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Cake day: 2025年3月12日

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  • When you are calmer, take time to sit down with your son and apologize for your anger and outbursts. Explain gently to him that you sometimes have bad days just like he does, and that you can get overwhelmed too, but that your anger in those moments doesn’t mean that he is bad or that you don’t love him when he makes mistakes. Take the moment to sit and breathe with him, explain that the way to calm down during and after scary, stressful, angry moments is to find a quiet place, and breathe slowly, about 20-50 times. (Or lookup “box breathing”- in for 4 sec, hold for 4 sec, out in 4 sec, hold for 4 sec. Repeat until you feel more calm/normalized/less stressed. Doesn’t have to be 4, can be 3-5 depending on what feels safe. If it brings up emotions or memories that can happen, focus on breathing to get stable first) Sit there and do it with him. Actually do it yourself too, and let him practice with you; you can turn this from a sad scary incident into a new practice(game, strategy, technique, tool, whatever you want to call it) that helps both of you, and if you make it a habit with your children they will prosper and when you aren’t present (later @ school, outside, teen years etc) they will have this tool that you made for and with them, and they would remember you for your love and care to sit with then now and it can change their trajectory for positive outcomes. It will also help you: if you get stressed you would have the same tool with you to help stabilize yourself, and then you can be more effective at doing everything that you do because you’re more calm.

    This is important to do because if you establish a pattern of anger without explaining and apologizing your kids might grow up to not only have their own anger issues but also have a strained relationship with you because they aren’t sure why you get angry. They will interpret it as “mistakes cause anger”, and embody that; they may not take it out on others (they may hit themselves or internally hate themselves instead), but overall the anger issues will persist if you don’t try to acknowledge it.

    I had a father who I know loved me, I know he got frustrated with issues when we were growing up. And yet I have a deep-rooted anger that he instilled in me because his response to stress and fear was explosive rage, and the result for children is 1) they blame themselves and 2) they repeat it unless they work on it consciously. He also apologized after being angry, and yet did not work in his anger, wouldn’t work on it with others. I grew to expect empty apologies from him, ultimately I couldn’t trust his words because he didn’t back them with action.

    All this is to say you definitely have good reasons to be angry, thats a shitty situation put on you because your wife ignored what you said, then expected you to fix her mistakes/lack on action. I dont know what headway you can make with an adult who may or may not be receptive to your words and voice, but your children are at the age when your voice is their god. Yelling makes an impact: I carry a bellowing, rage-fueled voice in my head everywhere, I have to fight it in myself. I wish my father had the presence of mind and humility to be open to working on it - it’s ok to show vulnerability to your children (if you worry about judgments know that that comes from adults, not young children. The children are sponges just trying to learn how the world works, how to behave, how to handle the scary stressful things. If someone judges you for honestly trying in this way, fuck em; do it anyway!)


  • Yes, until they lock down the software by pushing out the smaller people via certification requirements, specific signing methods, and branded closed-source apps while gating the open source repositories however they can try.

    I’m not saying all this to deter adoption btw, this is just how it seems to go: the public puts work into something to make it good it gets co-opted by corps and they enshittify whilst marketing it to the world, so everyone gets in with 1 idea and it changes to the same old mess.




  • The same way they got their shitty software into everything: deals with producers. Your mom/aunt isn’t going to build her own pc/phone, theyre going to buy what they can at the store, which would be something sold by dell or HP or whomever, who cut a deal to discount some price by including McAfee or printer-easy-setup-utilities that advertise new ink or printers.



  • Having the time to dick around and get a linux distro up to my current speed with windows. Or someone else making a distro that mirrors windows 10 capabilities, and utilities (even mundane things like control panel and it’s branches to other settings) and verbose explanations of functionality in the onboard help docs or subtext of options. Or an onboard llm asshole like clippy that can be conversed with om how to accomplish something the linux way.

    I think what the linux community misses or forgets is that windows became popular partly because it held people’s hands so much. If linux users want to see the year of linux come to fruition they need to make the distros walk people through a task instead of pointing at the wall and saying “up”.

    Conversely I think the linux world says they want everyone to use it but I wonder if they actually want that: everyone using linux means the computing and advertising world pivots and makes linux equivalents of everything, including all the gate keeping, scummy business, malware/adware/tracking…







  • Without rigging or a gantry you would likely not be able to do it yourself. Think of what you would want were you constructing this out of long thin toothpicks outside: a gust of wind would move things out of alignment and you would have to leave your current spot to go readjust, that would still happen with the thin aluminum stilts/arches/siding.

    That being said if you approach it with that in mind and are prepared to make hangman-style small gantrys or arms to hold things in place while you get to the spot to secure them then you could probably do it on your own over a few days.

    If you don’t have the instructions don’t try to build it from nothing, go look for the same model online and find instructions so you can tell which bolts go where, and to get an idea of what brackets, holding arms, and loose tie-downs you would have to make and use to align things while you move yourself, tools, and ladder around the structure.