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  • I was the same way for a few years. I don’t know exactly was the “fix”, but this is what I’ve stated doing to help me go to bed:

    • Podcast: I found listening to a podcast made a huge difference for me. It has to be one that’s interesting enough to pay attention to, but not one that is too interesting you have to listen to every second of it. That way I can lay in bed and not be bored, but also not care if I miss anything. My go-to is the LTT podcast; Dungeons & Daddies is also good, but I want to pay attention more so it doesn’t work as well. Also use an app with a configurable sleep timer. Eventually you’ll figure out approx how long it takes for you to fall asleep based on if you miss anything vs getting up to restart the timer.
    • Bedtime Routine: A routine helps tell your body it’s time for bed. Bedtime tea, washroom, brush teeth, shower, then climb into bed.
    • No Games before Bed: When it’s close to bedtime, I stop playing games and switch to watching videos. Less brain effort.
    • Dim Lights at Night: Might be a bit too much effort, but I’ve setup all my lights to dim starting at 11pm. Bedroom dims all the way down to min brightness.
    • Caffeine: No coffee after 5, ideally not after 3
    • Cool Temps at Night: If you can, lower your house temps by a few degrees before bed and overnight too
    • Happy Lamp: It’s basically a bright light you point at your face during the day. Where I live, the sun rises pretty late, sets pretty early, and I have a work-from-home job so I don’t get a lot of actual sunlight. My SO said that my mood has definitely improved since starting to use it, and it helps with your circadian rhythm.

    I hope this helps!










  • AI slop. Newtons 3rd law of motion clearly doesn’t apply in the video

    Newtons 3rd Law of Motion

    If one object exerts a force on another object, then the other object exerts an equal and opposite force on the first object.

    Therefore, the guy should have been launched back with the same amount of force; but he barely moves



  • I fully flipped over every device in my house off windows about a week or two ago, and so far so good!

    I’ve been daily driving linux on my personal laptop since 2009 (16 years now!?) for school / work / personal work-esque stuff, and my work laptop is now OSX. A few weeks ago I flipped my gaming machine from windows to popOS and been quite pleasantly surprised at how well gaming on Linux is these days. So much so, I convinced my wife to let me flip her gaming machine to Linux as well.

    The only hiccup I’ve recently had was having to deal with windows-only, non-steam software. Ie. insta360. Luckily, there are compatibility layers / emulators I can use to be able to run it. It’s slow, but good enough.

    At this point, there’s no good reason for me to go back to Windows or anything Microsoft. It’s even become a red flag when I hear a business is using Microsoft’s products. I want to hope Microsoft gets a wake up call at some point soon and turns the ship around, but I think they’ve got too many big-company deals to have to worry about their consumer products being shite.



  • CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.workstoFunny@sh.itjust.worksEducation
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    3 months ago
    For those that don't get it

    The way the gears are arranged will result in a grid lock - you won’t be able to turn any of them.

    Rotating one clock-wise (CW) will rotate another counter-clock-wise (CCW), and the 3rd gear will spin CW. Because the first and 3rd gear are close enough to be in contact, and they’re both rotating CW, they are opposing each other resulting in them being locked

    Ie. none of this will work