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Cake day: May 5th, 2024

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  • It’s a carbon copy for archival. That shit might show up when you’re searching your inbox, so it still makes sense. I automatically shove all mails where I’m in Cc into a separate folder and skim through it once a week maybe. If you want me to do something, then please address me directly. If you’re not capable of that, then you should perhaps look for a different job.



  • I took today and tomorrow off, because my daughter’s school starts Wednesday. It’s good to start off with a short week. Friday will be a short day as always and then I’m fucking Off into the weekend. I fucking hate my job at the moment, because I was so stupid to become one of the most important people in my division. This is not bragging. It’s a fucking curse. I hate every fucking second of work nowadays.

    Edit: please excuse ye inflationary use of the word “fucking”. I’ll leave it as it is, because those convey my emotions on this topic.


  • I just recently went back to a dedicated mp3/flac player. I wanted to go back to actually thinking about the music I hear and discover music myself without an algorithm telling me what to do. Even my rather cheap Shure se215, which are meant to be IEMs for musicians rather than for listening to music, sound leagues better than the Sony wf-1000xm5 I have. And they’re even better at isolating noise, without ANC. Plus no Bluetooth bullshit. Fuck that noise.

    I’m sick of the way tech is going. It’s also the reason I’ve started building a home server.



  • Alphabet is known to mess around with the algorithms so you’ll always get disgusting Nazi shit in your suggestions sooner or later. Also, a lot of people can’t back out of doom-scrolling, because of bad impulse control (people with ADHD for example). And even if there’s something informative in there. It will always lack a lot of information. It’s like merely reading the headline of an article and then going into the comments, claiming you know everything about the topic (happens on Lemmy a lot).

    It’s nice that you seem to have a grip on these shorts, but it’s even greater that you can use certain tools to eradicate them. On my mobile phone I use YouTube revanced and on Firefox/waterfox I use Tweaks for YouTube. With the latter you can also change the thumbnail size and grid the way you want so you don’t have to cope with the ridiculously large thumbnails.


  • That’s a weird take… The comic is speaking to many people who suffer the same fate. I love reading books but the distractions at home prevent me from doing so. Many people don’t even realize this until they finally get to read a book while on vacation for example. This comic is a reminder to think about this a bit more. I enjoyed the comic. Why are you gatekeeping comics?



  • It doesn’t work like that if you’re neurodivergent. I love reading, but it takes longer to get into a book. Other media are better at playing with the dopamine. But when I’m on vacation and there is no computer or tv around, then I can finally take the time to get into a book and it’s the most fantastic thing ever.