Ah, that makes sense, thanks :)

This looks like a fantastic set of tools, thanks for sharing :)

Because it’s not a habit. It’s a deliberate choice to pick up their instrument and play. Every time.

Muscle memory helps, because that seems to be separate from forming habits. Once you’ve got it, it seems to stick.

I was in a band in my late teens, and I had to force myself to practice if I was alone. Practicing with the band was much easier because it was something that I really enjoyed, but even then, I’d almost always be late, or have to be reminded to go.

This was something that I loved to do, but still really struggled with. As soon as something else came along that was a bigger distraction, the band was done.

That sounds more like the muscle memory isn’t there yet. I can play a few instruments (badly), but it’s because I really wanted to do it when I was younger, and developed the muscle memory.

I haven’t played properly for a few years, so now I’m back to a similar place to you, and have to think about what I’m doing again.

What I’ve been finding helpful is making a playlist of the songs I want to learn, or to play again, and putting it on nice and loud. It makes me want to play along, and seems to let me concentrate on the songs.

Good luck :)

this is not automatic, all my toothbrush stuff is set up as a visual cue any time I’m near the sink

I can’t even do that. If I leave my toothbrush in the same place, it becomes part of the background and I don’t really notice it.

Brains are weird.

Cool, I’d do that if my brain didn’t confine me to my bed for 18 hours without meds.

Is that what that is? I’m in my 40s and trying to get diagnosed, and the possible ADHD has got worse over the last few years. I’ve gone through periods of weeks where I’m really struggling to get out of bed, and they coincide with each other.

Ah, for £4 it’s worth a look 🙈😁

Ah, I convinced myself that I was wrong to think that. I know you can get electricity from lemons, and thought I’d mixed them up 🙈

That worked out well - one copy in stock for £4.05. I’ve been trying to learn JavaScript for a while, so thanks for the recommendation :)

A potato is a very slow computer. Usually old and / or low quality. I’ve got no idea where it comes from though.

I’m actively trying to switch to Linux, so it’s not from a lack of effort.

The main two reasons are Photoshop and scanning. I’m a photographer, and I’m scanning and restoring old photos of the family. There’s no decent alternative to Photoshop, especially now that it has the neural filters, so editing and colouring photos is in a different league.

As far as scanning goes, I was getting better results in Windows 20 years ago. I’ve got an Epson scanner, and the software can automatically crop, as well as restore the colour balance of a photo. Using Linux, I was lucky to get more than a dodgy .bmp through an interface that would have looked clunky in the 90s. I could open it in GIMP, but then couldn’t save as a jpeg without either exporting the file or installing addons.

On top of problems like these, there are issues that crop up because of an apparent need to be different to Windows.

My Xubuntu server won’t let me resize windows unless I grab the top left corner. Any other edge of the window is apparently half a pixel thick, and too small for my mouse to register.

Smooth scrolling by clicking the mouse wheel has been replaced with the paste command, as if pasting into a browser window is something that people do dozens of times a day.

Mint’s settings window constantly resizes itself, no matter what I set it to. I can resize it, open a setting then click back, and it’s back to the default size again!

The universal paste keyboard shortcut, ctrl & v only works in some programs. Others need shift, ctrl, and v!

Silly little things like this spoil my workflow and take me out of what I’m doing. They’re the minor annoyances that frustrate people and encourage them to switch back to Windows. Yes, they can probably be changed, but why were they changed in the first place? I could paste with ctrl v in DOS 6.22 and could trust a window not to resize itself in Windows 3.1, long before any modern distro was dreamed up, so why are the basics different?

I’ve recently started using it to edit a web app, and even though it might seem like a simple feature, the mini file browser on the left that lets you open files to edit is a godsend. I was using Notepad++ on Windows, and never realised how often I was switching to the folder and back.

Even they aren’t as bad as the sites that ask for feedback as soon as they open >.<

Ass is very rarely used to mean the body part in the UK

That looks great, thanks :)