I haven’t heard of any controversy, but I think you do important work. May not be glamorous work, but having a consistent flow of news on Lemmy helps me keep up to date on the goings-on of the world. I assume most people think similarly

Better safe than sorry. Take plan B. I can’t speak on the side effects, but I at least didn’t observe any when my SO took them.

Also, get tested for STD’s.

One of the important things that you learn over time in a high stress situation is that you can only commit around 70% of your effort before you start burning yourself out.

As in, yes, you can definitely try harder and get more things done, but that can only be done in very short bursts. After a while, you would not be able to bring yourself to do anything. And so, the followup lesson is that you shouldn’t beat yourself up for only committing 70%. Take some time every once in a while to ask yourself: on a scale of 1-10, where 10 is the maximum conceivable amount of effort I can imagine myself giving, how would I rate the amount of effort that I am currently putting in to my work? If your score is 8 or above, then that’s your issue. You’re experiencing burnout.

If you have work piling up but you’re already committing 70%, then you just have to acknowledge that there is more work coming than you can reasonably handle. So what can you do? I don’t really know what your current career status is, so I can’t give solid advice. But you can consider either declining to take on more work or letting some tasks fall to the wayside.

If you are concerned that your 70% effort is noticeably lower than an average person’s 70%, then that’s a different issue altogether. You might just have depression. In which case, talk to a therapist.

If you have any concerns or questions about your relationship, it is a really good idea to talk to him and sort it out before it becomes an issue.

The relationship being something other than what you wanted isn’t the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing that can happen is if you didn’t know that that was the case.

Hmm… Interesting question. Not a lot of time, on average. Even at home, there’s always some sort of management or planning to do. Always need to think about what comes next. But the busyness comes in waves. Occasionally I get a week with really nothing to do. And then, inversely, there are weeks where everything is happening all at once and it starts to feel like I can’t keep up and things are starting to slip. I’m currently in one of those weeks, but I’m sure it’ll pass. Just need to get through it. That’s the life of a researcher for you. There’s definitely a level of masochism required for this sort of lifestyle

I recommend trying out OnlyOffice. It’s free and it’s scarily similar to MS Office, to the point where there’s no learning curve and it’s impressive how they haven’t gotten sued yet. Plus, it’s got a Windows version so you can try it out without committing to Linux

I’m not a fan of LibreOffice, even with the GUI tweaks to make it look like MS Office, so I’ve been actively finding Office alternatives for a long time now. OnlyOffice is by far the best one I’ve found

If you’re curious, then I would recommend you play around with Linux before something breaks. It’s a horrible experience to have to scramble to figure out what to do when you’re tight on time - better to learn the lingo first, so that when something does break, you can switch with no learning curve.

Plus, you might end up really liking Linux anyways. That’s kinda what happened to me 2 years ago, I’m not honestly sure why I haven’t tried Linux sooner

The problem that you’re describing is that people aren’t being socialized properly. The solution to that problem isn’t to give people a chatbot, it’s to socialize them properly.

It is going to happen, and it has already happened, but that’s not really a future that we should strive for. IMO too much damage has already been done and there needs to be laws put into place to severely regulate AI companies

I mean… If we treated the sun to be just another star (ie, if the astronomers got their way), the planets would probably be called Sol b, Sol c, Sol d, Sol e, Sol f, Sol g, Sol h, and Sol i.

Sol a would be reserved for the sun, of course.

You know how there’s the old schoolhouse stereotype that there’s always a “weird kid” in every class? There’s a good chance that kid was an undiagnosed autist.

The current estimates for autism rates is around 1 in 30. Which means every classroom is expected to have 1 autistic kid. Matches perfectly with the “weird kid in class” stereotype. People recognized autism since forever. That’s why the stereotype exists. It’s just that they didn’t have an actual word for it yet.

Honestly, steam deck lol

It’s an odd form factor that people don’t really have much experience with, hence they don’t really know how useful it’ll be to them. To be fair to myself, I had been holding back on purchasing one until maybe a year after the initial launch, so I think I would personally describe my experience as a leap of faith.

In any case, it turns out to be a great little thing. There’s a lot of games in my backlog that don’t feel “desktop-y,” and therefore I’ve never played them, if that makes sense. But with a handheld form factor, now I have more motivation to go through those games. Emulation on the steam deck has also been great, for a similar reason. And sometimes I just want to be in bed than on my desktop. Or sometimes I’m just on the bus or waiting for something.

I think SteamOS also taught me how usable Linux was, and that’s been pretty instrumental in getting me to minimize my Windows dependence