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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Here is what I do, it is a type of visualization meditation.

    I have been watching futurama (original seasons) for 20 something years. I have seen each episode literally hundreds of times. I have them burned pretty well into my brain at this point.

    I have ripped just the audio track from the DVDs. When I wake up in the middle of the night (2-4 times per night!), I turn on a random episode as audio only.

    The goal here is to try to visualize the episode as you only listen to the audio. This forces you to focus on something rather than stress about life. It really helps me stop thinking about anything else. Because I know the episodes so well, it has become quite easy to stay focused on it (like watching with your eyes closed). And since I’ve seen the episodes so many times there is no fear of missing out, so you don’t try to stay awake to finish an episode. I can typically fall back asleep within 5-10 minutes with this technique.

    I personally have these on my phone in a playlist and sleep with a single wired ear bud in one ear. I have a sleep timer set for 25 minutes. If I wake up, all I have to do is tap the button on my wired Apple headphones and it’ll continue playing for 25 more minutes. No need to open my eyes or take off my sleep mask.









  • Youtube channels (I unsubscribed from everything on my YouTube account, hardly ever login, and only use RSS to follow the channels I want)

    This is the way to do it. I can’t stand youtube’s interface and its recommendations, auto play, and other anti-features frustrate me. I find that on youtube, when I go look at a channel, I often can’t figure out which video is the most recent, and really struggle to see figure out what I’ve watched and what I haven’t.

    Using RSS let’s me see when there is a new video posted just from the channels I am interested in. I don’t have to go hunting. FreshRSS will watch it through youtube-nocookie.com, but I often find using yt-dlp is better experience, especially for anything longer than 5 minutes.



  • I use freshrss. It is my primary source of information. Here are some of the things I follow:

    • Various Local News Sources
    • Local City Council Blog
    • Various National/International News Sources
    • Various Blogs
    • Comics (SMBC, xkcd, …)
    • Music Review Sites/Blogs
    • Various Record Label feeds (I run a small distributor)
    • YouTube Channels :: This is so much better than going to youtube
    • New Releases/ChangeLogs of various OSS projects I follow and host
    • Various Planet (Gnome/Gnu/Debian/…) Aggregators
    • Google Alerts
    • Lemmy Communities
    • Reddit Communities (We’ll see where these go)
    • HomeLab/Cron :: Instead of dealing with emails, I generate RSS feeds from my cron scripts/home lab notifications
    • Email Subscriptions :: I take some email notification (like new releases on bandcamp) and convert them to RSS



  • I have a dedicated music player with all my favorite music for offline listening (fiio x3 and also a pinephone with lollipop)

    I also have a Jellyfin server and use finamp on my phone. It isn’t public so I have an always on WireGuard vpn.

    For my stereo, I have a raspberry pi hooked up. It runs mpd and mounts the same music directory as Jellyfin using nfs.

    The raspberry pi also has an nfc reader and I have nfc cards with printed artwork on them. Tapping them to the reader starts playing that album.