I just went to the doctor the next day and got medication

If it were that easy sure, but it doesn't work that way here (certainly not walk-ins, phone doesn't work for me). That was my thinking when replying to your top-level comment, that most people (in the US at least) will have more trouble getting there.

I'm well aware, I ride my bike on a trail (though not many destinations and heat can be an issue) and I even reorganized my room recently. Though it seems like it's impossible to control/sustain.

For me (carless) it's more about the distance to even picking up medication (more-so care esp not-the-closest-hospital), paperwork and appointments, time slots and waiting lists. Family is anti-doctor. Many of my issues likely won't be helped much by standard medical options, even depression (particularly when something like a personality disorder is part of it) already seems like a coin flip.

Also with the current administration I don't trust that if I got started I'd still have access before getting stable (plus you cannot just take a break from most brain meds w/o tapering off).

I don't live in the 21st century, I live in isolation and without medication. And I assume others in the thread are similar.

No I can't imagine any path to even living in a different place in the US, let alone getting out. Even some of the edge cases I likely won't ever have the connection(s) for it to be a possibility.

I would roll the dice on "unethical" (/underground?) brain preservation testing in hopes that maybe in 200+ years things (if it doesn't fully melt down) would suck less. Which honestly would likely be the same as what you've said.

If not? I could probably live in VR if it weren't about digital real-estate. Ideally, flexible living with some purpose, more organics for life support (symbiotic+robust microbiomes) even though I definitely would be mistaken for a robot especially as I could see myself doing rather robotic-seeming things (like tapping into a mycorrhizal network to trade nutrients with trees to get pollutants like nickel).

Can we love as neither

Speaking for myself, outlook not so good. (typo, I know)

When I tinkered with Raylib (diff bindings) instead of a game I made a (2D) polygon format+loader. Probably to a usable state, though clunky esp. w/2 polygon formats (fan vs. strip).

I probably would get further with more experience, though also Godot w/bindings seems like a no-brainer (for editors, systems) considering it's still pretty light compared to the Un engines.

(Not that I'm doing much with Godot either, viability and motivations are mismatched)

I will get rid of my half-defective body as soon as a half-decent brain case alternative is available.

Unfortunately, I don't think the tech will be there in my lifetime unless I could also volunteer for some cheaper form of brain preservation.

Honestly, as an outsider it seems like an institution (breaking their own oath by) covering things up for decades makes it obvious why people don't trust (or even respect) them.

The .pck+wasm file are ~60MiB and my internet is ~6Mbps, so the math checks out.

Surely many won't have this issue, but it is pretty heavy for a web portal.

This takes 1min17s to load, likely because my internet is slow (the audio? unless it's just overhead of webGL or an issue with self-hosting).

alarm-clock-applet allows custom commands. So put systemctl suspend into a timer, bingo.

rtcwake to wake the computer up, for-better-or-worse the music will still be playing.

Someone else mentioned android, VLC there does have a sleep timer (just to stop the music) I didn't see an equivalent option in the desktop version (at a quick glance) though.

In SMPlayer I do see the option 'shut down computer' as a sub-option for `close when finished playback' (general options)

I just want Vertex shading metallic issues fixed. See my comment.

You know, I'm somewhat of a coding enthusiast myself.

Difficult to think of projects that I want to do that are also viable for me now. I settled on Minesweeper (/a dragonsweeper-like) though I lost momentum as I got a bit hung up on how to implement it in a way that'd allow dynamic map sizes. I suppose I should just make it as simple as I can and then differentiate it later.

Mostly been ignoring it though, instead making efforts to organize my room. Any personal growth is good, right?

I would also like an excuse to make some polygonal art (2D or 3D) but I don't have many ideas there either, and many ideas of which would probably be an insignificant amount of actual coding compared to animation.

Wandersong or something idk haven't played it yet

"No." -Betteridge's law of headlines

You might want to check out Nim-lang (3 options for deep-learning, Arraymancer being the most popular and active) (also considering how much AI stuff is on Python, you can call Nim code from Python via Nimpy)

I mostly just find it the most intuitive (for the performance/capability it offers) though, as in I haven't done much (certainly not AI stuff) and can't tell you if it's the best for functional programming (other than that Nim takes inspiration from Lisp). Though I do see that some Nim users have said it's not purely functional (it may be on you to make sure your code is) and that other options might be better if it's a priority.

In this economy? They'll probably use a wooden bat, charge too much, make me dig my own grave, make me attend my own funeral which I requested not to have, and then have the nerve to request a tip and/or review.

I guess I would boil it down to: I'm not using Linux on a touchscreen and am unlikely to any time soon. I'm not even sure if/when I'll ever go beyond 1080p (and a small screen at that) because cost.

I don't want a dock or full-screen apps menu. I don't want to fix those (or missing features) using extensions. I do want to customize things, but otherwise I don't need my desktop to look new or exciting.

I even made my own hyper-minimal XFWM window theme (which is honestly unneeded for maximized applications due to my XFCE settings anyway, but it does allow me to have a rolled-up music player always visible like an old-internet music widget).

Buttons maybe (double-click, hold-click) or via settings on the display? Otherwise I'd guess that you don't (needing to buy+set up something more advanced).

I know on mine it doesn't even have the option to turn off the throttle (though it is only 250w anyhow).

Yeah, something (Honda) Monkey-sized might be fine but yeah with all the extra work/costs I'll just stick with the weak ebike I have already.