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Cake day: November 13th, 2023

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  • IMO: pack as much of your day with “active novelty” as you can. Even if it’s small stuff.

    Kids experience time more slowly because everything is new to them. As adults, much of our world becomes familiar and, frankly, forgettable. It’s the lack of newness that lets time just pass by in our minds since the day’s memories get pruned to hell, letting entire days just get black-holed.

    So my advice is do more than just touch grass; live life fully. Don’t just follow your favorite streaming programs, engage with other fans. Get out and join a club. Go to more parks, museums, live shows, craft fairs, summer festivals. Invest in the people in your life. Host and attend more movie nights, cocktail mixers, holiday parties. Listen to new music, listen to new podcasts, read new books. Double-down on hobbies or take on new ones. Finish projects on that todo list. Engage with nostalgia, but mix it up with new things too. Find new challenges and try new things to make sure that is or isn’t for you.





  • These are the same ppl I drive down the highway with

    PSA: it’s now practically Winter here in the northern hemisphere. Be aware that everyone you see driving with their front, side, and/or rear windows covered in ice, is someone that thinks that full visibility in those directions is optional. If you’ve ever wondered why it seems like you’re sharing the road with crazy people, take a moment to observe the portion of the population telling on themselves. Stay safe out there.













  • This is such a hilariously bad take. I like how “I can’t use Win32 on Linux” morphed into “re-write the whole app in Javascript just so I can use Electron.”

    Meanwhile, Wine and QT are like: “am I a joke to you?”

    I’ll add that (IMO) a lot of applications are becoming increasingly malicious, although less-so in the desktop space. I’m happy that devs like this are forced to quasi-sandbox their crap into a browser. Actually, if anyone knows how to crack into an Electron app in order to restore local plugins, user-scripts, and sandbox security controls, let me know. Or just liberate the guts into a local web app instead so I can use a real browser? This trend could be very useful for local security if those features become available.