Here’s a relevant episode from a parenting podcast I really like, although it may be more relevant to older children than yours:

Your Parenting Mojo - Respectful, research-based parenting ideas to help kids thrive: 142: Division of Responsibility with Ellyn Satter

Episode webpage: https://yourparentingmojo.com/dor

Media file: https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/486c421e-df9c-4e8d-a21b-46d84ce13702/your-parenting-mojo-division-of-responsibility.mp3

Yeah it’s fine. Feed till they express that they’re full. You’re not causing any harm.

Heavily filter what you consume. Following all news is not the morally correct thing to do, and you can cut back on it.

I’m fighting against this by staying off all social media other than Lemmy. All my news comes from a small number of curated sources, and only in RSS feeds (so I get them in time order rather than bullshit news site headlines prioritisation). I use a lot of keyword filters on Lemmy and in my RSS news (Covid, Trump, Biden, most American news, anything that is meaningless to me is blocked before it can show up on my screen).

TLDR news is a particularly good YouTube channel. They have really well presented news and pick out a few important events to report on. I find that’s more than enough for me for news consumption.

RIP Apex on Linux

The world is always on the edge of destruction. There’s always an economic crisis, humanitarian crisis, war, natural disaster, etc going on all the time. Our parents lived in the end of days with the threat of imminent nuclear war, endlessly rising violent crime and endless spread of HIV.

The real problem is how news is reported and talked about. How society panics and turns on each other on public forums. How all sense of community is lost and individual consumption is all that matters.

I’m fighting against this by staying off all social media other than Lemmy. All my news comes from a small number of curated sources, and only in RSS feeds (so I get them in time order rather than bullshit news site headlines prioritisation). I use a lot of keyword filters on Lemmy and in my RSS news (Covid, Trump, Biden, most American news, anything that is meaningless to me is blocked immediately).

Also, embrace Nihilism. All of this is meaningless. If the world is going to end, then tomorrow is as good a day as any for it to end. Do what you value in the time you have. Maybe even stop following news completely. Build tolerance and acceptance in your mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jluMqvuQYls

Really worth listening to this podcast as well. It’s a guy teaching corporate teams to make best use of AI. He goes over how to use it to get really great use by using it as a discussion rather than just asking it a question and expecting and accurate answer in the first instance

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2024/02/19/yanss-281-how-a-pernicious-cognitive-bias-limits-our-ability-to-use-chatbots-properly-and-to-overcome-it/

AI has been most useful for tech support for me. I wouldn’t have been able to switch to Linux completely if AI didn’t instantly find solutions for me, rather than being told by the community to read tomes of documentation.

I also use it a lot to find how to get office apps to do what I want.

I’m famous at work for being a poet, when I actually just ask AI to write a short witty poem.

You can use image generators to make nice personalised cards to share on special events.

AI can make mind maps and things like that if you tell it what you want.

Do any of these services make recommendations for what you can watch next? The way Last.fm shows what other similar people like…it would be good to have something like that for TV and movies tailored to my tastes.

A YouTuber explained it as follows:

On Linux, Anti cheat runs on the user level. The cheaters are on Windows and spoof their OS as Linux, so they can run anti cheat on the user level, not flag as suspicious and then run kernel level cheat software.

I have no technical knowledge myself, have no idea of this is true and will not be able to answer questions about this.

I came to Lemmy just looking for a Reddit alternative. I think this is a superior forum system with user scoring and nested comments. But I do love that it is open and federated and I’m glad to be rid of Reddit completely.

I am a huge tech nerd and love doing these things as side projects (but I prefer making hardware). I like making stuff so the things I’ve been making/setting up are:

• Setting up a R.Pi as a retro gaming console
• R.Pi Kodi media player
• Putting together a hotswap keyboard from a kit
• Migrating to privacy alternatives and degoogling my life
• Migrating to Linux
• Making a fight game controller from scratch
• Making a custom keyboard with soldering and custom layout (and then again for having the same keyboard at work)
• Building a new gaming PC
• Getting a synology NAS and going down the Docker rabbit hole
• Making another fight game controller…or 3

Now I’m planning making a DIY microphone for MS Teams meetings

Is this thing with unsupported bands ever an issue outside USA? It isn’t a problem I’ve ever encountered in using any phone abroad or heard people of any other could try talk about.

Very much worthwhile. Pick up Slay the Spire while you’re at it.

It’s all porn. Always has been.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/poop-knife

So I guess the poop knife hardly ever gets used in your house then.

“Rick and roll” 😆

My 3 year old’s pretend play is the best to listen in to. He has little Batman and Joker figurines.

Batman: Joker, you’re going to jail.

Joker: awww :(

Batman: now I’m going to go down this slide, weeee.

I’ve obtained the Lego Batman movie to watch with him and I think it may be just his kind of thing.

You’ve basically described my situation exactly. I built a PC 6 months ago for Linux. I distro-hopped for a good while and settled on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Now I’ve put OpenSUSE on my laptop too. I would highly recommend it.

I went for an AMD GPU and have never had any problems with it. Linux is not as painless as Lemmy would have you believe though. Be prepared to learn some hard lessons and keep your data physically disconnected from the PC while you do it.

You’ve asked about WiFi drivers further down…on my PC, the only distros that had the correct WiFi drivers out of the box were EndeavourOS and ZorinOS. The rest all needed wired LAN to get them going.

I thought HTTPS everywhere was baked into browsers now and didn’t need to be installed anymore? Is that not correct?

Search is great?

One of my biggest issues with Thunderbird is that I can never find emails I want.