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DontTreadOnBigfoot, in Does anyone actually enjoy working out?
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Fucking love it. I’m an absolute gym rat.

Problem is, I’m currently wasting away due to severe anemia, and in the last 2 months, I’ve gone from deadlifting 500lbs to barely being able to carry in groceries.

autumn, in How much "data" do you personally have?

Probably 2TB, maybe 500gb of which i actually bothered to set up additional backups for (personal photos, docs, projects, and videos)

j4k3, in from a user perspective do you prefer material design 3, GNOME style guidelines or any other style guidelines?
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I love GNOME for everything except FreeCAD, KiCAD, Inkscape, and to a lesser extent GIMP, when working on a 1080p 17" laptop, on Wayland. There is far too much space taken up by the window header bars and the font line spacing is useless for managing complex trees. I always feel claustrophobic with these applications. Everything else feels fantastic with GNOME. I usually use the flatpak versions of these other apps and force them to use the built in KDE version of each app with my desktop running GNOME.

RBWells, in Does anyone actually enjoy working out?

It depends. Running and lifting I enjoy the results but the activity is boring, I never got runners high.

Jazzercise was fun fun fun though, any sort of dance aerobics like that is perfect because have to pay just the right amount of attention to it - enough that I can’t think about other things, but not so much that I really have to think hard about the movements. I wish there were still classes by me.

Yoga is fun too, in a different way. It takes concentration, always adjustments to posture, and it’s very empowering to be able to do handstands or other arm balances, it’s challenging in a good way and the reminders to coordinate your breath with movement is helpful.

So for me it depends on what the workout is but sure, I like moving physically, enjoy it and don’t do it only for results.

provisional, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

“When in doubt, draw a distinction.” - Neil Postman

Valmond,

How would that translate in a simpler English for a non native tired person?

provisional,

When it comes to communicating well in English, it’s easy to get stuck between words that seem very similar. For example: poll vs vote, citizen vs civilian, politician vs representative. When you don’t know the difference between words, try to find what makes them different from each other.

For example: a poll can be an opinion poll, but a vote is only for an election. So all votes are a kind of poll, but not all polls are specifically votes.

Another example: a politician politically represents the will of their constituents. A representative may represent any company, organization, or government. So representatives generally represent groups of people, but politicians specifically represent their constituents in government.

Another example: what’s the difference between plausible and reasonable? Something reasonable means it’s logical or can be reached through reasoning. Something plausible is a story that makes sense, a good enough story that could actually happen. So something reasonable needs to have a relatively consistent logical thread to it, whole something plausible needs to make enough sense as to be possibly true.

When you are asking if something is plausible, you are asking if the story is true or if the reasons given make enough sense to make the story true. When you are asking if something is reasonable, you are asking if using your reasoning ability, you would come to the same conclusions.

Valmond,

Yeah but that didn’t help at all 😅

deadbeef79000,

If you can’t choose between two things, describe what’s different between the two things.

E.g. I’m hungry, I could choose an apple or a sandwich.

Hmm. An apple is crisp and refreshing, the sandwich is dry and will make me thirsty.

button_masher,

My attempt: When in doubt, try find what is the thing and what’s not the thing.

Electric_leprechaun, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day

GreyEyedGhost,

Kids these days wondering how a blank screen shows the right time.

IDe, in Does anyone actually enjoy working out?

Is there anything the rest of us can do to cultivate such a mindset?

For cardio it’s basically “go slow”. The main source of discomfort is the exertion.
An easy long run with good music is quite meditative and enjoyable.
When your legs hurt and you’re wheezing your lungs out, not so much.

raubarno, in What movie scared you shitless when you were a child?

The Mummy (1990s movie, not that Netflix series)

Laticauda, in What is some good things to do with a new pc/laptop/computer?

Depends on what your interests are. If it was me I might write something, or pirate Sony Vegas pro and edit a video, or download some movies to watch, or work on a project of some sort that requires a computer, or just watch some YouTube videos in bed on a screen bigger than my phone for once.

bzxt, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

In this world, the only thing we truly own is the body we shape everyday

  • Sun Ken Rock manga
LordOlgort, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

Success leads to stagnation; stagnation leads to failure. … Failure leads to maturity; maturity leads to success.

  • Steven Brust (from Jhereg)
ShadowAether, in How much "data" do you personally have?

I have about 3-4 TB (maybe 5 if some old drives still work)

fubo, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over, in states unborn and accents yet unknown?

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, scene 1.

But … I first encountered this line in the shooter game Silpheed on the Apple IIgs, long before I’d read any Shakespeare.

Cmot_Dibbler, in What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?
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THERE IS NO JUSTICE, JUST US. ~Mort

snoxhall,

An hour ago I saw Samuel Vimes. It’s nice to see Terry Pratchett fans around

planetaryprotection,

Whenever I see mail trucks I think “Neither rain nor snow nor glom of nit”

Cmot_Dibbler,
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A sausage inna bun for you, friend.

scubbo,

Fun fact - my childhood nickname (and online handle) was used (with permission) by the great man himself! (As the name of a hearty military soup :P )

LambChop,

That is fun!

Did you know him personally? What’s the story?

scubbo,

I wish! Nah, I went to the Discworld Convention when I was 8 or so, and met him at one of the book-signing events. Though even in the few minutes that I spent chatting with him there, he was very obviously a warm, kind, generous man. GNU Terry Pratchett.

LambChop,

That’s awesome!

And you get to live on forever as soup in the Discworld.

jmp242, in How much "data" do you personally have?

I have ~4TB of data, a mix of media, backups of various phones, computers, etc, and pictures and video. Pictures take up more space than you might think for a modern MILC - If you do RAW + JPEG, that’s ~65MB per image. Plus copies that are edited / cropped and exported to jpeg. Video is even worse. I use a 128GB card in my camera, and that’s on the smaller side if you were going to do video.

I lost about 4TB when my RAID died without backups, but that was mainly media that isn’t that important. Some pictures and such. The problem is it’s easy to do large RAID devices, it’s hard to back them up. My upload is only 10Mbit so initial upload to a cloud service of 4TB I think took 3 months or so, because the backup software would hang, and just upload times. I don’t think it’s actually realistic for me if my actual data grows much more. I might have to go back to standalone spinning disk drives to be backups for cost effective and fast enough.

My current NAS has 22TB usable, and when I cross 5TB I’m not entirely sure if it’ll work to the cloud anymore.

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