dharmik
@dharmik@linuxusers.in
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student. custodian of useless trivia.
hacker. python. c. unix. vim.
student. custodian of useless trivia.
hacker. python. c. unix. vim.
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dharmik
@dharmik@linuxusers.in
Location: 23.014509,72.591759
76 following 22 followers
- mail at dharmiik [at] proton [dot] me
- i occasionally post in long-form at: https://dhrm1k.github.io
Can someone please, please teach me how to actually get up when my alarm goes off in the morning? Even when I go to bed on time, I end up sleeping in hours after when I should.
Hard to convince myself to go to bed on time when I know I'll sleep in either way. A vicious cycle.
@amin Same…I set my alarm for 8am and still wake up with just enough time to throw clothes on with haste and make it to my 9:30am class with maybe 15 seconds to spare. Happens if I go to bed at 11pm or 3am…
I mean, I hear my alarm, get out of bed, and snooze it. Then when it goes off again, rinse and repeat until I know I have to get up.
@amin I don’t even get out of bed…moving my phone would actually probably help a lot. Let me give that a shot tonight when class tomorrow doesn’t have mandatory attendance just in case lol
@amin
That is so hard. Over time, I’ve scratched and clawed my way through the Machine to where I almost never need an alarm because my work starts long after I wake up naturally.
@amin I'm not sure about your schedule but turns out I wake up best when it's at the same time each morning. Didn't figure that out until I wasn't taking classes any more and had a more fixed schedule.
It's the same time every morning, but that time is after 11:00. I'd rather be getting up earlier and have some early morning writing, some tea, etc.
I enjoy my days far more when I actually get up and work in the mornings. I just can't get myself to do that except when jetlagged.
@amin Yeah I've always been a night owl too.
@amin often when I'm struggling to wake up I'll just curl and uncurl my toes until I'm a little more aware, any other flexing/stretching or straight up exercise will also wake ya up, but not everyone wants a kettlebell next to the bed.
It's more about when you get up than when you get to sleep though, you gotta put the phone outta reach, force yourself outta bed to shut it up.
Oh, the phone is well across the room. I'm getting out of bed, switching it off, yawning, then deciding to get back in bed and go to sleep again. ;)
@amin Can't help with that, ya gotta want it! Stop stealing happiness from yourself!
@amin There was an app, I forget the name, that wouldn't allow you to turn off or snooze the alarm unless you did a simple math problem, ensuring you're not just dozing off, because this task requires prefrontal cortex activation.
You can also train your circadian rhythm to reliably wake you up at a specific time without a need for the alarm. That also means having an invariable sleep cycle, regardless of your schedule, i.e. not sleeping differently on weekends.
I myself have never had this problem. I hear my alarm go off, I turn it off and get out of bed.
The problem with trying to build an invariable sleep schedule is falling asleep at night; it never works the way I want it to. :P
@amin Hey, I'm a certified night owl, I feel you. I prefer the quiet hours over anything else. There's evidence to suggest there's a genetic component to this. Blame the world for catering to morning people.
The thing is I'm not actually a night owl, best I can tell. I feel much better, emotionally and all, if I'm active early in the day. But my body won't let me be.
I don't have any problems getting up on time for classes. What I'm wanting is to be able to have a pre-class morning routine.
@amin @roguefoam Why? Routines suck. I can barely hold onto my training routine, and I only do it because I don't want to die at 40.
Because when I have a routine, I'm happier, the evidence suggests.
@amin @roguefoam I'm quite the opposite. Routines mentally tax me, sap my enjoyment. I like unpredictability. I feel like I want to do something different every day, but alas, I can only dream.
@dusnm @amin See I've always felt that what I needed to do was just build up a more consistent sleep schedule, but it's the going to bed part that I can't keep consistent. I could regularly wake up at 8am if I got my body to do it, but I couldn't say "go to bed around midnight every night." I procrastinate too much and work better at night lol
It's not procrastination that's the problem with my bedtime (okay, well, it is, but not mostly). It's that when I lie in bed, I don't actually fall asleep, sometimes for hours.
@amin @roguefoam @dusnm just keep on doing it, and always force yourself up at the first time you're aware of the alarm, it's what works for me at least, I do use relaxation routines learned from meditation when going to bed though so usually I put on a podcast and let my mind linger on it, if it wanders or worries I gently Bring it back to where I want it, I used to lie for hours, now it's seldom more than 10 min.
Well, see, I do get out of bed when I hear the alarm, but it's to shut the alarm off and get back in. :P
@amin @roguefoam @dusnm I never allow myself going back in, and I work on patterns, so when I've done something 3 times it's a pattern and I'll keep on doing it, sadly it doesn't only do that with one thing for 2 weeks now it was waffles, I bought waffles at the store too often, so now I always need waffles when I go to the store, so it's a pattern that I'm now trying to fight myself out of again :p
@rl_dane
@sotolf @roguefoam @dusnm @rl_dane
Nighttime me is resolved never to let myself go back in. Morning Amin is not so principled.
@sotolf @roguefoam @dusnm @rl_dane
It's time to sleep again, though, so maybe I'll do better tomorrow morning.
@amin I had a friend in college that would always sleep through their alarm. They finally got an alarm clock for the deaf and that woke them up reliably
It shakes the bed and used motion to wake you instead of noise
Haha, awesome.
In my case my alarm gets me out of bed, but only long enough to snooze the alarm and get back in bed.
@amin That was my friend’s problem as well. He at least found the shaking from that type of alarm woke him up enough to keep him from snoozing
I hope you’re able to find something that works for you! I know others move the alarm further away or set a math problem to unlock the snooze to force themselves to wake up
@dharmik device motion event has rotation as well?
@dharmik hi dharmik, this looks good! consider putting the code on codeberg
@dharmik
Do you have installed any clipboard manager? xclip or something like it
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our css wiz @sarthak@linuxusers.in frustrated enough to use chatgpt and commiting changes directly to the production as we speak.
one of the most fun moments was realizing that on macos, the delete key doesn’t actually send a delete key event in javascript but instead acts as backspace (been a windows guy most of the childhood and later fan of linux), which broke canvas element deletion. ironically, we used a mac for previews because of its good display, only to find out the canvas wasn’t working properly on it.
✨ Jammy Jellyfish ✨ . Where (almost) every day is like Valentine's Day. 
https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Jammy-Jellyfish-909329698 #art #mastoart #love #fediart
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Jammy Jellyfish - inspired by Ubuntu release 22.04 LTS name. Two jellyfish are jamming. The perfect harp and drums (coral-shaped) duett. Family and friends join in the background and are well entertained. They are surrounded by intricate and delicious raspberries & jam. They have each other and know how jammy they are. <3
Jammy Jellyfish Wallpaper Version (1920x1080 px) 🙂 💚.
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https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Jammy-Jellyfish-Wallpaper-1920x1080px-914254178 - Jammy Jellyfish - inspired by Ubuntu release name 22.04 LTS. Two jellyfish are jamming. The perfect harp and drums (coral-shaped) duett. Family and friends join in the background and are well entertained. They are surrounded by intricate and delicious raspberries & jam. They have each other and know how jammy they are. <3
https://checkmyworking.com/posts/2025/02/thinkserver-my-web-based-coding-environment/
and i remember how great replit once was. you could just code, come up with a prototype, and share a link with anyone to try it. it was the real hacker era for people my age. there are a lot of people i follow from the peak replit days, and damn, it was a time. now they're on the ai hype train, making a service to prototype from natural language.
CatOS is an open-source,Arch-based,out-of-the-box Linux distribution designed to provide an excellent operating system user experience.CatOS is to arch what Pop!_OS is to debian/ubuntu.
Why Blog If Nobody Reads It?
Link: https://andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992159
Question: do I update my #Fediverse stock photo with this screenshot (it has the shortcut to #Friendica too)?
Disclaimer: Friendica & #Lemmy do not have official apps, so these are iOS shortcuts to URLs (of instances).
A reminder that this stock photo is for articles about the Fediverse, so it’s the most vanilla, KISS (Keep It Simple) version imaginable for people not familiar with the Fediverse. My *real* Fediverse folder has Ivory, Mona, Phanpy, Surf and Voyager.
Let me know your thoughts!
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A screenshot of a smartphone screen (iOS) that shows a folder called Fediverse with the following icons: Friendica, Lemmy, Loops, Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed
@_elena I completely understand your dilemma, but it is a moving target, so your choice is correct and valid as of today. A big part of the nature of the Fediverse as I understand it is its continuous evolution. Therefore a tiny onscreen disclaimer reading „*as of 02/2025“ might be an option. Or place a marker in the video editor’s timeline to quickly find and adjust the selection when you feel it‘s time for an updated render.
@_elena Great idea! I hope it encourages people to explore other corners of the Fediverse.
@dharmik@linuxusers.in That's a third-party app, they where saying about no official app not that there are no apps for Lemmy.
@_elena I wonder how to better display that these are not just new platforms and apps as we have known before. But that they all can talk to each other. That the Fediverse is a protocol and not an app. But hard to do that in a screenshot. Even to explain is difficult.
@_elena For what it's worth, #Wikimedia Commons items support versioning. This means you go to what you've already shared there, and you can upload a *new version* of the photo:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fediverse_smartphone_apps_(photo_by_Elena_Rossini).jpg
This way, you don't have to choose between two (or more) versions because they will all appear under the same item there!
@_elena Is there official Lemmy app on Android? Can't seem to find one...
Heads-up: I updated my #Fediverse stock photo, adding #Friendica (since there have been so many discussions about it as an alternative to Facebook). Here we go: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Fediverse_smartphone_apps_%28photo_by_Elena_Rossini%29.jpg
A routine reminder that this is to illustrate articles about the Fediverse and it shows popular software as alternatives to Big Tech platforms.
special thanks to:
@matt who touched up my screenshot to improve the appearance of Friendica & Lemmy
@nacly who told me that Wikimedia Commons supports versioning
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a stock photo for the Fediverse showing a hand that holds a smartphone, where you can see a folder and icons for Friendica, Lemmy, Loops, Mastodon, PeerTube & Pixelfed
@_elena @matt Cool! And here's the link to the #Wikimedia Commons page showing the metadata and version history of this #Fediverse apps stock photo:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fediverse_smartphone_apps_(photo_by_Elena_Rossini).jpg
THE 36 CHAMBERS OF SHAOLIN
A colorful Game of Life
Link: https://colorlife.quick.jaredforsyth.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42961868
A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1005332/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884099
and there are people who are making it. i just got to know about the existence of are.na and river app.
i found the original maxims of style they maintained for the unix system.
https://archive.org/details/bstj57-6-1899/page/n3/mode/2up
it's on page 4.
there's this ios app called feeeed by the great @nate@mstdn.social, and it has to be one of the most beautiful apps ever made. the idea of rss readers is implemented perfectly, with great thought and care.
