Figure out what’s holding you back, and destroy it. I know for me (and many others), its perfectionism, or the taste thing in that Ira Glass quote:

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

The simple solution to this is to commit to making something that’s bad. Make enough bad things and you’ll learn the skills needed to make some decent things.

Those services already do that? They don’t require you to use an app, and there are multiple apps available if (and only if) you want them.

This culture looks down on sexual assault (rightfully so), but it glorifies violence in many cases.

Oh yeah, I must have read that wrong somehow 🤔

What are you talking about

https://www.who.int/news/item/30-06-2025-social-connection-linked-to-improved-heath-and-reduced-risk-of-early-death

I have a friend who had an iPhone 3 until 3g got shut down 18 months ago. You don’t need to buy into the constant update cycle.

Who cares? If it matters to her, she’s right. If it matters to you… Why? And what are you gonna do about it?

Seems unlikely considering who it’s owned by

That’s Spain in the top right too?

I’m guessing he didn’t know where any of those countries are, and just asked for a picture of Europe being blown up

Damn whipper snappers

I mean… That’s not really saying much will change in the majority of cases?

Federated DMOZ or bust

It’s anyone surprised by this?

Ah, that makes sense, so the gap at the top left of “Atmosphere CO2” is basically the total annual biosphere draw-down by the biosphere…

Cool! What did you make these with?

I think in struggling with the first one: is atmosphere the total atmospheric pool divided by the earth’s surface area? Should there be another loop for carbon that remains in the atmosphere year-to-year? It’s not all absorbed, right?

This comment will be amusing whenever it gets implemented.

GenAI code that no one understands is being put into production…

Right, for me “documents” is just “personal files”. I used to have it called that, but then I just had and empty dir sitting there unused…

I don’t like putting things in home because then files get mixed up with config and cache and crap, and it’s more annoying to search

This is the way. Everything I created in folder in Documents. Everything I downloaded in downloads. Home should be otherwise empty, except for all the left-over dot-folders that old software leaves lying around.