Always did in apartments. Closing the bedroom door gives me another layer between the neighbors and street traffic. I added rubber door sweeps and seals to further dampen the noise. In a detached home, I’d leave the door open during the day but close it when I sleep for added fire safety.

I used to have a downstairs neighbor who stomped loudly and my pleas didn’t work. So I got a subwoofer and played some low-frequency white noise when I needed to drown it out. After reading your comments, I’d highly recommend this if you can’t move out yet.

They seriously need to build more apartments and condos with concrete instead of thin wood in the US. I miss my old apartment when I was in Germany. Nice sturdy concrete walls so my neighbor could blast music all day without bothering me at all.

“why dont you just google it smh”

I could, probably with green more than red

Yes, I wouldn’t lump yellow in with either red or green

no

What items did you like to eat? You could probably start with bringing the ones that require less time to prepare.

I’ll take half a day on the weekend to meal prep for the week, after which I just heat up refrigerated meals. Changes every week, but usually lunch will be some form of chicken with brown rice as the base, whatever vegetables are in season or at least easy to cook, maybe beans or an egg, a piece of fruit, and a couple snacks (cookie, yogurt, slice of pie, etc.)

Wouldn’t advise leaving things unlocked overnight in general, but it’ll depend where in the US. Here out in the exurbs I have neighbors who haven’t locked their houses or cars in years, but I just personally wouldn’t fall asleep without locking my doors. Maybe it’s the true crime podcasts getting to me.

Some flavor of Android

• GrapheneOS on my main phone
• DivestOS on my old secondary phone
• LeOS on my tablet. It has all the pings to Google servers cut out and since it’s a GSI, it’s perfect since my tablet doesn’t have LineageOS support.

One box. I might be unlucky and lose out on $1000 in that other box, but I wouldn’t be too bothered. On the other hand, if I were to grab both and get $1000, the thought of what if I took just one box and got a million dollars would gnaw at me for the rest of my life.

The decision changes dramatically if the box with less money were closer to a million though.

Try out the restore kit first.

I replaced the entire unit on my vehicle (GM) because the back reflective coating was flaking and the aftermarket glass lens was tempting. Blinded a few innocent drivers the before I realized how far off the beam was. It’s alright with a bit of adjustment, but the beam pattern is just never the same as stock.

About a 5. Thankful for what I have, only got the bare minimum done this weekend, appalled by the state of the world.

Don’t want to cook tonight. Clotted cream (microwave heavy cream until all the water’s gone) on raisin swirl bread and a can of soup.

People who modify their cars to be obnoxiously loud. Makes me wish they’d get sand in their engines and grind their gears down.

Putting everything I need for a project in a folder with a readme at the top level:

• Alleviates having to browse or search for files each time I use them
• Stashing any relevant commands, file paths, tutorial URLs in the readme, even if it looks ugly so I don’t have to keep scrolling through my bash history

Waking up to no headache after feeling gross yesterday due to said headache.

crouch low to the drain to minimize splashing

Fossify Calendar and Fossify Notes

Making my phone’s home screen functional. Calendar widget on the left, notes widget on the right, 3 rows of frequently-used apps on the bottom.

Went from having no calendar nor a quick place to jot notes, to having a severely overengineered planner with built-in notes that I didn’t actually use and didn’t fit in my pockets, to now finally having my day organized and my mind clear.

Also centralizing my random notes into a single ~/Documents/quicknotes plain text document for each of my machines with a taskbar shortcut pointing to it.

• Phones on contract payment plans
• New monitors: Maybe my eyes suck, but my set of two 21-inch LCD monitors from 2005 is still going strong
• Third-party meal delivery: I’m fine sitting down with a microwaved meal or some canned soup if I don’t feel like cooking
• A new car every x years: My car of choice is old and relatively cheap, so I could afford to pay in full in cash. Bonus of being spyware-free, so I’ll just maintain it for as long as I can.
• Stuff from Aliexpress, Temu and the like: the user experience is horrendous, customer service is nonexistent, and discount codes are pure gimmicks

Russell Brand

Uh-oh

The algorithm should already give you plenty.