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Cake day: November 10th, 2023

  • I think I figured out the dynamic at play here

    Its basically that context switching is costly and since the internet has our attention/context switching spread thin between things like admin/messaging/learning/etc constantly we make our bandwidth really small so usually by the middle of the day our brains are fried if we changed contexts a lot even if we didn’t do much, and what’s worse is that to compensate for feeling like we didn’t do much we may just doomscrolling more to feel like we gained something so it just spirals and gets worse unless we do something about it.

    What I suggest we do is recalibrate to having our baseline be as dead simple in terms of relaxing as sitting still staring at the wall or something, doing almost nothing, and then if we want to do something it should be something that we can steadily do for a couple hours at a time, anytime we have something to do later such as socials on a phone or something to google later we should note it down somewhere and eventually we create a todo list of those sorts of things that will last a couple hours so that we can do that without much context switching, and if we still need to recalibrate we can always stop and be still for some time.

    At first this seems less fast but it is actually more fast because you gain more higher quality time in which we are working more efficiently at whatever we may be doing at any moment.

    We aren’t getting dumber by using the internet, we are just getting very biased towards information overload.

    This can even lead people to developing weird reward cycles that look like autism as well as people doing a lot of things at once so people call this adhd. We can use meds to increase bandwidth, that’s basically what ADHD meds are doing, closing the reward loops so that bandwidth is freed up, what very few do is learn to close the reward loops themselves and chunk similar things together so people functioning normally look like they have superpowers as a result.

    As a result of doing these things I see my hrv increase due to stress relief because I’m not taxing my brain extra hard all the time and my sleep quality increase because there is not anything being carried over into sleep to be processed which also means dreams get an all around boost as well as clearer thinking throughout the day because I’m not taxed constantly. Doing this even slightly seems to show a lot of positive things just even a day later.







  • This should be higher up.

    I think a lot of younger people today struggle to figure out what is important for them to balance and this creates a problem where they just jump from one short term gain to another until they die and if they recognize this pattern without knowing what’s happening they just feel hopeless and don’t want to change it or themselves and then struggle to be a functioning adult.



Today I learned that snot turns yellowy greenish for the same reason that pee turns yellow, dehydration. The snot usually isnt yellow other than when we are sick because usually we don’t have a runny nose while dehydrated except specifically when we are sick.

And also once again, humidifiers save the day because they both tackle the dehydration by putting moisture into your airways and the nature of water in the air helps break up stuff that is stuck anywhere in your airways by lubing it up and making it take its course faster while also freeing up bandwidth for your body to continue shoving more of the sickness out of your body faster which helps you recover sooner.










  • So basically homebrew is a mod for the Wii that basically changes some things about the os so that you can install just about anything you want through the homebrew channel, with it you can play emulators and arcade games and do some semi useful stuff like ftp or media player with visualizer and there are some apps for preventing bricking as well as restoring functionality to some games such as enabling online modes to Mario kart and some other things.

    It is pretty easy to do, it is easier than creating a bootable flash drive for Linux because you dont have to flash anything, you just unzip a file to an SD card and pop it in and away you go. It is pretty fun too because after you go through the initial boot you get a message containing an image of a red envelope containing a cartoon bomb and next thing you know you have a channel which shows you a bubble screensaver (this is what the channel is like before you put any apps on it which is equally as easy to do)

    https://wii.hacks.guide/