Appeal to authority and sweeping generalisation in a cynical dismissal package.
You’re not talking to bilionaires on this site, only a portion of bilionaires know about making money, which has no relation whatsoever to having a good grasp about political philosophy, large-scale economic principles and statesmanship.
I’ve seen some receipts whose paper it was printed on proudly stated to be BPA free, but for all we know it might use chemicals that are even worse for our health than BPA.
Please, how long does the lack of motivation and anhedonia last? I have been trying to quit during a particularly stressful time in my life, works great for anxiety, but after 5 days I couldn’t spare to stare at the wall any longer instead of being a productive member of society.
This week I am drinking only one cup of tea in the morning and I’m still not very productive, but I would like to quit caffeine for good.
(FWIW I used to only drink a double espresso in the morning and no more, but I am a very sensitive, and anxious, person)
It took me about two weeks for it to completely get out of my system. I quit cold turkey, and I had body pains and trouble focusing for the first week.
You want to just drink it again, but if you push through, it starts getting better, until you don't feel the need to drink it again.
I’ve been in an existential crisis after reading Postman and I’ve since reframed the whole dilemma thusly: one of the highest aspirations for a person is the act of creation, and the result one can often call art.
What is wrong is instead the routine consumption of art created by others in a stupor to rest from the drudgery of daily work.
I buy ebooks outside Amazon with my non-jailbroken Kindle. They’re usually DRM’d EPUB files, which I unDRM with Calibre and transfer to my device, which I have kept in airplane mode for the better part of a year.
The bonus part is Calibre keeps a local copy on your PC, so now all my book purchases are backupped and without DRM.
Far too often, we have OEMs trying to build unique differentiating features without actually building much in the way of custom hardware, so you end up with some random thing hanging off GPIO pins or something like that, completely undocumented and driven by software that didn't really make it past proof of concept phase.
I had a desktop motherboard once that included a SATA power output intended to allow the software gimmick to fully power down hard drives you didn't need running. It was never worth the hassle.
I once used an HP laptop where the webcam disable switch was a USB HID device, and everything that connected that switch to the webcam functionality was implemented in software.
And then there are all the power management/tuning hacks written by people who've never even heard of control theory. Every "gaming" laptop ships with its own iteration on that disaster.
I've been told on this forum, when I was having a hard-time landing a job in 2022, that it's a tough hiring market. Since then, the sentiment is exactly the same, if not worse due to long-term economic uncertainty and LLM job/resume spam. In my experience, this is the worst it's been in 20+ years, and we haven't seen the bottom yet.
The only thing that saved me was asking everybody in my network until I got a job from a friend of a friend, which I'm holding on to for dear life. Do that and prepare a plan B (self-employment/career switch/move to a lower cost-of-living area)
You’re not talking to bilionaires on this site, only a portion of bilionaires know about making money, which has no relation whatsoever to having a good grasp about political philosophy, large-scale economic principles and statesmanship.