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What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?
  • I practice polyphasic sleep and reducing blue light is pretty important there to avoid messing your circadian rhythm.

    The community recomends wearing the orange laser protection glasses, the same ones laser cutter operators use. Because that's what glasses actually have to look like to filter blue light.

  • What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?
  • Oh that's me. I'm tired and bored so I'll share my story.

    I was "depressed" because of working an abusive toxic job and commuting 2 hours a day for dimes. While at the same time spending my free time in the doomerism of r/fvckcars

    Filled out the doctor's questionaire and was diagonised with anxiety, and depression. I even had the bottle of pills before the hour was even over.

    Lost the job, and swapped my pass-time from pessimistic r/fvckcars to more optimistics YouTube/notjustbikes

    No more depression, never needed those anti-depressants because it was never a proper chemical depression.

    To many doctors just want to medicate the symptoms and never bother to consider the sickness underneath.

  • AI will capture carbon through reverse buzzwordolysis
  • Not OC, but some ways to "reduce consumption" are reducing our usage of inefficient technology by replacing it with more energy/resource efficient means.

    Examples include replacing individual automobiles with mass transit, building more dense cities to reduce consumption of construction materials/ vehicle miles, and not training massively large language models in facilities that consume more energy than an entire small country.

  • How bad is Microsoft?
  • Apple is highly restrictive on their OS and over priced. They are extremely pro consumerism with heavy marketing and engineered obsolescence to ensure you are always pressured to buy their new tech, and they are historically very strongly anti-right-to-repair.

    Microsoft is bad. But at least they are primarily a software monopoly.

  • If you didn't have to work, how would you spend your time?
  • I'd probably spend my time learning IT, computer hardware specs and maybe networking.

    Maybe build a private file sharing | streaming service for my apartment, and start a website blog.

    Perhaps also persue digital art and finally learn how to use vectors.

    Maybe also make a YouTube channel and spend my time educating others.

    But alas, im bound by my need for an income and will spend the next few years trying to persists as a (almost) new mechanical engineer bachelor.

  • newbie needs help installing things SOLVED

    Okay so I just finished struggling through my archlinux install. I have arch Linux with hyprland now.

    But I cannot figure out how to download anything.

    At minimum i need a browser, and git. But I cannot figure out web downloads in kitty.

    Edit: nmtui to connect to WiFi, and then a reboot solved it.

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