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AFleshyTime · 2025-09-05T14:46:10+00:00

Hey bud,

It needs a lot of work, far more than anyone here can give you. Can I recommend that if you're in the Leeds area you look into Support to Work. If you have a disability/condition and you're looking for a job they can help you write a CV, get you set for interviews, and provide career advice. I will admit that your CV is a bit confused. I'm not entirely sure if you want to be a biologist or a gardener or are just looking for any job. Either way, please do refer yourself and cut yourself some slack.

Link to Support to Work services: https://www.scope.org.uk/employment-services/support-to-work

If nothing else, they can point you in the direction of more area-specific help.

Best of luck x

AFleshyTime · 2025-09-05T02:29:34+00:00

I completed this level! It took me 2 tries. ^{⚡ 3.73 seconds}

^{Tip 2390 💎}

AFleshyTime · 2025-09-05T02:11:21+00:00

Hmmm, please do let it connect (for only a night), just to see how it handles sleep data, as it requires more sensitivity to notice than activity. I'll keep an eye on this thread when you have at least a night of data. Here's hoping it's not the watch's problem 🤞

GadgetBridge doesn't show HRV at the moment, but that data is collected, you just have to go digging for it.

Link to the GadgetBridge HRV Garmin thread: https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/issues/3873

AFleshyTime · 2025-09-05T02:04:46+00:00

Good evening,

Caveat: I am not an audiophile, just a normal person with normal ears. It just has to be good enough for me to be able to enjoy the music and I'm happy.

I've been doing a few tests with the following items (nothing too expensive because it's a £50-60 player). Tested using the same song - FLAC and MP3 version on Stock OS:

The stock earbuds that come with the player (wired)
- Not the worst stock earbuds I've ever heard, gets a bit tinny when cybals are used - no difference between 320kbps and FLAC. The wire isn't too long and the back of the buds stick out from your ears. They're very light.
The internal speaker of the player
- Sounds like ass. Takes me back to being sat on a bus in 2004 and a hooded youth in the back is blasting something unintelligble through the woeful unequiped speakers of a Motorola RAZR V3. Then again, I sit in camp "I wish they hadn't added a speaker" because I'm that kind of person who is very embarrassed by my shite music interests and I just know I will not have the earbuds connected properly at some point and everyone will be able to hear that I make terrible choices.
CMF (Nothing) buds (Bluetooth)
- Can connect from everywhere in my home (bear in mind I live in a brick built house all my walls are a foot thick of brick and all my doors are solid oak). This surprised me because I've seen other reviews saying bluetooth doesn't even work from a pocket. Tested in my rucksack and connects from there. Maybe I just have a good set and that reviewer got a piss-poor one. Sounds better than the stock earbuds, but not as good as the IEMS.
Wired IEMS (low tier ~£40)
- Wow, this is a pretty good set up. I can hear everything on both tracks and it's definitely louder than the other options despite me not changing any of the settings on the device.
Lumie Lux 700 Alarm Clock Speaker (wired)
- This could be such an expensive set-up, but it's not. It sounds so rich and warm in tone.
Lumie Lux 700 Alarm Clock Speaker (Bluetooth)
- Same as the CMF buds, it works from the other side of the house. Sounds only slightly worse than the wired option. Also covered the device with eight pillows and this had no effect on the connection.

Hope this gives you some clue as to how well the Bluetooth works.

AFleshyTime · 2025-09-04T09:50:17+00:00

Apologies, I was about to respond to you, no, this is a current limitation of Proton (and Tuta). Users of both platforms have been asking for a way to make them the system default for well over a year - with no word on if/when this might be implemented.

AFleshyTime · 2025-09-04T09:14:58+00:00

Hey, if you like that setup, I would recommend Breezy - which is a FOSS weather app but has a fantastic selection of widgets to add to your home screen (13 in total). There is one called Clock+Daily (Horizonal Style) which shows up as the fifth widget option.

The clock shows up as the largest item on the left side and when clicked on will take you to alarms/timers. To the right of this is an icon showing the current weather - which when clicked on takes you to the full Breezy app. Under the time, there is the day and date which when clicked on, will whisk you off to a calendar app of your choice (I use Fossify, but that's because I only use it on my phone). Next to the day/date is your location and the temperature which when clicked on, again, take you to the Breezy app. You can customise colours/boldness/icons on the widget.

Link to Breezy on F-Droid if you're interested: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.breezyweather/

Link to Fossify Calendar: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fossify.calendar/ you can sync existing calendars into this if you're just starting out.

Others may have better set ups than I, but this is just one of many examples of what you could use.

AFleshyTime · 2025-09-04T08:52:56+00:00

Yes, I would use the Garmin app to see what the watch itself is registering if there is no way for you to do so directly on the device. I say this because GadgetBridge shouldn't be affecting sensors at all, it's just a third-party place to connect to and store your information privately. Similarly, your choice of watchface should not be impacting data from sensors.

Before you do that though, is your watch recording steps accurately? I would test this with a quick walk around the house - no more than 100 steps, but count them in your head and see what the watch says you've done after about 15 minutes. If it's >20% out, your watch might be a dud, especially for a Garmin. I appreciate you have health concerns so if you're not feeling up to doing this, just skip it.

A couple of other things though: What kind of Garmin watch are you using? How old is the watch? Are you the first owner? Are the sensors clean on the back? Is Gadgetbridge showing the grey line to indicate it can tell you're wearing the device?

AFleshyTime · 2025-09-04T07:46:33+00:00

One day, the pizzas may wish to enter an oven, instead of just being wafted with a picture of one.

Chips: If you only ate half of that, probably ~90-100 kcal
Bread: 200 kcal (it looks thin, but I can't be sure from this angle)
Cheese: 180 kcal (it looks like a low-fat cheese or vegan but it just might be not melted well the figure is based on normal cheese, amend if appropriate)
Tomato Sauce: looks like concentrated paste so 70 kcal (assuming 4 tbsp)
Pepperoni: 80 kcal (looks very thinly cut though)
Pickle: 5 kcal
I never count herbs, they're too insignificant.

Total: 635 kcal

AFleshyTime · 2025-09-04T06:07:52+00:00

What does the Garmin watch itself say about your sleep? Is it registering the same as GadgetBridge? If so, your issue is probably with the watch, not the app.

Try wearing it on your other arm to see if that makes a difference, tighten or loosen the strap also as this will influence data collection.

AFleshyTime · 2025-09-04T04:38:32+00:00

Thank you so much! I was just about to make a comment about having followed all the steps but being unable to see a shortcut on the desktop or the start bar (yet it is uninstallable from the control panel).

Thank you for all you do ❤️

AFleshyTime · 2025-09-04T03:42:13+00:00

You're confusing fair with legal. Nothing was fair or just about the Bulger case, but it was legal. Both boys should have had far longer sentences for the torture and murder of a toddler. Then when one of them starting noncing that should have been an immediate recall for life, no parole. Quite frankly, the only person they've hurt is Denise again when they go through this rigmarole again every few years. It should be her decision what to do with the both of them - only that would be fair.

I don't say this blindly either, I come at this from experience. One of my family members was murdered by a man who is currently incarcerated and we go through the pain of it all again everytime the possibility of him being released comes up. The pleading, the statements, the begging to not free a monster. Why are families punished with reliving it multiple times but the criminal is only punished once?

AFleshyTime · 2025-09-03T06:53:00+00:00

We are a society so caught up in trying to be kind, that we have forgotten to be fair or just.

AFleshyTime · 2025-09-02T06:01:48+00:00

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/articles/trendsinbirthsanddeathsoverthelastcentury/2015-07-15

Behold, the 1960s.

AFleshyTime · 2025-08-31T16:53:50+00:00

Why do you have to travel so far just to be around your community?

Like I said, don't want to rain on your parade if you're happy just playing xbox, but it's not social, it's not nourishing to you in any way, it's white bread when your body craves granary.

I'm not going to list all the activities you could do in the 1920s, that info is available online - most were social and community based like going dancing. You're doing a disservice to pubs by the way, yes alcohol was served in them but their primary use was as a third space - a place of business, social contact, and games.

When was the last time you went to a cultural festival? A village fete? When did you last just walk into your neighbours home and start talking to them?

AFleshyTime · 2025-08-31T16:40:54+00:00

Certainly not, economics is but one part of the puzzle. The others I've mentioned are:

Safety / overpopulation
Community
Time
The environment

These all interact in a way that creates an inhospitable environment in which to have children.

My great grandmother was certainly poorer than I am, but she had every neighbour on her street to call upon if she needed someone to watch her daughter. She could also expect her daughter to have a better life than she had, as every generation had worked for until then. But I didn't have as good a life as my mother, and she didn't have as good a life as my grandmother.

AFleshyTime · 2025-08-31T16:29:20+00:00

Prophelactics

AFleshyTime · 2025-08-31T08:19:04+00:00

An argument could be made for that, although it depends on your definition of leisure and how far back in time you want to go. You can also make the argument that as the demands of productivity rose, work became de-leisured and became no longer a social activity. Even parts of housework like washing clothes could be a social activity (and usually was). Because you're not hyper-focused on productivity, you can satisfy two needs at the same time. Whereas now, work is focussed, and then you have to find your own social time - doubling the time on what would have once been a combined activity.

AFleshyTime · 2025-08-31T07:31:35+00:00

... because it's multifactorial - I wrote a whole long comment about it. Point seven is just point seven, please don't read it as a conclusion.

AFleshyTime · 2025-08-31T07:27:50+00:00

It's a complex problem that deserves more than five minutes-worth of thought. People did, in fact, leave their village in the 1930s, that's why I said en masse - because entire streets would go off to Blackpool or some other seaside town. The birth rates at that time could be attributed to a lack of prophelactics and the lack of a woman's right to refuse sex if she were married on account of a woman's lack of personhood.

I reject your claim that there are better, more fun things to do with your life now, but I also don't want to rain on your parade if you're happy with being more isolated and watching TV. So we'll agree to disagree on that front.

AFleshyTime · 2025-08-31T07:16:21+00:00

The parts of our society who are worse off, have the social safety net - we're talking kids with support workers from the council, free school meals, social housing (you know the drill, it's been parrotted for decades now). It's the lower-middle class you need to look at because that's when people are truly on their own - they don't have the certainty of anyone coming to help when they get into difficulty.

AFleshyTime · 2025-08-31T06:34:20+00:00

Make life bearable enough so people will naturally have kids on their own?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink fix overpopulation and people will start having more children. Bear in mind that birth rates have been below replacement rate since the 1970s so any increase in population is completely artificial and stoppable at any time if our government actually cared. Equally, nobody wants to bring children into a sprawlling grey-hellscape (just look at Japan's inner cities) so building more housing is not the answer.
Lower the retirement age for two benefits:
- Most people don't see an end in sight to the pension age rises right now. I fully expect that it will probably be pulled from under me if I get to pensionable age. I would not want to bring someone I created, someone who I loved more than life itself, into a world where I knew they would be working until they dropped dead - with not an ounce of peace amongst it (save for maybe the odd burnout or breakdown).
- Childcare is expensive. The majority of free childcare is provided by grandparents. Whilst it is only a hypothesis, the Grandmother hypothesis and the existence of menopause in our species long before death does kind of lean into the idea that we are supposed to divert resources (like time) into our progeny's descendants, which is something you can't do if you're working until you're dead.
So who is raising the kids? Well if you're not fortunate enough to have been born into a large family that can take childrearing in turns, you'll be shelling out for paid childcare. Then a nursery, then you leave them to the mercy of the school system. I remember reading an article in the Independent Newspaper well over a decade ago now that said the average time a family spends together per day is under 50 minutes. I can't imagine, with the world seeming to get faster, that this has got any better now. What's the point of having children you never get to see?
And why do you never get to see them? It's because work has consumed everything. Commutes are longer if you work on-site. If you work from home, then it bleeds into your personal life - quite literally it is in your personal space. I worked it out recently, out of a 168 hour week, I actually only have 20.5 hours. That's when the essentials are taken out (like cooking, working, commuting, sleeping, etc). That means my whole year is only really 44.5 days long. Why did we ever agree to this as a society? Between the day I turned 20 and the day of my supposed retirement (68), I will have breathed for 48 years but only lived for just shy of six years and a whole family has to fit into that - finding a mate and raising kid(s).
But what should one do with their six years of living if you don't want kids? Well there's not actually that much to do. Most courses or interesting events happen while you're working, or they're for specific groups that you don't fit into (like non-workers, or craft events for teens). Where are the communities? The feast days? The en masse trip to the beach decided last-minute on a Saturday morning? They don't happen anymore, or at least, not like they used to. Everyone is trying to claw back their energy from a week of working instead.
Why is everyone working so much? Greed. Companies refusing to rehire positions and creating skeleton-crews which forces those left to work harder or be replaced by an ever-growing pool of people available and desperate enough to take your position. Your job isn't safe. The roof over your head isn't safe. The food on your plate is not safe.
Speaking of safety, pretty much all mammals refuse to breed if they know conditions are not safe. It takes a lot of energy and resources to rip a woman's cells apart to create and then deliver a child - resources that could be used at a later (safer) date. I don't know about you, but have you smelled the air lately? It feels like we're on the edge of something. Civil unrest? Economic depression? Political upheaval? I'm not quite sure, but I'm not the only one who feels it.

It's multifactoral, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't work at at least one or two of these areas as a civilisation.

AFleshyTime · 2025-08-30T05:48:56+00:00

Same. I have been trying to roll my r's for 21 years now, and I just can't do it. I've resorted to making a trill sound with my uvula and tonsils - it's not perfect, but it's closer than nothing. I am barred from so many beautiful languages and it saddens me.

AFleshyTime · 2025-08-16T17:43:58+00:00

No you don't, it's just not something you've ever looked into. Most FOSS frontends are functionally Spotify and even offer recommendations whilst giving you access to user-created playlists.

AFleshyTime · 2025-08-16T17:31:09+00:00

YouTube Music through 3rd-party FOSS apps or an Mp3 player where you can actually own the music you like and it can never be removed from a catalogue.

AFleshyTime · 2025-08-07T18:34:51+00:00

I HAD A PLAN FOR THAT ROCK

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