Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
re: self care / adulting stuffs, mh?
Mostly I try to navigate it by intuition.
There seems to be one for navigating logic/systems. That's the one I run down if I spend a day doing taxes.
Others that I think I've independently experienced: social interaction, physical coordination, just plain old sleepiness (although I've heard that feelings from sleep debt vs circadian rhythm are distinct)
re: self care / adulting stuffs, mh?
@emerald from my experience, a single mental resource and a single kind of resting to replenish that resource is too simple a model to be very useful
food
I just ate the straightest string cheese I've ever encountered. Every little pulled off piece was pretty much uniform thickness.
I am over a month behind on social media and falling more behind every day. I do not plan to make any attempt to reverse this trend.
plurality
I have created an in-system appeals process.
It's generally for small decisions (like "should we get up and drink some water?") where we already know the answer but aren't doing it for a bad reason, often just inertia.
The process consists of someone going "I invoke discernment" and then we use discernment to find the answer (which we already know), and so far that gets whatever's blocking it out of the way.
re: steam on linux
@emerald Proton is usable in regular desktop Linux in Steam. It's typically transparent when it works, you just run the game like a normal Linux game. If you want to use it to run a Windows game that's not on Steam, that's possible but a little weird to set up.
There are also various other launchers that can do stuff with Proton outside of Steam, and forks of Proton, that I have no experience with.
(My job has me working on Proton sometimes.)
time management
I've decided not to schedule chores anymore.
In my free time, I will do what I most feel like in the moment. I don't satisfice. I have imperfect memory, so I keep a list of the options (trying to group things that are sufficiently similar). And I have primacy bias, so the things I do get moved to the end.
I suspect I have enough motivation that I still will get things done when I need to. So far that appears to be the case.
plurality re: kink, hypno //
@lioness My system used to do this naturally. The accidentally-created drone headmate (or one of the others who was well-suited to it) would take over when energy was low.
Esme Povirk
boosted
This week I finally wrote the beginner's security guide I wanted to see in the world. Here's 8 tasks you can do right now, with plenty of vetted resources and the "Cliffsnotes" style summary on why you should do things, risks and limitations, and even what NOT to do. Enjoy! https://hashman.ca/security-101/
Esme Povirk
boosted
New post:
I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship
https://www.hughrundle.net/i-accidentally-became-a-foss-maintainer-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-new-perspective-on-librarianship
@emerald I think all of mine have been guids or something. But I don't follow a lot of podcasts.
Looking into Nix again and this time instead of being confused about what it even is, I'm starting to think maybe it'd be a very useful tool for me to learn (and use on systems other than NixOS).
@mavica_again This is basically how I consume RSS.
Hey tell me about your favorite webcomics
Surprisingly, this does not eliminate the risk that the maintainer will want you to explain or modify your patch. https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/merge_requests/175
No one wants to review your patch? Simply become the project maintainer and then merge it yourself. https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/merge_requests/174
@tbodt When that happens, I will write my own logic to fetch the content.
ADHD
I think maybe the reason priority heap time management has been working well for me is: it lets my ADHD brain go where it wants. As soon as this project stops being what I most want to do with my time, I'll stop. And maybe come back to it. Or maybe not.
I'm not attached to the idea of completing it. I'm not going to push myself to get it done. I won't regard it as a failure if I abandon it.
I suspect I will get it working eventually, though, because the web isn't getting any less annoying.
@mavica_again I'll make sure I test with this, thanks.
Joined Aug 2018
