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The motivate-by-anxiety tactic of semi-purposefully procrastinating things until I have absolutely no choice but to get them done efficiently is how I (barely) got through high school. These days I generally try to be more proactive and self-motivating and whatnot but my success rate in doing so varies.
Same here for sure. I try to make to-do lists as much as I can because they seem to help keep me on track with things, the only hiccup is that I have not yet succeeded in making a habit out of it, so I most often just forget to make a to-do list until after it would've be useful 
It would be great if Plasma gets a kiosk mode option some day, that seems right up KDE's alley as far as the "simple by default, powerful when needed" philosophy goes.
I'm blaming Hexbear.net no matter who wins
I'm in a similar position. I'd love to go back to school for a number of reasons, but I just cannot get to the point of committing to doing so since I strongly suspect that it will mentally annihilate me. And in the end, I will just have quit a decent job, lost a shit ton of money and what's left of my self-confidence and hope after flunking/dropping out from the stress.
I think in my case it has to at least partially just be self doubt and a fear of failure, and who knows maybe the structure and routine of living on campus would actually help, but I just don't know.
Has anyone had a notably positive or at least unexpectedly tolerable experience in postsecondary school and have some tips/info about it?
huh. i just found out the only emoji i ever used was in my first post
I agree, the whole paradigm of activitypub instances being treated as little local web communities that can interact with one another from their respective websites in limited ways is very flawed if the goal is for it to catch on as an alternative to existing social media experiences.
Although that's not to say that paradigm is innately bad though, since it works fine for more tech-savvy people and is basically what hexbear has and works well with, but it's a total non-starter for the average social media user.
Personally I think that something along the lines of what you said is the only way activitypub will ever be able to exit the niche space it currently occupies. The user should not have to learn how it works whatsoever. Ideally the process of getting a friend to join should sound more like "Install this app or go to this website(which is a server-agnostic frontend), click register and pick a service provider(not an 'instance')" rather than "Find an instance, go to its website(which all look slightly different), create an account, and then inevitably end up with a disjointed mess of browser tabs on different instances because you clicked 'View the full profile on the original instance' while trying to find people to follow."
I'm not a developer, but it really feels like the fediverse movement is sort of trying to reinvent the wheel in a lot of ways. Also sorry for the long rambling reply, I'm bored at work.
i am constantly subjecting myself to my own little sisyphean punishments for no reason
I'm always impressed with good sound design--particularly foley. It really makes a world of difference to give an environment the right tone and make it an immersive scene.
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to me absurdism isn't so much about looking at existential meaningless light-heartedly as it is about reconciling with the notion of it—by spitting in the face of the universe's cruel indifference and arbitrarily inventing personal meaning.
it's like aiming to live a life that you alone feel is purposeful just because you can, in spite of the will of any higher power or lack thereof that tries to rob you of it.
obs, flameshot/sharex, and 7-zip
goosebumps attack of the mutant
I bought some notebooks specifically for this recently, so I'll see how that goes.