Eating fish (vitamin D) regularly and making more of an effort to get outside during daylight hours seems to work for me. Vitamins/supplements are okay but aren't a replacement for real nutritional sources.

Before that I used to eat less fish and mostly managed to get outside after daylight hours - definitely had the same sort of low mood / being sluggish and unmotivated as you describe.

Yup agreed

I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn’t watch it because I just couldn’t think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.

Funny enough Our Robocop Remake takes that idea and turns it around, so many scenes when characters are discussing Clarence Boddicker they instead show pictures of Kurtwood Smith in That 70's Show, haha. Great fan made parody movie, definitely worth a watch though it's the opposite of terrifying so a bit off-topic here.

Same, for a long time as a kid I'd get freaked out around large flocks of birds and tried to avoid them as much as possible.

They may be expecting you to be there regularly to drive them around / take care of them when the time comes. At some point they'll be too old to easily drive around on their own. Hopefully they'll have enough money to pay hired help for that stuff.

I am currently in college, so I would also need to look into colleges to transfer into.

If you meant NYC area: You're over-thinking everything else, just focus on which school you want to transfer into and then figure out what their dorm / student housing situation is. If you're doing school your first 1-2 years will be much, much easier living with other college roommates. Once you get to know people you can team up and look for apartments together. Yes that means you'll be in roommate / shared apartment situations for the foreseeable future, that's just how it is for college students in the NYC area.

Don't go anywhere near the NYC area if you're a college student and think you'll find an apartment for just yourself, the rent would be insane unless you're a trust fund kid and/or have other wealth to spend.

Aim for upstate NY if you specifically need cheaper housing. Not near NYC / not Long Island / probably north of Albany. Lots of colleges in NY upstate but new students usually live in dorms up there.

Yeah I was wondering that too. Their source code page (https://gitea.com/akouzoukos/apotris) does list instructions on building for Android yet they do not publish an Android build there or on F-Droid. Maybe it's still a work-in-progress, unclear if their source will actually compile a playable Android game but someone could give it a shot & let us know how it goes :D

I also wonder if the controls would work right on an Android device without keyboard/mouse/controller.

In the meantime Block Drop is a decent open source Tetris clone on Android, also on F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.blockdrop.game/).. this one is more old school simple Tetris action, Apotris looks like it's aiming for newer style Tetris.

Yeah I glanced at it but those controls don't look great, would be better to run the ROM in a proper emulator with a controller IMO.

First Castlevania is a classic, though you did just remind me that Simon's Quest is a classic in its own right. That day/night cycle they implemented in the game was great, might be the first side scroller I played that did time passing like that.

It's still around, there might even be an active scene near you that you could join in with if you're inclined. Last few shows I've seen in the northeast U.S. were for Doom Scroll, Hans Gruber and the Die Hards, Playboy Manbaby, Sister Wife Sex Strike, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, and probably some others I'm not thinking of right this second. They all have songs about the current state of things and how expensive shit is.

Lots of bands in the UK too, offhand Lambrini Girls and Bob Vylan are pretty great. Hell if you want an example of the current state of things Bob Vylan actually had their travel Visas revoked in the U.S. so they can no longer play shows in the U.S.

The 'Shroom Burger at Shake Shack is still the best non-meat burger I've had by far.

Linux would make more sense but if you're dead-set on Windows then I guess you could try Win 11 Pro (or Enterprise) with whichever debloat tool you prefer. I've had good experience with Win11Debloat (https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat).

Don't expect too much with 8GB RAM but at least you can start out removing the AI stuff, Windows Store apps, etc. to trim down the bloat. Be prepared to have to re-run debloat scripts and/or re-install Windows, Microsoft likes to add new types of bloat post-install.

And keep an eye on any and all apps and services that are configuring themselves to auto-start on Windows boot, you don't need any optional stuff to auto-start and take up memory in the background if you're constrained to 8GB RAM.

That's weird, I wonder what Feishin is doing that the Android apps using the same subsonic/opensubsonic API aren't doing. I don't really need another Linux music app but may give it a test just to see search working at least.

Either way it's a step in the right direction, a lot of these alternative Android apps are way way nicer than the vanilla Bandcamp app. Like you say more people would stream from their Bandcamp accounts if they have a slick app they can use.