That’s really sweet. :)

I’m not a programmer or anything so I have no experience with scripting at all. My job is supporting customers and their business phones. The script allows me to take a bunch of info from these dense readouts from the system and filter out only the relevant details so that if I need to ask another team for help I don’t have to copy/paste and format a bunch of different stuff manually. It just spits out the info I need from a bulk of mostly needless info.

It’s already saving me time so I’m glad I decided to just dive into this scripting stuff head first.

I wrote my first ever bash script to make my job less tedious and I’m happy. :) Time to refine and expand it now!

That doesn’t negate the value of having them participate in the conversation though.

The stone age = any time before 2005 apparently 🙄

Black holes don’t just roam around looking for planets to snack on.

Don’t be so sure. There’s plenty of cases of black holes devouring entire star systems. There’s so many black holes just drifting around that you could make a case that they are just roaming around looking for their next snack.

If I saw anyone harm any animal intentionally outside of self-defence, that’s an instant and permanent write off. I’d literally take any opportunity to talk shit about said person beating animals and would take pride in beating their ass if the moment was right.

Anyone hurting animals gets a big ol’ irrevocable “fuck you” from me.

There’s like 8 billion people on this planet you can be friends with. Don’t roll with or enable abusers.

Bitburner is pretty cool too.

I find it difficult to pull myself out of long autopilot “drifts” is what I like to call them; where I’m not consciously electing to do anything in particular, I’m just moving through the day at the whim of whatever catches my attention. This is problematic because there are things that I actually want to do during the day; things I’ve been thinking about doing for a while like making music, DIY projects, anything really.

While I’m in these drifts I’m essentially lighting time on fire. It’s almost always completely wasted time which causes a problem. Once I’m able to snap out of the drift, I realize I’ve squandered time that I needed to dedicate to the things I actually wanted to do. This causes me immense stress and existential dread. Feels like I’m actually wasting my life.

If I snap out of it early, I’m stressed to cram in all the things I wanted to do and sometimes the stress is so overwhelming that I can’t think clearly enough to get anything done and I’ll just give up and fall into doomscrolling or some other time wasting thing like that.

This ties into my habits because when I didn’t have day-to-day chores and responsibilities integrated into these drifts it would all get pushed to the next day and I’d procrastinate heavily until it became a problem not only for me but for my wife as well.

I put some deep thought into what’s going on during these weird drift times and I realized a lot of what I’m doing is actually just force of habit, some good habits but mostly bad habits. I figured that since these habits are so strongly ingrained in me to the point that I often don’t even realize that I’m doing any of them in particular until after they’re done, I thought that if I could integrate the chores and other undesirable necessities of being a functioning person in a household into these drift states, I’d likely just end up getting all this shit done without putting too much brain power into tracking and remembering to do them, let alone the effort to commit to the task.

It took me about two months of painful dedication to burning these activities into my brain as new habits. When I’d be tempted to just put them off until later, I’d stop and pep talk myself into just fucking doing the thing, no exceptions or excuses and not allow myself to do anything else until it was done. Sometimes it was stuff as simple as just taking cups from my office down to the dishwasher. Other times it was more detailed and lengthy responsibilities that come with being a husband and a homeowner.

It was incredibly difficult for a while to force myself as a round peg through the square hole so to speak. Sometimes I just wanted to cry when I realized that I couldn’t just procrastinate and that I had committed myself to doing the dishes after every single meal. Sounds silly but when your mind is racing with all these things that you’re hyperfixated on (mostly music for me), the thought of losing time with that, even for 15 minutes to do dishes, can feel catastrophic.

What’s funny is that I didn’t even realize a specific moment when these new habits just clicked. My wife said one day “Man, you’ve done a complete 180 on this stuff. The house is clean, everything is done all the time, I can’t believe it”. In that moment I hadn’t even realized that I had actually achieved my goal. All of these previously loathsome tasks that drove me nuts were just integrated into my day and I wasn’t even thinking about them anymore.

I’d think about what I did previously first thing in the morning; make a pot of coffee. Where previously I’d just stand around scrolling waiting for my coffee, I noticed in hindsight that I had actually brought laundry downstairs on my way to the kitchen, started the pot, went out side and filled bird feeders and baths, finished up a small amount of dishes in the sink from movie night the night before, and cleaned the counter tops because they needed it - all on autopilot.

This isn’t a flawless process either. It requires its own maintenance. I’ll notice every couple of weeks that I’m leaving more cups and dishes on my desk in my office than I should be, or that I put off scooping the cat litter until the morning for no real reason and have to have my own little internal pep talk again to remind myself of my commitment to myself and also to my wife; that I’m an active participant in this household with shared responsibilites with my wife and that I’m not a slave to my mind’s weird thought process. I stop and I think about what I’m doing and why and that gives me the motivation to do the things I need to do.

The best part is that this is much more efficient than just living off the cuff and at the whim of my brain’s weirdness and that despite doing more chores than ever, I have way more free time to do the things I enjoy. I consider it one of the biggest wins of my life up to this point.

I guess I’m the exception.

I’m not medicated. The only control I have over my life is by doing exactly this; making things into habits. I’m a creature of habit and I’m on autopilot most of the time. Integrating daily challenges into that autopilot mode has changed my life.

I have to use Discord Canary for that but yeah. Flatpak all the way.

You can use the Aurora store for apps. You can also use Google Play for apps if you’re not super privacy minded. The beauty of GrapheneOS is that it doesn’t have to be a locked down security privacy-minded OS if you don’t want it to be. It can be just as functional as anything else with very few exceptions.

It just gives you the option to pursue security and privacy if you want.

I haven’t had issues with my banking app either but I don’t use the NFC wallet functionality and never have. I prefer to just tap my physical card.

Yeah man, all of this except for the balls part. Shit’s a bit too much for me bro and I was there in the 90’s. You do you though, I guess. 🤷

It’s like everyone is eating the same meal, even though there’s other restaurants everywhere.

So fucking apt. Thanks for framing this the way you did. Really clears up my thoughts on how to discuss this with others.

Running GrapheneOS on a Pixel is incredibly easy. You don’t need to be technical at all to get it set up. The instructions and the process are simple. Get on it!

The day is coming, my friend. I’m in the same boat. I have to admit that its because I’ve been too lazy to sort things out on Linux for my Fanatec gear.

All my time is dedicated to home studio recording lately so I haven’t played games in weeks anyway.

Developers all love to preen about code. They worry LLMs lower the “ceiling” for quality. Maybe. But they also raise the “floor”.

And this is how the human element of this industry dies. This dev is the last of a dying breed, the senior dev. He’s also loading more bullets into the gun that’s pointed at the heart of the role that got him to where he is in the first place.

You don’t get to become a junior dev if that role is occupied by AI and you don’t get to ever ascend to senior dev unless you start as a junior dev.

For as analytical this person seems to be, he has a massive blindspot related to the path he himself treaded to get where he is. He’s pulling the ladder up behind him and condemning the people on the path behind to finding another way or giving up entirely.

AI is brain rot. It’s actively and aggressively atrophying humanity’s ability to reason and problem solve.

Gamers, Windows is an AI-polluted cesspool and NVIDIA is actively abandoning you for AI.

Switch to Linux, sell your NVIDIA card and buy an AMD card instead and enjoy home computing and gaming again.

Honestly, I’ve always thought the best use case for AI is moderating NSFL content online. No one should have to see that horrific shit.

Yeah, they were all stepping in phase with each other. Pretty cool physics going on there.