150 chocolate bars gone! And they had to ring the bell. Its a good neighbourhood for this.

If it came to skipping my house because no bowl, I'd skip Halloween altogether.

How To Trick Your Brain Into Falling Asleep | Jim Donovan | TEDxYoungstown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5dE25ANU0k

Meditation works really well for me.

Front VLC blog, link in post above

"After months of slow back-and-forth over email trying to find a compromise, including offering to exclude LGPL code from the assets, Unity basically told us we were not welcome back to their Store, ever. Even if we were to remove all LGPL code from the Unity package.

Where it gets fun is that there are currently hundreds if not thousands of Unity assets that include LGPL dependencies (such as FFmpeg) in the Store right now. Enforcement is seemingly totally random, unless you get reported by someone, apparently."

Nope. As a Linux user, even I'm annoyed.

I've seen people ask legitimate Windows troubleshooting questions and then don't get an answer but dozens, if not more, messages to switch to linux.

It drives people away.

"Page Six reported that Archewell’s registration check was mailed but never received by the state, and the foundation expects delinquency to be resolved quickly."

Waste of time here. Non news.

25 yr System Administer who has exited IT: Windows

'round here "guys" has become gender neutral. But "folks" is my go-to.

We have some old, great HP printers. Rock solid.

As they die, Brother, my Brother.

Fuck the latest HP.

"rrred-dit"... that sounds familiar... 🤔

Ya but, you can't steal cars with this unit.

If our politicians are not the laughing stock, they should be.

When I leave her, just to go to the bathroom, or to the store or leave her in the car while I go into the store, I'll say, "See you tomorrow" x 15 yrs

"respect the wishes of the majority"

ffs

Oh, Brock Turner the rapist.

Gossip. Even talking about gossip.

Can't stand when someone recites a previous conversation instead of telling me the subject and results of the conversation. He said blah blah blah blah, she said blah blah blah blah, then she said blah blah blah... 🤦

Yep. Still not interested.

I switched to Voyager. Check it out..

Dear @hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone, please do not study statistical mechanics.

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two sided market,” where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.[2]

What's your email address?

"Your mother wears army boots!"

There. Consider yourself provoked, Mr. Useless.

Working. Not working.

"President Joe Biden elevated Amazon critic and anti-monopoly advocate Lina Khan to chair the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, hours after the Senate confirmed her by a 69-28 vote.

She was sworn in just as quickly, the FTC said that evening."

Huge win for progressives as Lina Khan takes helm at FTC

Incentive. Now it's a business.

FCOL, I don't even know what Factorio is. Guess I'd better check it out...

Should I kiss my marriage and job goodbye now?

Nope. Your opinion is not my identity.

The cruelty.

Goals.

You're not going anywhere unless you DECIDE to go there.

Forget "how do I know if its the right goal"?

You're can modify and change your goals as you go. Kind of like practice?

Just do it. Start small. Review regularly. Act on the steps that reach your goal.

What sort of person would be able to help me?

You.

Goals.

A car is not useful without a direction. A life is more useful with goals.

Where do you want to be in 10 years? If you don't know, pick something. As you gain direction toward your goal, you can refine the goal. Or, since you have momentum, switch direction even.

Break down your 10-year goal. Smaller and smaller goals, 5 year, 2 year, this year, next month.

How can you help yourself? Find someone who can coach you with setting goals. A little easier than finding someone who can help you with your "life".

firefly

The NPR article says there are 20 states...

What the fuck is going on in the United States of America.

Lots of great advice here. NEVER too old to learn.

Check this out, if you're interested. Excellent free course to help you learn how to learn:

Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects

Paisley. Blue.

I clearly remember 10-year-old me lying on the floor watching Sunday morning tv. Soccer, football and the rest of the world, was on. I was bored out of my skull.

Flash Forward 50 years, can't get a freaking moment to myself.

I like to change things up. But in this case, I'd have to come back as male again. Our work is not done when women are still facing constant danger and possible "gender-cide" with the likes of the taliban and the united states.

Yep, it needs to change. From Wikipedia

Yes, ffs

/s

FTFY

Well, I think you should be arrested and jailed.

Just because we haven't caught you, you must be a thief.

That's how your argument sounds to me.

It's probably a spectrum. You're at one end, replying to someone at the other end.

My experience, though limited, are teachers who genuinely wanted to help people with self defense.

Note: am Canadian who's glass is half full...