like it but it’s a different medium. There are people here I find so smart and funny, but interactions are akin to striking up a good convo while waiting in line at the store, wishing you were friends with them, but knowing you’ll probably never see them again.

It’s not like these platforms have been around that long. I hope one day a new platform/medium comes along that fills that need.

I see this all the time. I bet we’d be more productive if we all had the month of December off and came back truly refreshed, instead of trying to look busy and force it.

It’s like they stumbled across Gianmarco Soresi’s stand up bit and decided to use that as an argument, unironically.

I’ve heard it referred to as “The worst negates the bad” fallacy.

I think I can relate. I deviate from the norm in a number of ways, but everyone’s different, so I didn’t think much of it. When I was filling out the questionnaires for my ADHD testing, and saw the specificity of the questions and how relatable they were, it was a watershed moment.

I don’t doubt my diagnosis, but I do wonder how extreme my case actually is. I often forget about it until I fall behind. So often it’s some disruption in the systems I didn’t realize I depend so heavily upon.

I’m intrigued. What’s the brand/model?

Thank you for the link! I actually came across these in my research, but I was annoyed they didn’t have any sample sounds online, and then my shopping fatigue (which is easy to trigger) kicked in. I’ll have to double back once I have more energy because I think you’re right, they do seem like a good prospect.

I’ll be on the lookout. Thanks again for the rec!

I think I have more contact with people outside of my timezone than within, so I relate. I often think I wouldn’t mind everyone switching to UTC. Even if that means I do things consistently at “odd” times, like go to bed at 10:00, wake up at 18:00 and eat dinner at 06:00.

At least we’d all be referencing the same clock. When I travel, I’d just change what time i woke up, not the clock itself, which would give a sense of changing global position. And if we still wanted DST we’d just agree to do everything an hour later and perhaps realize it’s ridiculous and stop doing that.

I have enjoyed the chime of many mechanical clocks. Finding a reasonably priced one with the features and a style I like is the challenging part. This may be the ideal solution; I just slow-burn the search and try other suggestions in the interim. Thanks!

Overkill is my style, and I’ve got the hobby picked up. I’ll have to look for a HA speaker that meets my criteria (private, decent quality/price/eco-mode). I like your idea for the button/switch. I’ve been manually tracking my sleep and thinking of switching to a HA button to mark sleep/wake times anyways, so this gives me another good reason to pursue it. Thanks for sharing!

Good idea. I have HA running on an old laptop. If I had a smart speaker, I’d be tinkering on this now. If I can find one that meets my particularities, I might go this route. Thanks for the suggestion!

I am most of the day. It might not serve all my needs, but it’s a great option. It’s going in my bookmarks and I’m trying it now. Thanks!

You’re onto something-- I could set each clock one hour apart and set the alarms to the same hour. That way, I don’t have to change 24 clocks twice a year; I just look at one clock for daylight savings time, and then look at a different clock during standard time. Bonus: I label the other clocks with their respective time zones.

I have an old android sitting around for when I require something not supported on a de-googled phone. So the app route seems like a solid option. Thanks for the recommendation

+1 for PBS streaming. It’s a great value and highly underrated.

Also moved to codeberg in the process. Bonus