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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Go outside. Not in a “go touch grass” way. Explore new places and fill your days with variety and sunlight if you can. If you can’t make the time pass quickly you can at least make it more interesting. And sitting depressed in a park is a lot nicer than sitting depressed at home.

    If you’re already running, vary your route a bit, or spend some time in the middle of your run sitting outside for a bit.

    I don’t expect it to fix anything, I’ve heard enough of the “just try this and you’ll feel better” bullshit. But I hope it would at least help mix up your days a little.







  • USB OTG on android phones is severely underrated.

    • I can plug in a USB drive and transfer files around, I’ve used this to manage my retro handheld SD cards before.
    • You can tether your hotspot over Ethernet to your computer with an Ethernet adapter.
    • You can plug Ethernet into your phone to get faster connections.
    • You can plug a mouse into your phone and get a cursor on screen. Not super useful tbh, but kinda cool.
    • You can use your phone as an external webcam for your computer.
    • It’s a bit more annoying than it used to be but you can use your phone as a universal IR remote with a small adapter and free apps (I miss my built in IR blaster from my S3).









  • I’ve started to skip the mask for small groups for short time periods but I still mask up for the grocery store, and large gathering, and any time I’m in a smaller room with people for a long time.

    I get sick so rarely now, it’s great. And it’s so much less socially exhausting to wear a mask and be able to hide my face. I dont have to take a smile or watch my expressions nearly as much.

    And it helps support my friends who are immunocompromised by normalizing mask wearing.

    I don’t plan to stop for a long while. And I plan to always mask up if I’m sick, even just a cold, to avoid spreading it.