NerdyPopRocks,

My goals are to lose 10 pounds by the end of the year and get my heart in better shape. I gained 30 pounds over Covid and will attempt to lose weight at the same rate I gained it

Valmond,

If you’re english I have just the ticket…

NerdyPopRocks,

Lmao! That’s a reasonably priced ticket

Raiderkev,

By the end of the year? You don’t have too long

NerdyPopRocks,

Ahaha the next year

shalva97,

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” - Michael Kevin Pollan

aeronmelon,

I used to read all the time, now I almost never read anything.

So this year I’m resolving to read one book, any book, then I’ll move foward from there.

QuarterSwede,
@QuarterSwede@lemmy.world avatar

I recommend finding a movie you love that was a book first and reading it. I’m an extremely picky reader and I did this with Dune and LOVED it. Hasn’t gotten me much further but this may help kickstart your love of reading again.

criticon,

I recommend The Martian as a book that fits your criteria

QuarterSwede,
@QuarterSwede@lemmy.world avatar

Definitely read that one before the movie came out. Excellent read. Great suggestion anyway!

aeronmelon,

That’s what happened with The Hunt for Red October. Got me into Tom Clancy.

QuarterSwede,
@QuarterSwede@lemmy.world avatar

Ohhh, I haven’t tackled that one yet. My father loves Clancy (too bad Clancy was a douchebag).

dumples,
@dumples@kbin.social avatar

I recommend starting with young adult novels. There are a lot of great ones and they are easy to get into. Large fonts makes fast reading. They generally have an interesting theme and simple plot. Great way to get started. Trying to go from nothing to something complex like Infinite Jest is a recipe to fail.

They aren't all love triangles anymore

runjun,

After Reddit shut off 3rd party apps, I came here and resolved to read more. In the previous decade I had read maybe 2 books. I think your resolution is achievable but i would make it ridiculously achievable of reading like 1 min a day.

The habit of reading is what you want and the books will come after that and chances are you will read much longer. Don’t read anything you “should” be reading. Get a “popcorn flick” equivalent that you interests you and isn’t challenging.

Here is what I have read since June.

Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel

Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Shogun by James Clavell

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Wool by Hugh Howey

Shift by Hugh Howey

Dust by Hugh Howey

Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

(Reading) A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

clay_pidgin,

If you aren’t already in it, it sounds like you belong in the sci-fi community on Lemmy.world, some of those were books of the month recently.

Valmond,

A link for the lazy?

clay_pidgin,

lemmy.world/c/sciencefiction

Let’s see if this works: c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

Valmond,

Thanks!

clay_pidgin,

You betcha, friend.

runjun,

I am and that’s why I read the books. I do need to get better about going into particular communities to help drive their growth.

pearsaltchocolatebar,

I’d recommend getting into Asimov’s Foundation series. I, Robot is kind of a meh book from him, Imo (I’ve read all his fiction work)

Also take a look at Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) and Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey).

I’d also recommend Heinlein, but his books do get pretty “pervy misogynistic old man harem fantasies” in his later years.

runjun,

Great recommendations. I want to read the foundation series, I’m enjoying the show, but the wait time on Libby is really long. Michael Crichton is one of my favorite authors. I do need to read some of Clarke’s books but it almost suffers from “classical” must read avoidance I have lol

I_Fart_Glitter,

If Asimov’s Robots series has a shorter/no wait I think they’re worth reading. Maybe not as exciting as the Empire and Foundation series, but it’s interesting background- the evolution of robots, positronic brains, robot/human relations, jump ships, space colonization, human clones. Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun and Robots of Dawn are murder mystery detective stories that advance the robot plot.

Asimov recommended reading his books in this order:

The Complete Robot (1982) and/or I, Robot (1950)

Caves of Steel (1954)

The Naked Sun (1957)

The Robots of Dawn (1983)

Robots and Empire (1985)

The Currents of Space (1952)

The Stars, Like Dust (1951)

Pebble in the Sky (1950)

Prelude to Foundation (1988)

Note: Forward the Foundation (1993) was then unpublished, but would have followed Prelude.

Foundation (1951)

Foundation and Empire (1952)

Second Foundation (1953)

Foundation’s Edge (1982)

Foundation and Earth (1986)

more.bibliocommons.com/list/share/…/1735833849

runjun,

I appreciate the recommendation and listing them out! That is actually helpful as I don’t like searching up which book is next.

randint,
@randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

The Wool trio by Hugh Howey is a banger! I actually just finished Shift yesterday, and I’m gonna borrow Dust from a library tomorrow.

DarkPhysix,

I did this in 2021. This year I consumed 13 books (7 audio, 6 paper). Wishing you and your love for reading the best!

KestrelAlex,

If you are in Canada or the US I can’t recommend the Libby app highly enough - books, audiobooks and magazines borrowed to your devices from your local Library. Looking at the last 5 years of borrowing it has saved me (pirating probably) thousands of dollars of audiobooks, and having an endless supply of audiobooks with zero cost really encourages reading.

Dozzi92,
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world avatar

I suggest the Wheel of Time Omnibus edition. Available on Kindle for $148, 14k+ pages, great one book solution to your re-solution.

intensely_human,

I don’t know if you’ve ever read Stephen King but he’s pretty good

uriel238,
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Install Debian Mint on my old laptop and see how much I can get working on it. My ultimate ambition is to replace all my Windows 10 activity entirely by the end of 2024

Valmond,

Took me some years (but man has Mint become better!).

I even have a little windows box for “all that stuff not working on Linux”, scanner went over, big printer too, about everything except keepass(I have the 1.0 version so it’s just lazyness) and, uh, photoshop but I’m working on it.

Totally worth it (for me), good luck!

clay_pidgin,

I installed Debian in a dual boot in November and there’s only one game I haven’t got working yet. Everything else for work and fun has either worked or I’ve found a substitute.

BlueDepth9279,

Doing the same but with Fedora on my old desktop. I’ve been messing around with Linux for some time now but this is the first time I’ve tried to put a serious attempt into setting up a development environment and move to Linux for gaming.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to get the games working. Now if I can just figure out how to get vortex or MO2 to work to mod Bethesda games I’ll be happy.

Cocodapuf,

I plan to install Windows 10 on my living room PC so steam will keep working.

hemko,

That sounds terrible, would rather take the “go to gym weekly” or “stop drinking”

The question was for attainable challenges

Cocodapuf, (edited )

Eh, It’s generally painless.

What’s worse though is the other PC in the living room. I have an iMac for the kid to use and steam is also ending support for macOS 10.14… that is a much bigger problem! 10.14 is the last version of macOS that supports 32 bit applications. When steam stops running in that system, we’ll be locked out from about 75% of the Mac game library…

I’ve already tried mint on the iMac and it was hell. I’ve never really used Linux myself, but everyone said mint is so great, so easy. But I had no parental controls, no ability to recover when it crashed, just problems with everything and no ability to manage them. It was awful. I got the mac for the simple os and Linux defeats the entire purpose. I reinstalled the MacOS.

pearsaltchocolatebar,

Mine is really just getting back into working out. I kept trying to go too hard after my shoulder surgery and kept pulling muscles (not in my shoulder), so I’ve taken like an 8 month break to let my body heal. This time I’m starting with my goal being 30 reps with perfect form at 5lb and going from there.

It sucks losing a bunch of muscle mass that you busted your ass to get, but luckily it’s easier to regain it than to grow it the first time.

intensely_human,

That sounds serious and high-stakes.

On that note, my resolution is spending more time socializing with people. It’s getting too drafty in here.

some_guy,

Get hammered that night. Will once again win my low-stakes game.

some_guy,

I won again!

intensely_human,

Get hammered

I guess that’s one way to get low stakes

NaoPb,

Pick up walking again.

Switch to Firefox.

Save some money.

intensely_human,

Let’s hope it sticks. Let’s hope your pick up walking sticks. Sticks can help. Walking sticks with walking sticks.

I’m sorry

Ghostalmedia,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

What would a high stakes resolution be?

buycurious,

Be determined to prove that mole people exist and have underground cities all over the world.

greenfish,
@greenfish@lemmy.world avatar

Damn! I was going to say something that would make you feel bad if you don’t accomplish it but the mole people situation sounds important

feedum_sneedson,

Finally plan and perhaps execute my suicide. High stakes.

FlorianSimon,

Don’t.

feedum_sneedson,

I rarely keep my New Year’s resolutions.

Bumblefumble,

I hope you’re ok and getting help if you need it.

feedum_sneedson,

Not really either of these unfortunately.

LegionEris,

To make some sort of major change or take a specific big picture path. The classic “stop smoking/drinking” would be high stakes resolutions.

TheGreenGolem,
@TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

For a more serious answer: Quit smoking. Quit drinking. Meet more with one’s child if they are far away. Eat less. Stop gambling. Stuff like this.

brown567,

Quit pooping

SelfHigh5,

One step ahead of ya

Artyom,

I know someone who plans on listening to a new album every day.

MilitantAtheist,

I will play more Escape from Tarkov

ChildEater,

I’m sorry for your losses

Unforeseen,

More like your punches to the dick

MilitantAtheist,

Tarkov gives and Tarkov takes, mostly takes. 😀

JJROKCZ,

This new wipe looks great, and arena mode finally coming out is awesome as that’s a lot of fun. Arena alone has me coming back from a 2 year break that I needed from tarkov to get my mental health straight. That game causes major anxiety/anger issues if you take it too seriously

MilitantAtheist,

I’m at 13k hours, nothing gives me anxiety in Tarkov anymore. Died to a cheater? Just gear up and go again. Backend error deleted your backpack with all the kappa items? Go looting again. Did you just wipe the lobby on Labs and Tarkov decided to disconnect you before you could get out? It’s just pixels, gear up and go again. 😛

Adopt the mindset of: Gear is only a means to an end, the end is to complete tasks, level up your PMC and his skills, and have fun fights and interactions with other players. Do that and Tarkov is the best game on the planet.

criticon,

365 days streak in duolingo. You can do a single lesson in about three minutes and it will extend the streak

JJROKCZ,

As someone with almost 500 day streak, don’t expect to really learn conversational speaking on there. I’ve reached the point I can mostly read and make out French sentences, even with words I don’t know explicitly, but to have a spoken conversation at this point I believe would be impossible

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Move to the European Union, specifically Belgium

Because life = ??

cashews_best_nut,

Of all the fucking countries you choose Belgium?! Do you have brain damage?

Daxtron2,

non-eu here, why do we hate Belgium

JJROKCZ,

They’re probably anti-EU and Brussels (Belgium) contains one of the EU headquarters

ridethisbike,

He must not like waffles

ridethisbike,

Yea dude you’re gonna have to elaborate on that one… And you’re gonna need more than “because Belgium sucks”… Cuz like… Their waffles slap…

catsdoingcatstuff,

I’m planning to walk 1000 km in 2024. Nowhere fancy, just around my neighborhood.

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

That’s just around 2.74km (rounded up) per day. So around 30 minutes of walking per day. Are you sure you’re not doing more than that already?

catsdoingcatstuff,

Ah… Sadly no. That’s why is my low stakes resolution. :) I work from home and I’ve gotten very lazy. I just roll from my bedroom to the office, down to the kitchen, and repeat.

JJROKCZ,

American workers have a lot of struggle getting walking in as their jobs don’t require hardly any. Walk to car, drive to work to park in garage and walk a few hundred feet to elevator, from elevator a few hundred feet to desk, repeat that trip home, make dinner, go to bed, repeat the next day. It’s even worse for remote workers as they walk from a bed to a desk at most, many remote people I know work from their bed (I could never…)

cashews_best_nut, (edited )
  • Lose ~15kg
  • Start a business
  • Make friends
  • Fix my mental health
  • Get my career back on track
  • Stay clear of meth
dutchkimble,

That last one might fix all of them

ours,

Failing his last one might help with the first one. But don’t.

Fenrisulfir,

Dude these all seem like they could be very hard to do. Mine was gonna be like save more/stop going to restaurants so much

ohlaph,

What kind of business?

cashews_best_nut,

I don’t know yet. Probably something in the retail tech space. Electronics, networking, SBCs, etc. It’s going to be a year of chucking shit at a wall to see what sticks.

Doorbook,

If these your low stakes resolutions, i would like to know your high stake resolution.

ours,

“World peace, end hunger, fix climate change”

ohlaph,

In the realm of low-stakes New Year’s resolutions, I’ve decided to approach things like a turtle: slow, steady, and deliberate.

One of my goals is to read a few pages before bed each night, embracing the tranquility of the night like a ghostly whisper weaving through the pages.

Another resolution involves culinary adventures—I plan to try a new recipe every month, daring my taste buds to dance to flavors they’ve yet to meet, maybe even conjuring a dish that turns a stinky apple into a delicious surprise. And to inject some movement into my work-from-home routine, I aim to take short walks during breaks, not as a sprint but as a turtle’s amble, allowing myself to soak in the world outside my screen.

These resolutions are gentle nudges toward a better self without the weight of undue pressure.

greenfish,
@greenfish@lemmy.world avatar

Here’s to the year of the turtle 🐢

ridethisbike,

Sounds dumb, but eat more soup. Like miso soup with veggies and an egg, for example. Low calorie but filling and tasty. Trying to skip the noodles and rice with this one. Might add beans or quinoa if it isn’t filling enough

greenfish,
@greenfish@lemmy.world avatar

I love this!

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