My setup is an old Dell Wyse thin client and 4 external USB drives. The thin client is basically silent. The drives only make sound when they’re active, and spin down when idle. The thin client has an Intel CPU with QuickSync so it can even transcode with Plex. For data redundancy between the hard drives, I use lsyncd to make a poor man’s mirror setup.
Works great. Lives in a cabinet in my living room.
Fully work from home. I start late on Mondays and Thursdays because I have Dutch lessons in the morning. I usually work from my small home office, or sometimes sitting on my sofa or rarely at a cafe. I don’t usually have meetings on Mondays or Fridays and log off at around 5:30. On Tuesday through Thursday, I often work until around 7:00 in order to have virtual meetings with coworkers in other timezones. Most days, I skip breakfast or have something light, and opt for an early lunch (sometimes that’s breakfast food).
Outside of meetings, I use an automated time management tool to block off times for certain tasks so that I don’t forget to do them daily. The rest of the time is deep work, hopping from project to project. My work is done in 2 week intervals, and I usually accomplish 15-20 project tasks per interval. During the day, I frequently field random notifications to myself or my team in channels on our comm tool. During deep work time, to keep my brain from falling apart, I tend to put on a comfort show or something not too engaging. A large chunk of my work is also stakeholder management, talking people away from metaphorical cliffs that will hurt the business.
I’m running at 120% at all times. My brain is mush at all times. I’m deeply burned out.
When I was a teacher in South Korea, I had a 5 year old student hospitalized for anxiety. It was fairly common by high school ages.
In the upper left I see a dinosaur facing the sky with its mouth open
I feel like short seasons leads to insufficient time to know the characters, and causes writers to pack in so much plot and melodrama that it’s exhausting to watch. Every second is packed too tightly , always trying to be EPIC. Miss 3 seconds in the episode? Sorry, that plot point was critical and either you go back and find it, or give up on the show. And heavy serialization also requires more of this obsessive watching and a requirement to not forget minor details between seasons. The higher production values result in 2-3 years between seasons, deepening all of the problems above: it MUST be considered epic, it MUST be tightly serialized to every minor detail, and when people don’t live to watch the TV, well, they might as well cancel it.
Writers also seem like movie writers have come to TV - think up a premise, write a story arc, and then have no idea where it goes after that. The drop off after S1 is usually pretty stark, and then S2 is when it gets cancelled.
TV having 20+ episodes (almost half of the year with weekly releases) means the characters were around long enough that they can actually build meaningful on-screen relationships. Every episode didn’t have to be a high stakes drama, plot, or writing. Lower budgets per episode means that writing quality, dialog, and character building takes precedence over flash, action, location, and epic camera shots.
Give me more Star Trek Deep Space 9 and less Marvel-like Star Trek Discovery.
It also deepens genre-ization. With only 10 episodes, a comedy is a COMEDY. A drama is a DRAMA. We don’t have time to be experimental or weave something more complex.
For myself, I make sure I’ve done my due diligence before I might accuse someone of dishonesty, rather than making a minimum effort.
From his Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/flukejones
I’ve burned out on LKML and many many other parts of the FOSS world. It’s exhausting. As such, I will not be working on Linux for asus device. It’s not something I can devote huge chunks of time to for free anymore.
Thank you everyone who has donated something over the last years.
Same on his Patreon
For example, the developer of asus-linux.org who made the kernel contributions for Asus ROG laptops and the accompanying ROG Control Center recently walked away, due to exhaustion.
What’s wrong with original Syncthing? Why would anyone use a fork?
I don’t accept the premise of the question.
GigSky allows you to buy data on Egypt in 10GB intervals. You can continuously top up your plan once it runs out.
€52.49 for 10GB so it’s fairly expensive.
I used GigSky for work in the EU, and at least one day used 10GB+ without a problem.
Not terribly far these days. Nearly all of my travel is by walking or cycling.
Although over the next week, I will be travelling by train a few times to a city 30km away and back. And then to a city 500km away and back. But those are very tourist trips.
Eternity. It’s open source
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.toldi.infinityforlemmy
Ergo Proxy
Mostly a cheat, though, because the music is Radiohead.
LazyLibrarian is fantastic for ebooks. Basically useless for audiobooks. I’ve found the entire *arr stack seems ill suited for audiobooks.
You can buy premade nodes on AliExpress or Etsy that are easy to use and portable. Pair it to your phone and start war driving.
Now that I live in a dense urban city, the number of nodes is wild.
I have a lot of obscure interests, but not as obscure as yours.
Finding former Pizza Huts in North America. It’s just such an iconic building design. There’s a documentary out now on them, but I’ve been fascinated for almost a decade now.
Meshtastic
John le Carré novels. He was huge decades ago, but basically nobody knows the name now besides Boomers and genre fans.
Germanic/Nordic name. I’m an American. The name sounds like it comes from my European heritage, but it has no family history, just randomly selected. And my spelling is less common in America, which has led to a lifetime of having to spell it out or correct when it has been mistranscribed (literally, people would read it from a paper and transcribe it wrong when typing it).
Now that I live in the Netherlands, at least there are no transcription errors. People are less unfamiliar with my spelling here
I’m generally pretty happy with LazyLibrarian. I know people get really excited about the *arr stack, but Readarr never worked well for ebooks. It was maybe a little better at finding audiobooks, but LL is getting better at that.
I got beat up by a guy twice my size who was just in a pissy mood. “Participated in a fight, in school suspension”