I’m really bad at spending stuff on myself also. I like prioritising paying back loans, buying stock and so on since it pays itself back later on.

The way I look at it is that the less I spend on luxuries the less I have to work (currently and in retirement) so I don’t feel weird about it.

Another rule of thumb is to delay purchases by 3 months and it doesn’t set back your financial goals. If you’ve been wanting this Macbook now for 3 months and you have the money for it and you feel comfortable with your current financial situation I’d tell you to get it. If it’s an expensive car it’s a financial catastrophy usually so don’t get it even if you’ve wanted it for 3 months.

No idea if that helps but don’t feel weird about being frugal. Frugality is incredibly useful and can set you up for an easy life.

No, I wait 3 years usually. All bugs fixed, everything works, mods in great shape and price down 50%. Plenty of games older than 3 years also and much lower hardware requirements.

I made an exception for Elden Ring last time but that’s about it.

Can’t ban chemtrails but you can reduce contrails which play a weirdly large part in warming up the planet irrespective of fuel consumed.

Just putting the word out for an underrated climate thingy.

Coffee and beer, my two favorite drinks

Sky in Reykjavík right now:

I would love to hear a single policy from the heritage foundation that’s actually a good idea.

I see, it’s about flying under the radar if you’re up to something illegal. That makes a lot of sense for something like having weed in the car.

I treat a serious prod issue as annoying because it is.

Can someone provide a couple of practical examples?

I agree, they’re not good humans and I’d love to get some more eyes on aspartame in light of this study. I did the math (and posted a comment on this post) and found out that the dose is equivalent to a 2L coke zero bottle so the dosage is applicable to how much humans get.

It’s a classic more study needed and until we get a proper study without conflict of interest assessing human cognitive performance with a memory test after 8 months of drinking a 2L bottle of coke zero 3 times per week I’d recommend reducing the amount of aspartame drinks to at 0.5L or less 3 times a week.

It’s not conclusive that it’s going to negatively affect humans and sugary alternatives are very likely still less healthy both cognitively and physically than the zero drinks.

Dosage matters so I crunched the numbers to get the Coke Zero equivalent.

• Coke Zero has 85mg/355ml
• Mice were dosed with 7mg/kg, 3 times per week
• We assume humans are 75kg.

Calculation

• Human dose is 7mg/kg * 75kg = 525mg
• 525mg / (85mg / 355ml) = 2193ml

So it’s roughly same as drinking a 2L (half gallon) bottle. I expected it to be a lot bigger, not just something a regular soda lover would reach in 2 days.

I figured there has to be someone that likes it.

I think the default styling of browsers is pretty neat in a lot of cases and I hate animations. Layouts, spacing and grouping are the things that actually provide value.

Instead of a fancy popup with a cart contents the button should just say “Adding 1 item…” and “Added” for 2 seconds.

I hate infinite scrolls, especially when there’s stuff like opening hours at the bottom of the page. Just give me a “Show more” button and preload the content.

My dream world would be that styling would only be about layout and the rest is up to the user’s theme.

Onions and mushrooms are the two things I can have with pretty much every meal.

Subhan allah 3ndna eshahar addura.

Systemd is controlled by redhat and is a very large part of the Linux stack. It’s become so universal that a lot random stuff won’t work unless the system has systemd.

Compared to X11 to wayland or pulseaudio to pipewire it’s a lot hard to now replace an init system and with that in the hands of redhat which is for profit is not a nice thought.

But you know, fuck it, having systemd is a massive headache for people making distros that’s just gone. Everyone is using the same thing and things just work so people aren’t really complaining. If redhat tries some shenanigans there’ll always be a fork or a systemd compatible init system or even whatever Alpine is using now that’ll take it’s place.

Each desktop environment needs to implement wayland so it’s best to leave it to the distro you’re using to provide it as an option. For a good wayland experience I’d recommend KDE

Did you mean to add /s?

The best app

Up arrow on top of a cloud, I think that one is standard now