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Maybe you live in a rural area and people are less attached, but in cities, everyone is addicted af

I live in Paris, France (hopefully enough of a city to qualify?) but I'm not 'addicted af' (not at all, for that matter) and neither is my spouse, nor are quite a few of the people we know ;)

That said I also see a lot of people walking looking at their screen, bicycling looking at their screen, driving and looking at their screen. And I see a lot of accidents too. I wonder, could there be a link?

Do you feel weird/anxious if you go outside and don't have a phone with you?

Nope. I sometimes forget my phone at home, no big deal I seldom use it. And even when I don't forget it I have zero social apps or games installed on it, not even email ;)

I only use it to pass phone calls and to manage IDs and finances (and it's only because my banks all require me to use their stupid apps, I would gladly tell them to go funk themselves but I need to be able to access my accounts).

What I never forget and I never hesitate to use whan I have the opportunity is a pocket book, so I always have something to read (without distraction, aka no Internet) and a pocket notebook/pen so I can write stuff (without any distraction, bugs, updates or whatever...) and in both case without any worry about being tracked.

so like its basically social expectation to be on your phone when you are by yourself.

Is it? And then people are surprised they're exhausted, and constantly anxious and/or angry at one another? Doom scrolling is poison for the mind and for the soul. I'd rather look around, or speak with people.

you are missing a lot of information

Do I? Well, so far it has not caused me much issues.

that you might need in case you get lost or something.

When that happens, I ask my way around to people. It sometime is a nice opportunity to start a real conversation ;)

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Oh, 100% agree here, just wanted to make sure I understand your suggestion well ;)

By default new users could be sent to their Subscribed feed and see nothing, but then how do they know how to find content?

the tags/categories I mentioned would do that. Nen users are supposed to know what they're interested in or what they're curious about so they would select those.

The approach I suggested is doable with the tools we have now (defederation, community-blocking at instance level)

I have little to no understanding of the technical considerations but I would think that if a technique involves defederation/blocking it also means it won't be bulletproof because, well, shit content does not always come from the same source(s).

Me liking printed books more than ebooks is already a political matter, so... that would be difficult to offer political-free content.

I think I already mentioned it, but my idea would be to have nothing for newcomers (so they don't get to see even a single political, or low effort post) beside a few tags/keywords/categories they could click in order to start having content displayed in their feed that they actually want to see, no matter how good or how bad it would be ;)

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I often talk aloud all by myself when I'm reading. Either reading the book aloud, or talking to no one in particular commenting whatever I'm reading. Maybe talking to its author, or to the book itself?

Worse: I do think it helps me a lot get what I'm reading, and I would love to see more people doing it ;)

I’ll definitely do my own research, but there’s so much information out there—it feels like drinking from a firehose. It’s overwhelming!

Because it is overwhelming. And that’s coming from a 50-something dude that is not much of a geek himself and that switched after 35+ years using Apple.

Do you have any tips or websites to help me get started, step by step?

My top suggestion would be to keep it simple. Don’t try too hard to learn everything. Just use it and learn as you go. I mean, don't try to 'learn Linux' just start using it. You don’t need to read a whole lot of docs for that (using Mint the installation should be dead simple and the you can connect to the Internet, launch your word processor or spreadsheet, do some photo editing maybe, listen to music and watch videos. It's still a computer, just with a different operating system and different apps.

Each time you will have trouble doing something then you will know it's probably time to do some reading and research. Each time there is anything specific you want to know more about, then you will know what to search for.

Say when you want to learn why Linux is sometimes called ‘GNU/Linux’, not trying to be pedantic here it's just to show you how there is always more to Linux than what’s on the surface. Next to the free OS and apps there is this whole philosophy of freedom as well as the Unix very specific approach to software development and the way those software should work and how they should be used and that explain why things may be very different than what you were to under Windows, both being covered by the ‘GNU’ part in ‘GNU/Linux’, which is itself also not just about those notions as GNU is also a set of developing tools and apps (that are used to construct Linux itself—expert, no need to hate me for oversimplifying here). And it's just considering the Linux name! Really, it’s endless. Often fascinating, but endless.

To the point that learning Linux can feel like the Danaïdes sisters being told to fill with water that bottomless bucket, or poor Sisyphus having to push that same huge rock up to the top of the hill every single day for the rest of eternity—maybe not the most… fulfilling option ;)

So, as a beginner:

1. Learn how to create a bootable ISO on Mac or on Windows).
2. With Mint in mind you only need to follow the assistant instructions (and make sure your computer is working fine with Linux)
3. Use your new (and freed) computer and make mistakes (it's the best way to learn) ;)

If you want to read an excellent docs, no matter the distribution you're using Arch Wiki, Mint as great user forum

Oh, thx a lot!

I must admit I don't know much about those kind of snacks but I would be surprised a doctor would suggest to eat those with any kind of medication.

My wife has to eat a snack with her medicine she takes before bed or she gets nauseas. I have struggled to find an alternative to goldfish because I agree, it’s garbage. Any thoughts?

What is a goldfish (beside a fish, I mean)? If you mean an alternative to snack, has she tried fresh fruits (an apple, pear, a few grapes,...) or maybe things like nuts? The idea being to no eat heavily processed food at all and not too much of anything. If she is not into fresh fruits (that would be sad), at worst I would suggest a slice of fresh bread (here again not the industrial hyper-processed kind of bread, real bread) with something, maybe a little jam?

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Hi! I just stumbled across this community.

Welcome :)

I write something every day but the only rule is I have to write something, I don’t require a certain number of words or to cover anything in particular.

That's smart. I try to write daily too but I don’t really.

I’ve been journaling for 50 years and beside a few short periods I don’t think I ever managed to do it daily. Alas, I cannot check since for decades I regularly destroyed my journal. Something I quickly learned to do as a child in order to escapee my mother… inquisitorial habits and her not liking what I was writing in it; and what I was telling about myself. I don’t have much regrets in life—not that I’m that faultless perfect nice guy that never do any wrong, I’m not but I also tend to assume all my poor choices as well as the bad things I may have done—but this regular burning of my journals is one of the two things I regret doing in my life and wish I would be able to undo traveling back in time.

I don’t think it’s helped my memory (In the end I’m pretty sure I just have ADHD, with plenty of memories but no control over retrieving them).

Any specific reason to make you thing it doesn’t help? I mean, I consider writing the best help to train my memory right after having long (interesting) discussions with (interesting) people.

When I was starting I put some thought into the medium and decided for searchability I wanted it to be digital, and for longevity I went with plain text files.

Text files are great, and they’re very reliable in the long-term so, since you’re making backups, there is little risk of you not being able to read them in the future.

Like I mentioned in another comment (moments ago), I’m committed to analog myself but I still have devised a search/indexing system that works wonders. It’s based on Luhmann’s Zettelkasten (a fancy name to describe a shoe box of some sort filled with... index cards). The meaningful parts of my journal ends up indexed in that Zettelkasten so I know I will be able to find it, in no time be it tomorrow or in a few years.

I have a folder for each year, then name them with the date such as 2025-01-13.txt for today. I feel these are going to be really important to me when I’m older, as important as photos, so I have them stored across a number of free cloud storage providers, that I update every few months (every day to one, the rest in bulk).

Looks like you’re very well organized :)

I’m not sure what I’m hoping to get out of the community, but I’ve subscribed anyway and we will see how it goes 🙂

It’s a real small community, and one that only very recently started to move out of hibernation. Imho, what you will get out of it depends a lot what you will be willing to put into it. What I’m pretty sure of is that the more people decide to participate and contribute content, the more new users could be tempted to participate themselves ;)

Once again, welcome!

I keep the list for a few reasons, one is that I wanted to read more.

I remember, that was many years ago, my reading had dropped to almost nothing like with almost all my activities that were not related to work. I was persuaded I was too busy and had no time available for them, that I had better/more important things to do. Indeed, at that time I was very busy with a very demanding job but much more than being busy I was... not very well organized and I wasted a lot of time and energy and it showed. I started to use lists a bit like buckets I would fill (freeing my mind while doing so), simple lists of whatever were my goals and what was the next action I should do for every single one of them and to regularly review those lists. The review part was the real key, allowing to quickly check how things moved along, see where I failed, and adjust what needed adjustment. To say this helped me a lot would be a gross understatement. Lists are a blessing when they're accompanied by regular reviews.

And the other reason is that I want to be able to search for a book to see if I have read it (and how long ago).

Indeed. I also want to be able to search even if my system is analog. That's one of the two jobs of my Zettelkasten (an index card system) in which I index every meaningful bit of info, including journal entries I consider potentially useful and now book review entries. Even if it's 100% analog it's a great system that works wonders, I would not want to change it, but I must say it's still not as instant to find anything as using Ctrl/Cmd-F ;)

My personal list is not about reviewing the book or thoughts on the book, it’s simply a list of books I’ve read, along with dates I started and finished.

I understand that, my approach is not as precise (no clear start/en date but I'm still able to rely on the dates in my journal) , I will have to see if it's an issue and if I need more.