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I hit rock bottom, gave up drinking, went to therapy, found a new job that I don’t hate, gave up weed, found a partner, got asked if I wanted to go on a hiking holiday with her, said yes, panicked because I was totally out of shape, bought a bike, got in shape and enjoyed it, got married, have a kid on the way. Life’s good.

The problem with depression in particular is that even if you know that things like exercise would help, it is really hard to push yourself to do them. You end up lying in bed feeling miserable and although there is nothing physically stopping you from just getting up and doing stuff, it feels like you are being held down and prevented from doing so and it takes an incredible amount of energy to overcome that.

There are also other reasons people don’t take care of themselves, that aren’t their fault. So many people these days are overworked and struggling to make ends meet while also juggling other responsibilities like child care and house work. It’s totally understandable not to have the energy for exercise and cooking healthy food at the end of the day. In my opinion it’s often a failure of the system and less of the individual.

That being said, exercise and taking care of your body absolutely does wonders for mental and physical health.

As someone not looking to spend a ton of money on new hardware any time soon: good. The longer it takes to release faster hardware, the longer current hardware stays viable. Games aren’t going to get more fun by slightly improving graphics anyway. The tech we have now is good enough.

I wanted to be a palaeontologist. Ended up working in IT. It’s okay and a comfortable job, but I sometimes wish I worked with animals (living ones, not fossilised) instead of computers.

It’s quite rare to run into a Gatekeeper warning. Most users probably won’t ever see one. And if they do, they can still bypass it for an individual app using the UI. It’s just a bit convoluted (by design).

I administer a bunch of Macs for a university and I actually block the ability to disable or bypass Gatekeeper and nobody has ever complained about it.

You can disable Gatekeeper entirely using the terminal. They just don’t expose the option in the UI anymore (which I think is fine).

I have a PC running Windows 11 Professional that I use exclusively for gaming. It works fine for that and it doesn’t annoy me with OneDrive or Copilot etc.

I’m open to switching to Linux on that machine if Windows starts to annoy me, but as it stands Windows runs all my games without issues and I can’t be arsed messing with things that aren’t broken.

I wouldn’t dream of running Windows on a computer used for anything other than gaming though. Currently I use a Mac as a daily driver, but I’ve also used Linux in the past. The main reason for using macOS is that I spend too much time messing with computers at work to want to do it in my free time too. The Apple ecosystem makes it easy to have everything integrated without much effort. I’m aware it’s probably an unpopular opinion around here.