I have a hard time relating to this. My mom never had any pressure to do have me do any extracurriculars, and I didn't really do any. It was enough to just pass my classes and graduate. My local community college certainly didn't care.
That definitely does not match my experience. I was in Japan in December of 2022 and used my phone to get everywhere, the directions were extremely accurate, more-so than in my home town in the US.
It would take me just as long to get my phone out of my pocket as it would to get my wallet out. Plus a lot of machines have tap pay now if your card supports it.
It's not unlocked until you unlock it. The only reason the phone is more convenient for some people is because they're playing on it while waiting in line.
This doesn't surprise me. A personal anecdote: a couple of years ago I traveled to Japan for the first time. During my time there, I walked much, much more than I usually do. As a result, I was physically exhausted at the end of each day, and had some of the best sleep I've had in years.
I've noticed the same phenomenon myself. On days when I don't go to the gym or engage in some otherwise exhausting activity in the evening, I get much lighter sleep. It also fits my personal wacko hypothesis as to why so many retired old people have so much trouble sleeping, which I continue to recklessly propagate despite a complete lack of solid evidence: they just don't work hard enough.
That’s definitely an intriguing idea, and imo would be worth studying. (Then we could ignore the results and instead demand pills that don’t help or have pyrrhic side effects if they do.)
My own anecdote is the opposite: I can't sleep well if I don't regularly exercise. I think we all kinda know this, but it's good to see more data to refine our intuitions.
Not disagreeing, but another contributing factor is the exposure to outdoor sunlight which helps regulate circadian rhythms. People who sit at the beach all day sleep pretty well. I think both outdoor sunlight and exercise improve sleep quality.
You joke(?) but I have had tons of success in asking people if they’d like to go on walking meetings with me, both virtual and in person. I have sometimes clocked 20k steps at work!
Well, "Walk/Talk" is one of the most effective method. If the parties are abled, a walk/talk will give enough time even for non-walkers to talk and bring up topics/points. If they get tired, then the talk had extended beyond its need. I tend to have a few keywords to organize my calendar entries with the likes "TBD: foobar", "Plan: LoremIpsum", and one of them is "Walk/Talk: Awesome Person".
I find it very acceptable and I appreciate when someone carries a small notepad (not a phone/tablet) with a physical pen to take notes. I do a lot of the times. However, here is the trick that works for me when you have none.
At the end of the meeting, the key thing is the actionable item (todo) -- say that out aloud. "So, my to-dos are this, that and this one. And you will be handling the other, and another." Say it a few times or even a few more times while adding to your calendar/notes (digital or otherwise) after the meeting.
Most of the times, you never needed to take the entire meeting's notes.
Do you have some good ones that you would recommend? I often type copious notes and I think there may be some value in the very act of the typing, but if something works really well, maybe I can change my approach.
On one "prepackaged" end the scale, MS Teams has an option to transcribe meetings. On the "Local" side, I've had success using Whisper.cpp to transcribe my own voice recordings.
The trick is to live somewhere where walking makes sense, and also add small opportunities to walk during the day. For example, if parking, park a bit further from where you're going. Or if you have calls to make, call people/businesses while walking. Or if hanging out with a friend, go for a walk or do something physical.
Everyone will have different constraints but it's generally possible to move more than you currently do.
I actually get about 13,000 steps a day with a 9-5 job. I get two 15 minute breaks and an hour lunch, so I take three 15 minute walks per day. I work at a large campus, so it's not hard to get steps in.
I don't have kids, but I do want kids some day, and I think about this kind of thing a lot.
I didn't have a phone of any kind until I was 18, and I didn't have a smartphone until I was 23. I had restricted internet access up until I was 16.
Personally, I want to wait as long as possible before giving my kids smart devices. I see little kids with smart phones and it just rubs me the wrong way. But I'm totally willing to admit I might be in the one in the wrong here, and maybe I'm being too cautious. I don't know. The internet is a very different place than when I was a kid.
I didn't use the internet until I was about 25 or so and took to it like a duck to water. Stayed "surfing" late at work and realized how addictive it was quickly as well.
When people say things like "kids need it so they don't get left behind," I laugh inside. It's not hard to learn how to use the internet these days, in fact toddlers are being pacified on tablets at this very moment. The idea that you need ten years to learn it is silly. Sure, have kids take an online safety class, since they apparently cancelled drivers Ed.
I'm glad I got to face it when already mature, not sorry.
I have a Nehalem/Lynnfield i5 750 that still runs like a champ. Won't play modern games without a good GPU but otherwise does everything I ask it to, and is still pretty snappy for its age. The biggest reason it's not my main rig anymore is because of a lack of USB 3 ports.
I had an i5-750 with Maxwell GPU behind the TV for games with kids. It worked fine for a lot of things, but it ran out of CPU with Subnautica, which isn't exactly a AAA title, and I wasn't playing it when it first came out, but rather after updates presumably settled down, around 2018+. Overclocking may have given it a longer life, but I generally don't mess with that. If USB3 had been the problem, a USB3 card would be cheap. At about the same time I added a USB3 card to my main desktop for better SD card read/write speeds. I spend more on a good USB3 SD reader than I did on the USB3 card. Now the gaming PC is up to an i5-6500 with GTX1060. It is hanging in there fine for now. I'm only itching to upgrade it for Windows 11 support, but I don't really need Windows 11 on that machine.
I've got an i5 530 in a server in my lab. Since it runs idle for long periods it isn't very power hungry. It is also beefy enough for a lot of different loads.
I've found pretty much everything since the Core 2 Duo to be more than enough of for "server" tasks.
Likewise, my i7 920 continues kicking and handling most any random task I throw at it. I retired it as my daily driver in late 2018, but I sure got my mileage out of that thing.
Would that not mean you can't install any browser other than Safari? Because I'm running Firefox right now on iOS. Or does "ban" mean something else in this context?
I've had a very poor experience with Comcast/Xfininity's DNS. Anytime I'm managing a network with Comcast as the internet provider, I change the DNS to Google or Cloudflare. Or with pfsense I just use the root DNS servers.
