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Cake day: July 23rd, 2025

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  • Ya, i struggled with that too initially and I came to the result its just to overstimulating being around her, I have to worry about the tiniest thing exploding and not willing to live my life dancing around my own feelings and needs for someone who in truth really just give a shit about them. She cant or wont or something else but I just dont care.

    We’re all adults who get to make choices about how we allocate our time and resources and who with and there’s just no value in trying anymore. It sounds sad but its actually really positive, like Louis CK talking about not to say im so sory when your friends divorce. Its a good thing, no happy couple has ever gotten divorced

    Its only ever a sad ending for whoever was benefitting from the financial or other associated gravy trains that got free shit for tormenting you. Parties over and its sad for them but I will never be sad for them, i am indifferent to how they are or what comes of them. People mostly only change when they have to and the rest of their story is up to them to write and live alone



  • Also, List 3 things you can do that would be consistent and help towards attaining those outcomes

    Outcome 1: an always reasonably clean, organized home space

    = the same level of clean and organized that I would have had to have scrambled to clean every time to have it be minimally presentable for a reasonable hypothetical fellow visitor

    1. Everything has a place and by the end of the day/before bed, do a sweep thru place to clear all the surfaces and everywhere else until everything is back in its place. I’ll know its in its place because the next time i need it, especially if I need it during a phone call, I will know where to get it immediately, and if its in the wrong place, i will often lose track of it and not have it available regularly

    2. Stop buying new stuff, or at least dispose of multiple old things to compensate. Sometimes the best firstline strategy is dont add to an untenable state, that can be a force for good and a sufficient effort in itself. Make deals with yourself that get you both more of what you want at the expense of what you dont want

    3. Reduce friction by making it easy to do the things that promote clean and organized state Ask: why does this task overwhelm or bother me, is there an example of something you did before that was a positive and that you could turn to again?

    Outcome 2:









  • Dont know if this is similar or relevant but I was using an online free yt-dlp website and the schtick is you just paste the link for a video or playlist and it formats everything and runs yt-dlp on their server and people can download the files among all the other files of other people doing the same thing or god knows what but it was sort of fascinating.

    Might try it out again just to people/file watch. I find these kind of community/public computer stuff absolutely fascinating


  • You cant really rely on it but it makes sense to be selective for apps that make an effort to No(t) Data Collected where its possible.

    A more pragmatic strategy is to disable cellular data and see if it can run without internet or wifi. Apps that cant that have no actual reason it cant be done locally are out immediately but you have to buy or download it to test first i suppose.

    I guess I mean to say no data collected is a good sign but I still verify and even any of this is no herge against a company who’s business is selling out your interests when they and the unaware could have almost certainly made a better choice. Vote with your money and your feet or thumbs