[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago
  1. 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.

To add to this, you can get alarm clocks that literally run away when they go off so you have to chase or find them, and others that have a bit of a puzzle to solve to switch them off (I suspect there are phone apps that also have the latter, but I've never looked for them)

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 6 points 5 days ago

Upvoted for NetSurf. I wrote the Amiga frontend for it, and as such it's my favourite browser on that platform (OS4 anyway - the OS3 build is very unstable)

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 37 points 5 days ago

Looks like this specific meaning of psych can be spelt sike - but not other definitions!

Tbh I'd never heard of this meaning in either spelling.

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

I have an alarm clock with two alarms on it. The first is radio, at a reasonable volume. The second is beep Beep BEEP with ascending volume. If the first doesn't wake me the second will. Unless I press the off button and fall back to sleep.

I'm amazed the clock with the bell doesn't wake you (if you mean one of the traditional alarm clocks with the bells on?). Those things are LOUD.

As sound isn't working, maybe try one of those "silent alarms" which just turns a light on to help you wake up naturally (I haven't tried these and would definitely have a beeping alarm as a backup!), or something like a Fitbit which can wake you up by buzzing on your wrist (and will adjust when it wakes you to match your sleep cycle)

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago

That sucks 🙁

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

!boardgames@sopuli.xyz is the one I normally use now feddit.de is down. It seems a bit dead though.

!boardgames@lemmy.world is active as per your criteria.

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

Apparently deaf from birth people don't make any noise when they sneeze, as they've not heard anybody else do it so don't know they "should".^[I heard this from years ago; don't know how true it is] I'm not a particularly loud sneezer but it strikes me as odd that any noise at all would be learned behaviour.

Some people do make a lot of noise though, to the point where I'm thinking that it can't all be involuntary.

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

Yep, it's a PITA to parse and get the values you want. Much prefer JSON. Recently when I needed to parse XML I ran it through an XML to JSON library. Much easier!

If you need to parse XML just for RSS though, it isn't so bad as there are RSS specific libraries which take most of the pain away.

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 21 points 1 week ago

I can only assume you've never tried to parse or read XML.

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 30 points 1 week ago

It makes me wonder how these people sleep at night.

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

Probably about three.

I had some cheap (awful) mirror sunglasses back when they were all the rage, and a pair of prescription sunglasses before I started getting reactive lenses. I must have had at least one other pair but those are the only two I remember.

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I stumbled upon this series on the Roku Channel. Thought I'd post it here in case anybody was interested!

Originally posted here: https://oldbytes.space/@confusedbunny/113073603091978653

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A half-finished paint job on a Kent road has been described as a perfect example of “not my job, mate” culture.

Gas company SGN has been carrying out works in Dover Road and New Street in Sandwich throughout the summer.

The network upgrades are now finally complete - but that is more than can be said for the repainting of a 20mph marking near the Malcolm Waite petrol station.

SGN workers have only put a fresh coat of white on the sections of the road they had to dig up, leaving glaring gaps.

A spokesman for the gas company says it is “responsible for reinstating the areas we’ve disturbed”.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk to c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca

This seems to have surfaced when trying to open an Mbin magazine from Connect (via Lemmy of course), by tapping on them in the subs list (or searching/tapping).

If I search for !teletext@fedia.io or !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io they both give this error, so I think it's something to do with Mbin magazines. I haven't seen it happen on Lemmy communities.

Hopefully tapping those links will show the error - they do here.

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The collection comes from a mysterious (and fictional) 80s video game company and includes puzzles and platformers, RPGs and category-defying hybrids, all in 8-bit splendour

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