If you’re in debt and it’s affecting your mental health and making you contemplate ending it all, don’t worry, there is a way to get your life back again. The following info is about the UK and N. Ireland, but it is highly likely similar info is available wherever you happen to be:

StepsChange is a charity that acts as a middleman between you and your debtors. The charity will negotiate reasonable and specially-tailored monthly payments for your debtors, which - depending on your income and savings and all that - will not cripple you every month. You can pay off what you owe and still have money left to life your fuckin’ life. Yes it’s a charity, but they don’t give you free money, you pay your own debts, but you just do it in a way that isn’t ruining you.

I’ve seen this work with multiple family members, so I can 100% vouch for StepsChange and the dream-like positive change it made in their lives. It takes what amounted to many hundreds of pounds a month and reduces it to like 30. It’s insane how much they can help you. Please contact them if you’re in financial trouble.

Similar charities must exist elsewhere, so look into it if you’re not from these parts. There is always hope.

For fitness:

The absolute “best exercise” for someone to do is whatever they find enjoyable/fun, baring some sports, etc, that are harmful to your joints and/or brain (like American football). Fitness is about long term, sustainable effort. Some strict program that follows all the best science isn’t going to help you in the long term if you don’t stay consistent with it.

As long as you are either creating forceful muscle exertions or getting your heart rate up (preferably both), and it’s an activity you can stick with, you are good to go.

It’s similar with diet. Whatever you can consistently do to hit reasonable macros, with a nice bit of fiber and minimal junk, go for it. People might tell you that it’s better to get 100% of your protein from meals rather than having protein shakes, but for a lot of people, going without that protein shake will just end up with them undershooting their protein needs.

If you need to clean your stove around/under the burners, the top part of your stove probably lifts up for that exact purpose.

The hose at the petrol station reaches the opposite side of most cars if you park with your rear window in line with the pump.

Rhythm is as much a communicator as language.

One can look at an object, look away, look back at it and the rhythm can dictate whether that’s comic, tragic, neutral, interesting, disgusting, valuable…

Being aware of the rhythm in which one presents something can make your intended message clearer.

If one wanted to study it, one would take a class in Michael Chekov, Rudolph Laban, Kabuki or traditional mask theatre.

My limited experience beginning with having never having been in any gym, ever, until my 40s:

Most adults that are regularly working out in the gym judge the beginners as courageous. They want to teach and encourage them. But, social norms won’t let them until solicited. If a beginner has also the courage to communicate sincerely then they’re likely to find both physiological and psychological support for their personal goals.

This is generally true for most things. Create the opportunity and almost everyone will teach and love as is practical for them.

Don’t give up, I believe in you

Almost all the reasons I hear for not going to therapy don’t apply to holistic therapy, only the medical approach.

Find a humanistic therapist if you want someone to support you rather than fix you.

What are things that you(know/do) think would be useful for others(saves time, improves quality) if they also knew/did it too?

I think it would really be useful for others to do far go even use more want decided to look more like.

• Okular as a PDF viewer (from KDE team) adds the ability to copy table data and manually alter the columns and rows however you wish
• OCR based on Tesseract 5 - for android (FDroid) is one of the most powerful and easy to use OCR systems
• If you need something formatted in text that is annoying, redundant, or whatnot and you are struggling with scripting or regular expressions, and you happen to have an LLM running–they can take text and reformat most stuff quite well.

When I first started using LLMs I did a lot of silly things instead of having the LLM do it for me. Now I’m more like, “Tell me about Ilya Sutskever Jeremy Howard and Yann LeCun” … “Explain the masking layer of transformers”.

You are an autoregressive language model that has been fine-tuned with instruction-tuning and RLHF. You carefully provide accurate, factual, thoughtful, nuanced answers, and are brilliant at reasoning. If you think there might not be a correct answer, you say so. 

Since you are autoregressive, each token you produce is another opportunity to use computation, therefore you always spend a few sentences explaining background context, assumptions, and step-by-step thinking BEFORE you try to answer a question. However: if the request begins with the string "vv" then ignore the previous sentence and make your response as concise as possible, with no introduction or background at the start, no summary at the end, and output only code for answers where code is appropriate.

Your users are experts in AI and ethics, so they already know you're a language model and your capabilities and limitations, so don't remind them of that. They're familiar with ethical issues in general so you don't need to remind them about those either. Don't be verbose in your answers, but do provide details and examples where it might help the explanation. When showing Python code, minimise vertical space, and do not include comments or docstrings; you do not need to follow PEP8, since your users' organizations do not do so.

Recently have seen a video about the 5 why root cause analysis, which talked about a logic tree to find root causes and that was nice. Obvious, but nice to hear about.

Five why has very limited uses in practice when investigation root cause. I teach the basics of Five Why to staff so they can follow up low level incidents without my help, but I make sure to always review their findings.

If there is any meat to an incident I step in with proper root cause analysis like ICAM or TapRoot. With practice you can make short work of incident investigations for even smaller incidents that don’t warrant a significant investigation.

Additional suggestions for pc/laptop

ffmpeg for audio and video
pdftk for pdf

Used these for simple tasks, eg cropping/converting movie formats, taking out/combining pdf pages. Both are fast and light and havent failed (so far).

@Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org

Rednote. Seriously, I’m getting so much more news from that community that I don’t see anywhere else.

There are protests happening right now at the White House, LA, Arizona and soon to be every state capitol. Native Americans have taken to the streets on horseback. Tens of thousands of Mexicans and their supporters have shut down hwy 101 in CA. The United States already had mercenary boots on the ground in Gaza days before Trump announced the takeover.

Not to mention the culture shock of seeing China having solved all necessities of a civilized society while Americans struggle to exist.

Edit: Not sure where the downvotes are coming from. People that don’t like additional sources of information in a climate where two guys control nearly all social media?