Putting in the effort to dress in the way one has come to think is appropriate for appearing in public is a form of self-care. For some people, from certain generations or cultures or who have adopted the habit to their identity, that may be more formal or elaborate than for others.
That a person of an advanced age, possibly suffering some mental decline still does this is a great thing, and very good for their well-being.
I play some music (thru earbuds unless my wife happens to be away). My go to is the Goldberg Variations. I think the reason it works, even though it can be quite busy and fast in some parts is that there is enough complexity to occupy the mind, but enough sameness to lull, and I know it really well.
Sometimes I’ll take 1mg of melatonin, and a cup of warm milk with honey.
The devil is in how things are made useful to users who just want to get things done. The problems comes with corporations making decisions about what users should need to understand, and what users want. There’s been a lot of dumbing down and manipulation in that process, serving the needs of those corporations and advertisers and not the needs of the users.
Software can be made useful for those who don’t want or need to undertand all the details, in a good, non-harmful way. The principle of separation of interface and implementation even demands it. But our society being what it is, that largely doesn’t happen, so I’m inclined to agree with your pessimistic take.
If we did we could save the money we spend on toothbrushes.
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you would probably end up degrading your own experience; getting irrelevant ads
Irrevant ads = less targeted ads. You seem to think this is a negative. I’m saying it is actually a positive.
Getting more targeted ads is not really in your interest. That is an idea promoted by the ad people.
All of history is one people taking over another peoples land. I’m not saying its right, but in virtually any part of the world there is a history of some invader or colonizer coming in and displacing or swallowing up the existing people, probably multiple times, down through prehistory as well.
The basic screen design is pathetic. When I do a search I want to see search results. The whole right half of the screen is taken by related searches (your example differs from mine where it puts that Wikipedia summary in the upper right). Then half of the left side is taken up by a “people also ask” block. That leaves a quarter of the screen for search results, which with their inefficient spacing, fits 2 whole results before needing to scroll! If I scroll down I get 7 more before needing to use paging.
When they first rolled it out, they asked for feedback. Good luck trying to find where to submit that.
I’ve never considered it a swear word. It’s more of a euphomism for “shit”. My criteria for “swear” word is whether it is something a kid can say in school with getting yelled at. I realize this may have changed since I was a kid.
We percieve the 3 dimensions we exist in, through a 2d mapping, i.e. our retinas. So I think we are limited in how much of 3d we can really grasp at a time.
I’m using 7 pro right now and there is absolutely nothing making me think about upgrading. So I support the idea that you’re fine with a 9.
Since the imperfections of your room may make what looks level not perfectly level, I say don’t use a spirit level. You want it to look right.
This has only just occurred to me, and I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ll bet its really good on a hot dog.
In support is that, I’d point to
As you keep navigating through the hamburger menu, one thing you will notice is that, unlike on the default GNOME terminal, there is no graphical Settings menu to speak of here. The reason for that is that Ghostty is so customizable that it would have been pretty much impossible to provide a practical GUI to expose all its configuration options: you need the full expressivity of a configuration file for that.
as making a virtue out of a lack. I really don’t buy that “impossible” line. It was just too much work or work they during want to do.
“Who the fuck is McDiv?”
I do get the thing of being stuck on the association of something with pleasure or such, despite knowing from repeated experience that it doesn’t actually work out that way. All I can say is keep reminding yourself of this.
The other suggestion I have is to try to find some other special beverage with which you can cultivate a special association.
It may be tricky to find the right sweet spot. It can’t be something too expensive, since it sounds like that will stop you buying it, but it can’t be so trivial that you just drink it all the time and it then fails to function as a substitute special treat. Possibly the effort of making it could imbue it with specialness. Kombucha is possibly a thing like that you could make.
How did you come to have this T-shirt?
It’s not even wrong.
I wonder if making another browser spoof being Opera would work too.