Is it possible for a human being to attain lasting happiness (without drugs)?
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    Lasting happiness? There's always going to be downs as well as ups in life. Stoicism will teach you how to handle the pitfalls in life without dwelling on them and helping you to get on in life. Buddhism will help you to understand that life is full of sorrow but that the journey is it's own reward and that joy can be found anywhere.

    A perpetual state of satisfaction can be reached that's liberally peppered with happiness. Happiness is not an end goal. It's the after affect of a effortful life that invites playfulness and new experiences.

    The key word here is effort. Happiness should not be the main goal. Living your values. Finding a process and journey that meets your values and challenges you slightly will bring satisfaction.

    Be carful of self help books and systems. Many are designed to put you on a perpetual wheel of needing more and more books to buy and classes to take. They are money generators that will tell you they offer the golden cure. And if you didn't succeed with the system in a few months then here's part two you can buy.

    I do like THE HAPPINESS LAB podcast as a starting point. There's a free Yale course too. The teaching there can get you to examine some stuff.

    Be kinder to yourself but do put some challenges in your way. Happiness is not about having a placid life.

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  • Best and worst glue / tape
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    I'd guess it depends on the thickness of what you are pasting. They're thin and I've only put down postcard like items. There is a double sided sticky tape out there too that's thinner. The dots are easier to manage. The tape a little messier. They both come in a self applying dispenser. I got mine off of Amazon. The tape is not temporary. You'll need to be precise your first time applying it.

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  • Best and worst glue / tape
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    I discovered removable glue dots. Using them now with my Hobo.

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  • Next-gen content farms are using AI-generated text to spin up junk websites
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    Google and Bing search has been horrible with that for some time. Bing AI will at least bypass the crap website's for now anyway.

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  • Are there any good mechanical keyboards available on Amazon?
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    Watching this post for some insight as well.

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  • Google has a hidden browser inside the settings
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    Curious if someone in an abusive relationship could use this trick if their phone was being monitored. If the abuser was just monitoring them with the phone's parental controls this would work but if there was an app probably not?

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  • Why does my front page not update anymore?
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    I'm always nervous about installing an apk package into to my phone. Will Thunder ever be in the Play Store do you think?

    The rumbling on the Fediverse is that Sync should be available for Lemmy in the Play store fairly soon. But maybe I'll take the plunge with Thunder before that.

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  • What are your top 5 movies of all time?
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    Seven Samurai is an amazing movie. It set the groundwork for so much more to follow.

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  • What are your top 5 movies of all time?
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    Harold and Maude Silence of the Lambs Thor: Ragnarok Singing in the Rain Unforgiven

    Silly to hold us to five but those were the first to come to mind.

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  • Why does my front page not update anymore?
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    Jerboa does have limited use here. You just can't post anything. I used it to comment here and to up vote.

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  • This email is setting off alarm bells. Opinions?
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    Best course of action like others have said, contact the office directly. I'm not sure that it is a scam but if you have any suspicion then treat it as a scam. It's a bad habit on the sender's part to send it off where other people's emails can be grabbed.

    One explanation, and it happened where I've worked, someone writes an email using the one PC that all supervisor level workers must use. Due to login credentials already in place, everything goes out from the wrong email and with the wrong signature by accident. Or they're training someone and the let them use their credentials.

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  • With many instances holding off until bugs are ironed out with the Lemmy update, Jerboa is not playing nice. YSK, I found Connect for Lemmy as an alternative. (actually it won't let me post 🤨)
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    I've never understood github, compiling, and running an app/program from there. I'm at best a code monkey. Show me and the code needed at the command line and most of the time I can make it work. Can you suggest where to get started?

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  • I know many instances are not upgrading until the majority of bugs and issues are resolved. In the meantime if Jerboa got upgraded (it looks nice, BTW) then it won't play nice with the older versions of Lemmy. On Saturday I discovered Connect for Lemmy inside the Google Play Store. I figured for us who need something to read on our phones while we poop, this would be good until our instance gets updated. Whoops. Just discovered I'm having issues posting or commenting with Connect while in my instance. I'm guessing you do have to log into an instance that's upgraded or view everything in a browser. Bummer.

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    Internet expertise
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    I nearly spit out my drink. Relatable and funny.

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  • MEGATHREAD: whatever the hell is going on in Russia right now
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    We need a remind me bot. I've no clue other than Putin fled Moscow and they guy controlling a bunch of mercenaries is coming for him. I'll look back at this post later to see what the consensus is and if they supply links.

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  • Lock down Linux for the workplace
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    Porteus is cool. I messed around with it when trying to set up an idiot proof browsing pc for a relative.

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  • good ubuntu based distro?
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    Pop or Mint are fantastic. They are my go to.

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  • Are you doing your part?
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    Sorting by New and All is the best way to find active communities and magazines. I'm hoping that my subscribed list becomes as active as New currently is.

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  • Free Talk Friday - June 23, 2023
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    It was all about the concessions at intermission time. 🍿

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  • It's Thursday. What are people planning to do this weekend?
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    The random events are a little predictable. Unless there was a patch, just avoid certain areas for your wandering, don't approach strangers in the wilderness and be prepared for the seldom snake bite. There's probably a good YouTube video on what to look for in the random encounters.

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  • How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
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    Agreed but they will bleed off users more than likely with their shenanigans. The Fediverse is at a tipping point. It will either develop to be robust and fun/informational, or it will remain the playground for a few. Societies only become better when more people are actively involved. We need the involvement now more than ever to guard against fracturing.

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  • It's yard work and the zoo for me. I hope all within the communities have a great weekend. Go socialize with those you care about. Peace.

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    I see many communities that got started in the last ten days. Sadly, some that I'm most interested in are not that active. Some are not active at all. What are you doing to help your community? How do you go from lurking to contributing? Spreading the word? Also, what's for breakfast?

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    Mine will depend if my wife's girl's weekend happens. If it does then I'm doing an art trail, which she would hate.

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    I mean, almost all social media has a learning curve but Lemmy is one that if you don't put in the effort you're not going to learn it and use it. It's not seamless to master. Design for it is an offshoot of what developers made that work for them. There's a gap between that and what the lay person who grew up with phone apps are willing to put up with. I know Lemmy will grow and develop. But there's going to be a bleed off of active users from these waves of new members. I'm hoping that the communities grow fast and that the phone app is designed with the average high school kid or octogenarian in mind. If I wasn't a kid who grew up figuring out driver issues or the blue screen of death in Windows all of the time I may have moved on after my first couple of hours with Lemmy. Truly. I want to see the platform grow and flourish. But it has some hurdles.

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