ArsonButCute

If you're on a Gigabyte mobo openRGB may not work at all.

That's kinda what I'm saying though. Those aren't randos! They're other people taking the same commute as you, every day. Make a connection with one and you might start to notice them more. Maybe you have a similar hobby or interest.

Give people a chance to enter your life and they often become more than randos on the train. Maybe you find a commute partner, someone to chat with or bitch to about Jane in Accounting.

I'm not gonna try to convince you, Clearly you saw my point and chose to reject it, that's your choice. I'd urge you to give different thinking a chance though.

Its a call to be present.

There is nothing inherently wrong with wearing headphones on the train, but ask yourself why you're doing it.

If you put on Headphones to keep people from talking to you, you're making the choice to opt out of the human experience.?Make that choice every day on a 45 minute commute and after only a week 7.5 hours where you've opted out of chance encounter, conversation, possibly meeting a new friend or partner. It might not be a bad idea to make the choice to NOT disconnect, actively choosing to engage in the world around us makes a huge difference in how we percieve it, and how it percieves us.

An experiment I'd suggest, if you're the type to default to using your phone as an idle activity:

Next time you're idle and get the urge to pull out your phone, instead look around you and find the most interesting thing you can see. Why is it interesting? Is there anything abnormal about it? Is it's place significant? Take that and note it in your mind, have a conversation with a coworker about it later. Then take note, how did this pointless conversation make me feel?

Being present by choice, especially if done often, will create chances to engage with the World, and its inhabitants.

The other day someone told me life was boring. Put the phone down, make more than the 2 meter cone you can see from around your phone visible, and you'll find the World has a lot of engagement to offer.

Blocking people is good mental health practice.

Every month or so I go through and lurge my blocklist of all bht the most aggregious posters.

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Show of Hands:

Who's heard of "about:profiles"?

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I didn't see anything like that last time I was on peertube.wtf

Like any other fediverse thing, the instance you use makes a difference.

I wish, Steam would make another steam machine with steamOS

The last thing I want is a gaming PC

The steam machine program was where OEMs could partner with Valve to make a gaming PC that shipped with a steam controller and Steam OS. That's it.

You stated you wanted a steam machine, but also say you don't want a gaming PC, but... That's what a steam machine is

This is a good one to show people to get them thinking about class consciousness.

If you don't mind used, I had great luck with my Samsung L2020w, cat got some celophane stuck in it and it died (for good)

Replaced it with a Brother HL-series because they're what I used at work.

The lil guys are beasts.

I'd normally not wanna go with the "big corpo option" but for a printer without HP shenanigans its really great.

If you set up with the apps it will try to get you to subscribe to an ink subscription, this is not required.

They said nerds not "Placebo Obsessesed Rich Nerds"

Do you have a designated table you put the peanuts on?

I knew a guy years ago who managed to start trading with the crows in our neighborhood by having a table with two sections, one with bird snackies, the other empty (I think he may have put some foil there at one point?) so they'd have a place to put their payment.

The always got little plastic things, bits of mylar, twistie ties and what not.