Installing arch with the arch install script is the hardest step, but it’s quite managable if you’ve got decent computer literacy, but no linux knowledge (and it becomes a trivial step if you use an arch based distro that uses calamares).

And once you’re up and running, it’s easy.

As I said, that’s how I started with linux a few years back, and I came in to it with no linux knowledge. I moved from Arch to CachyOS at some point, but Arch was easy enough. I can speak to this scenario from first hand experience!

I started with arch and moved to cachy a few years back. You don’t need Linux experience, just computer literacy.

I set them to close automatically after 24 hours, because I have having more tabs open than I can track. I explicitly don’t use them as “read later” bookmarks.

You’re not giving it away. You still get a feed in rate. And if you installed a battery at the same time, you can avoid the peak charges that kick in after the solar peak has passed.

This is a screenshot from the AER PDF on the solar sharer program, which you can find here https://www.aer.gov.au/system/files/2026-05/AER - Solar Sharer Offer fact sheet - DMO 8 final determination.pdf

I’m in Queensland, so the Energex rates apply. The base tariff rate is 26c until 11am, then free for 3 hours. Then 8c for 2 hours and then 49c between 4 and 9pm. My memory was off, and it’s only double the rate, but my point still stands. The peak time is a lot more expensive on the solar sharer plan, so you need to do the maths and make sure your usage will be shifted towards the free period and away from the peak, because if your highest usage is in the peak period and you don’t mitigate that, you could end up paying more on the solar sharer plan. You can absolutely save money on the SSO, and we use it for that reason, but you can also end up out of pocket.

Lengualytics is a really good tool for comprehensible input in any language. Basically it’s a collection of comprehensible input videos found and submitted by other users, and ranked according to language, dialect and difficulty level.

I hate sleep, so I get it over with as quickly as possible. I fall asleep quickly and I wake up quickly and spend as little time as possible in between

Seconded. I self host it for family members for that reason!

Yep, very familiar :)

I have aphantasia!

I learned (am learning) Spanish later in life and it has actually been quite interesting because of this. I have aphantasia, so no mental images either, and I’ve always described my thinking and thoughts as being about the concepts and ideas of words, with the words something that I can summon if I need to.

And learning Spanish via translation and memorisation was really painful, and honestly, not enjoyable. I eventually stumbled across the comprehensible input method, which doesn’t try and translate your target language to another language. It just builds up from scratch, you learn from simple words and sentences, with strong visual support and repetition etc, getting more complex the more exposure to the language you get. And this method clicked with me. I’m only at B1 or so with Spanish, but I can listen to a native speaker and understand them, but if you asked me what they said, I would have to then convert what I heard to English after the fact.

I’ve often said that it worked because both English and Spanish attach words to the behind the scenes concepts, and I’m mapping to that.

Yep, you got me! That must be exactly what it means!

This analogy started to feel particularly accurate for my own experience when I started learning a second language. I realised that I wasn’t learning what one word meant in another language, but instead, attaching the two words to a deeper idea/concept. It means that I’d often understand what I was hearing, but even when I was listening in my new language, I didn’t automatically have the translation to my native language (English).

And my thoughts/internal experience is like that. I can pull the words out to describe the thing, but the actual thought itself, the concept that I’m using the word to describe is where I would say my thoughts naturally sit

I’d say that’s a pretty reasonable summary. I mean, I can think about the future and the past of course, and I can stress about them both too, but none of that takes the form of a dialogue, nor does it have any sense of participants. There’s just my thoughts, in the moment, about the future and what might happen.

I don’t have one…

Amazing!

Well, I learned something new today :)

Wait, windows ships with Dolphin these days?

It’s a clickbait title that sounds like it’s going to be listing a bunch of reasons why it’s actually ok to be a little bit racist sometimes…

When I went researching the guy to find out more, I discovered that he’s an ex cop/counter terrorist who started a podcast so he can finally speak “unshackled by his position”.

Which cemented my initial assumptions…

Yeah, I’m not clicking that.

Compression bras simply won’t do the job for high impact sports of any kind (except for folk with smaller cup sizes)

A good encapsulating sports bra should do the trick. I’m a couple of sizes smaller than you, and I run rather than jumping, but I’ve had luck going in to activewear stores (rather than bra stores). I haven’t noticed much difference between brands, but I definitely notice a difference between bra styles. If it’s a compression bra, it just doesn’t cut it for long runs or high intensity runs.