Witch

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Educational - I am going to get my high school diploma this year after dropping out a decade ago. So far, I have completed 2.5 credits with a pretty good average. Going to try to get into Healthcare Office Administration afterwards.

Financial - Create a savings fund in case of emergency. Register for the disability tax credit. Get my mom on OAS/GIS.

Community - Look into volunteer opportunities in my area and see what I can do over the summer to help contribute to my community.

Endgoal: Be as happy as possible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Hi, its been a gazillion years since I was last on this platform but I hope you've all been doing well.

This week I have been doing some self reflecting due to politics, and I am trying to figure out how to get involved in my local community. Currently starting off small by finishing my high school diploma after a decade, and seeing if I can help my fellow classmates out with the resources I know about. Since they're also all in similar situations with educational and financial issues, I have been collecting resources on things like digital literacy, sexual health, financial planning sites, and local food banks.

I am also thinking of conquering my fear of meeting my ex in-laws and going to the local LGBTQ drop in, but that will have to wait a few weeks. Got too many appointments.

Other than that, I started talking to my friends again after dealing with social anxiety caused by being "chronically offline" for once. Since I am studying now, I need to work on my school-life balance too.

 

Playing around with PeppermintOS on a "new " old laptop, and having fun. Its making me realize that tiny things can really work to impress. (Especially when you're waiting on a ram upgrade, haha!)

Could be terminal based or GUI, I'm just curious---what tiny apps do you use that you think are neat? Things that don't take up much storage or memory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Alright so I was a little confused on OpenMW but it appears that it is, in fact, complete enough to play? Nice. I now finally have an excuse to play.

I completely forgot about Daggerfall existing. I'm just reading through the wikipedia article. "Daggerfall consists of 15,000 cities, towns, villages, and dungeons for the character to explore." I am intimidated, yet intrigued.

 

Hi everyone! Saw the announcement and immediately ran here.

My question is this: do any of you have any goals that you've been actively working on?

For me, I've been trying to work on my GED that I abandoned a decade ago. Signed up for courses and everything.

Another thing I am trying to learn is more about Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and how that can help me learn how to cope with stress.

Finally, I have major ADHD so I've been trying to do note-taking in my day to day life. Started journaling, taking notes on Youtube videos I watch that I think are important for me to remember, habit tracking, so forth.

How about you? What are you trying to do to better yourself?

 

Hi everyone! So I've recently switched to Linux and I'm having a lot of fun downloading software and replacing my old stuff with it. I'm wondering what you all use?

My switched softwares:

Obsidian -> Logseq - Obsidian is great and all but I think Logseq is also competent in its own way even without plugins. I am currently exploring templates to create my own daily journal/habit tracker like I did in Obsidian.

Word/Notepad -> LibreOffice - Seems to have a lot of options. Currently using the writer software for quick notes.

Canva -> Inkscape - I am aware that Canva is a website/android app, but I decided to switch from it to Inkscape by utilizing open source illustrations such as Undraw for graphics needs. I still need to look up tutorials on how to use it properly, though!

Clip Studio Paint -> Krita - I actually made this switch a month or two ago, but I'm really enjoying Krita a lot more than I ever did Clip Studio Paint. Less things to get distracted by, giving you more chances to learn how to utilize the essentials.

Things I'd like to explore in more detail:

  • Thunderbird as a calendar/email/task software
  • Whether or not I should stick with Calibre for book management
  • Kdenlive as a video creating program. I haven't created videos before, but it seems fun.

How about you? What do you enjoy?

 

Hi everyone! So I just switched to Linux and I am a little unsure of what to play on my laptop.

It's a presumably decent laptop, 16gb of ram and Iris Xe, but I find that it has battery issues trying to play anything fancy like Skyrim.

I'm looking into things like emulation, finally tackling my Itch.io backlog, and bringing out old classics.

I like RPGs and text-based choose your own adventure games, so if you have any recommendations I'd appreciate it!