So many people look at my disaster of a room and say things like "You must like living like that.". No! I hate it! I crave order, I need order, but I am unable to create and maintain order on a scale that big. You can see it in the fact there are meticulously arranged spots in my room. It's the best I can do. If I could make my brain organize and clean, this place would have things fucking alphabetized, and stuff perfectly aligned... I'm in hell
I also live with OCD. I struggle to tolerate speakers not being aligned. Ya think I want to be ankle deep in junk?! No! I am constantly overwhelmed and overstimulated by this disaster, but help isn't available. I used to escape it by occasionally spending the night on the couch, but my current roommates don't allow that.
@hellomiakoda When my wife was able-bodied, we were already losing so many battles. Once she became disabled, we lost the war.
I hate looking at our house. I hate the piles. I hate how we have "stuffalanches" because everything is "precariously perched" and an errant bump can cause a mess. I hate the hundreds of tiny boxes, many unopened from the period when my wife was becoming disabled but couldn't admit it and kept buying so many things for her hobbies.
I hate so much of it.
It's overwhelming and demoralizing.
I take care of my wife. I take care of our cats. I do my job so we have money and insurance. Sometimes, I take care of myself. I try to take care of myself. But I feel like it doesn't matter.
I can't take care of this house. I never could.
We need to move. To a safer, non-red state, to a smaller house, to an assisted living place maybe.
There is so much to do to make this house sellable. I can't do it. She can't do it.
It’s their version of a death wish wrapped in delusions of glory, projected onto all of us. But we’re guilty too, guilty of inaction, being distracted, unwilling to upset our routines, allowing these atrocities to continue, because we can’t be bothered It’s just too much for many of us to deal with, because the solution involves pain and we’d rather just let it slide, until the pain becomes too unbearable, when we’re in for a real national roller coaster ride.
“In recent years AI models like Nvidia’s Parakeet and OpenAI’s Whisper, both open source, have made great strides in turning human voices into text. Both excel at correctly adding things like punctuation and capitalisation, and you can run them right on your computer. The problem? They’re both a little complicated to set up. That’s where Handy comes in. This is a dead-simple, totally free application that can set up either of these models on your computer and give you a keyboard shortcut to use it.”
So whilst Handy may wo
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“In recent years AI models like Nvidia’s Parakeet and OpenAI’s Whisper, both open source, have made great strides in turning human voices into text. Both excel at correctly adding things like punctuation and capitalisation, and you can run them right on your computer. The problem? They’re both a little complicated to set up. That’s where Handy comes in. This is a dead-simple, totally free application that can set up either of these models on your computer and give you a keyboard shortcut to use it.”
So whilst Handy may work well on some other desktop environments on Linux, I had quite a few issues trying to get it to work on Wayland. For a start, I had to run an environment variable before it would actually even display the window (WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 ). The suggestion to use wtype for the paste insertion did not work for me under Wayland at all as it gave this: [ERROR] Failed to paste transcription: wtype failed: Compositor does not support the virtual keyboard protocol. I had to use the one called dotool.
When I tried to use the direct paste method, it kept chopping off the first character, but did insert it where it was supposed to be. In the end, I found the best thing that actually worked was to use no paste method, and I just press control V myself after I finished speaking. So for this to work, you also want to change the setting for Clipboard Handling from Don’t Modify to Copy to Clipboard.
It’s really not ideal, but I must admit, I suppose if you’ve got quite a bit that you need to type, then it actually can be quicker to use handy and just do one or two basic edits. For other types of text entry though, it might still be better to be able to have that precise control you have when typing on a keyboard.
For other types of text entry though, it might still be better to be able to have that precise control you have when typing on a keyboard. I’ve actually dictated this post using Handy to enter the text here. And I must say that the grammar and everything is quite precise with all the commas in the right places and so on. So yes, it can actually save you a bit of time. Even when you need to pause to think, it actually removes that, or should I say, just dictates it correctly without the pauses. So for me that’s quite handy because I pause quite a bit to think sometimes, and that might not work with some voice dictation, especially if they think you’ve got to the end you know of your sentence. But also from this you can see it does become a bit long-winded when you’re thinking aloud. So still I probably might just revert to anyway just using my keyboard for text entry.
But your mileage may vary. There are versions offered for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
This is extralegal and extrajudicial: no declaration of war, no clear congressional or UN authorization, no due process. Unilateral seizure of a foreign head of state shreds sovereignty and international law. > Maduro and wife captured by Delta washingtonpost.com/world/2026/…
I don't care. But, like MAGA likes to say, FAFO cuts both ways. Actions have consequences. Probably at the ballot box. I won't vote for Trump again for doing this. I'm sure I'm not alone.
@FourOh-LLC @truthbait I'm only talking about the illegal capture of a leader of a sovereign nation. Anybody could have done this and I would be appalled. Obama could have done it Carter could have done it JFK could have done it and I would be completely appalled. It says if Putin were to go ahead and swoop down and abduct Zelenskyy and his wife It's exactly the same.
First of all, I doubt you EVER voted for Trump. I voted for Trump three times.
Next, look into the future and see Trump is gone in 3 years, and Maduro stays for the next 30 years.
You are trying to institutionalize MORALITY just like all the fucking losers on every side of Political History. In the good old Roman times slaves were crucified for miles and miles on both sides of Roman roads. Trump could still do the same, I hope he does.
Vladislaw the Implaer did impale all sort of prisoners - prisoners of war, political opponents, and cry babies over "injustice".
Complain on Bluesky where they still pretend to care about "morality".
@FourOh-LLC @truthbait You make me so happy. I love that you think that I'm some sort of moralistic left-wing libtard. It makes me feel like I'm in the center of the boat. I spend so much time being chastised for being a right-wing MAGA freak that I really enjoy your derisement and your despisement with great Glee. I'm getting my Christmas wish a little bit late but late is better than never so thank you and Happy New years to you sir.
@FourOh-LLC @truthbait I’m economically right and socially agnostic. I believe markets, incentives, and scarcity are real, and ignoring them breaks systems. I don’t want the state parenting adults or libertarian fantasy worlds that deny enforcement. Order is a prerequisite for liberty. I care less about moral theater and more about institutions that function without lying about tradeoffs.
I worked in manufacturing for my entire life, and while you read and wrote I experienced. People are lazy fucks, and nothing will change that. Most of them a re lazy AND stupid fucks, and will vote for Communism any day.
Trump & his allies are seizing Venezuela's oil for themselves. Trump himself has been stating his intentions for some time, despite occasionally providing other narratives for the inevitable intervention.
Any news outlet reporting anything else, or suggesting that this is in any way for the benefit of the American people, the international community, or about the "rule of law", is willfully parroting regime propaganda and not an outlet you can trust.
How convenient when your ‘King of the World’ and can dictate crimes as benefits yourself and you have a powerful military ready to do your bidding. This is so fucked. You might add “we’re so fucked, some of us are just too stupid to know it.” It feels like a break from reality as I know it. 🔥🤬
Chevron, the only major U.S. oil producer in Venezuela, has been a leading donor to the International Republican Institute, a nonprofit that supported the political opposition in the country. Former opposition leader Juan Guaidó pledged to protect oil giant's assets in 2019.
Chevron has been a loyal donor to the International Republican Institute, a nonprofit with ties to the U.S. Republican party that has worked for decades to strengthen the political opposition in Venezuela.
I built this clothes rail that can be clipped outside on #Ikea #Pax sliding doors, so I have a place to hang fresh clothes while I‘m sorting what‘s inside the wardrobe. As it turns out it fails after being fully loaded for a few weeks (as in „after being used as an extension of the wardrobe with a massive load“). This is a good thing™️ because it failed before the sliding door hardware failed. Something always will give in the end, it‘s good if that‘s a part that can be fixed easily.
Miakoda
in reply to 🌈 vanta rainbow black: Legendary Defender Of The Fediverse 🌈 • • •I want this as billboards all over!
Miakoda
in reply to 🌈 vanta rainbow black: Legendary Defender Of The Fediverse 🌈 • • •No! I hate it!
I crave order, I need order, but I am unable to create and maintain order on a scale that big. You can see it in the fact there are meticulously arranged spots in my room. It's the best I can do.
If I could make my brain organize and clean, this place would have things fucking alphabetized, and stuff perfectly aligned...
I'm in hell
Miakoda
in reply to Miakoda • • •I am constantly overwhelmed and overstimulated by this disaster, but help isn't available.
I used to escape it by occasionally spending the night on the couch, but my current roommates don't allow that.
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in reply to Miakoda • • •@hellomiakoda
I feel a little bit better about myself.
It's a mental illness, not a personal failing.
But.
My house is still a fucking hoarder disaster and my wife and I still have to live here.
"How did you let this happen?"
"One day at a time."
Miakoda
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in reply to Miakoda • • •@hellomiakoda
When my wife was able-bodied, we were already losing so many battles. Once she became disabled, we lost the war.
I hate looking at our house. I hate the piles. I hate how we have "stuffalanches" because everything is "precariously perched" and an errant bump can cause a mess. I hate the hundreds of tiny boxes, many unopened from the period when my wife was becoming disabled but couldn't admit it and kept buying so many things for her hobbies.
I hate so much of it.
It's overwhelming and demoralizing.
I take care of my wife. I take care of our cats. I do my job so we have money and insurance. Sometimes, I take care of myself. I try to take care of myself. But I feel like it doesn't matter.
I can't take care of this house. I never could.
We need to move. To a safer, non-red state, to a smaller house, to an assisted living place maybe.
There is so much to do to make this house sellable. I can't do it. She can't do it.
We will die here.