thanks for sharing this, it’s really encouraging to know that I don’t have to feel the connection immediately

What do you mean by “no structure”? Afaik mongodb does not enforce a schema in a collection by default

das ist ein bisschen Deutsch? Man I’m fucked I’m never gonna learn this language.

got it, apologies

I got that impression from your reply “lol that’s funny, you’re funny” to a completely non humorous comment

which DE?

I really don’t understand how a 5-10 minute meeting can get in the way of progress

from what you describe it does sound like a nightmare, but you’re ignoring or mocking people that tell you that it is not the norm

Also, tests ARE THE code, and equally important too! However so many people make the mistake of writing tests after the function, when the benefit is less immediate. They also have the illusion that they are done and have to do extra work. And since they didn’t write the test first, they most likely wasted a ton of time and energy on extra work of testing changes manually

Why isn’t this an app?

The main reason for this is that I wanted to create a voice assistant that is completely offline and doesn’t require any internet connection. This is because I wanted to ensure that the user’s privacy is protected and that the user’s data is not being sent to any third party servers.

Weird reasoning, why constrain the assistant to pi’s power and memory when you can use it for interaction and utilize another, more powerful server at home

I set it up last month. I’ve rarely experienced had such a smooth setup process. Was putting it off for years because I had assumed I would need at least several hours. Right now I have one on a server and then every device syncs to it (thought it would be easy to set up backups that way)

yeah I really don’t understand why it’s not cheaper

I’m also learning and was ecstatic when I understood it. What it is (approximately) saying is:

Nexflix and chill? What is that? First speak in German and then tell me what are we watching on Jelly(?) today

What about hedgedoc?

yes, all of that are very important as well. Sometimes I think about how exhausting it is to follow all these, and try my best to forget about the fear of not falling asleep when going to bed. I’ve noticed that overcoming that psychological “surrender” had a big impact on nights where I experience some problems - it’s important to keep calm and not spiral. But damn, it’s hard living like this.

one more thing: I have to limit the amount of stress inducing activities throughout a day/days so my brain is not in alert mode for too long. I have social anxiety so this mostly means spending enough time at home, not going to more than 2 different places during one day, etc.

My rules to have a higher chance of falling asleep at 11-12

• always wake up early, even after I went to bed late, otherwise I won’t be able to fall asleep on time
• no active brain work (studying, working) after 8pm
• no food after 7-8pm
• no ceiling lights after 8-9 pm, only yellow dim lamps
• no staying in bed if I couldn’t fall asleep. get up, go to another room, try again in 15-20 minutes

If you were able to set it up yourself I feel like nix learning curve shouldn’t be too hard for you. Especially since if you decide to go back, you’ll bring back lots of value - you can use nix package manager and home manager on any distro. I’m very interested to try them out but am a bit wary since I don’t have experience with nixos

Do you have a manual arch setup or did you use an install that configured it?