Xfce is just amazing. I’ve used it for many years, starting with Xubuntu I think and it’s my go to Linux version. So minimal and functional.

My health. It’s made me lose so many connections, and lately it’s made me feel like I’m invisible. Not even those closest to me really know how to deal with me and me having to cancel things because my body says no.

My Brother HL 230 laser printer is so reliable. Had it for years and it never failed me.

Thank you so much!

Most welcome. Hope you check it out!

The latter for sure. I get email from two other accounts in my onmail. I’m not sure if they have imap themselves as I’ve never wanted to 😀

My excitement is maybe small, but I’m excited about the 5-ish hours of sleep I’ve just had, which is such a gift after weeks of pain waking me up all the time

Onmail is pretty awesome. You get 10gb free and it has a function where you have to approve first contacts. Very easy way to block spammers.

I use it to get mail from two other accounts.

I have used proton before and it’s fine but the one annoyance is that it treats mail in trash as archived mail, which means that you get a lot of: there is deleted mail in this thread.

Try it with oatmilk. It’s so delicious!

I especially love the barista oat milk with cereal. It’s a little more expensive, but delicious.

Almond milk is so wonderful as well.

The first thing that came to mind: an olive fork. It was an expensive brand too.

I don’t eat olives and the giver knew that. The fork is still unused in my junk drawer.

Don’t have a tip from my own life, but I know someone who has them 😊

I can highly recommend minimalmom on YouTube. She makes videos about family minimalism, and I think her info may be very useful.

She is currently running a course on minimalism that explains the concepts of it.

Yeah, those dang bots! I haven’t found a place I used to visit without tons of spam

I do sometimes go back, but most of the places I used to visit are empty other than bots sharing crap. It used to be such a great place, had really supportive groups but also many many weird ones.

I agree. IRC was definitely great. Staying connected was definitely a problem, but the conversations made up for that. I had so many good friendships there, and I loved the ease of creating a new channel and gather there with friends. The ops system was definitely really good. You could do everything with the channel.

I do frequent old servers I used to hang out on sometimes, if they still exist, that is, but like usenet, most channels are for downloading or nsfw stuff. Really sad, it was such a cool place to be!

I really miss IRC and usenet. And I know both still exist but I miss the communities there 😊

There are a couple of types of procrastination for me.

There is the productive kind, where I’m idling away while pondering a blog post or a plot point in my writing.

And the unproductive kind. The kind where I just don’t wanna.

What I do is force myself to move. Set a timer for a couple minutes and do a simple task.

This usually helps me get into the flow.

It’s never as bad as you fear.

Sleep is sacred!

That’s great, thank you. I always just put on Lofi girl on YouTube or, if I want to work not connected to the internet, I put on a playlist for some of the albums I downloaded on my iPod nano.

It came highly recommended because it’s a fast server under food management. I have no idea where it’s hosted 😊

I chose lemm.ee because it came highly recommended and rightfully so. Great management and great communities too