For many years, I’ve heard recommendations from privacy-conscious individuals that if you choose to be on a social media platform, it’s best to just use the web interface, and not an app. That limits the ability of the company that runs the service to track and log data about you. Sometimes I’ve followed this advice, and sometimes I haven’t, depending on my perceived convenience of the app over the website.
Continue readingThis is a short post that I will probably revisit later. The topic? Avoiding temptations in life. Why today? Because I once again failed, and need the reminder…
I have learned, over the course of many years, that especially at certain points in the day I have very little willpower to avoid temptations. This could be something as simple as avoiding overeating desserts (which I like), to limiting my exposure to social media, to reducing the amount of time I spend watching movies/TV shows/YouTube. To actually achieve my goal in whatever area that is, I often have to completely remove the temptation from my life, or put such severe limitations on it that I cannot easily slip up when I’m tired after work, and I no longer have the willpower to easily keep myself away from whatever the temptation is.
Continue readingOverall, today was a pretty good day. I was up at 4a, did my normal morning routine, and still made it to work before 7a. Work went fairly well too. This evening I’ve just been working around the house. However, my motivation is lacking, so… that’s as much of a post as I’m going to get in today.
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Today was a relatively relaxing day. I worked on a few things around the house post-church, did a short weekly review, and chatted with my sister. As day to turned to evening, I found that I had very little motivation left, so I decided to watch a movie. What movie? Well… Monsters vs. Aliens, an animated film from 2009. It’s not a particularly amazing movie, but it has some amusing moments.
Now… time to wrap up a few things, and get ready for the week ahead!
I’m publishing this as part of 100 Days To Offload (Day 44/100). You can join in yourself by visiting https://100DaysToOffload.com.
I got my first Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) today, and took a short amount of time to begin migrating my Home Assistant setup to it. Thoughts so far:
I have yet to really tax the machine, so I haven’t seen how hot it gets, nor have I seen its full capabilities. I’m hoping to finish the migration from my Raspberry Pi 3 either tomorrow or next weekend, at which point I’ll re-purpose the RPi 3 for another home project.
Continue readingWell, I’ve officially finished my first full week back at work after 2 months of working from home. Overall, not bad. It will take some getting used to again, but I quickly found myself settling into old methods and habits.
Things that I still need to improve:
Do any of my readers really need to know all of that? No, not really. But it’s good for me to think through this on paper (or the e-equivalent of paper, my blog). And it’s a good way to pressure myself into actually doing it!
Continue readingInspired by Things that work! by Cliff Brake.
As someone who spends a very large amount of time in front of a computer, over the years I have built up a list of a number of preferences. Today’s post is about the Zowie FK1+, which is my default mouse choice.
I first learned of the FK1+ (and other similar models from Zowie) in 2015 when I took my current position at work. I was looking for a mouse that was comfortable, worked with all operating systems, and gave me the option of different DPI settings in the mouse itself, instead of having to use software. Somehow, during the research, I ran across the FK1+, and I haven’t looked back. It is now in use both at work and at home.
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