I'm stuck at home for the next 9 days, what should I do?

Recommendations would probably depend a lot on what kind of books you like.

One I read recently and loved is "Extremely loud and incredibly close" by Jonathan Safran Foer.

I’m dead 🤣

Yes, they're conceptually identical, but the core gameplay is very different.

Satisfactory's devs call out Factorio as an inspiration, but they're fairly different games.

Factorio is a top-down 2D game built in its own engine. Graphically it looks like Age of Empires with a 3 pack a day habit; buildings are grungy and smoky with something of a dieselpunk look to them.

Satisfactory is a first person 3D game built in the Unreal engine. Gorgeous and colorful alien landscapes with buildings that have a tonka truck kind of vibe to them.

Factorio's environments are procedurally generated and can get to be extremely large. Satisfactory has one hand-made world with no procedural generation, the game world is approximately 25 square miles IIRC.

Factorio has pollution and base defense as major gameplay mechanics, as your factory pollutes you will attract larger hordes of alien creatures who will try to destroy your factories, and you can build walls and automated defenses. Satisfactory has no pollution mechanic and some FPS combat mechanics which amount to "there's some alien wildlife that will attempt to gore you on sight." Satisfactory's buildings cannot be harmed in any way.

Factorio has a more paranoid feel to it; you're never sure when the edge of your base will come under attack. Satisfactory is a lot more chill.

For Star Wars lore it really starts and ends with the Timothy Zahn trilogy. For years was considered the "official/unofficial Episodes 7, 8, 9."

Heir to the Empire (1991)
Dark Force Rising (1992)
The Last Command (1993)

If your library has Libby (or similar), it can be interesting to read random "popular" books. I have found some good ones that way.

Just don't look at the title art, or read a description. Keeps things wild. (Time travel, end of world, or just lunch with friends? No idea.)

"Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine" is one example.

I’m not much of a reader, though I would like to get into the Star Wars lore. I had not even thought of that, thanks! 🙂

You're welcome ;)

Do you have any recommendations for what to read?

I don't know what you like so it's a bit like i I asked you what should I eat tonight?

Imho, if you want to give Star Wars a try that's a good starting point. I don't know now much about Star Wars so I'm probably not the person you should ask. I do love scifi though and among my favorite authors I would say Ubik, by Philip K. Dick (the guy was the inspiration for films ranging from Matrix to Blade Runner, and many others). It's fun, it's not too hard to read and it's not too long either. And it's at least as pertinent today as it was when it was written in the 60s.

That said, allow me one advice if you're not used to reading: don't be afraid to not like and not finish a book. That's OK. You have no obligation to.
I read a lot and I never hesitate to quit reading a book I don't like. Also, I know that my tastes can change (I now love books I hated when I was a kid or a teen, or even a young adult). The Ubik book I suggested is not a difficult read, but you may also not like it at all, and that's fine. Just look for something else to read ;)

If you’re into science fiction, check out the Wool/Shift/Dust trilogy by Hugh Howey. I also enjoyed the Lattice trilogy by Erik Hanberg. You’ve probably already seen some movies based on Robert Heinlein books. GS Jensen also has a bunch of fun series. Finally, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is what got me into sci-fi as a wee one.

Alternatively, head over to a book community, or the books community on BlueSky is pretty active. Tell them some things you really like and ask for suggestions. If you liked a movie or TV show based on a book, there’s a very good chance the book was a bit different and considerably more in depth.

If you haven't read it yet: A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas

Audiobooks ?

That's my struggle now. Nothing more to scan. But it's like a rabbit hole. I'm actually make use of the ASN numbers and use a mail address to hord the digital papers, too.

I was going to recommend Shiko: https://youtu.be/YLvHesbDZUQ?t=30 it works many of the same muscles as the air squats but also builds your balance and "stretches" your legs.

Its not acturally difficult, as an Arch user (btw) some Arch users will convince you to manually install Arch (and you should at one point but you dont need to). You can use Archinstall and itll basically install like any other OS.

Hey that looks cool thanks.

Great username btw.

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It happens. It doesn't have to happen again. If you have money for gym, maybe Tai chi to learn how to manage energy, shouldn't be an issue with your injury. I would love a tai chi class, myself, but it may not be for you.

I make a lot of scrap soup. Any random ingredients, like cans of veggies, food scraps I've been saving for stock, any other ingredients in the fridge about to go back, and any ingredients I want to get rid off, I throw in the scrap soup.

I usually like to make a cheese base, since it goes well with damn near everything. Cheese base doesn't freeze well though.

Veggie Mac and cheese is good, lasagna is good and freezes well, I also cook a lot of noodles and stir fry's.

You can your own frozen junkfood like frozen pizzas to toss in then oven when you feel like it, and stuff like that. You dont even have to complete it, just assemble it, and when your hungry take it out of the freezer and chuck it into the oven, like lasagna, and casseroles.

Instant pot is great for fast meals too. Its also incredible for stock. If you want to upgrade your knife skills you can buy bone-in cuts or whole birds to use all of the bones and scraps for stock. Basically all food waste goes through the stock pot first before being tossed

Uhh I super don't. Best I can do is at least use Grayjay and Freetube to avoid ads.

It's ideally watched at the same time as Buffy from Buffy season 4 onwards because of crossovers but yeah it starts slowish but by the end the plot is really good actually to the point I think it's a little better than Buffy.

But yeah I think both should be watched together as kind of a combined show.

Cool just remember you don't need to memorise the docs, they're for reference and even the seasoned pros have to use them daily.

Making small things is more important than the big ideas app you have right now.

So if you already have an idea for an app, you want to get to write smaller apps that have a small amount of that big idea. So just make an app that says hello world on the screen, then make a login screen for it, then authenticators, etc.

I would say the 9 days challenge would be on that level to get a simple app working, at least in the emulator. If you have to use an LLM(AI) always always get it to break down the explanation so you are still learning and not copy and pasting. I made a GPT that never tells me the right answer, uses other examples and always explains the solution,

Nice, all good options!

For iOS, I'd recommend Flutter, since that's where the market is going, and they have good quick start guides.

For Docker, it changed my world. I taught someone in these steps, they used GPT to do each step individually, but were required to learn what each part of the compose file did as they went. They used WSL in Windows, but doing it via CLI is key.

• Use docker-compose to start an Alpine Linux container and Docker Exec into it
• Get the id of the container with Docker PS
• Add an environment variable of THIS set to 1
• Swap Alpine Linix for Nginx, and open 127.0.0.1:80 on it so you can visit it from local host
• Mount a folder on the local machine into the container as a volume with an index.html page so Nginx will serve that page

Getting those basics down one step at a time will make all the rest soooooo much easier.

I was going to invite you to mine.

No harm in that, at least within reason.