alexcleac

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[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 9 points 16 hours ago

The saddest thing for me is that it is 90% impossible to drink gin-tonic without paying to Coca-Cola in Poland. For other 10%, the price of tonic is almost same as the price for gin :/

[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 1 points 16 hours ago

My issue is that if I don't keep them in check, I can just rage out on people, and will just regret of it. Hence the distraction, to prolongue the emotion in time, and to make the emotion intensity curve less steep.

 

Hey everyone here ๐Ÿ‘‹

I've been wondering: how do you handle cases, when you get overwhelmed with emotions to the state, that you simply cannot focus on anything but that emotion? I hate that feeling, because it really makes me to feel sick with just being emotional.

My take is that I usually just break from a situation, take an hour or two, and try to stim myself with something else: a game, a movie, something like that. Though, sometimes I don't have a time space to do it: I need to be gathered and focused here and now, with no space for wiggling.

[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 8 points 2 days ago

Basically whole my life since 6 y.o. up until now. That is a reason why I hate any kind of homework, and especially working remotely โ€” because it makes work essentially a homework.

[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 1 points 2 days ago

Neither am I. It's just sad...

[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

RCS is a really nice thing in principle, because SMS/MMS infrastructure is just awfully outdated from security standpoint.

Though, replacing SMS/MMS infrastructure which is internetless yet cross-carrier by making it a internet-first and tied to a single meta-carrier under the hood kind of defeats the purpose overall. There was an attempt to build an independent carrier-deployable implementation of RCS, yet it turned out to be bought off by Google :(

[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 8 points 6 days ago

They have been for a while now. It's just that now it kind of becomes obvious

[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 5 points 1 week ago

You can always keep moderate care of the property: just not too much. Forests, for example, need to be tendered, and (unexpectedly) sometimes trees have to be cut โ€” to make more space for animals to thrive (not just humans), to other plants to grow.

[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love sunflowers. Though the sunflower has the same issue of sucking the ground dry of the nutrients, you will need to keep rotating the place, otherwise it will take everything from the ground to the state that nothing will grow there for years.

[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 8 points 1 week ago

This is gold, I think I should print it out and put on my desk :D

[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 3 points 1 week ago

If it is a Zoom meeting, than I just allow myself to run around the room, listening to the meeting on the background.

Otherwise, if it is an in-person meeting, I do lots of things

  • watch around, try to make notes of important things
  • practice active listening, trying to validate my understanding by parahprasing statements I heard as questions to validate correctness of my understanding. Even if I can't ask them โ€” I write them down, this also forces the muscle memory to make me recall more
  • if it is a presentation, I sometimes run further ahead, riding the content like waves โ€” so when presenter gets to some point,

The most important thing, though, always is to accept the fact that you can miss some parts. Neurotypicals miss bits and pieces of information too โ€” they just don't think it is a bad thing, so it is fine if you miss something, or hear something incorrectly. It is completely fine to ask to repeat something, or to get some information later by asking your colleagues.

[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AFAIK nginx was originally created by a russian, then opensourced.

Though, now, I cannot care less for russian products, not since 24.02.2022.

[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 2 points 1 week ago

Awesome, I've been watching this game development โ€” it is really a great one. I enjoyed playing demo so much times, great it is released finally!

 
 

I am not related in any way with the company, and I am looking forward to it: the phone promises to be a good e-ink smartphone, with huge focus around conscious usage.

 

Hello there ๐Ÿ‘‹

I am following the path of decreasing dependency on US products myself, and I was wondering if there is any real alternative for bandcamp? Meaning, the one that would be a proper marketplace for niche music creators, that would allow DRM-free downloads and streaming at the same time.

Bottom line: I do want to pay for music I like to support musicians, though I want to do it in a way that would allow me to listen to their work in a way I like the most.

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