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I struggled with the Moonlander although it is a wonderful keyboard.

I mapped it to a Colemak layout varient when I first got it. I was constantly discovering key combos that didn't quite work for whatever reason and made tweaks to the layout or the shortcuts in various editors. Forever tying my brain in knots learning and relearning mappings and combos. Then I'd frequently jump on other peoples computers/laptops to help out with small things and have to switch back to the old mode of thinking.

It ended up being a productivity sink rather than a boon. I don't know whether I would have crossed some inflection point if I had persevered, but there was always this fixed cost of tweaking shortcuts when using new software that was more burdensome than with a plain qwerty keyboard.

Maybe I was too ambitious and should have avoided the Colemak-esque layout, but I haven't managed to summon the stamina to give it a fair go again. I still use one half of it for gaming though. It's really sweet for that.

I have the makedo and the screws are legit amazing. I never imagined that they could possibly work so well. It's one of those things I always recommend to other parents.

The very real downside is that your kids become attached to their creations. So you end up with a house perpetually full of cardboard and fighting a constant battle to part with some of it.

In Australia a company called REDcycle supposedly recycled soft plastics from all the major supermarkets. After a decade or so operating the business collapsed and it was discovered that they had about 11,000 tonnes of the stuff stockpiled in 40+ warehouses across the country because they hadn't figured out how to recycle it.

I've used NextDNS.io in the past and setup schedules to block the reddit domain during work hours.

The problem that I found is that sometimes it's not just a place of procrastination but the place you want to search for a useful answer to your question.

Pause and resume across devices even. Pure psychological torture.

Close your laptop and then pick up your phone later and it resumes right where you last saw it. You immediately put your phone down to cut it off because you want to relax. Go make a cup of tea then sit down on the couch and turn on the TV for a minute...

It resumes.

Oh wow, this is truely sad news.

I only recently went down the homelab/selfhosted path and the majority of my containers were setup using tteck's scripts.

That's a great idea! I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it because I did the opposite for my toddler to let him know when it was okay to get up in the morning (otherwise he'd be up before 5am). I had a dim red as a whole room nightlight that transitioned to dim yellow-green to signal that is was now okay to get up.

I didn't know that "revenge bedtime procrastination" was a term but it definitely describes me.

I have to set an alarm for bedtime, but I still struggle with being disciplined about it.

Something similar happened in Australia on a large scale. A soft plastic (single use shopping bag) recycling company called REDcycle which partnered with all the major supermarkets was discovered to be just stockpiling it in warehouses. They'd been doing that for about a decade before they were discovered.

Ambulance personnel/paramedics very much do this, in Australia at least.

They never run, never rush, and don't get sucked in to the panic and chaos.

I'm curious if people actually use the IR in place of their TV remote as in the promo. For me personally, I think the friction of having to fire up an app first would preclude me from ever using it in earnest.

I was very much in the Google ecosystem and although privacy became an increasing concern, the final push for me was the horror stories who had their accounts suspended or were otherwise locked out with no recourse.

Could these changes be attributed to smoke inhalation?

I played with the python PRAW package to scrub old comments a while ago. Even iterating through the different sorts (new/hot/controversial/etc) I could remove everything there, but different comments would appear there after some time.

My theory was Reddit ran batch jobs on some cadence (daily maybe?) to generate the topN comments lists for each users profile page. Running my script a couple of times over a several days seemed to clear everything.

I love the idea (as long as they are not rare out of print books). Then burn the loose pages of all the books you've scanned in a bonfire to complete the ritual. The books have now transcended the physical realm and it felt really wrong while doing it. History warns us that people will be next, are they right?