Happy Bean Day

When you move things, lift correctly (safety videos are online). I’m only 35, but because of all the moving I did in my 20s, without thought of safety, I have frequent lower back pain and it doesn’t take much to hurt it.

Gotcha.

I know Mental Outlaw had a video about powershell scripts to help reboot Windows 10

Link

That might help speed it up and stop Windows from doing unnecessary background stuff and using resources

Seeing lots of excellent suggestions for general (7-zip, Notepad++, etc).

Foobar2000 is a good music player

I don’t know if it’s good, but I guess there is now a Lemmy Desktop app https://webcatalog.io/en/apps/lemmy/

I saw you said you use Plex. I assume you use Steam for gaming?

Is there any specific feature/use you want QoL improvements for?

Bomb Club on iOS (was on Android at one point)

Loving this chain. Also over 30. I get frustrated that what older generations used to spout about Millenials like me (lazy, don’t want to work, etc) gets spouted by my generation to gen z.

I’ve seen some Gen Z kids do some bad things, but I’ve also seen them do amazing things my generation would not have done.

As far as music, I love all the variety there is and all the mediums to listen to it now.

I had forgotten about this game. It was a fun time. I think there was a Jungle Strike also

The last memory I have of Desert Strike going to a local video game and card game place (Heebeegeebees in Ogden, Utah before they expanded) with some of my siblings and buying this for some portable system (GBA?) and starting to play.

I then heard the owner (who was still in the shop back then) say “We can do this the easy way or the hard way”. It had transpired that one of my siblings had tried to steal something. Cops got called, fun times.

For those curious, the rumor was that the easy way was police and the hard way was him chasing you with a bat

Thanks, I appreciate the advice and kind attitude. I’ll check it out

Good to know. I know wine can get steam going (assuming you don’t just use the Linux version). How do you get steam to download and install the game if it says it’s the wrong operating system? Sorry if that’s a dumb question

I feel like not wanting to do the work for certain Steam games is what keeps me on windows for my personal use (work makes the decision on my work machine).

I know it’s possible, I just don’t want to do the work

So this might make the borg less threatening, but I feel like it would infuriate these explorers. ‘What do you mean you don’t want to talk to us anymore’?

I’m a 35 year old man who has dealt with various mental health issues for years. Mine are more caused by physiological things, and I understand that you’re husbands seems to be more trauma related, but I hope this helps

For me what has helped is a change of perspective. When I started dealing with mental health issues about 15 years ago, at first I was hesitant to medication because I didn’t want ‘fake happiness’ or a pill that changed my personality. Some of that comes from not wanting to feel weak.

What I have come to learn with mental health is the correct treatment does one thing - puts me back in control. My anti depressant doesn’t ’make me happy’ or ‘keep me from getting sad’. What it does do is prevent episodes of depression and lethargy that I can’t control or don’t have a cause.

My ADHD medication doesn’t take away my odd personality, it just puts me back in control of what I focus on and how.

What I’m getting at is that mental health treatments can too easily be viewed as a ‘fix a mood’ treatment, which they aren’t. When done right, they help you be more like yourself and put you back in control.

As a husband and father, I’ve come to realize how my mental disorders (when not handled properly) negatively affect my family. Your husband sounds like a man who values that role as husband. It might help him to know that seeking these treatments will help him be a better husband. I was off my meds for a bout a year and saw the affect on my family, which was the catalyst for me.

If your cars transmission wasn’t working correctly and you had a hard time switching gears (like depression can be in people) working on it wouldn’t be lazy or your fault or giving up. I. The same vein, working on mental health because your brain is having a hard time shifting is certainly not defeatist.

Hope this helps and hope you two are able to get through this together

Next he can install Skyrim and all the mods. ALL THE MODS!!!

Found a nice gem on the App Store called Golden Soul

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/golden-soul/id6499178439

Free (so far). No ads, neat story and mechanics so far. Tree stumps with knives

All I can think of is alien adolescents reprogramming them to mess with humans. Fake invasion messages, alien memes. Like cowtipoing, but screwing with humans instead

It would be nice to not need to worry about having a safe power source. Working remote, power blackout kills my ability to do my job

Yep. And really just the media and general. Not to mention every company seems to market ai for something.

It’s cool tech, but it’s covered everywhere, that is why I wanted to hear what other tech people are excited for

Just a happy brain in a happy jar

Hey, Desktop environments can make or break. I remember when GNOME 4 first came out, before any improvements, and there was a lot of unhappiness.

Will be cool to see a Linux Desktop environment designed by a company like System76