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I struggle with deep work. I think many of us do. There are so many buzz-buzz happening. Today, I tried to fight back, and work went well! I'm going to try and cultivate this "focus" more.
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Jan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)I just learned about a pre-installed tool on Windows 10 called âQuick Assistâ (or âRemotehilfeâ in German). It has basically the same features most people use from tools like TeamViewer or AnyDesk. It lets you view or control a remote computer to help your family with computer problems for e...
So.. like Gnome (or KDE) are doing it for years? Awesome đ
crystal (chicky.blog)All the best. Been there, done that. It’s a strange feeling when everything you own is on a van and you’re finally ready to move đȘ
On ANC and nausea
Thanks to @mdiluz@twitter.com I stumbled over https://web.archive.org/web/20210222010045/https://gramfree.best/features/why-i-will-never-own-a-pair-of-noise-cancelling-headphones today.
The author has a really interesting point of view about noise cancelling headphones (“ANC”) due to experiencing nausea and I came to realise how lucky I am that I do not experience this at all. Alas I am also not moving much, since I work on a desk all day long, and frankly wouldn’t be able to do my job without headphones any more.
I got my first ANC headphones due to a construction site next to our office that went on for years. It was horror. And they really helped again when I started bunking in my home office and especially in the wintertime when we all stayed inside most of the day getting into each others fur (FCK CVID).
The NHS widely encourages the use of ANC headphones, […], but because noise annoyance is a real health issue.
This basically sums it up for me. I get anxious from noise. My kids can tell, because kids tend to be, well, noisy little⊠ah well, parents know the drill. Anyway, one of my biggest motivations for driving for example an electric car is also way less noise. Gods know I hate car noisiness and especially motor bikes. Living in a “biker friendly” landscape turned this into a slow hot burning hate for this brainless noise pollution some people do “for fun”.
Back to nausea. I sometimes wear my headphones during a workout. Yuk, I know. Anyway, even here I don’t experience nausea or balance issues but then I don’t to acrobatics (I don’t count whacking a pell as dancing). Still I can totally get behind the point that the ANC feature is a bad idea to use while moving and using headphones in road traffic is a recipe for disaster. This may sound (haha) like a contradiction to you due to me driving an electric car? It’s not. An EV is less noisy, not silent, and even has to emit artificial sound (yuk again) when it goes too slow to be noticed.
Is “ANC” perhaps the reason I get more and more anxiety from noise? Maybe. Maybe I’m also just getting old and more and more irritated by our fast moving noisy world without a way to escape. Experience complete silence and solitude may just be my way of coping with all this.
Plot twist: I mostly enjoy Rock and Metal on my headphones đ€
Updated link on 30. Oct 2021 link due to link rot
Jan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)My girlfriend gave me the idea the other day, when I complained that sometimes I donât know what to blog about, that I could âreactâ to my old posts. Kind of like how web video producers react to videos. And I think thatâs not a bad idea. Itâs a good way to see how oneâs own views have c...
I can tell đ€
The WordPress app for Android prompted me to add a story! This is a new and experimental feature. Sadly, it isnât very good. Hereâs how it works. A pop up in the Android app. Thereâs a brief description and some aspirational screenshots. In product screenshot. You've got early access to Story ...
This feels so very wrong. Like a failed gamification attempt. It would sure drive me away o0
Marty McGuire (martymcgui.re)đ Bookmarked https://adactio.com/articles/17733
This is great. Thanks for pointing out, Marty!
Mike Kuketz :mastodon: (social.tchncs.de)KeePassXC: Auto-Type und Browser-Add-on im Alltag nutzen â Passwörter Teil1 https://www.kuketz-blog.de/keepassxc-auto-type-und-browser-add-on-im-alltag-nutzen-passwoerter-teil1/
@kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de one of the best features of #KeePassXC usually overlooked is it’s integrated ssh-agent making key management easy and secure.
See https://fedoramagazine.org/managing-credentials-with-keepassxc/ for example.
Jan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)Google is introducing new policies to cause data in unused products to be deleted after extended periods of inactivity. For example, anyone who has uploaded photos to Google Photos but does not use Google Photos for two years will have their photos automatically deleted. This is yet another reminder...
Google Photos? Inactivity? Haha. I lost count of how many times I disabled this to find it enabled after some months again for unknown reasons.
Hard to kill.
For the next week, Iâll be giving the free trial of Inkl a go. Itâs a news aggregator; the idea is they pay news outlets for their articles, and you pay Inkl for the clean ad-free interface and the warm fuzzies of helping to keep journalism limping along.
Inkl is an app, no? There is no feed (with a token) I could subscribe to if I understood this correctly.
And it was almost interesting.