I’m specifically looking here for blog/news site shaped things I think to try and get out of the doom loop of opening news sites and getting angry.
People of the nice bit of the internet, what regularly published things (blogs, articles, videos, podcasts, whatever) are you consuming that are informative but not relentlessly bleak? I feel like all I ever see is people saying how terrible everything is, and while everything is terrible I need some joy in my life as well.
I have once again found myself feeling oppressively depressed only to realise the cause was listening to a Placebo album and I t could be fixed by pressing stop.
@gsuberland flexible shaft nut spinner is absolutely an insult in Australia.
@neil there need to be social media bans, I’m just not convinced it’s the 15-year-old girl who should be receiving them in this story.
@an0key for me, even before getting on some meds, knowing I have ADHD doesn’t necessarily make it easier but it does mean that I know what’s going on, which in turn means I’m gentler on myself when it causes problems. I spent most of my life being furious at myself that I couldn’t get my shit together, turns out there’s a reason for that.
I think I’ve fallen well truly down the Nix rabbit hole. I was reading a blog post earlier about enabling something on some other Linux distribution and spent the whole time thinking that it would have been a single config file on NixOS rather than editing half a dozen files and firing off a bunch of random executables while hoping nothing breaks halfway through.
I have spent so much money over the past week or so on buying things that aren’t quite right to fix my electrical problems. Some might say I should have done more research and planning, to which I reply SQUIRREL.
It looks like today is a three espresso day, thanks to some unexpected network engineering which touches on a whole section of the Linux network stack I don’t usually have to deal with.
@kunsi sadly I have lost my label printer so can’t label the box it’s buried in.
@jonathanhogg I feel like most people have one, maybe two, of those in them over a lifetime before the novelty wears off.
Who is the patron saint of email?
Saint Francis of A CC.
(Don’t @ me, I stand by my choices)
I’ve finally sorted out my heating in order to have a consistently warm flat so you can all thank me when summer comes early next week.
Companies running mailing lists, you’d have a way better chance of me not unsubscribing if you could resist emailing every single day just to remind me you exist.
I must know, was the Notepad RCE demonstrated by using it to launch Notepad?
I should also add I’ve had this switch for months. No idea what possessed me to try and put it on over lunch.
“I’ll quickly put this smart switch on my water heater over lunch”
Reader, my hot water system is currently held together by Wagos and controlled by turning that loop on and off at the breaker box due to a missing part in this puzzle, and being unable to get the old switch back on. I truly hate electrical work.
@gsuberland they’ve got to notify their 2,187 close partners of the update as well, and they’ve not been talking to a few of them for a while so they’ll have to find the right moment.
@akareilly 100% this. Yours, the person who caused catastrophic data loss by rebooting both Redis nodes in quick succession during an outage, which unexpectedly resulted in them both coming back up empty.
Should I have known that would happen? Probably. Should there have been some sort of warning anyway? Absolutely.
The bad news, it’ll cost £1,200 to repair. The good news, it’s entirely cosmetic damage and so doesn’t actually need repairing.
Things that weren’t on my todo list for today when I got up this morning: going to the Apple Store so they can make my work laptop less of a fire hazard.
To Apple’s credit this is the only damage I can detect from it being dropped on a concrete floor from about 4 feet up.
