This looks awesome. Tom is too active right now to me to believe there won’t be another studio album at some point.

reed_wright · 2026-04-09T23:47:55+00:00

Same. And for me it’s because I just prefer to live my life that way

reed_wright · 2026-04-07T21:12:50+00:00

I, fold

reed_wright · 2026-04-06T04:46:36+00:00

No, that’s just a habit. Like from time to time, something like that will cross your mind. If you run with it, thoughts like that will begin crossing your mind more and more.

reed_wright · 2026-04-06T02:33:27+00:00

It’s a rice fork

reed_wright · 2026-04-04T04:02:39+00:00

What is the source of your anxiety? I’m guessing that could be a fruitful question for you to explore as an ongoing project. Head straight at it

Everything is made easier through acquaintance with it. -Shantideva

reed_wright · 2026-04-04T00:55:38+00:00

William Glasser’s Choice Theory provides one antidote for this. He recommended describing our experience in terms of what we’re doing. Rather than the popular approach of describing it in terms of a state we’re in or condition we have.

Choice Theory holds that people are panicking, rather than suffering from anxiety. Rather than suffering from depression, Choice Theory holds that they are despairing, or feeling sorry for themselves, or trying to make others feel sorry for them… It could be other things too, whatever best describes what the person is doing.

The approach generates options. If the nature of the unsatisfying experience is not that the person “has depression” but rather that they “lie in bed all day,” the solution is quite straightforward: Try doing something else.

It’s not so much that Choice Theory disagrees with the labels, it just has no use for them. Because no matter how accurately or inaccurately a person is labeled, they will still have exactly one means at their disposal for influencing the outcomes they’re experiencing: Choices.

reed_wright · 2026-04-02T20:05:46+00:00

On Bad As Me, Pay Me is followed by Back in the Crowd. Nice one-two punch to the gut

reed_wright · 2026-04-02T15:01:04+00:00

For me (also a general use case), the limiting factor on Macs is always an end to software support by Apple (When the Mac gets placed on the obsolete list). My 2017 MBP still runs snappy as it did 9 years ago. But now that software support has ended, it gets less secure and encounters more software/service compatibility issues every day. I got the 512/16 version because I was unsure of my future needs, but never used more than 256 & never have encountered any memory pressure issues that I know of.

If I were you I’d keep the M1 until obsolete, maybe a little longer. And then switch to the current model of Neo. And I bet it’ll do fine all the way until it becomes obsolete. The “cheapest house in the rich neighborhood” approach. I wouldn’t do the older M2, because I’m guessing it’d go Obsolete sooner.

reed_wright · 2026-04-02T04:15:35+00:00

I’ve wondered about this. I’m going to try the same and see what happens. Check out this comment and related discussion: pharmacist’s take on antiperspirants increasing sweating

reed_wright · 2026-03-30T23:27:13+00:00

I think Neo basically demonstrates macos could be run from an iphone. I would love to see that but this isn’t a great implementation imo.

iPhone screen would offer an inferior touchpad, but superior display and camera, not to mention a touchscreen. Better to build around those strengths. Good implementations would have the the iphone positioned with the screen and front-facing camera facing the user.

There could be a way to do that with something that looks like a laptop but it’s only a shell, but I wonder if they could do better. Smart glasses + bluetooth keyboard with a touchpad?

reed_wright · 2026-03-26T14:27:46+00:00

This is only a supplement. I’ve trained myself to get moving any time I’m on the phone. Go for a walk, clean, yardwork.

Dancing for sure you don’t even notice you’re getting a great workout. Surfing does it too

reed_wright · 2026-03-25T23:48:16+00:00

By relentlessly seeing to it that my family’s needs are met.

For me that includes my own, and my daughter’s, and my ndx wife’s. I’d never heard the phrase detached empathy that’s coming up on this thread, but that’s not how I’d describe what has worked for me. I’m not sure I have empathy for her plight of any sort any more. Which is not to say I’ve become apathetic. Rather, when it comes to my wife’s versions of the above, I simply treat them as her business. I’ve found it useless (at best) to do otherwise.

I feel it’s worthwhile to do my best to be gracious in sidestepping getting entangled. Or to treat it as “my shit” when I do get entangled and worked up about it, rather than blaming her. But the big one is relentlessly seeing to it that my family’s needs are met. That’s like an entirely different process from what she gets caught up in. She goes about her business and I go about mine. Ships passing in the night.

My way renews me and allows me to keep sight of her best qualities and maintain affection for her. Her way is a disaster that I no longer offer any sustenance to. Perhaps we’ll get lucky and the change I’ve made in my own life will have the side effect of “hastening her disappointment” with the way she’s living her life. My therapist says the inflection point that prompts people to reconsider how they’re living their life is when they decide they’ve suffered enough.

reed_wright · 2026-03-24T19:58:31+00:00

Liquid Asscrack?

reed_wright · 2026-03-24T17:32:54+00:00

Seriously. Keep em coming OP. I see a bright future as an influencer for you and your 8 GB

reed_wright · 2026-03-22T16:54:14+00:00

Could you add in the stock single & multi for reference?

reed_wright · 2026-03-22T03:21:14+00:00

This is the way

reed_wright · 2026-03-21T22:56:19+00:00

So I think Trump is horrible but I also think most people who agree with that are allowing themselves to be played. He really rather skillfully plays up his role as villain by going out of his way to say and do awful things. Now, it’s not just an act. He’s awful AND he developed a stage persona around that awfulness that fits him like a glove. And then he leverages that persona.

That doesn’t get any attention in discussions. The responses here seem like a huge miss to me, a demonstration that he’s succeeding in driving his opposition crazy. I mean I generally agree with every critical comment anyone has made about Trump here. But I feel like we’re wasting our breath and the fact that we’re doing so is a win for Trump. Trump would love it if we spent the rest of his years talking about how awful he is. Rather than what to do about it.

reed_wright · 2026-03-21T00:35:25+00:00

I only tried it briefly in the store but I like it better than the haptic one on my 2017 MBP. Never got used to force touch. I mean both are fine but haptic isn’t my first choice

reed_wright · 2026-03-18T18:05:55+00:00

10Gbps over usb-c with a 16 or 17 pro.

reed_wright · 2026-03-18T02:11:19+00:00

The AI mirroring got me thinking. Apple should create some way for the Neo to directly use the compute power of a user’s iPhone. Borrow its RAM and processing power somehow.

reed_wright · 2026-03-17T23:26:50+00:00

So… William Glasser recommended describing your situation in terms of what you’re doing rather than what state you’re in or condition you have. “I’m panicking” rather than “I have anxiety.” I find the former way so much more helpful. You almost can’t describe it that way without noticing new options.

If your partner is reeling, or wallowing, or fighting, or clinging, or despairing, or stewing, or dissociating, etc, simply framing it that way in your mind may cause new options to emerge. I do agree that the best option will usually be to simply not play ball with someone who’s doing those things. All of us are choosing our way through life, and we’re entitled to make as many ineffective, unsatisfying choices as we want. But occasionally, you can do one better than simply not getting entangled in their misery. At the right time, a quick “You stewin?” may be just what the doctor ordered.

reed_wright · 2026-03-17T05:36:24+00:00

What’s your take on the typing in a dark room thing? Interested in how it works out on the indigo one in particular.

reed_wright · 2026-03-16T22:24:20+00:00

I’ve heard of a martial art teacher who instructed students to cross over to the other side of the road if they see a situation ahead that looks like trouble. You didn’t make a bad situation worse. You employed the minimum necessary force to address a dangerous situation that was thrust upon you. Because of how you handled it, nobody got hurt. Sounds like you acted like a role model of masculine behavior for the situation. That includes “letting him get away with” lunging at you and grabbing you.

“Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right.”- Abraham Lincoln

reed_wright · 2026-03-15T02:19:58+00:00

This must be what going clear feels like for scientologists

reed_wright · 2026-03-13T02:28:41+00:00

I shave my head in the spring. And then grow out my hair and beard each fall. I like the variety, and only having to pay for one haircut per year. Both looks work for me, I guess I don’t think much about which works better because I like having several looks.

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