I was gonna buy one of those Lite phones, but it was expensive so I just deleted time-wasting apps and now my smartphone respects my time.
Hardest part was getting people to just text me instead of various social media messenger apps. In the end, I deleted my accounts and now everyone from school thinks I'm dead, but those close to me can reach me easily.
Sometimes I still binge YouTube via Firefox on my phone though, so I installed "Unhook" which blocks recommended videos, so I can only see what I search for.
I guess just remember that your smartphone can be dumb too. And still a lot more convenient than a flip phone.
I agree 100%!
Butt I'm joking about a façade of optimization. Making code confusing and hard to interface with by making up custom data types. And for more context, their main project is a UI that takes >10 seconds to load and uses 2+GB of RAM. But at least the UUIDs in the SQLite DB are stored as hex instead of strings 😅 (even though I think everything in SQLite is actually stored as a string under the hood?)
I do still admire the desire for optimization - but it might be some sort of coping mechanism to ignore the insanely unoptimized bits of the project
I have a coworker who does stuff like this and it's always low-benefit optimizations that cost the team time to interface with - but I do still kind of love it
My mom is a school counselor at a tiny school in a tiny town in Montana. There is no way the school stays open. Or 90% of our public schools for that matter. Part of me wants to tell her "I told you so" but generally it just sucks so bad I don't have the energy
Yeah - I just wish our leaders (Democrat ones) would call for protests at least. It would help. Instead we twiddle our thumbs as our institutions are destroyed. I haven't heard of a single protest for the tariffs today that nobody wants but Trump and Putin...
Well, how'd everyone do?
I had to order some magic cards so I stayed up until midnight to do it lol. I also need to replace a pvc pipe under my kitchen sink so that waited until today and I've been getting water from the bathroom...
My wife told her family and all of them are very enthusiastic to join (20 ish people). Unfortunately I still have trouble convincing my family that Trump shouldn't be allowed to do illegal things
Since I'm dramatic I burned a bunch of things my ex gave me in my parents' backyard. Years later I noticed my brother had a metal necklace with some discoloration. It was one I burned lol. I felt too weird to tell him.
Today I'm experimenting with Ansible. Wanna try setting up a Docker hosted RSS reader with it. Hopefully will write up controls for my whole Docker server with Ansible once I'm more familiar.
Haha, that's a good idea, the next time I make a dad joke I'll say, "oh no, was that a dad joke? You should probably take a pregnancy test, just in case it was."
I was gonna buy one of those Lite phones, but it was expensive so I just deleted time-wasting apps and now my smartphone respects my time. Hardest part was getting people to just text me instead of various social media messenger apps. In the end, I deleted my accounts and now everyone from school thinks I'm dead, but those close to me can reach me easily. Sometimes I still binge YouTube via Firefox on my phone though, so I installed "Unhook" which blocks recommended videos, so I can only see what I search for.
I guess just remember that your smartphone can be dumb too. And still a lot more convenient than a flip phone.