What do you swear by?

Brand, thing, behavior, method, advice, mantra, etc.

I swear by Blackwing pencils.

Also, the ‘two minute rule’, which has really improved my life: “if it takes two minutes or less to do, just do it now; if it takes longer, schedule it.” I’ve got untreated attention issues and it’s very easy for me to notice something needing done, and overlook or procrastinate it because it seems inconvenient in the moment. Having a totally painless rule that forces me to acknowledge that thing I should pick up, that trash bag I should change, etc, or, to at least put on my calendar anything I mustn’t forget in the long run has been great for me.

Pyrrhichios,

I too like fancy pencils. Mitsubishi’s range are my faves.

AstronautOnEverest,
@AstronautOnEverest@mander.xyz avatar

I just bought a dozen pencils from the Hi-Uni range and I’m super excited to try them out. I’ve heard so many good things about them from fellow pencil enthusiasts.

Squids,

I see your blackwings and I raise you my mechanical contestant - the uniball kuru toga. The rotating lead gimmick actually works pretty well and the elite has just such a nice weight to it because the barrel is this nice knurled metal thing (I think the advance upgrade is also metal, but I don’t have that one to compare)

Speaking of uniball, while I’m normally a fountain pen adherent, my go to non-fountain pen is the uniball eye. Such a surprisingly nice pen for the price, and while it’s not exactly the same, because it’s a liquid ink roller ball it’s still much nicer to write with because you don’t have to apply pressure to make it write.

theDodosConundrum,

Oh I’ve been curious about mechanical pencils with rotating lead! The rotation mechanism activates whenever you lift the tip up off the page right? Do you think it would still benefit folks who mostly write in cursive?

Squids,

It behaves closer to a regular mechanical pencil for cursive, but there is some difference. Ngl I use mine for maths and numbers and diagrammes so I don’t run into that issue a lot

BEZORP,

They're neat (I've only tried Uni's), though imho I prefer the manual control of a regular mech/pencil when writing in cursive, because then I can choose when to rotate the lead (ie by rotating the entire pencils).

If you're used to writing with pencils you don't even think about it anymore. It's as natural as dotting an i.

OrkneyKomodo,
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For a moment I was wondering whether the “two minute rule” was a lower hygiene standard for the acceptable time in which you can eat things after dropping them on the floor.

The only thing I’ve found in life that I find super helpful or swear by is using dated lists to organise what needs doing in my life.

Dragon_Titan,

2 minute rule. Is anything that you can do in 2 minute. Do it.

Its meant for you to complete tasks you may otherwise have no interest in doing or low in your priorities.

Primer81,

The dated lists I find helpful as well - I’ve been doing this daily for the past few months just to keep track of work tasks and personal tasks that I really shouldn’t forget about.

nirodhaavidya, (edited )
@nirodhaavidya@lemmy.world avatar

“You are under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago” - Alan Watts

This one is a bit hard-won for me. You see I used to be an asshole. It was my brand. I thought “it’s just in my nature”.

Fortunately, I was also a student of religion (mostly because I was a militant atheist. Know your enemy and all that). Studying Buddhism, I began to observe the nature of self. I found enough distance from it to see its transient nature.

I realized being an asshole was a choice and I could just as easily choose otherwise. Soon I began to discover this was true of most character traits.

I’m not saying you don’t have consistent patterns of behavior. I’ll hopefully always be curious and analytical. But for the most part, the way you conduct yourself and where you focus your attention is a choice.

So, if you’re not happy with who you are maybe don’t be so attached to the idea of 'who you are". And if that seems hard, observe what you pay your attention to and try to find the distance between observation and behavior. In that gap lies the choice you make, consciously or not, to be “you”.

pedro,

Is your name Earl?

trash,
@trash@lemm.ee avatar

A Carson Daly fan, if you will.

erogenouswarzone,
@erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml avatar

No offense, brother, but this is a great example of my swear-by.

Don’t write a “wall of text.” Even if a reader is interested, it’s hard to read the whole thing.

Separate your wall into smaller sections, use bullet points (esp at work) if it helps.

Use small sentences. Forget what they told you about keeping similar ideas in one paragraph. You’re not Salinger, and no one is expecting you to be.

This is a digital age, and our job as not-salinger is to convey information.

nirodhaavidya,
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DirigibleProtein,

The philosophy of Bill S Preston, Esquire, and Ted “Theodore” Logan:

“Be excellent to each other”

It’s really not that difficult to do the right thing, be an upstanding citizen, and contribute to a decent society.

Aurenkin,

Party on, dude

enbee,
@enbee@compuverse.uk avatar

party on @dirigibleprotein and @Aurenkin!

Kaped,

Linux and FOSS

Artaca,

Slowly transitioning myself into more FOSS and self hosting. Linux is tough because I’m fairly dependent on software that, to the best of my knowledge, wouldn’t work on it. Dual booting doesn’t sound fun

SturgiesYrFase,
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I dual boot win10 and Garuda Arch(I use Arch BTW) and it’s pretty painless. Garuda is a gaming centric distro, it plays almost every game I throw at it with no fuss. The only reason I still use windows at all is because my music production programs refuse to run on Linux, regardless of what settings I use in wine or Proton.

CoffeeDev,
@CoffeeDev@lemmy.studio avatar

I think music production software uses some system APIs that might not even be possible to replicate with Wine or Proton.

SturgiesYrFase,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

I use Fruityloops and Deckadance, FL Studio 18 (I think) has been successfully run in wine, but I’m on 21…annnnd not so much. Deckadance not even close.

CoffeeDev,
@CoffeeDev@lemmy.studio avatar

It looks like at least FL Studio can work with Wine, but you have to use ASIO for audio.

SturgiesYrFase,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ve tried that, doesn’t jive. At least I’m not skilled enough to follow the simple instructions well enough to get it to work.

Edit: I’ll have another go, last time I checked the wine db 18 was the most current working version

CoffeeDev,
@CoffeeDev@lemmy.studio avatar

Wine can be difficult to get working right (I have tried to use Wine for a few things before and I also had issues with it that I couldn’t solve), so it doesn’t surprise me that it doesn’t work right for you. It is a miracle that they can get any apps to run on a completely different operating system, and audio software tends to be very complicated and often depends on system APIs.

SturgiesYrFase,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

I usually don’t have much if any trouble with wine, but for whatever reason couldn’t ever get FL running

CoffeeDev,
@CoffeeDev@lemmy.studio avatar

My main troubles with Wine were when I tried to get Roblox to run under it. It ran, but only barely, and I don’t quite know why, but I had to use Grapejuice to get it to run without feeling like it was running on a low-end computer from 2005.

SturgiesYrFase,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

I mean, at least you got it running

CoffeeDev,
@CoffeeDev@lemmy.studio avatar

I am sure you probably could get FL Studio to run as well with some time and research.

Azzu,

Why are there so many writing utensil suggestions in this thread? I haven’t written anything down physically in years, I don’t even know why you’d need a pencil or paper anymore.

Reverendender,

Also, writing things down physically has become almost painful for me. I do have atrocious handwriting, which probably contributes to this feeling.

Twelve20two,

Have you tried fountain pens?

Shard,

Yes. I too like to ruin not one but four pages at a time with my terrible handwriting

Twelve20two,

What do you mean?

Shard,

I have terrible handwriting. In top of that problem, I sometimes use too much pressure. And I tend to leave the pen on the paper while I think of what I’m going to write. With a fountain pen, too much pressure means more ink released, which leaves ugly blotches that readily soaks through a few pages.

So not only is the first page ruined by my initially ugly handwriting, the succeeding pages are further ruined with the blotches of ink that soaked through.

Twelve20two,

Ah, thank you for clarifying. If it helps at all, fountain pens can write with minimal pressure (although getting out of the habit of using a lot of pressure is hard to break [I personally blame shitty ballpoint pens + the intense pressure of standardized tests in the state of New Jersey for why I wrote way too hard for so much of my life]). As far as bleed thru goes, there are different brands and types of paper that help mitigate this too. Even if you’re not using fountain pens, I would recommend trying different paper for more comfortable hand writing tasks.

Also, I’m sorry if it comes across as proselytizing. I just really like my current writing tools, and I spent a long time of my life hating my handwriting (and hating writing by hand because of how I’d cramp up). Because of that, I just want to share my experience with other methods

Reverendender,

I try to avoid purchases of tools to accommodate activities that I don’t do

Twelve20two,

Yeah, that’s fair. I suggest them only because they’re a bit easier on the hands

CumBroth,
@CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Musicians need pencils and erasers to work with sheet music. The music itself is printed, but you still need to write down fingering, dynamics markings, tempo markings, highlight ideas/themes/passages, etc…

krash,

Three is a certain quality to writing things down. It is a nice break from screens, makes you contemplate and elaborate on your thoughts. It works that way for me.

Dubious_Fart,

because I can write something down, right now, without trying to boot up a device, find an app, open a word processor, or anything.

and it stays, exactly as is. interuptions dont risk losing it. power outages wont make it disappear. dead batteries wont render it inaccessable. Software update wont render it corrupt.

BromSwolligans,

Writing and drawing aren’t lost arts, yet ;)

There’s strong evidence, by the by, that writing things down by hand works different parts of your brain than typing does. This can be great for somebody like me, with untreated attention issues, as writing things down by hand can help me remember them better. It takes longer to do, so your mind is on it longer, and particularly when I’m journaling, it seems to help me parse through what feels like a jumble of chaotic, circular thoughts by laying them down one word, one letter at a time on paper.

And since I write pretty much everyday, whether it’s notes at work, the occasional journal entry, or little notes for later in a nice Moleskine pocket notebook, I’d like that experience to be as nice as possible, in the same way a typist might invest in a mechanical keyboard (with just the right feeling and sound for their tastes) or anybody who can afford to will invest in a quality mattress, etc.

If you ever do give handwriting a shot, or if you get into art someday, you might check out some of the pencil and pen recommendations in the responses to this post. They can be a real treat when compared against, like, a standard no. 2 pencil you got in a box of 50 for $2.

TrismegistusMx,
@TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone for any reason ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been… ever, for any reason whatsoever…

Thavron,
@Thavron@lemmy.ca avatar

What say we order in some pasta?

DoctorWhookah,

Just a copy for me, thanks.

supper_time,

Do you have any context? We all do things for other people all the time almost every day. At least that’s how I see it.

TrismegistusMx,
@TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world avatar

youtu.be/cXgj28e1gvU

supper_time,

Lol. I did not get the reference at all. No wonder it didn’t made sense.

wavymoney,

Jailbreaking my iPhone because stock iOS is boring and there are so many QOL features I’m used to, I can’t imagine using iOS without them

transientpunk,
@transientpunk@sh.itjust.works avatar

I can’t imagine using iOS…

wavymoney,

With Apple making jailbreaks harder to achieve by beefing up security in 16 (there’s progress on a potential <= 16.5 JB) & even 17, I can’t imagine using iOS for much longer either lol

Rockslide0482,

My very first smartphone was a hand me down iPhone 3G. I ended up modding the piss out of it with jailbreak stuff. Eventually used a friend’s Android phone, which I hadn’t really interacted with at that point and realized I had essentially turned my iPhone into an Android. My next phone was an Android and all of them have been since. If you’re the type of person who likes (and gets value out of) doing tweaking, you probably should just get an Android. Many of the things you listed are doable with apps downloaded straight from the Google Play store.

wavymoney,

I’ve been keeping my eye on the Galaxy line of phones, my last Android phone was a rooted S6. The fact that nearly-every iPhone out there is the same (OS-wise) makes it that much more valuable to me vs switching, since most Androids have easy root capabilities/customization so it’s overlooked. Going out in public and watching confused eyes watch my phone because it looks & acts different from what they’re used to is the beauty and value of it, from my perspective. Not to mention the resale market for iPhones on a jailbreakable version.

Deez,

What are some of your favourites?

wavymoney,

Activator - I use this to automatically enable LPM when a charger is connected or when I leave my house, holding Vol Up for Next Song/Vol Down for Prev. Song, Hold Vol Up & Down to Pause, Hold top-right of Status Bar for a custom App Drawer from any App

CCSupport - I mainly use this for putting something that should already be in the Control Center toggles, a damn location button!!

AppStore++ - Let’s you downgrade any app to any version you wish & block app updates

BetterCCXI - Make the CC Music Module display the Now Playing song/video Album Cover/Art without holding it down

ChromaHomebarX - Customize homebar color to your liking or do a RGB animation at what ever speed you prefer

Facebook/Messenger/Instagram/Twitter No Ads - Self Explanatory, and allows downloading pics/videos

DLEasy - Downloading of pics/video from even more apps

EvilScheme - A more powerful Default Apps picker

MYbloXX - A more powerful Ad Blocker than any App Store equivalent bc Apple doesn’t allow hosts file editing on stock iOS

Rose - Haptic Feedback on not just Keyboard, but almost anywhere of your choosing. For example, when I change songs or the volume I get haptic feedback.

Shortmoji - Replace prediction bar with sliding emoji drawer or Cut/Copy/Paste/etc functions or add either between the Emoji & Dictation buttons. Can even customize keyboard color or make it an animated RGB keyboard

This is just a few I can remember off the top, but there’s a whole lot more. A lot of iOS “features” originate in the Jailbreak scene. Screen recording functionality/code was in iOS 8 by Apple, but wasn’t introduced/enabled until iOS 11. JB Tweaks to do that existed before then.

Deez,

Wow, thank you for the comprehensive reply! I think you can do the Low Power Mode automation with Shortcuts, but none of the rest.

The holding vol up/down is cool, as are the no ads apps.

You’ve given me something to ponder, maybe on an old phone. Cheers!

BromSwolligans,

I feel like jailbreaking is often a real chore. The ongoing game of cat and mouse, you know. Is it easy enough to do these days, and do untethered? I haven’t really taken great advantage of jailbreaking since like, iPhone 4. But your comment makes it sound like a practical necessity!

wavymoney,

Those days are long gone, I’m afraid. It’s not as simple as patching an IPSW like it used to be. The jailbreak scene has been pushed to the edge of a cliff by Apple with each update, especially after iOS 10. iPhone 8/8+/X and lower are jailbreakable for life due to an unpatchable bootrom exploit (checkm8), but it doesn’t mean much now that those devices won’t get iOS 17. Recently, Apple added another security measure (cryptex1) to make it near impossible to downgrade. It’s pure luck these days if/when a jailbreak gets released & for what iOS version. Oh and it’s been so long since the last untethered jailbreak, I can’t remember the name of the last one. All of them are Semi-Untethered (sideload an app with the exploit, but you would have to resign it every 7 days in case your phone reboots unless you own an Apple Dev Account)

Imgonnatrythis,

Damn. I left ios after iPhone 4 or 5, one of the reasons was that jail breaking was becoming nearly impossible and Android felt kind of like it was already jailbroken. I assumed it was a dead art by now. Is it still easy to do or a constant game of complex catchup?

wavymoney,

Not as easy as it once was. Security was beefed up with every iteration after iOS 10, in the hardware (post-iPhone X) and the software. 10 was the last good time of jailbreaking ease, where a jailbreak.me type of exploit was released. It’s pure luck now. Most talented developers have either left the scene due to ungrateful people, sadly, or joined Apple’s Bounty program. You can’t tell what version a brand-new boxed iPhone is on because Apple obfuscated the serial numbers. iOS 15 introduced SSV (Sealed System Volume) meaning no touching root, forcing a halt which was eventually solved with “rootless” jailbreaks. They made it harder to downgrade to a jailbreakable version due to SEP (Secure Enclave Processor), and Blobs are useless now because of cryptex1, introduced in iOS 16. This means no downgrades to unsigned firmwares at all except within patch versions (like 16.3 and 16.3.1). iOS 17 could be even worse, time will tell.

Crabhands,
@Crabhands@lemmy.ml avatar

Swearing. It’s the fucking best!

zorrothefox2001,
@zorrothefox2001@lemmy.world avatar

Chain wallet. Might be uncool depending on your fit but you’ll never lose it. I was skeptical until I got one.

ErwinLottemann,

Yeah

zorrothefox2001,
@zorrothefox2001@lemmy.world avatar

Lol this is definitely before my time, is this a goof or was it ever that deep to people?

ErwinLottemann,

No, it was a prody band, but the music was good! 🤣

jbrains,

Ditto on the Two-Minute Rule. Getting stuff out of my head in general.

Vent (and especially swear!) to reduce physical pain, but absolutely not to reduce psychic/emotional pain. Venting just makes you hold onto psychic pain longer.

Sodastream. And not the electronic ones.

Wirlocke,

On a light note, I’m a slut for Bethesda, atleast I skipped Fallout 76 but I’m gonna preorder Starfield. I was 11 when Skyrim came out and it’s very near and dear to me and I love some aspects of Fallout 4. ESO was also not bad and I play Elder Scrolls Legends. I’m seeing this through to the end bois ✌️.

On a serious note, I swear by never drinking alone or without someone I trust as much as my partner. Nothing bad happened to me but I have several negative experiences with drinking in my family. And technically my dad died riding a motorcycle drunk, but I don’t think being sober would have saved him from that specific incident.

I just never ever want to be anything close to an alcoholic. I feel like I would get addicted if it was more convenient and didn’t taste bad. Fear of addiction is also why I’m wary of gambling.

jmer,

Is Legends still worth playing? I stopped after they announced there were going to be no new updates. Seems like with no new cards being added it’s only a matter of time before the most consistent/best/unbeatable deck comes is devised.

Wirlocke,

I’ve been enjoying it, there’s still consistent players and a good variety of decks I’ve fought.

Though you will learn to groan when you see an Oblivion Gate, Midnight Burial, or Paarthurnax.

My personal gripe is that there are so many ways to destroy/silence creatures and not many full proof counters. I’ll have several turns of placing something down, it gets destroyed, repeat.

But I always play ranked and at the moment have an equipment based deck, and a deck built around creatures that deal damage. Hardly meta but with each I win about half the time and slowly climb the ranks.

jmer,

Appreciate the feedback. Maybe I’ll pick it up again. I managed to grind my way to Legend rank before giving up.

mo_lave,
  1. Uniqlos, one of the best bang for buck clothing items and uses great-quality material.
  2. Buy the cheapest tool if you plan to use it for the first time. If it breaks and you still need it, buy the best you can afford.
remer,
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For me Uniqlo has taken a turn for the worse. Clothing I bought from them years ago is still in great condition. Things I’ve bought in the last year are falling apart and feel cheaper.

mo_lave,

Wonder if I would notice this the next time I look for one when I run the material through my fingers.

remer,
@remer@lemmy.ml avatar

They’ve been failing the “crumple test” for a few years now. The fabric holds a ton of wrinkles after bunching it in your hand.

Noxvento,
@Noxvento@lemmy.world avatar

Until recently I loved Uniqlo. The price has gone up, the quality has gone down. I wont be buying anything from Uniqlo in the near future.

Squids,

Seconding Uniqlo - it’s also got the bonus of being sort of “effortlessly fashionable” (especially if you’re a woman) which is great if you’re the sort of person who gets super anxious over social interactions but at the same time have no sense of what looks good.

EssentialCoffee,

Style-wise, they look like the same generic clothes that you can get anywhere. If you don’t know what looks good, these aren’t going to help you.

someguy3,

I buy the second cheapest. The cheapest is just so cheap.

Reverendender,

I like the cut of your jib

flop_leash_973,

Putting new tasks down to get to them later at work when I see something I had not planned on doing. Just make a ticket and throw it in the backlog. It is amazing how those little 5 minute things can eat into the work you said you were going to be doing now.

Also, "the Scotty principle ". Basically always say something will take longer than it will.

tinyhydra.com/the-scotty-principle/

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