Yeah, I think all the incense sticks that i’ve used are with a stick.
The reason I asked is because I have some indian incense at home and when they burn, the smoke stings my eyes. So I have to ventilate well, but then I don’t smell much anymore.

Supposedly, the japanese incense (more specifically Kōdō incense) is supposed to burn cleaner and have less strong smoke. They are usually also very consistent.

Nice, great to hear it works for you! What type of incense do you use? Is it japanese-style incense?

Ok, thats good. But I suppose I can’t point at something with the cursor while he is using it right?
One person I help is using eye-tracking software, so I guess he would have to turn it off every time I want to show something

Rustdesk is a remote control application, right?
Would it be possible for the other person to keep controlling the computer while i’m annotating, or would it require me to take control of their computer?

Forgot to mention: I’m mainly using Linux and the people I help are typically on mostly windows, but also macos and linux
Apparently slacks annotation feature never really worked on linux in the first place?

Sounds very much like what I should try to do. The only thing is that I don’t seem to remember anything. Or at least nothing with an emotional load.

I can’t really trigger any memory. Sometimes I notice I’m feeling overwhelmed when my partner would scold me. But it still doesn’t make me remember anything, just feel very bad. And it’s not really consistent. Some days I’m fine with it.

Definitely matches my experience.
I don’t really have any reaction to what people say, or when watching a movie for example.

I think my default strategy of dealing with feelings is suppressing them. Good or bad.
Even to the point that it happens automatically.

Not sure what to do about it though.
Meditation seems to help, but only if I do it very long and consistently.

Maybe also related, I don’t really experience racing thoughts that people often describe when meditating. If I do it long enough I can occasionally notice something.

Maybe something like radicle?

This is actually quite a good option. I think even a regular watch with a timer option would be great (and then you don’t need all the tracking/bluetooth connection and whatnot)

But I suppose regular watches usually don’t have a vibrating alarm, only an audible one. I guess that’s because that uses more battery

I will try this, hope I don’t accidentally spend 6 hours meditating

Something else I’ve heard about is a water clock, which is basically just a pot of water with a small hole in it, where trips of water will fall out into a small bowl.

You basically fill up the pot of water depending on how long you want to sit and then it will start dripping on the bowl making dripping sound and then when the dripping sound stops you know it’s time to stop

I often do meditation without a timer too. But I find it a good practice to try and do a certain amount of time, instead of however much you feel like. As that quickly turns into stopping meditation early to chase some interesting thought/idea.

Also, when meditating in the morning, it’s good to know when you need to stop and start getting ready to go out. Otherwise I would be late very often.

Kitchen timer would probably scare the hell out of my partner. We have a very noisy one!

Body timer does work for me. But obviously there are days where your mind immediately feels sluggish, and in those cases I would like to keep trying, at least for a bit (to see whether my mind is just trying to avoid meditation)

Also, over time, it takes longer and longer to reach a point where your body complains or your mind finds it difficult to continue. For me this point is typically already longer than 1 hour, so not really good if I want to do a shorter meditation.

Alarm I used in the past, but only a silent one on my phone (I don’t want to wake up my partner)

I am sitting in the same room as my partner who is getting ready to sleep, so that’s why I always used an alarm without sound on my phone. But now I would like to get rid of the phone too.

I find it quite difficult to notice however. And maybe if your mind is drifting a bit, you might not realise it’s already gone.

But I suppose this is something that improves if you do it regularly that way

Yeah, i think it would be even more confusing if certain emojis counted as downvotes.

So if you give an emoji reaction thumbs-down 👎, it will count as a like?

I don’t really see a counselor or therapist at the moment. Not easy to find somebody

It’s great that you have such a person in your life. I also have my partner and she has been so good to me. But when I think about her, I can’t feel anything.

It’s also very strange I can visualise the faces of people I know quite easily. Even if I have not seen them for many years.

But I can’t visualise the face of my partner, at all. It almost seems like anything that has emotion attached to it is not accessible in my memory

What extra safety do you get by using pinned nixpkgs revisions? And how to do it without flakes (if that’s possible?) I’m currently just using the standard configuration. Occasionally had to do a rollback without issues.