Hi! Writing bios scares me.

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  • I’m not American so I grew up hearing about peanut butter from their media. I made up this amazing idea of it, which was completely shattered when I finally tasted it.

    It’s probably one of those acquired tastes like Australians with Vegemite (which I also tried according to recommendations but I probably just needed to go back in time and be born in Australia).

    I still dream of tasting my imaginary peanut butter.






  • No, that sounds like a great use of AI. I would be happy if a non-corporate option could be used for these kind of tasks for those that benefit from it.

    For me though, I don’t think it’s about bad recommendations for books but the idea of seeking recommendations at all. I’m almost never in a “I want to read something but I don’t know what” state. If I don’t have a book in front of me or in my mental queue, I’m usually doing something else instead. My queue is almost never empty.

    I don’t follow strangers hoping for recommendations, I just follow someone that I feel an affinity for and sometimes that results in learning about a new book, seeking it and reading it.

    The idea of receiving book recommendations feels overwhelming, especially from a system that would find a million interesting things, just for me. But I’m not opposed at all to such a tool existing!



  • Yes I have used Linux exclusively for about 7 years. I briefly got a work computer with Windows 11 and I didn’t like it, had to use weird workarounds to install git and a terminal I liked, so I ended up switching to a linux distro even at work.

    I played pretty much everything I wanted in my desktop computer, since I also don’t play any multiplayer games. But these days I have a Steam Deck (which also runs a Linux-kind of distro) and I don’t play on my desktop anymore. Even some multiplayer games I was able to run with no problem like Among Us and even WoW when the wow classic craze arrived for a bit.

    I started dual booting about a decade ago, it helped to ease myself into it, if something was frustrating, I’d temporarily switch to my familiar environment before trying again instead of cancelling the whole thing. After a while, I noticed I wasn’t booting Windows at all, and I removed it.

    But I had several false starts in 2006, I tried a couple of distros and found them too difficult and unfamiliar, and I’d abandon it. When I finally did go into it, I had at least one person that I could go to if I really ran into trouble, and who was able to recommend interesting and useful tools, so that helped too. I do think things have become much more user-friendly these days for many distros, and there are more mainstream communities with people that can help.


  • I may be strange on this, but I have never felt like I need automatic recommendations, and any I have gotten feel more like a nuisance.

    I have my list of books on BookWyrm and sometimes I look at it and go like “oh I wonder what this author has been up to” and I look it up, or I participate on some online discussion about what people have read and if something sounds interesting I add it to my BookWyrm list.

    I’ve also added a couple of books from people I follow there, who have interest in common but sometimes add this entirely unexpected book and I get to explore it.


  • I’ve really wanted to play HL but I get extremely motion sick. I’ve tried multiple configurations, HL2, Black Mesa, but I feel sick even thinking about them.

    Other games that give me bad nausea: Slime Rancher, Stanley’s parable. I’ve forced myself to play them, I never get used to it and the nausea actually gets worse with time.

    Games that don’t make me sick at all: portal 1&2, any Witcher, Horizon Zero Dawn, most VR games.

    I though it’s the 1st person’s perspective but I can’t explain why portal games are ok and HL aren’t.