[–] 5 points 2 months ago

I had two absolutely horrible breakups. Both felt like they were never ending and that the pain would be forever. It did indeed take me a while to get over heartbreak but there eventually was light at the end of the tunnel

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    Usually at a coffee shop. But I will also read at my home desk, at my office desk, in the bathtub haha, and sometimes outside on my porch.

    The ritual thing is tricky for me because I'm kind of forced to make it routine. But I will say that you may want to think about when is your most alert focused time of the day. I try and force myself to start work as close to 930 as possible and have learned that I max out at deep focusing for reading and writing after like 2 - 3 hrs.

    If I'm really not feeling it sometimes I'll just put a timer on and tell myself I'll just read even for five minutes! Five min is Better than no reading !

    My biggest dilemma is that I have chronic pain issues in my neck and can't figure out how to hold the book properly to not exacerbate my neck pain! Haven't figured that one out.t hough

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    My answer is different depending on if it's fiction or non.

    Also context I'm in academia which means I read constantly for work. This sadly means though that I don't read much fiction or for fun. I do try and mediate that by reading poetry since they're short !

    But when I do read for fun I tend to read before going to bed so I'm laying down in bed.

    For non fiction I will read lots of places. And I pretty much can't digest the information unless I'm able to highlight and annotate what I'm reading. I try to read non fiction that is relevant to my research not before bed so as to retain the information a bit better.

    Reading while taking a bath is nice !

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    For real tho Annie McClanahan perhaps? I would have said Joshua Clover although sadly he just passed within the past year or so.

    It's hard to sometimes decipher what scholar is or is not working with Marxism since it's been so influential to so many academic fields

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    I used to have a reoccurring dream when I was a teen where I would be able to fly in the air if I had a kickboard with me. It led to me even being able to lucid dream. It was awesome. Unfortunately I haven't lucid dreamt since that reoccurring dream ended

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    Ai does not make me feel joy or excitement about the future. Especially regarding the things I love (education, literature, art, music, silly nerdy computer hobby stuff, etc). Does anyone have any thoughts that may somewhat help me feel less dread? Do you think that the desire for human driven creativity, the desire to hold a physical book in your hand, or a physical paint brush, or to hang with your friends outside without cellphones will persist despite all the rubbish?

    Or more generally, what gives you hope?

     

    Mine:

    1. Learn a second language and keep up with the language your parents speak. You will regret being a brat about not wanting to speak this language especially as your family members pass.
    2. The only opinions about you that really matter are from the people you respect and who respect you back
    3. Being a kind humble person, who leads their political convictions with curiosity and not self righteousness is important. As that one person said: "I am no hero and neither are you."
    4. Don't throw out your old media (mix cds, tapes, records, photos, zinee, etc) because you think they're embarrassing. They either will not be embarrassing later or they will become expensive and you can tell them for mad bucks.
     

    Is this the right place to ask for help? Or is there another place? Anyways, feel free to delete this post if i'm in the wrong spot.

    I use Pop OS on an Asus. Something has happened where i either have a 10 min plus boot time, or it doesn't boot at all. I have reinstalled Pop OS twice (and used recovery mode) and even took it into a computer shop to see if there was something wrong with my hardware (there isn't). When I first do a new install it will restart fine, but then it'll be the next day when it will either take over 8 minutes to load, or it will be stuck on boot.

    Right now it is stuck on boot. I can get into a live usb stick just fine. I have done systemanalyze blame, and it didn't give me any helpful information. I have the same issue even if I try to press space bar and boot into an old kernel.

    I should note that my computer has encryption enabled.

    Any help would be awesome.

    All hail the other linux noobs out there!

     

    Hello all- I am seeking help trying to figure out why my internal microphone isn't being detected. I have followed a lot of troubleshooting audio guides such as this one and none of it has worked.

    I'm on Pop_OS, with wayland, on an Asus laptop,

    Here is more info if anyone could by chance help me

    arecord -l

    **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
    card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC294 Analog [ALC294 Analog]
      Subdevices: 1/1
      Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
    
    

    systemctl --user status pipewire

    ● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
         Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
         Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-07-03 15:19:48 EDT; 24h ago
    TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
       Main PID: 2192 (pipewire)
          Tasks: 3 (limit: 18486)
         Memory: 16.4M
            CPU: 15.088s
         CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
                 └─2192 /usr/bin/pipewire
    
    Jul 03 15:19:48 pop-os systemd[2182]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.
    Jul 03 15:19:48 pop-os pipewire[2192]: mod.jackdbus-detect: Failed to receive jackdbus reply:>
    lines 1-13/13 (END)
    

    some more info: https://pastebin.com/embed_js/6vR5ZEXw

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    I am new to linux so please don't make fun of me too much if what i'm sharing doesn't make any sense!!

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