Lasting happiness? There's always going to be downs as well as ups in life. Stoicism will teach you how to handle the pitfalls in life without dwelling on them and helping you to get on in life. Buddhism will help you to understand that life is full of sorrow but that the journey is it's own reward and that joy can be found anywhere.

A perpetual state of satisfaction can be reached that's liberally peppered with happiness. Happiness is not an end goal. It's the after affect of a effortful life that invites playfulness and new experiences.

The key word here is effort. Happiness should not be the main goal. Living your values. Finding a process and journey that meets your values and challenges you slightly will bring satisfaction.

Be carful of self help books and systems. Many are designed to put you on a perpetual wheel of needing more and more books to buy and classes to take. They are money generators that will tell you they offer the golden cure. And if you didn't succeed with the system in a few months then here's part two you can buy.

I do like THE HAPPINESS LAB podcast as a starting point. There's a free Yale course too. The teaching there can get you to examine some stuff.

Be kinder to yourself but do put some challenges in your way. Happiness is not about having a placid life.

I'd guess it depends on the thickness of what you are pasting. They're thin and I've only put down postcard like items. There is a double sided sticky tape out there too that's thinner. The dots are easier to manage. The tape a little messier. They both come in a self applying dispenser. I got mine off of Amazon. The tape is not temporary. You'll need to be precise your first time applying it.

I discovered removable glue dots. Using them now with my Hobo.

OMG, do you want malware, because that's how you get malware. https://media.tenor.com/WDugxDUlfrcAAAAM/archer-ants.gif

Watching this post for some insight as well.

I'm always nervous about installing an apk package into to my phone. Will Thunder ever be in the Play Store do you think?

The rumbling on the Fediverse is that Sync should be available for Lemmy in the Play store fairly soon. But maybe I'll take the plunge with Thunder before that.

Seven Samurai is an amazing movie. It set the groundwork for so much more to follow.

Harold and Maude Silence of the Lambs Thor: Ragnarok Singing in the Rain Unforgiven

Silly to hold us to five but those were the first to come to mind.

Jerboa does have limited use here. You just can't post anything. I used it to comment here and to up vote.

Best course of action like others have said, contact the office directly. I'm not sure that it is a scam but if you have any suspicion then treat it as a scam. It's a bad habit on the sender's part to send it off where other people's emails can be grabbed.

One explanation, and it happened where I've worked, someone writes an email using the one PC that all supervisor level workers must use. Due to login credentials already in place, everything goes out from the wrong email and with the wrong signature by accident. Or they're training someone and the let them use their credentials.

I've never understood github, compiling, and running an app/program from there. I'm at best a code monkey. Show me and the code needed at the command line and most of the time I can make it work. Can you suggest where to get started?

I nearly spit out my drink. Relatable and funny.

Pop or Mint are fantastic. They are my go to.

First off I'm no expert. I'm new here. But from what I've been reading, if an instance wants to have an advertiser there's nothing to stop them. The thing is other instances might unfederate from them.

Personally, I don't see an issue with advertising as long as it respects the user's privacy. In a community for EDC go ahead and have every tenth post followed by an ad for pens, flashlights, pocket knives, or whatever. I just don't want those ads following me around all of Lemmy and the internet.

But advertising with strict rules wouldn't last long. In the end we do need to figure out how to support the Fediverse.

Sorting by New and All is the best way to find active communities and magazines. I'm hoping that my subscribed list becomes as active as New currently is.

It was all about the concessions at intermission time. 🍿

The random events are a little predictable. Unless there was a patch, just avoid certain areas for your wandering, don't approach strangers in the wilderness and be prepared for the seldom snake bite. There's probably a good YouTube video on what to look for in the random encounters.

Agreed but they will bleed off users more than likely with their shenanigans. The Fediverse is at a tipping point. It will either develop to be robust and fun/informational, or it will remain the playground for a few. Societies only become better when more people are actively involved. We need the involvement now more than ever to guard against fracturing.

If you are viewing on a browser you can. The current app can not.

The thing is that Meta and Reddit are masters of social manipulation through their algorithms. They know what low common denominators get the most engagement. I blame FB for a big number of echo Chambers and that just fed people their own negativity right back, made them spiral into a bad place mentally.

If they have any ability to post to the Fediverse or to track things they'll do it all over again.

It's the halcyon days of the Fediverse. Negativity on my feed is nonexistent. There's discussion. There's respect for differences. I know things will change with time but it's important that the big instances never work as proxies for big tech. It's important that big tech doesn't get a seat at the table. Voices should remain individual and not some mouthpiece to an industry that wants centralized control.