Yeah, that sounds like you’re worried about paradoxes. You might want to check out the Many-Worlds Interpretation to fix that. In the MWI, every decision and event branches into its own timeline. Instead of running into your past self, you would be visiting an alternate you.

If you don’t remember being visited by a time traveler, then your timeline didn’t have that event. That’s ok though, because there are infinitely many timelines. However, you can’t visit all of them. You’ll only have access to the ones where a future you visited an alternate past you. Instead of changing your own past, you’re creating a new timeline where an alternate you got visited by a time traveler.

Who needs a fence when you have land mines.

See also: Finland and the Ottawa Convention

Here’s a random idea: parody ASMR videos.
Focus exclusively on very loud sounds like a wood chipper, angle grinder, chainsaw, jackhammer, shooting range, etc.

Many apps just abuse notifications. When I install a new app, I will allow it to send notifications. As soon as I see something I consider useless, that permission gets permanently revoked. It’s the only way to make notifications meaningful. Otherwise, it will become an endless barrage of junk, just like email. If you’re not very strict with these things, they become completely useless.

Yeah. So much for that automatic channel. Sounds better than it actually is

Scanning WiFi signal strength and channel.
Can’t do this on iPhone, because Apple. You need an Android phone for doing something as “technical” as this. I guess “pro” here refers to people who never touch their WiFi settings.

Who needs this?
Anyone who thinks their WiFi sucks and is willing to put a little bit of effort into picking a better channel.

1. I spent most of the day troubleshooting computer issues. Installed Ubuntu, Nvidia drivers, CUDA stuff, long list of obvious basic dependencies etc. Almost managed to follow the instructions for installing a local LLM. Turns out, this is not a two hour project. Yes, I know Nvidia is my problem. This is a self inflicted wound and I’m intentionally playing this game in the hard mode.
2. Got a haircut. Fortunately my favorite barber shop is run by Iraqi Kurds, so they don’t give a rats ass about Christmas schedules. 👍
3. I also wanted to have the wrist band of my watch adjusted, but all the relevant shops were closed today. 🙁
   Overall, not a bad way to spend my time.

Cooking, baking and other kitchen skills are valuable. Knowing how to prepare your own food allows you to buy bulk ingredients like potatoes and carrots, turning them into delicious meals. However, pre-packaged items often cost more. Instead, choose ingredients you can select individually, weigh them, and then purchase the whole bag.

Food like this is cheaper, comes with a hobby and tastes great.

Girls and grandmas knit wool socks whereas real men forge knives… or at least that’s the stereotype. Same thing is happening with computers too. Building a PC is seen as a guy hobby while riding horses is seen as hobby for school girls.

Why though? That sort of division is just archaic. People should be allowed to have whatever hobbies they find interesting. Who cares how that activity was viewed a 100 years ago. You don’t need to worry about obsolete perceptions in the 2020s.

Gardening, hiking, camping and hunting (if you believe the whole society is about to collapse)
Sewing and mending clothes (if you believe you won’t be able to buy new clothes very often)

If your time is worthless to you and everyone else, that profit margin can be very tempting. Sounds like a symptom of a serious problem to me though.

Confidently incorrect? Sounds strangely familiar. So that’s where the LLMs learned it from. Reddit training data doing its thing apparently.

They call it theft and hijacking, I call it old fashioned piracy.

Rule 1. Never read the article.
Rule 2. React with emotion.
Rule 3. You’re always right.
Rule 4. Anyone who disagrees with you, is always wrong.

At least that’s pretty much how Reddit works. I guess many people imported the rules when they emigrated.

Oh and almost forgot, my personal answer: It depends. I try to read the post or article before commenting, but I’ve deviated from my own standards a few times.

Exactly!
With that clever coupling trick you made sure that if one thing happens, another thing happens as well. I don’t have that sort of connection to my lunch box, and I’ve paid for it many times. Probably should develop some sort of routine for that as well. So far, I just hope that I remember to do everything in the morning.

As long as the sequence of actions isn’t altered, it works pretty well. When something unexpected happens and I have to deviate from my routine, that’s when everything goes off the rails.

I try to avoid breaking the routine. Today, my morning was different from normal, and as a result, I forgot to take my lunch with me. Good job!

As long as I put my phone and keys in the same place every day, I will always find them easily. As soon as I break that routine, they just disappear mysteriously.

Use the tools you were provided for the purposes you provide.

Excel: Make your own calculations. You know, stuff like how long would it take to walk from Shire to Mordor? How rainy was last year compared to the ones before? Learn VBA and get creative with the macros. Generate art with conditional formatting. Make a macro that actively interferes with everything you write and slowly drives you mad. Ask Matt Parker for ideas on what kinds of fun things you can do with spreadsheets.

Word: Write your own fan fiction. Alternatively, you can paste an entire ebook in word and start reading. Abuse the formatting tools to produce modern art.

Power point: Abuse transitions and animations. See if you can recreate old school flash animations.

PowerShell: The sky is the limit. Get a web browser that runs in the terminal, and chill out on Lemmy.

When an AI company goes bankrupt, their hardware will be sold to anyone interested in it. My guess is, MS and Amazon will be buying a bunch of vacant datacenters within the next 10 years.

That’s enterprise hardware, so it’s not really compatible with your consumer grade gaming PC. If you’re interested in self hosting your own cloud photos and local LLMs, you might want to look into those auctions.

You wouldn’t download an oil tanker… oh.

That looks a lot like a video card issue. If it isn’t, my next guess would be the power supply. Some of the weirdest things I have encountered were cause by a semi-functional power supply. When nothing makes any sense, borrow a power supply from somewhere just to rule out some of the really obscure cases.