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Honestly I usually like to read up on my field. Scrolling hackernews or lobsters and reading the programming/tech articles there isn't immediately productive to work, but at least I could plausibly make the case for it.

Tho I guess all in all it depends on how much leeway you have.

Both is the answer. Most people will flip past a 10 minute short-form video. Just like the TikTok/Youtube sitution, edit some things to be vertical and short, and post those to Loops. Include a link in your profile to your Peertube, and let the short videos direct people who like your stuff to your longer horizontal videos.

Because it's so simple, it applies to psychology (including for humans) very broadly. Remove the context of dog and food and bell.

event -> reward -> response

becomes

event -> response

And being able to predict or control behavior (responses) without providing value (rewards) is a powerful concept.

Edit: instead of 'without providing value', I should have phrased that to be more generic.

Oh, that's good to hear! Always had the impression that the blob-free distros caused compatibility headaches, but glad to be wrong I suppose.

Edit: And I should say I didn't mean to pick on Trisquel in particular, it was just the one GNU recommended distro I remembered by name.

I studied some more kanji this week, watched a few videos from Easy German.

Probably my best step this week was finally setting up Yomitan w/ AnkiConnect. Been meaning to for a while, now I can mine cards that aren't so barebones.

Great milestone to go there and get the experience. Thank you for sharing!

Something (at least to me) about going and finding people who don't speak English (or at least don't speak it well) really activates that sense in the brain of like, this is important, it's worth all the learning.

That's really great! Mistakes happen, but sounds like you've hit the important milestone of being able to communicate well enough. Great job!

Also sounds like the calmer parts were the most fun. Do you foresee being able to go back? :)

O-U-L-D

Took me a sec too

I generally think of GNU as being foundational (or, old) and principled.

I really appreciate the contributions they've made to both core utilities and especially philosophy.

But I don't see them as lighting up the world or adding anything new lately. I think of vaporware like Hurd with 1000 year dev cycles. I think of them recommending Linux distributions like Trisquel that let perfect be the enemy of pretty good.

Might be that OP is super awesome or just lucky. I'm no sort of authority, but all the layoff headlines I'm seeing lately make things seem so dire.

I think I had similar impressions. Loved the fast pace, great animations, the plethora of references to all sorts of games. It's a nonstop audiovisual treat of a nostalgia trip.

Thinking about it after, some of the plot really makes me mad. Mainly the backstory of Bowser's bed time story to Jr. Other stuff like that, everything that happens just happens or gets moved on by the dumbest, hollowest reasons. There's no excuse for the choppy story. It can be for children, it can be action focused, but the little bit that is there doesn't have to be frustratingly vapid.

And yet... I come away overall really liking it. I'd hoped I could say without caveats that it was great, and I can't. But I was smiling the whole time, and it didn't overstay the welcome.

I haven't tried it yet, but Mina the Hollower just released and seems really cool. Should be way less than 20 GB.