Final Space. Tragic it was cut short.

As a person who is not diagnosed ADHD or autism (but has traits of both), what’s made sense for me with meditation is that it’s about relaxed attention. Choosing to focus your mind on something specific (for example, the sensations of breathing in and out, or even something simple like counting). Recognize that yes, your mind will wander, and you’ll catch yourself drifting off to think about the show you just watched or the burrito in the fridge or how stupid meditation is… And that’s normal. The practice of meditation is catching that your mind wandering, acknowledging that with kindness and without judgment, and going back to what you were focusing on for your meditation. Don’t be hard on yourself! Every time you catch your mind wandering, you are actually SUCCEEDING (because you recognized it), and are PRACTICING catching your mind wander and practicing getting back on track. :)

For me, that’s what made it work. Focusing on nothing or letting my mind wander just leads to anxiety about doing it wrong and boredom, but gently focusing on something neutral and just practicing catching myself wandering is something I can do.

I believe it’s only installable from the Microsoft app store, which relies on windows dependencies not available in wine. It is not a .exe file.

I have tried running windows 10 in a virtual machine and accessing it through that… It does work, but it’s very clunky.

Last year around April I started dual booting pop OS (24.04 alpha 7 with cosmic DE) just to see how it is, and it became my daily driver. So far it plays all games I want to play (granted, I don’t play “online” multiplayer games) and I only keep windows around for access to the Xbox accessories app to calibrate controllers. Ended up installing it on a shared laptop once it hit beta, and now that it’s actually just released, it’ll probably become the daily driver for my wife’s work computer. I’ve had no issues with Nvidia GPUs, for what it’s worth

Probably an organization that had copilot shoehorned into. 😂

Only slightly! 😂

Pains me that the article calls them “old” clocks and not “analog” clocks.

Is… Is this satire? Did this happen? I can’t even tell what’s real anymore because while I’d find this really objectionable and tasteless if it happened, I can’t really be sure it didn’t based on my sense of common decency.

Of course!

Imgur was my passive, “only sort of social” social network of choice to find content. Then they were running ads for AfD and well… That was that for me. 😂

Imgur is its own platform, has its own app and its own community. Reddit, I believe, may use it for image hosting as well?

Because imgur was running ads for AfD

In the context of the story arc, Hero Too from My Hero Academia. Not an objectively amazing song, but I like the various tie ins from the performance in the story. Turns out it was sung by Chrissy Costanza of Against the Current. I also like their 2016 album In Our Bones.

Epic pays the publisher a flat fee for permission to distribute the game for free for the week.

Your individual download doesn’t give Rowling any less or more, but shows support for her IP, and tells epic they made a good decision to support her.

I’ve heard great things about the game, but for me the download does support Rowling, so it’s a hard pass.

From a functionality standpoint, I find windows 11 to be adequate. I like how Linux comes with edge and other things pre-uninstalled, and doesn’t have AI shoved into every crack or crevice. The final straw for me for windows 11 was finding out that if I wanted to disable AI from notepad, that I’d need to do so manually. I can’t be spending all my time in windows figuring out what they’ve added ai to and figuring out how to purge it out without breaking things.

Been on pop OS almost a year and never looked back.

Any idea whether imgur is still allowing advertising from AfD? I ended up migrating away from them because of that and haven’t been back.

I second this. Software makes such a difference, and I find the pixel camera (software) to produce good pictures. I also don’t allow it network access.

I have been using pop 24.04 with cosmic DE since alpha and it’s great. I use it for all desktop needs but also have had no issues gaming with it.

I think so, yes. I don’t want features that are privacy invasive that will likely be turned on by default when they show up. I’d rather not have the worry that something in the background may be harvesting data to feed to a model somewhere. Were this an extension that needs to be installed independently in order to even be present, would i agree? Sure. As a “now this app has AI built in” feature? Absolutely not. I will keep avidly avoiding software which adds AI, whether it’s something I use or not.

Spouse and I have played so many hours of this as its complex enough to need strategy with character build, but easy enough to play with one control stick and no buttons. I picked it up for free but would easily spend 3 dollars on it.

Dumb question:

Not sure I understand the point of drizzling the oil at the end. Would it not work to gently coat the tofu and then press into the bread crumbs? Wouldn’t drizzling at the end leave you with some spots that are oily and some that aren’t?