meliache

meliache, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Sorry to hear that. Though a broken pain must not necessarily mean severe pain. It depends on which bone you break, where and how. You got unlucky there. I had a couple of broken bones, my big toe, my hand and part of my hip (not the joint, but the Illium, which has a purely protective function), and in all those cases the pain was managable without painkillers, as long as I didn’t move the injured body part at least. It was always a closed wound and there was a crack in the xray but the bone had not moved much out of place and never needed an operation. Also adrenaline played a role, I broke my hand at a Judo competition and at first just thought I just bruised, but the paramedid noticed that it moved where it shouldn’t.

With all my traumatic injuries I was consoled by the fact that soon I will arrive in the hospital, will be cared for and the pain will stop.

The worst pains I had were a severe tooth ache and strong migrain attacks. It was worsened by the fact that I didn’t know when the pain will end.

meliache, 11 months ago

Exactly. I’m not a psychologist or biologist but from what I read, while we are alive, our bodies tend towards homeostasis, a chemically balanced state. Simply, you cannot be in a high-dopamine “happy” state all the time without going back to a neutral or down state afterwards. Even without drugs, highs are usually followed by lows. Not trying to be happy at all times but accepting that sometimes, there are hardships, will help you having a fullfilled and content life.

Anyway, that homeostasis does not mean that everyone is equally happy/unhappy on average. On the one side there are people with depression and on the other side people whose lives have many happy moments. What helps for me is connecting with friends and family, going into nature and seeing animals, doing exercise and having off-screen time, mindfullness and generally having some work-life balance. Which I admit not everyone can afford and I am privileged to have. Doing or having those things helps me having a happier and more fullfilled life, but sometimes life still sucks, there is no happy-all-the-time.

meliache, 11 months ago

Definitely the opposite of “light”, but you mentioned chess and if you’re into something similar but very different, you might try learning #Go together on online-go.com. That site has a very short introduction into the game under the Learn tab, but it only covers the very basics and initially you will have no idea what you’re doing. The rules are simple, but there is a lot of complexity that arises from that and professionals study the game for years. But even as a complete beginner it’s fun. Full on 19x19 games can take a long time, but games on a 9x9 board are fairly quick, comparable to a chess game.

Still, this would be a journey. If you want something not turn-based and relaxing to play while chatting maybe try something else but I can’t give any recommendations.

meliache, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Thumb-Key is aiming to be a FOSS replacement to the now unmaintained MessageEase. Like MessageEase, it offers a 3x3 touch-and-swipe layout. It takes time to learn, but allows to type fast and accurately, thus getting rid of the dependence on prediction/auto-correction, without which QWERTY on small touchscreens would be unusable. Many people report typing more than 50 WPM on MessageEase and the same should be possible with Thumb-Key. It's a young project and is still missing many features and gestures of MessageEase, but it is active and has a community here at [email protected].

I only recently switched from GBoard to MessageEase and ThumbKey, and I still around 25 WPM, but I found that I stopped making mistakes when typing out the long master password for my password manage on my phone, because this is one of the areas where auto-correct couldn't help.

But I am still far away from reaching the speeds of swiping on a QWERTY-keyboard without word prediction. So if you don't mind that and don't want to spend your free time learning alternative layouts, stick to QWERTY layouts, but if you want a keyboard layout to type exactly what you want, try one of these 3x3 boards. To be honest, if you want to give it a shot, out of the two I would probably still recommend MessageEase, as Thumb-Key is very alpha, but that might change. I have both with the same layout and switch back and forth.

meliache, 1 year ago

I suggest trying MonkeyType for deliberate practice.

meliache, 1 year ago

I only need three touches, using the MessageEase English with Symbols layout ln thumb key. That layout shows the single quote on the alpabetical "front" layer, while it is hidden behind a symbol layer in the default layout. Tou can find the layout list in the settings.

meliache, 1 year ago

Ich glaube für meisten Arten von Notizen würde es jeder einfache Text-Editor tun, Plain Text reicht meist völlig (evtl. markdown). Zum Beispiel, wenn er nur ein Einkaufsliste ist.

Aber ich hatte aus anderen Gründen vor vielen Jahren Emacs gelernt und habe den eingebauten Org-Mode zu schätzen gelernt, der viele extra-Funtionen bietet, wie das Anzeigen von Bildern, Gleichungen (via LaTeX), Zeitstempel und die Möglichkeit, Notizen und alles mögliche zu verlinken. Damit kann man seine eigene Wissensdatenbank aufbauen, wenn man möchte (die Erweiterung Org-Roam, von @wysiwym erwähnt, kann dabei helfen). Und ich benutzen die evil-mode Erweiterung, sodass ich Vim-Tastaturkürzel (und Modi) in Emacs habe. Org-Mode kann man auch für das schreiben ganzer Texte und Bücher verwenden, es ist flexibel.

Aber für diese reichhaltigen Notizen mit Links etc gibt es mittlerweile Spezialsoftware wie Obsidian und LogSeq. Aber ick benutze Emacs schon lange und werde es bestimmt auch in 10 Jahren benutzen, es erscheint mir langlebig und ich sehe für mich keinen Grund zu wechseln.

War nicht so einfach ist, ist das simultane bearbeiten vom Dokumenten (google-docs artig), und die Eingabe von Notizen mit dem Handy. Ich synchronisiere meine Notizen mit dem Handy, wo ich sie mit Orgzly betrachten und bearbeiten kann (hier bereits von @flauschke erwähnt), aber letzteres finde ich mobil recht umständlich. Auf dem Handy bearbeite ich eigentlich nur meine Einkaufsliste.