On some level yes, but ultimately the worst cases of poorly invested time make me learn to spend my time better, so it wasn’t entirely wasted - I like to think of it as a learning experience.

What I am more concerned about is subtle time wasting, sprinkled all throughout daily life in the form of various technologies and media mainly. It’s so hard to get a feeling for how much time you are really spending there and it’s even harder to escape it.

Have to agree, it’s a funny story but charging someone a stupidity rate for nonexistent work isn’t justified by that person being stupid and a pain in your ass. Unless your circumstances force you, you can always just refuse work from customers like this. So many people downvoting this is disappointing.

Unless you don’t know that ^ means Ctrl 🥲

Thank you for sharing these links, this is some very interesting context to Orwell and his writing. It seems I read 1984 quite naively, though some things did seem off even then.

I would not recommend addictive and harmful habits like smoking tobacco/pot and drinking as a coping mechanism, it can go real bad and can make it harder to get out of that hole again.

Me too! Here’s a bonus with more clock:

Just go back to 4chan, nobody wants to read that shit here.

It is actually Android 10+, but I think the automatic updates only work for Android 12+ :)

I have it a try and it still has some growth ahead before it is useful in my eyes.

Edit: correction, the latest release is still Android 12+, but the next release will support 10+

So it did something! ;)

I like the idea of a weekly thread, it’s nice to get new book impressions that way! :)

It’s not a messenger, but for locally frequently transferring or syncing a lot of data, I can recommend syncthing. You can use it to configure shared directories, syncthing will use the local network as available (or you can force it to) to transfer files across the devices. We use it for keeping some media, notes, password databases and documents in sync over a bunch of devices. :)

The meaning of copyleft is just that those who use the license have to typically also use the same or a similar license. There is no restriction to who can use it, just to the terms under which they can use it and have to license it.

GPLv3 for example does not allow derivative works to be closed source, while MIT does. In practice this makes some companies hesitant to use GPL-licensed works, but they can, and many do, they just have to abide by its rules. :)

I see, I will let them grow a bit more bushy, since I don’t know what I am doing 😁

That makes sense, thank you! :)

But “gamers” is evidently the wrong word, it should be “men”. The whole point is that there are a ton of female gamers, and then they equate gamers with men in the title 🤷

I am currently reading the Three Body Problem series and I can only agree. I finished the first book in two days, it is an extremely creative and well-crafted story.

That’s a lot of great advice and inspiration, will be saving this to implement later! Thanks! :)