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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • 3 years (or is it 4? What is time?) on arch exclusively and I do quite a lot of gaming. It’s been great. There were a few occasions over the years where something didn’t work, while others on ProtonDB had seemingly flawless experiences, but it was always just a few minor tweaks. Much better experience than what I had on Manjaro prior to switching. Also, this is all on Wayland (sway) and even with that, it’s been great. BTW.



  • Love my current routine and it’s doing wonders for my health, both phisically and mentally (or at least I believe it is, it might be a placebo):

    1. waking up every day at the same time
    2. bathroom (toilet, teeth, washing face)
    3. glass of water with a multivitamin and omega-3 (I’m vegan and this is so much easier than finding food that has all that)
    4. playing with the cat (I have no coice in this, she says it must be so, it is, therefore, so)
    5. ~15min of yoga
    6. ~10min of meditation

    And then it’s coffee and work time. I’ve been on this routine for about 2 years now and I feel amazing since starting with it.












  • I have two tools that I use to fall asleep, and they have been working pretty flawlessly for me over the years. The primary one is reading a book in bed, when I’m off to sleep. Usually it’s not a lot of reading, I get pretty sleepy after 10-15 pages. The other is supplementary to the reading and that’s imagining some fiction scenario in my head. For me, it’s some simple SciFi or fantasy scene or whatever and I try to visualize the characters, scenery, etc. It’s usually just enough to occupy my brain enough so that it doesn’t do its thing of running around wherever it wants to, and just not quite enough to give it fuel for active engagement. No idea if either might work for you, but maybe give it a go if you haven’t already.


  • This one from Pyramids:

    The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they soon realised that the most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendants not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships or being patronized rigid by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don’t find out about it. So they long ago plumped for a lifestyle that, in return for a certain amount of porterage and being prodded with sticks, allowed them adequate food and grooming and the chance to spit in a human’s eye and get away with it.

    Always loved the idea that animals are just making idiots of us and using us for their own purposes.


  • Todoist is the main one. Everything I need/want to do is in there. Besides that, a calendar (Google Calendar to be precise, but any calendar would work, I don’t need anything complex from it), and finally Obsidian as my knowledgebase/2nd brain. Main things I use Obsidian for is journalling and expense tracking which helps with my impulsive buying problems.