My mother got put back on her disability benefits and now I’m hunting down apartments for us to live in to get out of a bad housing situation that we were stuck in because it was cheap and we only had one income.

Got two viewings this week.

Having just a teensy bit of a nervous breakdown reevaluating my life choices the night before a job interview.

Gonna try to get to sleep, though.

Jam the Housnail.

I thought for the longest time it was a fever dream. That it didn’t exist. I could never find it anything related to the godforsaken thing on any Canadian channels list of cartoons they aired. My family thinks I am joking when I mention how horribly this show plagued my thoughts over this years, but I had been searching for a decade.

Anyway apparently it’s from Japan and I probably watched it on Veoh or something, because it’s on my anime list now and I finally found out what it was called last year.

https://myanimelist.net/anime/29367/Jam_the_Housnail

Not really.

I like witchy stuff but only if its considerable to placebos. A rose quartz bracelet, for example, might not be scientifically going to attract love and good fortune—but its cute and makes me happy, so who knows, THAT might help.

If I had to choose a religion though, I’d probably go with one of those polytheist religions because ever since I was a kid and first went to a church camp, I decided that a singular “God” scares the shit out of me. I basically considered “God” too overpowered and decided that wasn’t for me.

Not going well but I am not without hope either.

My mom didn’t get approved for social assistance so I’m crunching numbers on our budget for the next month or so.

Brought out the instant pot and made some nice black beans, which I turned into black bean burgers. 😋

Switched from Pop OS to Linux Mint, liking the experience so far. Not as cute as Pop OS was, but I like the interface and the battery alerts and sound effects. So it’s not bad.

Got bipolar disorder, so yes, I understand completely.

You’d THINK that being diagnosed with something that is prone to giving you depression would make you clue in quicker, but it doesn’t. “Nah, can’t be that.”

Thank you, I am super incredibly nervous but I hope it ends up going well. Kinda sucks trying to support another person when I myself am on poverty-level social assistance, but if both of us are on it, it will relieve a lot of stress.

After roughly five hours of phone calls, on Friday I somehow managed to get a lead on getting my mother back on social assistance. We have an appointment tomorrow for her to apply. I’m hoping that the application actually goes through and we don’t once again get told to screw off.

I’m gonna be exhausted this week!! I have so many appointments.

KDE Connect means that I can ping my phone that’s usually presumably somewhere behind my bed or on a counter somewhere, without having to sheepishly walk to the nearest person and ask “can you call my phone I lost it :c”

Oh good timing! I was trying to install Jellyfin and I’ve been having…issues trying to set it up without Reddit, lmfao.

I’ve instinctively typed in “how do i do so-and-so reddit” in my search like a fool a few times, but I’m pretty sure I’m staying on Beehaw for now. It’s nice. It’s comfy. I’ve only seen both literal and figurative unwanted dicks like, one time. It be a winner in my books.

Pretty good!

I dusted off my Beehaw account from when I left Twitter and I’m having lots of fun talking to you all in comparison to a lot of sites. I installed Linux and I’m enjoying playing with all the neat new software. Currently tinkering with templates in Zim Wiki while I wait for my potatoes to cook. I also got introduced to a few low-end games I never would’ve known about normally and I definitely plan on trying some out.

I was wondering if the site was being buggy haha. Saw that my comments took a while to post and had to refresh.

My use of Obsidian was primarily note-taking on topics relating to Mental Health, Physical Health, Productivity, Art, so forth. I would create templates dedicated to book reviews and video notes, and I had a morning routine in my daily notes. My morning routine was primarily a few tasks, checking off some habits, and the concept of Morning Pages by Julia Cameron where you just ramble on like a madman until you’re done thinking that morning.

It was----still is great. However, I found that I tended to use plugins a bit too often! And I didn’t really like relying on it too much, if that makes any sense? Like, what if this ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL PLUGIN TO MY WORKFLOW decides “yeah I can’t update anymore” and its just poof, gone.

So I am trying out different software.

A few days ago I switched to Logseq. It has a cool-looking citation method, however I think my use-case will most likely be journaling due to the infinite scroll function of the journal entries. I don’t really like the idea of making one long note in the Journal and then having to scroll past it to get to my previous day’s note. However, an infinite scroll is absolutely excellent for a morning routine template where you can scroll down and see all your mood tracking and habits. Similarly, the whiteboard function will be great to use for goal-setting. I previously used the Canva function in Obsidian for that at one point!

As for my note-taking, I’m now switching to Zim Wiki. I am a little unsure how to incorporate templates, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out…however, I really like the simplistic look to it. It doesn’t have a graph as far as I can tell, but I can create topics, subfolders, and subpages. There’s a word editor at the top which I previously had to use a plugin in Obsidian for.

Finally, am I enjoying the switch? Actually, yes! I think Obsidian is great for an all-in-one program, but I just didn’t like the fact that a lot of its functionality for me relied on plugins. Zim wiki + Logseq seem to be a good combination for me so far.

Hahaha. Ha. God, I hate Outlook.

Can I ask what exactly ffmpeg does? I’m actually very, very new to video creation as a whole. I’m one of those folks that last touched a video creator back in the days of Windows Movie Maker. It seems to be a command line script, but is there any GUI for it?

I wanted a software that lets me write text on a blank paper, and Libre Office does that. Therefore, it’s already a solid replacement. 10/10.

Interesting, I didn’t know about Dendron!

I’m actually switching from Logseq to Zim Wiki (might take a peek Dendron, though!) because I found out something about logseq I Don’t quite like: each journal entry seems to be part of an infinite scroll. So you’d have day 1 of using it, then at the top would be day 2, and then it’d become day 3…

I did however like the fact that it has flashcard capabilities and whiteboard capabilities without having to install plugins. I think Logseq might be best used for a daily journal that you can scroll through from present day to past day. It also apparently has good citation features but I didn’t get to explore it very well.

2102/6001 so far.

RIP /r/IllegallySmolCats.

I wonder where the fandoms and the artist communities are going to go now that they just opened the floodgates for the massive amount of harassment those communities tend to deal with.

I presume some are going to return to Tumblr, but hopefully they make the switch to Mastodon.

Surprisingly, I installed Calibre on Linux and for some reason it just looks…better on Linux? Not sure if its because it opened up in default dark mode or what, but it doesn’t look as ugly when I’m using it on Pop_OS. Feels at home, really.

I will say its definitely a beast. I’ve used it a few times but I never really went in depth with it’s features. I’m definitely liking the bulk tag editing, the shop search (I’ve been looking for a way to search DRM-free books and it has it!), and the default tags. The last one is mainly because I think getting a tag called “mentally ill women” for The Yellow Wallpaper is a little funny.

It took me a few seconds to figure out what the heck just popped up on the side of my screen, haha! Thank you for the potatoes.

Out of curiosity do you find that neocities is easy to set up for a beginner? I’d like to get into blogging that I don’t have to worry about getting comments on. Something where I can just ramble on a bit about how things went that day, what I learned, and then post and never touch it unless I want to reread that day’s entry.

MVP right here. Appreciated! Downloading it right now.