As much as I have ideals for my technology use, I will admit that

• I have some audio in the background playing half of my waking hours
• If I’m tired of words, I’ll put on music, vice versa
• If there’s an unanticipated pause, I first check if it’s still playing correctly
• Yes I am afraid of being stuck with my own thoughts when I go to bed
• I think of the time spent waiting in line as nothing but wasted unless I use it as an opportunity, perhaps to read a saved tab on my phone
• All of this might not be the cause of it, but it definitely doesn’t help my mental fog and fatigue

I don’t, but there’s always someone else in my family who’s getting sick whenever we fly together. I’ve worn masks to the airport ever since the pandemic. Also tend to fall asleep shortly after takeoff, so I’m well-rested upon arrival.

Excessive. Spread across several devices and countless bookmarks.html exports from old system installs. I am too busy to revisit or even curate them.

In my mind, I assume that I will be given notice of the day that the internet will be closed off, when Youtube ads will be completely unblockable, and I will rush to download every last article and video in those bookmarks, then live happily ever after off-grid.

I would be too lazy to, unless I eventually encounter my ‘gateway drug’ to i2p.

How odd (and maybe disheartening) to consider that it can be cheaper to fly and expend all the energy need to lift a big metal tube up into the air and back down, than it is to travel along the rails.

I’m particular about the temperature at which I eat eggs. Personally couldn’t do cold egg salad at all.

A bottle of Fiji water for 1.25 USD

Always did in apartments. Closing the bedroom door gives me another layer between the neighbors and street traffic. I added rubber door sweeps and seals to further dampen the noise. In a detached home, I’d leave the door open during the day but close it when I sleep for added fire safety.

I used to have a downstairs neighbor who stomped loudly and my pleas didn’t work. So I got a subwoofer and played some low-frequency white noise when I needed to drown it out. After reading your comments, I’d highly recommend this if you can’t move out yet.

They seriously need to build more apartments and condos with concrete instead of thin wood in the US. I miss my old apartment when I was in Germany. Nice sturdy concrete walls so my neighbor could blast music all day without bothering me at all.

“why dont you just google it smh”

I could, probably with green more than red

Yes, I wouldn’t lump yellow in with either red or green

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What items did you like to eat? You could probably start with bringing the ones that require less time to prepare.

I’ll take half a day on the weekend to meal prep for the week, after which I just heat up refrigerated meals. Changes every week, but usually lunch will be some form of chicken with brown rice as the base, whatever vegetables are in season or at least easy to cook, maybe beans or an egg, a piece of fruit, and a couple snacks (cookie, yogurt, slice of pie, etc.)

Wouldn’t advise leaving things unlocked overnight in general, but it’ll depend where in the US. Here out in the exurbs I have neighbors who haven’t locked their houses or cars in years, but I just personally wouldn’t fall asleep without locking my doors. Maybe it’s the true crime podcasts getting to me.

Some flavor of Android

• GrapheneOS on my main phone
• DivestOS on my old secondary phone
• LeOS on my tablet. It has all the pings to Google servers cut out and since it’s a GSI, it’s perfect since my tablet doesn’t have LineageOS support.

One box. I might be unlucky and lose out on $1000 in that other box, but I wouldn’t be too bothered. On the other hand, if I were to grab both and get $1000, the thought of what if I took just one box and got a million dollars would gnaw at me for the rest of my life.

The decision changes dramatically if the box with less money were closer to a million though.

Try out the restore kit first.

I replaced the entire unit on my vehicle (GM) because the back reflective coating was flaking and the aftermarket glass lens was tempting. Blinded a few innocent drivers the before I realized how far off the beam was. It’s alright with a bit of adjustment, but the beam pattern is just never the same as stock.

About a 5. Thankful for what I have, only got the bare minimum done this weekend, appalled by the state of the world.

Don’t want to cook tonight. Clotted cream (microwave heavy cream until all the water’s gone) on raisin swirl bread and a can of soup.

People who modify their cars to be obnoxiously loud. Makes me wish they’d get sand in their engines and grind their gears down.