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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop sleeping through everything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here. One solution is - sleep sooner. Force yourself to sleep an hour sooner than you regularly do. Also, tell yourself before you sleep that you’ll wake up at the same time you usually get up. Say it out loud, not just mentally.

  Once you do these, your mind will be alert to wake up sooner and will actually try to wake you up whenever there is a disturbance. Also, the added hour of sleep will help you long term.

  There may be loads of extenuating circumstances- kids, work pressure, your spouse wanting to spend time with you. Make a deal with them. Say you’ll pick up extra work around the house or spend more time with the kids or for work. Whatever it takes. In a few months time, you won’t need the extra sleep. But your mind will be more alert.

  Hope this works for you. It did for me for the time I did it. Then I slipped and I again can’t wake up no matter what. I do wake up if someone calls me when I sleep sooner though. So that’s nice to retain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨offline e-mails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did that once as part of an escape from Google. Just downloaded everything to thunderbird and then severed the link. Then thunderbird became my source of truth for emails. Whatever I needed to delete, I did (subscriptions, ham emails, et) and then I uploaded to another vendor which was much cheaper for the starting tier. I can skip that last step.

  Just make sure to severe the link so thunderbird doesn’t do anything stupid. But you can also take a backup of your inbox in case thunderbird does do something silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If that happens, it’ll finally give me the reason I need to delete windows 11 bleeding edge and go towards desktop Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some even have 3D printers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M'ananas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Add Man Go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lovely to see you share this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What movies have you watched this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Geez what’s that about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of your unpopular opinions, hot takes about series, streaming services, the wider industry etc?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🏴‍☠️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨role playing game to beat AI Karens and Kens (not physically)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good for a play through or two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sort email by oldest first, you are now a time traveller⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, when did you move from India to the UK?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thunderful are having a Steam sale on Viewfinder, Somerville, SteamWorld Heist 2 and other colourful hits⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a few games off this. Nice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to bottle a fart while maintaining its freshness?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Short answer - Yes. stinkycandlecompany.com/products/fart-candle

  Longer answer - all smellable scents are composed of chemicals that our scent receptors can understand, primarily by having the chemical compounds actually arrive into our noses and touch the receptors. What that means is that a fart is composed of very fine “shit particles” that float about till they enter your nose and cause you to smell it.

  While an individual fart may be difficult or impossible to bottle, since it contains very few particles needed to either store or replicate successfully, the existence of fart candles displays that farts can be emulated by scent manufacturers by studying the chemical composition of farts.

  I wonder how many farts it would have taken for scent manufacturers to successfully replicate a particularly pungent fart!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's gf is up to something⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly, she’s Possing OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam Deckies screaming from the rooftops about “YEAR OF LINUX!!!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pure bliss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lucky you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So Biden could officially flood the supreme court with democrat judges, then officially ask them to revoke this stupid ruling?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting the Skyrim itch again... Any mod recommendations to freshen it up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do any of these mods work on the Steam version of Skyrim, when played on Steam Deck?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unoriginal sins: why does Russell Crowe keep making exorcism movies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah dude. He could’ve gone the usual powerful man route of molesting someone weaker or susceptible… to get an article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough Trolly Choices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is where you’ve been hiding Kirk. Come on, your ship needs you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The Matrix' Is Getting a Fifth Movie—Without a Wachowski Directing | Wired⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Archive link please?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonjour indeed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking brilliant answer, OP!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eventually my entire town joined in..⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is indeed, a shitpost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic language⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  First time I’ve learnt what the past tense of yeet is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨temperature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I fall to context again. The person writing is white and clueless enough not to be specific. Clearly. American.

  Anyways. We are splitting hair over a silly tweet here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨temperature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Notice how the tweet doesn’t say “all people”. Context is everywhere and everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨temperature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It didn’t say which people. Also, I’m from South East Asia and have used Fahrenheit my entire life as a means to measure body temperature using mercury thermometers during fever time. It’s so much easier to say whether a fever is above 100 or not and then how much above 100.

  So people do feel in Fahrenheit. A fuck ton of them do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨temperature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the flaw??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨temperature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Water is not a molecule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our Kids Are Living in a Different Digital World⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s what the article is about. Influencers and algorithmic feeds that are so cloistered that you would never know what your child is looking at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One possible caveat of using an open source search engine alternative instead of Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Duck duck is a layer on top of Bing. Thanks for the link to Yacy.