I prefer pull vs push media. Less intrusive. I have a feeling lemmy users may also like RSS feeds for the control it provides. I know in mastodon you decide who to follow, but the whole culture to encourage re-blogging means a lot of potential unwanted crap in our feeds.
I had to create a “if you add one, you sell one” rule after running out of shelf space.
European expansion is worth it! I like the round end goals!
You raise good points. The expensive part for me was the discovery aspect. Once you know what you like it’s not bad but the learning part…trying all the different greens and oolongs and pu’er and black teas - that was a little nuts at the beginning.
Now I have about 10 varieties that I like for different occasions and I stick to those and it’s not too bad.
Biggest splurge for me was an ember mug. Im a little embarrassed by how expensive it was, but honestly no regrets. Perfect temp tea for hours.
I have! …then full circle back to grandpa style. I still use a gaiwan from time to time on the weekend but I like bringing a container up with me at my desk without needing to refill constantly.
Similar but different : tea! You go from cheap bagged tea to going down the rabbit hole of loose leaf variations, temp control kettles, brewing vessels and brewing styles.
This handy aspirin holder. Could save the life of someone having a heart attack. https://www.saveaheart.ca/
I mix them. Not sure if this is weird or common. Honey Nut Cheerios and Rice Krispies are a good combo. Vectors with Rice Krispies too. Alone: Golden Grahams.
Hidden Brain, Search Engine, The Knowledge Project
It’s great for quinoa, farro and couscous too. Love our tiger rice cooker, it’s a work horse!
Little things that make solo hikes even more enjoyable:
I’m not sure what you mean by the source. In this case Ground News is an app.
There are daily news podcasts if you like consuming information that way. Apple News , AP News and Ground News are good news aggregates. Reuters has a cool app where you get to pick the amount of time you have (5 minutes to 30 minutes I think ) and it shows you the top stories in video format. RSS feeds of your favourite news sites with a RSS app like Feedly.
Random list but I am told I am a unpaid ambassador for:
The natural world. Both at the micro level of looking at the symbiosis between tiny insects and plants, to the macro of untouched natural landscapes. Also clouds! We forget to look up and see how cool clouds are.
News apps, RSS feeds and online communities.
Apple News is decent in that you can pick and choose your interests and hide certain news sources. Associated Press AP News app is great too. I’m in Canada so I also have the CBC and CTV apps. For RSS, I use Feedly app. It has a good discovery mechanism but most the time I manually add urls of sites I want to follow.
Other than that, I get shared links in different slack workspaces and discord servers.
Love Libby!
I used to have the “Apple for hardware , google for software” mentality. I’d use google mail, calendar, maps, drive, chrome…on my apple products.
But recently I’ve noticed myself slowly migrate to Apple. I have Apple One family (not premier ) which is worth it IMO.
Apple Maps feels less invasive than Google maps and they’ve upped their game recently.
Safari has become my default browser with Ecosia as the default search engine. Love that Safari shares tabs across devices.
I still have Google mail and calendar installed though. I prefer the UI.
The copy paste ability across devices is something I use daily too.
I went down the rabbit hole of stoicism 15 years ago when I had a lot of existential anxiety and while it didn’t miraculously help, it really did nudge me into a new path over time.
Small things like not focussing on happiness as a goal, having a momento mori around and taking the time to stop and think about its meaning when I’m overthinking. Doing the negative visualizations on rough days.
It’s more than a philosophy. It’s a good self help tool to have in your tool belt.
Same with great results! Especially if you have hard water.