Yes and no. I think it would be decently socially unacceptable for someone to decide to go completely dark for a day each week. A mandate would remove the stigma.

But, like… so? It’s decently socially unacceptable to dress up like Batman and walk around town shouting for the Joker. But you can still do it, and just because it’s socially unacceptable to most doesn’t mean we should force it on most.

On a helpful side because I do generally agree with the premise (although with lots of caveats) that unplugging a bit is helpful, I have a few thoughts:

If you’re on iOS, use Focus modes. If you’re on Android, I’m sure there is some equivalent. I have my paid work hours, and then I have “working hours” (I’m salaried, if you’re hourly I’d say throw your phone in a faraday cage if you aren’t getting paid for it) where I reduce comms. Email is on during paid hours, but probably off during “working hours” except VIPs and a few keywords. Messaging stays on during working hours, but after go off. Subordinates know phone calls for emergency (which are rare.) This is one thing I don’t like about the US not settling on a messaging standard - for all of the other iOS using people, they can see when I have a notifications are off, and know when to escalate comms if they really need help. Android not so much.

For work, set boundaries in contracts and what not. If the cultural norm is you’re going to be expected to be at your phone 24/7 and it’s not paid for and not something you’re okay with, either ignore it and let them try to fire you, or realistically just find a new job because that’s a shit culture.

For personal, just do whatever the fuck you want. I don’t even try to justify it any longer because it’s just not reasonable, and if someone really has a problem that I didn’t like their post or respond to their text in 0.3 seconds, maybe I don’t really care that much they’re not my friend?

Also, I generally find that a lot of the expectation that we’re always “on” is self-inflicted. I know plenty of people who sending a text message to might be as effective as sending a smoke signal and it just isn’t that big a deal? I used to be one of those “I have to answer every message/email/post in 30s” type of people, and when I stopped doing that it was totally fine, except I was far less stressed. And it virtually never led to anything positive. My boss never pulled me aside and said “fastest emailer in the west, here’s a 20% raise.” I just set the expectation for those around me that my time wasn’t important and I was always going to be at someone’s beck and call.

I mean, or feel free to call it the sabbath because forcing people to do things based on a hunch or personal opinion is totally religiosity in a nutshell.

And if we don’t just cherry pick one thing and instead look at the litany of health issues that may be self-inflicted in medical professions, we probably wouldn’t be left with many doctors/nurses.

I came here to say similar. macOS > all for me. I personally generally detest Windows, but I keep an install around because I want to game and don’t want getting my games to run to be a hobby. I’d much rather do most productivity types of things on Linux rather than Windows. That said, I’m far and away most productive on macOS, and the tooling there is just better for me for most things, especially given that I use an iPhone as my mobile. Just the integrations between those two would make switching either one hard, especially given it’s not nearly as good on any other platform. But honestly, even trying to use a computer without Keyboard Maestro and Launchbar just feel straight up broken to me now.

Also, people downvoting in this thread maybe didn’t read the question? “Which do you prefer?”

They seem to want to be obstinate, so while I don’t agree, I’ll take a stab at answering the question:

The link they posted has this bit right at the top:

You may have paid money to get copies of a free program, or you may have obtained copies at no charge. But regardless of how you got your copies, you always have the freedom to copy and change the software, even to sell copies.

The fundamental belief seems to be that however you obtained the software, paid or not, you should be free to do literally whatever you want with it.

Where I really disagree is that proprietary software (like half of the answers in this fucking thread lol) are fundamentally not scams. A “scam” implies something that one party, the patsy, is not aware of.

Ticks and Leeches (I’ve seen it live in one of the rare times they’ve played it) also goes into the “how’s he doing that” category.

And then I’d put The Pot up there just because that intro was such a mindblower when it came out.

Her live stuff, or isolated vocals, or her live isolated vocals is pretty next level.

The relatively good larger instant pot that I bought a couple of years ago was around $79, so I reckon you can still get one for under $100. Although I also have a rice cooker, I find this thing indispensable. I often have 5-8 people at my house, so a go to is throwing a bunch of chicken breast, soy, ginger, garlic, brown sugar, etc, in the instant pot for around 30-40 minutes total time while the rice is cooking. Shred chicken, turn to sauté, add a little corn starch slurry. Boom teriyaki chicken.

We do a similar thing for chicken tacos, but spicing with chicken bouillon, cumin, cayenne, chili powder, garlic, onion, tomato. Shred, enjoy meat for tacos, enchiladas, etc. I make a passable birria in about around 2 hours.

Country ribs/pork shoulder, bbq sauce, apple juice, onion, garlic. While it’s cooking in the instant pot, simmer down an onion. Not quite caramelize until it’s jelly, but sweat until onions are soft. Turn oven to broil, cut the entire pack of kings hawaiian rolls or similar in half, butter and brown under the broil. Shred the pork, spread on the rolls, add a little bbq sauce, the onions, and cover with provolone slices. Broil again until cheese melts.

Chili is another good one. Although I haven’t done it, you can use unsoaked dry beans in some recipes. I usually just throw a few cans of my faves (I prefer it bitier, so more kidney) with spices and browned meat of some sort (feel free to omit) and we’re good to go.

Most of the things I make in the instant pot are things that I would normally have to wait all day for, or at least 3-4 hours. Not great after a work day. Low and slow recipes work really well in instant pot with a minor adjustment here and there, and often you turn a 4 hour recipe into a 1 hour recipe. And as a poor, this type of cooking can be a game changer because low and slow is often for foods that are cheap. if you head to the store and buy a ny strip, you can come home and be eating great in 15 minutes. Not so much with a much, much cheaper piece of chuck.

If you don’t know, find the closest restaurant supply or head to amazon and just buy the Victorinox standard that is in basically every commercial kitchen everywhere. It’s probably about $20-30 and will hold up nicely. Outside of that, I found a well reviewed amazon thing for around $35-40 probably about 5 years ago, and it’s been great.

I’m going to add a little and say that almost every kitchen should have a honing steel and a basic set of sharpening stones. No knife is going to stay sharp forever.

If I had kitchen that didn’t have these things, that is how I’d spend my $100.

I’m going to go a little further - even in the most minimalist kitchens, you should probably have one. Almost no one cooking in a home kitchen especially is going to get very close without it.

Oh absolutely. I run a network-wide adblocker (pi-hole) and still also adblock stuff on all my clients.

Things like Adblock on iOS

🤝

Chuck Norris memes were barely funny the first time and he’s a crazy asshole now.

Just teasing :)

Yeah, they’re both honestly pretty rough to use. kbin for example wouldn’t show comments with any content blockers on for iOS, which makes it a pretty nonstarter for me. I personally don’t think either have really nailed interface, either.

Also here to say Brother. I bought a 2170w like 10-15 years ago for $99, have bought toner for it twice, and it’s chugged along the whole time. I see someone else saying they don’t deal with 3rd party cartridges, and mine def does, but that might be because of it’s age.

I’d also strongly recommend against another inkjet printer. We didn’t print enough in color even 10 years ago that when we did want to the cartridges were dry and it wasn’t just worth it to go to a Staples or Walgreens or whatever for photos or the occasional kid’s school project. If you do have to do a lot of color printing, laser jet is still where it’s at.

This. I don’t need to win, I just want Meta to lose.

They should be? I mean, not just for the crime, but in general privacy should be the default.

Literally all of the major social media platforms are more or less intro to compsci levels of things. I think when I was first learning rails one of the tutorials was how to build a twitter clone. Granted, this is simplifying and there is a lot to be said for scaling and the more esoteric things, but yeah it’s barely about the platform/software.

This is the grossest part. People fawning over Threads as if Facebook and Zuck aren’t just as bad as Elon just far more competent at it.