Any recent victories or challenges?
Nice to see a prevalent positive comment section among the usual gloom and doom in lemmy.
No big victories or challenges for myself, all going boring but fine overall. Which is kinda a victory, I guess?
I know it’s small, but I made up with my wife and told her I don’t like being treated the was she acted. I asked her to talk more with me about what she needs rather than bottle it up. We have some healing, but I feel like it’s an upward swing.
I have spent the last 5 days seething about the rise of fascism in my country.
So, not good.
Am currently caring for my mother on hospice. Fuck cancer.
Bad and no
Victories: got conditionally accepted for my 2nd choice for uni (still haven’t told any close friends until I hear back from all schools and make a decision)
Challenges: I’m taking linear algebra and diff eq. It’s the first week and I forgot how to take derivatives and integrals. I’ve been staring at the problem for hours and still don’t get how to take the derivative for e^(y/x).
Congrats on the acceptance!
Here comes my boomer moment:
You kids have it so easy with technology these days. Back in my day we really had to stare at equations or wait for office hours with the prof.
Then it came Wolfram Alpha which showed you step by step how to integrate an equation if you wrote it into the prompt.
Nowadays with ChatGPT/Gemini/xyz you can just take a picture of your homework and it will solve it for you (and explain it in any level of detail that you want, if you care about learning). You can have it explain differential equations talking like a pirate, if you want.
Very understandable. I wouldn’t go with A.I. it’s pretty shit for math, but there are calculators out there like wolfram better suited for this. I like struggling first and if I need to use those tools, then I might. My school also has a math tutoring center but as linear is the final sequence, there is less help for that. Some profs probably forgot it.
Victories: My girlfriend and I are doing a lot better than we were a few months ago. I have only missed 2 assignments this semester and I finally found a method of organization that works for me. I go to class at least half the time which is a lot more than before. Doing good so far :)
Challenges: My insomnia has been a nightmare recently, I’ve slept 1 out of the past 4 nights and only because I bummed some weed of off a close friend. I haven’t eaten in 16+ hrs and my stomach hurts, I’m getting nauseous and bloated and I couldn’t make it to my 9am class because I was afraid of puking on the way there.
U intersted in trying something different tonight Re:Sleep?
Wdym by that?
I mean: are you willing to try something easy and dead simple to sleep like the dead perchance?
Have at it, I’ll take all the advice I can get
I’ll do it in baby steps and keep the dialogue open. Okay, you ready to try what I suggest tonight, promise? It’ll be easy
Dawg you’re stringing me a long It’s not a gun right?
No way. So here’s what I want you to do: (step 1)
- Get an album or even better, an audiobook for a story you love. Go do that and make sure you really “have it” (nobody can undownload or delete it, taking it away somyou can maintain your consistent structure)
You need something you like and that doesn’t rattle you + you’ll be cool with listening to like everynight. Don’t worry so much about being bored or whatever: if all goes well, you won’t be listening too long to the point you may never finish it lol
Edit:
- are you on Android/iPhone?
- can you make sure you have it completely dark? Whether ambiently or by wearing a comfy sleep mask?
I’ve never been this stressed in my entire life. It hits me each morning precisely the second I wake up.
Got laid off from work recently. I don’t feel like finding a new job because I have 10 years of experience and I know I don’t like working for someone else. It feels meaningless. I don’t want to spend my life like that. What’s the alternatine? Well besides the extremely unlikely event of winning the lottery I feel like the only other option is to start my own handyman bussiness that I’ve been “dreaming of” for who knows how many years. I don’t however mean that I have some deep passion for entrepreneurship because I don’t. Not at all. I just feel like it’s the only other option I have and there’s atleast a slight chance that I might like it. Hell, it could even end up being one of the best decisions in my life. Maybe. I don’t know, and I’ll never find out if I don’t try it.
But doubt. Oh so much doubt. This is by-far the biggest and scariest decision I’ve had to make ever. I know I can just end it if it’s not working out and find a job and that’s that but it just feels so permanent. It feels like I’m putting my entire future on the line. It almost feels like risking my life. It’s stupid and I know it. I just can’t help it. No amount of reasoning is enough to fight off my emotions on this. I’m absolutely and completely terrified.
That’s a good sign, honestly.
Your feeling is telling you that you are about to make some “significant” change.
I believe in you. Now you believe in yourself.
EDIT:
I’m actually going through something similar myself. I’ve always wanted to be a teacher, and now I’m like one week away from actually doing that. It’s nerve-wracking.
Left a toxic study group and I feel so much lighter and hsppy because of it. Have more time to myself and things that hold interest just for me and my enjoyment. ETA a Word.
It was a case study [group] if toxic study group politics…
What was there to be toxic about, was this Community?
Suburban housewives trying to learn a new language through osmosis. It is discouraging to be in a group where noone does the work and tries to actually learn instead thinking that paying for something is enough to master x or y.
Got tired and left.
I added file contents encryption:
https://github.com/sciactive/nephele/commit/5f18364275ec520fdd50bf456086bc0820ae98d2
And filename encryption:
https://github.com/sciactive/nephele/commit/945ba4bcf29ff2a91c00226d87049ed79094b452
To my WebDAV server:
https://github.com/sciactive/nephele
This lets you encrypt files on whatever your storage backend is. So it would be great if you use Amazon S3 as your storage backend, but don’t trust every Amazon employee who has access to that data (maybe a few hundred employees?).
I started working on this feature basically to blow off steam because my brand new, very expensive server wasn’t working. After many hours of troubleshooting, I think it was just a bad stick of RAM. So I got that going for me, which is nice.
Pretty great, been drinking beer and having steak. Going to proceed to get baked and laid to cap off the evening.
Remember always finish on the bach, never on De Bussy.
My challenges are too belligerent and numerous to name here, but they’re overshadowed by the victory of getting a really fantastic car, one I’ve been wanting since I was a teenager.
Congrats! What car? Will you be letting the Stig drive it?
It’s a VW GTI. I’m pretty sure the Stig already drove it, but it’s white with a decent tint so it actually kinda looks like him. (Them?)
Air soft, its been 4 days since a 5 hour session and my legs are killing me. Me and my old friends got together. Challenge was great though
I haven’t played in a year or so but I love airsoft. My airsoft buddy wants to go shooting with me but honestly, shooting is lame to me, I prefer airsoft. Running around and doing objective missions is more fun than just shooting a target. Although, I love archery and that’s miles better than shooting.
Shootings good to but doesn’t pump the adrenaline like air soft!
Chilling rn. Just got back from the arcade and had a few drinks so I’m riding this buzz safely at home. I also won a few things from a claw machine so that’s exciting. I’m still a little bummed I’m single for the first time in a decade on Valentine’s Day but life could be worse.
Good you?
You know I’m some stuff could be better but all things considered I feel like today is going better than I would thought it’d be.
