Once you hit that situation you’ll have to simply wait for the body and mind to re boot. Nutrition helps but it won’t be a silver bullet in my view. What’s worrying is the note on communication, seems you’ve been running on fumes for a long time, to the point you can’t will yourself to push forward. Rest, hydrate, take vitamins and let the body resets itself.

Depending on the exhaustion it can be more than few days of rest, it can last a week or more, depending what’s your source of stress. If you can maybe take a day off from work, at least in the past I’ve had the luck of having a doctor that didn’t complicate if I simply said that I’m too exhausted to make a safe trip to work. Otherwise do the bare minimum and put other activities on hold, re connect with people after few days, even if you won’t be up to it. Socialization is important, even if you’ll feel more tired after the meet up, at least that’s how it usually went with me.

Lifting yourself from homelessness and persevering alongside the trauma is a sign of fortitude that many will not understand. You’re amazing.

“Parry this you filthy casual!”

Yeah, these days everything is labeled as addiction, especially if it’s negative in the conservative tones. As long your habit doesn’t impact your daily life… it’s normal, the bar is really that low.

Now if it’s more serious, I’m afraid a more professional intervention will be required. Looking at other causes or clues that lead you to keeping this habit and compulsion.

Feels underwhelming, especially since it’s 2TB what you’ll want to go with. However with handheld consoles signaling the new prices… I think the price of SM is the new reality of a budget gaming setup. Part of me feels, we’re seeing murder of gaming and PC tinkering/DIY in broad daylight.

It does sometimes provide a procedure in troubleshooting. As internet gets clogged under bloat, and you haven’t done anything like that before, it’s not the worst idea to give you starting points to think about. It’s best used with combination of other sources.

Deepseek was useful in explaining me in finding out where can I find information for car rims (CoC it was my first time looking for such thing) and how to get the correct nuts… it was honestly more useful than a human agent from one of the shops… who wanted all the documentation I had on the car before even hearing the question, which felt a tad excessive, considering their field of work.

I asked Rufus on amazon DE, if this hub requires a purchase of separate supply to work. It answered no, ofc it did.

With the push towards AI and no one seemingly willing to answer questions or even explaining real alternatives in person, I’m only left with a question what is a person supposed to do? Re-buy or relay on services that either overcharge or they send you to their competitor because they deemed the problem of too little value to solve?

This is the secret question as it often boils down to “I didn’t think it’d do harm so I just did what you thought you wanted me to do”

Not as such, as you need to find what’s the source of their information and if you do point out the error, they will usually answer with something like “I’m just a Database, I’m not responsible for what’s been put in me, what do you want me to do about it”. Maybe added continuation of “I can agree with the information being disputed, if you want me to do that”.

month on month, everything gets worse and more noise to filter out. Can’t be the only one with this sentiment.

I learned to ignore it, it’s there like a traffic noise.

it’s worse than you imagined… yes, even worse.

As much as I can, but of course that doesn’t mean there’s been a complete severance.* It was easy to not consider any of the American car manufacturers or Apple products, but there are many treats from the vending machine that are available, I bought some electronics (GPU, handheld, probably SteamMachine or SteamDeck in the future) so there’s still room and not all merchandise or services are easily replaceable.

As for the culture, I follow some American influencers and there are some TV shows worthy of seeing (Dune and Andor come to mind). However in my case the American influence and their projected image has been waning ever since their attack on Iraq.

*I have no delusion that this is making a change in a financial sense, it’s simply a matter that I can’t support their acts.

Think from the angle of the story and what you desire to tell from the said story.

An advanced post scarcity civilization developed through cooperation and pacifism , but what happens when one element on the fringe of the human federation suddenly starts assimilating other neighboring regions? Will the doctrine endure or will it collapse under the practical test?

That dystopias feel cleaner is kinda worrying statement in my eyes. It’s not that they’re cleaner but it’s usually the recognizable issue that’s been dialed to 11, or perhaps what will happen when the Genie is out of the bottle… does the story grapple with the possible solution or it’s a simply a cynical take of the writer behind the curtain?

There is something to the the mindset of the author and what or how do they want to tell. Without a doubt the current “Zeitgeist” also plays on their mindset and what sort of a story or perhaps a scenario they’re setting up.

I don’t think that’s immature, but the reality you lived through. I used to be dismissive of these thoughts now I try to see what’s the real momentum behind them.

I don’t hate it, it’s just is what it is.

• Work isn’t slowing down, there’s no “Christmas is coming” mood anymore. It’s a rush and stress before and after it and no matter how much you got it done, you’re going to be behind schedule when you’re back.
• Rush, crowds everywhere.
• The artificial feel of it. Inauthentic essence that wants you to be authentically happy.
• Isolation.

With exercise I’d like to say that you shouldn’t treat it as a daily quest in an MMO. You know “I have to do this today”, if you forget you forget. Group activities with a fixed time slot are a bit better, because they create a greater incentive for a person to go out and do them. Sometimes there’s also an after hour hanging out at the nearest pub, provided people can take the time.

Not to go too much into psycho analytics, yes, there is a trade off with time and energy for it… if you’re starting out and always dropping out it’s a sign that you’re unwilling to go through that exchange of time and energy (or perhaps unable). But if the goal here is to simply a bit healthier you don’t need to do much. Take it step by step, day by day.

I will echo on the self expression, that’s an area I always low key suppressed thinking it’s foolish but it’s not. Frame that 80’s Japaneses poster, buy that DAP player or vinyls, because the ambient of the room and aesthetics of cloths and accessories we use do matter. It can be a simple thing of simply getting a key chain for your phone or a sticker for your laptop. It requires come curation but I can honestly say that it feels nice. Perhaps it asserts a certain agency, as opposed to 1001 of soulless apps on a big screen all overseen by the big AI.

No ideal answer. Try to find a certain meaning in your daily life, activities can help or rather shifting from passivity to activity will alleviate that feeling, board games, pick up an instrument, martial arts school and so on.

I’ve accepted that this is how things are. Most interactions I have aren’t about connecting, and even within my circle, there are times when it’s possible to be completely misunderstood by people filtering out what their preferred narrative is about.

Weekend flashed all too fast. Still haven’t swiped the dust of my shelves, but it was productive. Wish I could find the time to get few other things done.

i had no idea…

I am in awe of your organization.