How is that useful to OP who asked for something “without terminals”? Unless that was a joke.

Because I’ve been using Arch Linux for 15 years and live in the terminal, but even though I like the idea of NixOS, it’s not only scary because it is alien and I have neither motivation nor enough free time to learn a parallel world and gain non-transferable skills for a niche solution. And that with being interested in what NixOS is doing.

I would say it is horrible advice to a novice, unless you want to scare people away from learning terminals and configs and managing an operating system without GUI tools.

Okay wow, thanks for the clarification. That is indeed weird. Yeah, then I guess I agree, it’s really … Just not very healthy behavior.

Okay I mean for some people maybe this whole Internet thing, becomes too much an end in itself, maybe they are missing something in life and trying to get it that way.

If you are employed, have family and/or friends and a hobby or two, how do you even have the time to mod dozens of subs and stuff like that?

So if they are doing it while being nice, one can actually say they could need some empathy. If they are not being nice, well, for such cases it might explain why the other things in life might be lacking.

That is a rather toxic way of looking at the world. I get it, I kind of can rationally understand the idea that you can explain all selfless behavior as being selfish because the least you get out of it is dopamine, so you are wired to feel good doing what you think is right.

Now, can you tell me how this is just not a very shitty and cynical lens to view humans through? I’ve had my nihilistic phase in my 20’s. I hope you also find a way out of the hole of the “arbitrariness” of ethics.

Because each other is all we have, and ethics is ultimately what makes us human. The ability to reprogram our own pleasure circuit and maybe, just maybe, just use it to be not an asshole, just to start with. And then at some point just do something nice for others. Because if everybody did that, the world would not be the shithole it is.

I’m thankful to mods who volunteer their free time to tend to the garden of the communities they care about.

Which strain are you using?

For me it’s a double edged sword. Sometimes I finally motivate myself to do some creative project I have been procrastinating, and other times I just get couchlocked or get munchies.

I know I cannot tolerate too much THC without balance with CBD, then I occasionally get the anxious ride. Too much CBD and it’s pure relaxation, too much THC and my mind is racing on associative overdrive.

Wish I had a strain and dosage that would have a reliable “therapeutic” effect for focus and motivation.

I have my meds and it’s great but I don’t like being dependent on a highly controlled substance and regularly go visit some doctor, if I had weed that is close enough… but I guess if it would exist, somebody would already push it as a treatment option already.

But I totally agree with being able to actually listen on weed. I listen attentively to my wife, or TV shows, or music. Life ist rushing by so fast, being fully immersed in the present for a while is a blessing.

At some point I had three, and thought of buying newer more powerful models or the small versions for tinker projects I will never do.

Eventually sold and gave away the unused ones, the only one I have ever actively used is effectively just my music system (hard drive with music collection and my Hifi speakers attached via HifiBerry DAC).

What’s worse, in the last 2 years I bought 3 hardware synthesizers and learned a shitton about sound design. Still haven’t created a single track or interesting patch with any of them.

Right now I am writing a short story, because I had a cool concept idea. Maybe I will complete at least one hobby thing for once? Oh my dear ADHD brain, you do really have a will and life of your own.

Haha nice bait, which I took to get some actually interesting statistics, well executed !

Here is your comment, you deserve it. Now your post made it to “average”! You’re welcome.

(Was there any correlation between upvote count and the comment-based metrics? That could also be pretty interesting)