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#25388 Name: Anonymous   3h
>>25378
i had a mi band of some prior gen (4?) for a time, for sleep tracking and steps to an extent, and alarms. didn't personally really need apps on the go, hence the pick of that over something more sophisticated.

grew weary of all the reasons of using it over time. not really caring to quantify myself anymore, and can have a more "disruptive" alarm these days living alone and yearned for a calmer wakeup experience than something buzzing on my wrist, so i use a sunrise alarm clock these days, and wear a regular watch for timekeeping.

but if you do care for tracking your steps or sleep, or having some apps on the go, then sure why not
#25389 Name: Anonymous   3h
additionally: a friend of mine has a vape that has a few apps on it and also tracks the puffs over days/weeks, and even despite the health ramifications of all that, something about this is really funny to me?
#25390 Name: Anonymous   4h
>>25377
makes me think about how a friend linked me an article yesterday about someone's art project of sorts where they took pictures of every single thing they owned (10000+ items)
and reading that inspired me somehow to go through my sewing box and travel sewing kit both, sized down quite significantly on those. something really satisfying about that too

admitted to myself i really don't care about fully matching thread to fabric and don't need as many needles as i had, so my current base sewing box (9*6.5*2.5cm) is way smaller than the one i had prior (19*11*6cm)
#25391 Name: anon   6h
>>25380
the last week i keep having dreams of the same theme: vacation. not necessarily a relaxing vacation, but moreso the theme of traveling. and recurring themes of arguments and conflict. I wonder if it means anything
#25392 Name: anon   6h
does anyone have any cold remedies? i feel a cold kicking in and i've got so many important events coming up soon (can't reschedule/skip anything)
#25393 Name: Anonymous   8h
>>25392
Chicken soup
#25394 Name: Anonymous   9h
>>25392
It won't actually heal the cold or anything, but if you've got a sore throat/cough nin jiom pei pa koa is goated. I also always crave chicken congee with ginger when I'm sick...

not sure why all my solutions here are Chinese, they just do it best I guess

more generally all I've got is lots of sleep, Dayquil, lots of immune support tea and electrolytes, hot showers/hot baths/hot towel on the face and facial massages for sinus pressure, and gargling salt water. If you think you caught your symptoms early, I'd say rush and start taking medicine/doing every "healing" measure you can think of, that usually helps stave off the later severity for me
:( colds are the worst
#25395 Name: Anonymous   10h
>>25392
Ginger root tea, with a drop of lemon and honey.
#25396 Name: Anonymous   11h
>>25392
paracetamol and sleep as much as possible, no real other way.
#25397 Name: cheeseman   11h
mmmm yummy i love it mmmm
#25398 Name: Anonymous   12h
>>25392
+1 on the sleep, +1 on the hydration

one time drifting in and out of impending-illness early sleep before a workday, the first bit of sleep felt like it'd been 3 hours while i'd only actually slept 1 hour. crazy how it can work sometimes (did stave off the fever, i guess successful enough)
#25399 Name: Anonymous   12h
>>25378
Shit no. Get a mechanical watch. Can be serviced and preserved for your whole life and then some.

Don't even have to spend $300 for a good one. Go Seiko.
#25400 Name: Leaf   14h
>>25380
>>25391
If you post more details about your dreams I will try to help you analyse them.
Some open questions you could think about:
What characters are you in conflict with in the dream, what do they mean to you?
Does the arguments solve or loop?
What do you see and experience meanwhile this happens?
What age are you in the dream world?
What is the "house" in the dream?(Maybe in your case a train or something rather than a building?)

I recommend writing down dreams, when you have a lot of them you can learn your own mental and unconscious symbols and unwrap the metaphors and projections.
The arc that emerges is valuable.
There is always meaning in dreams. :)
#25401 Name: Anonymous   17h
>>25378
just get a normal casio or similar , the simpler the watch the less you have to think about it , and the less you think about something the better your day to day is.
#25402 Name: Anonymous   17h
happy to see so much activity :)
#25403 Name: Anonymous   17h
happy to see so much activity
#25404 Name: Anonymous   19h
>>25399
Grand Seiko or bust.
#25405 Name: anon   20h
>>25400
I've been writing them down the last week, it's always fairly different but some themes stay the same. A frequent dream argument is with my ex best friend, years worth of grudges looping, that's been a day + night issue for ages now, even though i've cut contact with her irl it still continues plaguing my mind. I'll never be able to "win" those arguments.

I dreamt about conflict with my tattoo artist, i made them a woolen hat by mistake when they are vegan, and this caused them to be uncharacteristically awful to me (they are the sweetest person ever irl). i don't think it was resolved in the dream, this is a real life worry so it'll be resolved in the real world soon.

things like my age or what i see are a bit unknown to me, i'm very tunnel visioned both irl and in dreams, i can basically only know/see what's directly in front of me, like the person i'm arguing with and a vague idea of my surroundings.

In one of my Vacation dreams I kept seeing spiders throughout the entire thing, each spider getting progressively bigger.
In these dreams we often travel via airplane, but the thing is.....in almost all of them, i sleep through the entire vacation, I 'woke up' to my dream mom telling me it was time to pack up and leave the resort. She seemed mad at me and made me go re-park the car (I don't drive) but i couldn't find it at all, the resort was like a labrynth, a beautiful white marble palace i could never find my way through.

There's also been police in my dreams lately, the one I had last night involved a shootout with police, and then they forced us all to sit on a staircase while they modified our computer systems (< this one was actually abt this bus stop, all of us together but it was a real place to hang out). Another dream had me hiding a body and biking through an endless fog to escape detection from police.

The conflict ones represent my real worries and grudges I think. I don't know what the spiders or police mean, or why i'm always on vacation, though at the end of vacation i always return to my retail job instead of going home.
#25406 Name: Anonymous   21h
Worst part of starting up with a new dealer is all the uncertainty before. Just reply dammit. I know you're online
#25407 Name: Anonymous   21h
>>25406
I feel like he'd sit up and take notice if I sent the money, but I don't feel like doing that when I'm still unsure if this is a scam.
#25408 Name: Anonymous   23h
>>25407
Still has yet to reply to anything I've sent. Brutal.
#25409 Name: Anonymous   1d
>>25408
Just buy from a dispensary or grow your own. If you can't do either of those, do you really need the drug?
#25410 Name: Anonymous   1d
AI psychosis is strange, yet it's only the tip of the iceberg with regards to the new overdependence on LLMs. Like the guy who fed it some numerological bull, got some numerological bull back, and thought he'd redefined math. People seriously believe the darndest things.

What's funny is I think what made me sceptical and saved me from such overdependence is just the fact that I was a major contrarian chud when AI exploded.

I used it quite regularly but grew frustrated when it refused to glaze Hitler or whatever I wanted it to do, no matter how I nudged. I wasn't comparing my experience to anyone at the time, but I think the fact that I had to try so hard to get that typical sort of validation which leads people to peak AI dependency is what made me aware of the redundant and masturbatory nature of the whole the whole enterprise.

It was at this point that I did research and learned that it (at least the one I was using) was basically a glorified word factory trained on loads of other people's writing and constrained by center-leftish Californian ideology--that is, it was built up and then limited by its makers, meaning it was just an inert device with a particular bias--and soon I was too disillusioned to take what it said as factual.

These days I only deign to ask it useless trivia or very subjective questions that have no real bearing on my life.