You turn the knobs you've got. If you have a problem, and "just try harder to do the hard thing" doesn't work, you have to try something else.

I had to quit alcohol for a year+ before being able to reintroduce it in small and manageable ways. Some people have to quit forever. Not an unreasonable metaphor for device addiction.

this is a really obnoxious direction to take the conversation. I didnt even notice his comment was in all lowercase until someone pointed it out.

I wish I could read like you then because it’s distracting to me, and clearly many others, when people write like that.

I am stunned by DT's longevity. I'm finally starting to wear thin the back of the ankle/heel from shoe friction in one set, after about 6 years, with a total of about 8pr socks in rotation. Including about 15,000mi of use cycling.

I have slipped on black ice in Portland OR.

Yes. I have briefly encountered the real coffee nerds. They are extremely serious and meticulous about their coffee, do actual science, and, I am sad to say, the coffee was better than any coffee I have had before or since.

You will not get coffee that good from a coffee shop, it isn't economically viable. But the technology exists.

I just reinstalled Windows, so I've had the joy of a bunch of stupid MS stuff (why did you make my /~ homedir the first five letters of my email? WHY?) but I have to admit, this, I have not encountered.

Yeah, it's one of the reasons I use a Microsoft account to collect the PC entitlements and then create a local user account that has a sane profile name and never touch the online account again.

Doing something where you get to say "bugger everything" and just do what you're doing for a while is amazing. It's one of the things I actually like about the (otherwise not very relaxing) ultra-distance racing.

2-6 days of just riding your bike, eating, sleeping outside. Yeah it can be hard but nothing makes the MS Teams chime in the woods.

Part of why I like sailing is for a similar reason, beyond a certain range the only people who can bother you electronically are other people at sea (and you actually want to listen to them).

LEMO push-pull connectors and their ilk are mighty satisfying.

My GP just offered it during my physical along with the flu and COVID booster. I declined the COVID booster since I had just gotten a mild case a couple months back. Got two shots in the left arm, was sore for a day and that was that.

Gardasil is usually a three-shot series. You may want to go back and get those followup shots

I had an incomplete series when I was younger, and told the GP that. I forget how they scheduled the follow-up shots but I trust my care team.