Some sort of journaling really helps when you feel like you have no direction. You can turn back the pages and see what path you took and even identify some ideas or values you want to implement in your life moving forwards. I recommend a notebook instead of a digital notes app.

This is a habit that I formed fairly recently 3-4 years ago I think. Initially I was writing down on smaller notepads which tend to get filled up quickly. Now I use a dotted notebook, so that I can draw something if I need to (although unruled notebooks also work)

Don’t obsess over decorating it like the bullet journal folks do on YouTube/Instagram and if you are thinking of using apps like obsidian or logseq - don’t go too far down the rabbit hole , just write down something instead.

You can have something like tasks.org for todos (organize your day) and a physical notebook to develop a vision (get some direction in your life)

Haha yeah, zypper is so damn slow. I thought about trying dnf in opensuse but didn’t want to risk breaking my install.

Where my openSUS at ?

I wish Samung Galaxy S23 , S22 series gets added to the supported devices list.

I guess it’s because a lot of local news channels and personalities still use twitter.

I hope they don’t abandon the small phone size. Also they need to make it available in more regions.

I don’t seem to recollect any movie at the moment but here are some TV shows or anime -

1. Mr. Robot - one of my favourite TV shows, most people using lemmy might have already watched it.

2. Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu - its about a very lonely middleschool kid’s romance

3. Koe no Katachi - very popular anime movie. Also one of my favourites.

4. Bocchi the Rock - Anime about an extremly introverted girl wanting to play guitar in a highschool band.

5. Re-Life - its an anime about a grown up guy getting a chance to re-live his high-school days as part of a experiment or something like that. It was pretty good.

6. Lookism - its a Manhwa, but also has an anime. Basically the main character gets 2 bodies mysteriously. The original body is the ugly one which people bully him for and the second body is like that of a (male) kpop artist which people view differently.

7. Death’s game - it’s a kdrama I recently watched. Although it doesn’t exactly fit in with the theme of ‘lonlieness’ I thought I’d mention it.

P.S - some shows I mentioned here might not be as loneliness inducing as you think.

+1 for NHK ni yokoso. It also touches on social awkwardness and things like that as well.

Overall a very good watch.

• Kakoune should also be added under Text editors.

• Yazi is a good terminal based file manager

• nnn is another file manager

• rtorrent for a terminal based torrent client

• nushell - a different kind of shell.

• starship prompt

• weechat for IRC

I was looking for a small phone and the zenfone 10 and s23 base variant were my picks, they ticked almost all the boxes. I ended up getting the s23 because of better software support and the availability issues with the zenfone 10 in my region.

I just wish the s23 had better custom rom support from the community and a sd card slot.

Xps 13 is a great laptop. Personally I would install arch or artix in it.

Fighting street thugs in the Yakuza games. The man can’t even walk peacefully for 2 mins.

The problem is even worse with Yakuza 7. The RPG fighting mechanic makes me feel like fighting is a chore. To add to that, you cant even run away from these fights.

I use feeder on my phone too. What feeds do you like to follow ?

Last I checked it takes about 360 hours to get permission to unlock the bootloader on a Xiaomi device. Also you have to have your sim card in the phone while requesting the unlock.

Mine is probably oatmeal.

Put half a cup of instant oatmeal, some nuts, peanut butter and a banana in the blender and pour some milk.

I usually put in the refrigerator and eat it in the morning.

For sweetening You can also use dates or maple syrup instead of sugar.

I’m already using shelter to achieve a similar result.

Not a movie, but I remember trying to do kamehameha when I was 8 years old or something after watching Dragon ball Z.

For the longest time, I thought it was me who was causing the problems. I started becoming careful about what I say. And as an unintentional result I became aware of what, why and how they speak.

I still consider some situations from an AITA perspective. But I may be biased towards myself. I will take your advice on posting in an AITA community and get some different perspectives.

Thanks for commenting !

It is possible that this is the case with him. Since he is not good with secrets and will definitely talk behind my back, I stopped sharing anything personal with him. He also digs up such topics from long back and uses it as part of his attack. He probably hates me because I do not share anything personal with him anymore.

Well nowadays I control what I share with the group. wouldn’t want any unnecessary arguments over some silly shit.

I’d love to read up on topics like “breaking illusion of control” you mentioned. Please do suggest if you know any good articles or books that touch on this matter.

• 2 of the guys work for the same startup. One of them is the main ‘problem guy’. This guy quickly embodies the traits of the crowd he spends the most time with. So It’s possible that take 1 is the case.

• All of us are out of college. We are not too far apart, so we are able to meet up easily if we want to (for now).

On a different note- The start of this friend cricle was centered around gaming. I think some people might have different rules (subconciously) for deciding if a person belongs to a certain group. Maybe… just maybe the fact that I’m not able to play games with them regularly made him (the problem guy) subconsciously think that I’m not part of the group anymore. Especially since I do not adhere to the core values (gaming everyday). It’s possible that has caused a seperation in the group. I think I’m overthinking this. So I’ll leave it at that.

• Take 3 seems like the most possible. I had noticed some signs way back. Now it is way more fleshed out.

Now that I look at it, the ‘toxic’ nature may be a sum of all of the above mentioned takes.