Notices by golly josh darn (klardotsh@merveilles.town)

Tons of hate for rockets today on the timeline and I'm just sitting here with my Starlink dish (which has no meaningful competition for what I have to assume is a variety of complicated political and financial and logistical reasons) being the primary way I'll have internet connectivity and the ability to do my remote job for the summer like :thisisfine:

I can hate space being taken over by billionaires as much as anyone but there are distinct positives use cases from SpaceX, too.

Inseego exists in high orbit, but is ludicrously slow and expensive.

ViaSat and related all exist in high orbit and are ludicrously slow and expensive, *and* typically require fixed installations.

Option three is "don't sail outside the range of cellular towers" which is... An option? Not a great one, but an option?

So anyway I take the good with the bad, and will hope for an eventual less impactful true-remote-places connectivity option to eventually surface.

@yogthos classic. get the masses riled up about TikTok as a smoke screen to pass draconian shit

exactly what they did to pass the Patriot Act way back when, too

@technomancy Simultaneously this proves that you don't actually need to be good at tech to be a tech CEO, and also that Mozilla hasn't learned from a decade+ of completely misguided wandering: if anything, they're showing their hand that they're about to double down and continue burning money in shallow pits to nowhere.

@fitheach @wim_v12e @yngmar @ccohanlon Yeah, while caffeinated, I could pound coffees and sodas pretty much all day non-stop (even well into the evening) and still reliably get 6-8 hours of sleep, it just sometimes took a while to actually fall asleep, and of course there's the ups and downs of riding the energy hills and valleys that come with that (though some of that effect is the sugars involved, I think, which I'm as of yet not quite brave enough to kick... I think?...)

@fitheach The idea of giving up pastas and pizzas terrifies me away from keto diets, but then, I also never thought I'd try four months of no alcohol and a month of no caffeine, so I guess anything is theoretically possible.

30 days of not drinking fully caffeinated drinks - couple of decaf coffees here and there, but otherwise no non-trace amounts.

So far not worth it, and rather unsure if I'll be continuing this experiment. I have zero motivation and get absolutely nothing done, work or personal. If /r/decaf is to be believed, things tend to turn around for folks around the 4-6 month mark where productivity returns.

What I don't know is if I can wait that long.

Brighter side: anxiety is near-gone. Life is calm.

Other nice trait: my physical energy levels are consistent all day now, and I fall asleep nearly immediately when I decide to. The negatives are all around productivity and mental ability to give a shit about this modern grindy way of life. All my brain wants to do lately is like... Go into nature or meet up with friends or play video games or sleep. But nothing work, nothing side code project, and nothing boat projects.

@nuala how long was it until you had enough motivation to actually sit down and do focus-based tasks? I'm half concerned I'll end up getting fired for my sluggish output before I see that side of me come back

@nuala None diagnosed, though I've long assumed I probably have some variety of attention deficit issues, or something along that spectrum.

Interesting analogy with the smoker feeling thing, I hadn't entirely thought of it that way

@nuala cold showers TERRIFY me but they seem quite common among decaffers, I guess because it triggers fight or flight or gets the blood pumping or something? I'm one of those folks that, given a shower I'm not paying a quarter a minute for, will happily stand there for 30+ minutes melting my skin off (poor water heaters / environment...) because I just love hot showers

that + ramping up more spicy meals might be worth a try rather than just throwing in the towel, thanks for the idea.