thurstylark

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[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

1. Set even more alarms. Annoy yourself into being awake. Identify when you want to be awake, and start your first alarms at that time. Increase frequency as you approach the time you need to be awake. Make your wake up time harder to ignore.

2. Involve multiple senses. Sound alone isn't doing it? Add sight, touch, taste, or smell to your alarm regimen. There are several products that can do these kinds of things. For example, I have Home Assistant turn on my room lights to full when my phone alarm goes off, and I could easily add a diffuser, or a vibrator under my mattress. Bonus points if it takes multiple steps to reset your alarm. Which leads me to...

3. Increase alarm reset difficulty. The more you have to conciously engage your brain to reset your room to sleep mode, the harder it will be for your brain to automate the snooze button. Put your phone across the room, use an app that continues to scream until you scan a QR code in another room or solve math problems, make a deal with your partner that they get to spray you with cold water unless you correctly answer these riddles three, anything. Make it difficult for your brain to remain in sleep mode when your alarm goes off.

4. Enlist the humans in your life to help. Ask, cajole, or haggle with your parent, partner, sibling, roommate, friend, or whoever else you've got available to help you wake up. Be it pleasurable reward or punishing annoyance, whatever they can do that is hard to ignore and can get you going will be better than one phone screaming into the void.

5. #4 part 2: Involve medical professionals. Sleep is a process that involves your body, and when your body isn't working as you expect, you take it to the Body Shop. If nothing is working, talk to your doctor about your struggles with waking up when you want. They can help you narrow down the root cause and supply treatment if necessary. This treatment can range from sleep hygene coaching, to OTC medication recommendations, to prescription medication addition or adjustments, or even doing a whole-ass inpatient sleep study to figure out what's going on. If nothing else is working, present your problem to a licensed Professional Human Animal Mechanic.

6. Don't give up. This is a problem that can be addressed. It may take adjustments to your life that are unusual or unpleasant, but remember that, just like exercise, you are trading one unsustainable unpleasantness (i.e.: employment problems due to chronic tardiness), for another sustainable unpleasantness (i.e.: going to bed earlier, or changing your sleep environment)

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You can even find radioactive shit sold on Amazon as health products. So radioactive, that it can incur the wrath of federal agencies.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago

I see we have a volunteer

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 48 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Oh, poor baby can't make money with an illegal business model. How awful.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 305 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Fuck you, pay me.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

That depends on which audio system you're running.

Since this can vary depending on your distro, the easiest place to look for that info is going to be your distro's documentation. That documentation may also include instructions for how to accomplish exactly what you want.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Saved you a click:

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[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago

On top of this, your account gets penalized if you refuse to take an offered ride.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The complexity is the point. The less people willing or able to jump through all the necessary hoops to receive their healthcare through the system, the less money they have to pay out. Adding more complexity in the form of yet another opaque approval system adds many more hoops to get through, which is actually the entire purpose of that system. Deloitte knew this going in.

Yes, I have sympathy for the individuals who have to build this system, however I have absolutely zero sympathy for the company that put it into practice.

Yes, the medicare system is needlessly complex, however Deloitte decided to replace manpower with cheaper automation which had the side effect of saving them work by increasing rejections.

The world also happens to be complex. Enough so that both things can be true.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 83 points 2 weeks ago

As a former rideshare driver: Fuckin' based.

[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

My family is all various flavors of neurospicy, and we've kind of organically developed nonverbal signals for "A thing I want to say has occurred to me; please continue, but I call the next pause."

It's awesome because it allows the current speaker to complete the thought without it getting derailed, and the whole group can still participate in some back-and-forth on the current thread with the understanding that we should be reaching for a conclusion so space can be made for the next speaker to insert their thought without forcing them to step on others to make that happen.

It does a really good job of keeping our conversations from reaching the level where you're blurting things out because you feel that you aren't guaranteed an organic space to get it out. Everyone can keep from interrupting or being interrupted by requesting the talking stick from the current speaker without implying that they're taking up all the air.

Edit: Oh, right... The signal... An outstreched finger placed on the table like you're pointing at a map. Gentle tap to remind. Add fingers for follow-ups :P

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