Commander Keen was my childhood and then later mIRC scripts were my life. My mind was blown by being able to program something that could interact with real people like mIRC. My love for coding started there.
I always have a tab open with merrysky. I really like the extra detail they show in the graph of wind/temp/precipitation and the break down of the day.
For Seattle area in particular most weather apps will show the entire week as cloudy and rainy, but there is a lot more to it and merrysky is able to surface that.
Replacing even a small amount of your gaming time with consistent exercise goes so far.
Once you realize that you can actually achieve anything you set your mind to just by making a routine you will find yourself wanting to shift the time and effort going into games into real world success.
I bought the MZOO brand off of amazon and like it over the other brands I've tried. Taking a 20 minute nap in the late afternoon helps my late day productivity that it makes up for the 20 minute nap. My original intuition was that with my eyelids closed how much darker can it be to have an eye mask. The answer is: a lot. Put on this mask and close your eyes for a minute or two, then remove the mask while keeping your eyes closed. It is like someone is shining a flashlight on your face.
These are inexpensive but they work well and I find the strap to be comfortable. The main differentiator vs some other brands is there is a big cup around the eyes. While sleeping (or trying to sleep) your eyes still dart around, and it is very distracting to have your eyelashes sweeping against a flat eye mask.
Another brand that is inexpensive and is even darker is from "Albatross Health New England". It completely removes even the small amount of light that leaks in, but it has to be worn tighter to get that seal. The main thing I don't like about it is when adjusted for my particular head size, the adjustment buckle is sitting right behind one of my ears and if I am on that side it is uncomfortable. But for $10 it is worth a try:
* Find new hobbies and things you enjoy, even if it is just being better at video games because you aren't drinking when you play. You can't 'stop' something without replacing it with something else.
* Understand that quitting isn't going fix all your problems, your life might seem worse/more boring afterwards. Accept it and see #1
* The decision to drink or not is the most stressful part. Things like dry Jan and sober Oct really helped me avoid making the decision and especially the long term decision at first. Deciding in the store if you're going to drink or not doesn't work, you have to make that decision one time and rely on the fact that you already decided for that month and it isn't a big deal.
* Exercise. People who quit drinking get healthy, it is such a stereotype but you will love it. Get jacked with your new extra time.
* CBD + todo lists, taking care of the little things in your life will keep your anxiety down and eliminate the need for the forced break from your life that drinking provides.
Around 2007 Google was paying $1 per install/click through to Firefox back when IE was the dominant browser. It seemed like Google threw a ton of money at disrupting the browser market with FF then followed up by launching Chrome.
The article mentions that FF hit %34 in 2010 and acts like that was due to the features, I don't think it was.
For the average browser user we're talking about here talking about bloat and features are irrelevant. FF's market share is just a number bouncing around in the waves between two giant forces, Microsoft which owned the OS for much of this timeline and Google which owns the pages everyone is going to where it is suggesting they install Chrome.
That's a thought provoking way to put it. Part of the problem is however that only internal employees fully understand the destruction that was going on.
Anyone with a critical view of these organizations has seen exactly the extent of the harm. The endless news releases should be an adequate trail to follow.
People, at large, have chosen to ignore all the unbelievable actions so they can continue to stalk others online -cough cough- I mean, keep in touch with grandma.
It's always funny to see how defensive people get about criticism. More that likely this 'fix' for social media will either fail or just end up being another social media platform with the aim of attracting engagement and selling user data / screen time for ad space.
