My latest LTS upgrade ended up completely breaking my RAID partitions. I had to completely reinstall everything. It took me days. This was not a smooth experience.
Isn't it perfectly normal/healthy to keep some of your private feelings totally private? Your best friends/spouses shouldn't necessarily be your psychotherapists.
Having kept a diary/journal since 1993 and reading old entries daily, I'm struck by how we often see the past through rose-tinted glasses. The opposite is also true: I tend to forget happy moments from long ago.
Kurzweil's book "The Singularity is Near" was published in 2005 and at the time he placed the technological singularity in 2045, so 40 years in the future. He said it was "near", because most people thought at the time that either it would never happen or it would happen in thousands or millions of years.
I've been suffering of anxiety for decades. Nothing really serious. I stopped caffeine for one month in 2022, cold turkey. No coffee. No tea. No chocolate. I stopped alcohol as well (I don't drink much, so it wasn't really hard). I track a lot of things daily and during this abstinence period, my anxiety didn't decrease. On the contrary, it (very slightly) increased. This, of course, was not a controlled/blinded experiment, the duration was rather short (1 month), N=1, and I actually did two experiments at the same time (caffeine + alcohol), which is not optimal.
In summary, my conclusion is that I prefer drinking coffee (max 2-3 small cups daily, in the morning) than not.
Still, I'd like to try the experiment again in the future and stop caffeine for a longer period this time (3 months?).
In Europe at least, where most (?) transmissions are still manual, you will still get way more noise from an ICE vehicle than an electric vehicle at low speed. This is my experience everywhere here in cities, on small roads, etc. This is largely caused by the fact that people tend to not drive in an optimal manner (i.e. using a low gear instead of a higher one).
