International Fixed Calendar? I seem to remember hearing a proposal for the 13th month being called Sol which is kinda cool.
It's not on F-Droid, but I use BlipBlip for this exact thing. It's an old app sadly, but still works on Android 14. There's a ton of customization options which you might find useful.
I think part of the reason for that is the flat rails. I certainly prefer the curved ones on the 8.
I would love to try Returnal! I've had my eye on it since it came out but I never got around to it. Thanks for doing this giveaway! Happy holidays!
I came here to say exactly this. My favorite games for 5+ players are Codenames and Sushi Go Party Edition.
There are some really great answers here already that I think are perfect starting points for you. I'll offer a bit of what I know because everyone's experience is different.
I don't have ADHD, but my girlfriend does. She uses Trello to keep track of her school work like assignments, due dates, class information, important links, etc. She also uses Obsidian for her research notes. Between those two and her calendar, she manages to stay pretty organized as long as she looks at them regularly. As another commenter said, having an app on your phone for quick reminders is probably a good idea too.
As for me, I like Obsidian and use two vaults for different purposes. One is for my roleplaying game notes to plan for running games of D&D and others. To organize it I use the Johnny Decimal system because it's good at separating different projects within one space. I can look at the folder number any time I search or link a note and immediately know if I've got the right version of a monster or the right NPC called "Alice" for example.
My other vault is my general knowledge base for all other notes. I recently came across the work of Nick Milo and have adopted his ACE method with some tweaks to tailor it better for how I think and work. It's a well thought out system and I am starting to see the benefits more and more.
I hope you find the systems and methods that work for you even if Obsidian doesn't become part of your workflow!
I appreciate your thoughtful reply! I guess it does boil down to a difference in how people like to consume content. I prefer being able to get a digest or summary of interesting things to read and don't care so much about what's brand new. Using AI for this could work well and I'm sure we'll see that pretty soon.
And certainly you're right about needing a willingness to jump in. I always feel like whatever I have to say is less important than what others are doing which scares me out of posting. That's why I like places like Lemmy where I can make a post and if people see it that's cool, but it's not in everyone's face and easy to ignore.
It's great for communicating among individuals and in group chats, but I think it ultimately fails as a platform between creators and fans even though it seems like every creator or product team has one these days.
Let's say you're a server admin and you push updates to an #announcements channel. If people want to then discuss those updates, they have to go to a completely different channel. Unless there's one specifically for talking about announcements, that conversation is going to be mixed in with a bunch of other stuff. Sure, we have sub-threads now, but not all servers allow those to be created by anyone. They also disappear after being inactive for a while, so anyone looking in the future won't know if there was an important piece of information that's been lost.
Now let's say you're a regular server member and you've been away from a channel for a while. If you're like me and you find it hard to follow a conversation in reverse, you need to first scroll up before you read anything. (Discord does help with this by putting you 50 messages behind, but that's often not enough, and with no post ranking system, it's hard to know which discussions are the most interesting without reading every single one.) Then maybe you find a question from someone that never got answered and you want to help them out. You could reply to them, but if it's been long enough they might not see it and you'd be interrupting whatever conversation is happening at the bottom. So then you think you might try messaging them directly, but most servers don't allow that for safety reasons which is understandable.
It just seems that at every turn, Discord can't replicate the usefulness that traditional forums have. In a forum, everything is organized, focused, won't disappear, you can read everything in chronological order, and when you reply to someone it doesn't feel like you're interrupting people.
What do you all think? Am I just bad at using Discord?
I would personally love to use GOG for their buy-to-own model, but I'm incredibly tied into the Steam ecosystem. I just can't live without Remote Play Together for playing with distant friends, the Workshop is incredibly convenient for modding, and free no-setup cloud sync of all my saves is a no-brainer. Gabe Newell was right when he talked about piracy being a service issue. If you provide the best service, people will keep coming back.
In that same vein, I'll never buy another Ubisoft title as long as I live. Their crappy launcher makes it impossible to play their games on Linux.
I see lots of love for Linux in the comments which is awesome, but is there anyone considering making a hackintosh out of their machine? Is that a good route to go these days?
Proud of you for breaking the habit! Not sure if you're masc or fem, but I'm masc and all I do is clip them before they get too long which helps prevent the buildup of dirt. Nail clippers also usually have a little scraper attachment that works great for getting dirt out when you notice it. I've never felt the need to file my nails, but you may prefer the extra smoothness!
Good thing I've been using Raindrop.io to manage my bookmarks for years because I used to switch browsers so often. I've settled on Firefox for the most part, but am looking forward to Arc on Windows.
I use an alternative side-loaded Instagram app called Instander which blocks ads and comes with other nice features. I don't use the platform much anyhow, but when I do it makes the experience actually tolerable.
My parents got me my first video game when I was 3 years old called Ready for Math with Pooh. I still remember some of the games!
It uses hardly any in my experience! My Weather Channel widget uses more just from refreshing in the background.
I use Niagara with a live wallpaper called Wallow. It just creates a beautiful and simplified experience for me that has all the features I need and gets out of my way when I don't.
I was just watching a couple friends of mine stream Remnant 2 earlier and it does look pretty slick. It seems there is at least one puzzle that requires co-op to fully solve, and there may be more further in just so you and others are aware.
I honestly get where you're coming from as I went through a similar process of hating Windows, trying to make Linux work for me and just ending up back on Windows. I finally settled on Nobara Linux, but in my personal opinion it might be worth looking into Linux Mint for you if you want a rock solid distro. I installed Mint for my girlfriend not too long ago and everything magically worked with Nvidia drivers, wallpapers, Discord screen sharing, etc. I was so impressed that I considered distro hopping one last time.
The Pixels get 3 years of major version upgrades and 5 years of security updates from Google. After that point if the battery is still working well enough for you, you could always try installing something like Graphene OS on it.
Hey, folks! I'm yet another Reddit leaver looking for a new home on the Internet. I initially wasn't aware of SDF until I was browsing possible Lemmy instances to join and saw that this one had lots of tech-related communities. I thought it was a good vibe since that's what I'm interested in as a photographer and gamer, but I had to know what SDF was, so down the rabbit hole I went.
I'm not a programmer or coder and don't think I could have the patience for it, but this whole thing is fascinating and makes me want to SSH in to SDF! I've already ditched Windows for Linux on my home machine, so luckily I won't be starting from scratch with a terminal. If anyone wants to provide tips or a resource, I'm all ears.
Three cheers for the fediverse!