Would like a variant on this, the bugs and darkness of the woods would drive me insane:

• On a field, farming optional
• Add a soldering station, solar panels, well with pump, and septic tank
• Perimeter tripwires and defense (nobody’s coming to help if something happens)
• Tornado shelter with medical supplies and a healthy supply of 3D filament

And I’ll finally be able to complete everything on my bucket list that doesn’t involve travelling.

I designed my own weekly planner, updated and printed once weekly, that lets me visualize my time, list unstructured tasks, and journal a bit, all on one page a day:

Upper box are tasks I must finish today and the lower box is for tasks I’d ideally get to, but don’t have to, or just random notes. Tasks and dates beyond the one-week span just get thrown in a mostly-unstructured notebook, which I reference after printing a new weekly planner.

It hasn’t solved everything, but it at least frees my working memory from having to keep a to-do list.

If you are leaving it at home, consider a WiFi-only tablet to eliminate any chance of data leaking through the cell modem. Or perhaps an Android emulator on a laptop, but that does come with its quirks. Better yet, also set up a router with router-level VPN at home just for your Facebook-connected devices. Get a cheap prepaid phone for the SMS activation. Don’t boot anything up until you’re ready and pay with cash or a prepaid gift card at a store you don’t frequent or something like Craigslist if possible.

Normally, there’s a chance of Google/Facebook asking for SMS confirmation again down the road, maybe long after your burner phone plan has expired. But you should be able to prevent this by adding a FIDO/U2F security key as your 2FA method. No idea if this can be set up on the mobile app, but if not, bring an unimportant laptop with a Linux live USB too.

Since you’ve already used Facebook in the past, and considering your use case and the nature of Facebook accounts, they most likely have your home location readily on file. Assuming that your main objective is to keep it from correlating your named accounts to pseudo/anonymous accounts and devices, first step would be to isolate it from your real IP address and browser fingerprint.

Now take everything to a library/cafe/somewhere you can access the internet anonymously. Leave your regular devices behind or at least have them in airplane mode and disconnected from the public WiFi. Set everything up, add your security key for 2FA, install a VPN client if Google/Facebook will allow it. Power everything down before leaving. Only power up the Facebook device once you are back home, ideally connected to a dedicated router with router-level VPN.

I don’t really know how it all works, but sometimes I do think about all the times I’ve logged into accounts with my real name without a VPN. And wonder how many of those companies phone home to Meta with my real IP, letting them establish connections with my pseudonymous accounts I’ve also logged in to without a VPN.

It’s a game rigged in their favor and the slightest mistake can blow your cover. Think carefully if Facebook is your only choice or if you can get by with an alternative. If you must use it, I would agree that a dedicated device, even if imperfect, is still one of the best measures for your privacy.

I see the point, but there’s a certain dignity in being able to go out with your secrets instead of having some spill them for you without so much as a fight. Unless they whip out the truth serum, idk what I’d do then.

Unsustainable if the app needs to be updated and not guaranteed to work, but I have ripped out the network and other unnecessary permissions of APKs before using APK Editor Studio.

Getting some personal projects and bucket-list items done:

• Fixing my sleep schedule and other health habits
• Getting back to my pre-COVID gym schedule
• Making my own mechanical keyboard
• Learning about 3D modelling and acquiring a 3D printer
• Organizing and curating my 6 TB data hoard
• Start learning a new language or polishing up the one I learned in high school
• Finding better furniture and decor, preferably the old kind without particle board
• Travelling

You can lead a horse to water … I get the sentiment though. Schooling is a great idea that is too often poorly executed. I’ve found that educational materials for math and science sometimes have a circlejerk kind of attitude, like the authors are laughing at the thought of students struggling with a problem “left as an exercise to the reader” immediately following a wall of dense, incomprehensible text.

Where can I find examples of otherwise dry subjects taught well? Is there an educational system that’s praised in the same way they praise Scandinavian prisons? Or is the pain of learning just a necessary evil?

Building gadgets, modding electronics, and documenting it all so other people can try it out too. In a way, I’d like it to be my job, but my ideas aren’t that profitable and I’m sure selling off my hobby to capitalism would suck the fun out of it.

Anime profile pictures and wallpapers

It’s a toss-up between opnxng.com, priv.au, and searx.tiekoetter.com for me since they all don’t have perfect uptimes. I have a bias for ones with shorter URLs and sometimes I wonder if other people do too.

Same, literally feel my blood pressure rise when presented a form that asks for MM-DD-YY(YY)

1. Yellow
2. Cyan
3. Cyan
4. Yellow
5. Magenta, by a hair over cyan

In my mind, I’m lumping in cyan as a shade of blue and magenta as a shade between purple and red. Yellow for 4 since I could imagine magenta and cyan text being legible whiteboard marker colors, but not yellow.

Edit: ran through again on an OLED display after a crappy TN panel on the first run. Same answers but with a larger margin for 5.

SearXNG is good. If you’re not self-hosting, make sure to have a shortlist of alternative instances. I like instances that pull from google, but those also tend to suffer from rate-limiting.

Either the wood-grain radio with clock or a 1970s bubble-LED calculator

Can’t say for sure what my favorite is, but it would be sparkling water or Apfelschorle by volume consumed.

Both top and bottom, but opening the top half leaves a gap between the pane and screen while the mechanism for the bottom half is broken, so it falls back down unless I prop it up with a stick.

I see. Companies behind the AI models won’t see any of my money since I insist on free and self-hostable options and I’d opt for commissions from human artists if I need something better than my computer can generate. But not everyone will be like that and I understand where your concern comes from.

Also the IMEI irrevocably attached to every cellular modem. Can’t rotate it like a MAC address either without breaking a law or two.

Do you mean that if AI art has improved sufficiently, people will pay the companies behind the image generator models rather than individual artists? Elaborate if I didn’t understand that correctly.

Agree with the sentiment, as someone who dabbles in worldbuilding. Sometimes, I’d like a picture that doesn’t readily exist to accompany the text, so I get Stable Diffusion to generate one on my machine. A picture is worth a thousand words, and even if the audience is just myself, it gets the point across much better than anything I could draw myself. While I would like to work on my art skills or pay for commissions, it would starve me of the spare time and resources that allow me to worldbuild in the first place.