/hikki/ - Hikikomori

>>4564

Congrats, and good luck! It should be possible to do it with just ALSA, but in a pinch, PulseAudio will almost certainly work.

If you ever feel like installing Gentoo, you'll probably find it similar to installing Arch, although it takes longer, and if your internet connection requires a proprietary driver you're going to have a hard time. The kernel customization is easier than it sounds, though; there's a(n old-timey DOS-type) GUI for it, and most of the options have descriptions with lines like "If you don't know what this means, you don't need it." or "Leave this enabled unless you know what you're doing."

>>4462

>Huh, I always though Qigong was kind of a meme to be honest. Has it improved your fitness? Also gardening's pretty dope, seems like a nice diy project.

The Qigong I do is a type of meditation that is good for your health and longevity. Zhan Zhuang is for fitness, similar to TaiChi but without any movement. Related to Pushing hands, Push hands or tuishou, it is the foundation for a healthy body and mind. Although they are different both can be practiced at the same time or separately. The garden has always been important to me because I make herbal medicines for myself. My Grandmother taught me these things, she was Sioux.

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>>4406

>I'm honing my writing skills for that big novel I'm going to start one of… these… days.

I have fairly decent writing skills and a relatively extensive vocabulary, I've even been complimented a few times in the past for things I have written. I've thought of writing a novel as well, but my biggest problem is that I have no idea what I would even write about. It seems like everything has already been done in one way or another, so it can be very difficult to conjure up something new and fresh that would actually be worth writing or reading.

>>4409

>I'm planning an indoor salad garden for winter and a 55 gallon aquarium for marbled crayfish. This will be my experiment in aquaculture. The crayfish water will provide fertilizer for the hydroponic garden, and left over veggies will feed the crayfish, they eat mostly vegetation and a few snails. I get fresh vegetables and crayfish to eat.

That's really neat, elder hikki. A self-sustaining indoor garden sounds incredibly convenient.

Tried to decide on what programming projects I actually want to do today. I always start something and get distracted by another idea. I want to understand Blockchain better, but haven't got a solid idea of what I want to do with it.

>>4564

>full-size encryption

That ship's a real pain sometimes, especially on big hard drives. I've thought about getting an old ThinkPad or something that has a small drive that I could fully encrypt and installed hardened gentoo or slack on. But I haven't done it yet.

>>4583

Very nice elder hikki.

>>4583

Cool. I'm eager to see how these turn out.

I've tried to do an Arch full disk encryption install since last night and today. I keep failing but I haven't given up yet. Not really a success but at least I haven't given up like I usually do with things that I don't immediately pick up on. Pretty sure I'm only messing up in one spot, so at least I've narrowed my failure down.

I will make GRUB my bitch god damn it.

>>4622

I really wouldn't recommend Arch Linux for someone just trying to get away from Windows. Linux Mint or Manjaro Linux would be easier to get working.

>>4623

I've already been using Linux mint for 5 months because I was still learning the basics of the OS

So finally I decided to install Arch Linux to learn more progressed commands rather than the basics but I failed at installing it tbh so I installed windows again to play video games instead of mint till I will figure out how to install it successfully

>>4625

Congrats bud

>>4625

Great job anon.

>>4625

Congrats!

>UEFI

That figures. Getting UEFI to work has always been a pain for me. (Really, would it kill Linux devs to put the bootloader at "/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI" where it belongs?)

Not long ago I decided to start drawing again after 6 years. Each day I try to practice for at least a little bit. On top of that, I have also decided to begin world-building so I can write a fantasy book series. I started today with a small brainstorming session to get ideas flowing, I came up with some pretty good ideas I think. I hope to be able to one day combine my drawing and writing to make an entire fictional world for myself, full of adventure, lore, and mystery.

>>4655

You should post one of your drawings in the art thread once you finish one anon.

I'm trying to read regularly again. I'm attempting to finish a programming (Common Lisp) book I've had for 3 years, which I almost finished last year but suddenly stopped for no good reason. I'm going through it and doing all the exercises again, but I've skipped over some chapters just because it's boring since I know everything there.

Feels good getting back into the swing of things. Any of you anons reading? If so, what, and how is it?

>>4659

>Any of you anons reading? If so, what, and how is it?

I've been meaning to finish The Mind Illuminated, along with 50 other books in my reading queue. Something strange has happened with my mind, which I suspect a lack of social interaction is the culprit. For the past year I stopped being able to understand anything I read. It's been a long time trying to recover my ability to read, but I'm getting there.

>>4658

I might do that some time, for now though I'm not particularly pleased with the way my drawings come out. When I manage to make something worth sharing, I'll definitely post it here.

>>4668

>, for now though I'm not particularly pleased with the way my drawings come out

That's good to hear anon.

I might end up with a part-time job fixing/maintaining arcade and VR machines. Possible interview on Monday.

>>4683

>I might end up with a part-time job fixing/maintaining arcade and VR machines. Possible interview on Monday.

Good luck out there in the outside world anon please give us an update later on to let us know how you're doing.

>>4683

As far as normal jobs go, that one actually sounds pretty decent, might even be fun at times. Good luck with your interview, anon.

>>4601

My poppies sprouted, now this coming winter I'll have medicinal tea, for aches and pains, and a general mood elevator.

I hope that everyone is doing well. :D

>>4659

>Any of you anons reading?

I get on reading kicks where I'll cruise through 5+ books in a week, but I tend to burn out for a bit after that.

I mainly stick with escapist fantasy and scifi stuff, though I did get my hands on a really nice copy of the Hobbit and Silmarillion so I think I'll read those again

>>4684

>>4686

Honestly I'm deathly afraid of the interview right now. My stomach feels like it's turning inside-out or as if it's empty, a feeling that is sudden and keeps coming back and rests. But for the life of me I can't properly formalize *why* I'm reacting this way to just a simple interview. The questions are going to be basic, and it'll only last at most 10 minutes, so what am I so fearful of? I suppose plain rejection.

This will be my second job interview ever. The first interview I had I never got a call or email back, not even any notification of rejection. I don't even really want a job but I also don't want to go through the humiliating process of being on government assistance and creating a dependency of government support. I'm already getting EBT and that's disgusting enough for me. At least this job will start out as part-time and I'll hopefully make enough money that it can relax my mother. I'll give her the full check if it'll stop her from expressing financial anxiety.

Thanks for the support, anons.

>>4703

>Honestly I'm deathly afraid of the interview right now. My stomach feels like it's turning inside-out or as if it's empty, a feeling that is sudden and keeps coming back and rests. But for the life of me I can't properly formalize *why* I'm reacting this way to just a simple interview. The questions are going to be basic, and it'll only last at most 10 minutes, so what am I so fearful of? I suppose plain rejection.

I know how you feel, anon. I've held two jobs before and both times I was a nervous wreck before the initial interview. I think part of it is just basic social anxiety, other than that I think our minds have a tendency to make it seem like a bigger deal than it actual is, as if we're being judged on our worthiness as a human being. Just do your best to keep your cool, and answer the questions to the best of your ability. I'm sure you will be just fine, anon.

>may get part time job at grocery store

>have to wait for a phone call to schedule interview

>missed call while showering

>call back, no answer

>it was probably the interview guy and they probably gave the job to someone else

time to continue to sit in room, h-ha ha

>>4719

I know this feeling, I usually spend a few hours beforehand to practice what I'm going to say but it rarely ever goes to plan.

>>4719

I've done that too. I have to spend a full hour hying myself up for a 5-10 minute phone call that I don't want to make in the first place. I even sometimes sweat a bit during phone calls.

>>4727

>>4725

Not sure what it is about phone calls, for me at least I think they're worse than having to do in person stuff

>>4394

Check out the book Convict Conditioning. You can download the pdf just by googling the name. It will save you alot of research time and money in terms of weights and supplements.

>>4399

I tried the first chapter and the English translation has mistranslations everywhere, be careful taking its advice

>>4731

Thanks anon.

>>4965

Neat. I'm also trying to get into reading, and I recently started on Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. I'm taking it a bit slow to start since I've never been an 'avid reader' but I'm enjoying it so far. Also once I'm done with that, I plan to browse >>>/pdfs/ and see what interests me there.

>>4981

> I plan to browse >>>/pdfs/ and see what interests me there.

I've never been on that board but ill. look to see if anything interest me thanks anon.

>>4659

I must be retarded if it's taken me this long only to get to chapter 10. Several times I've wanted to give up and just throw the shit away, but I haven't. 4 more chapters, 135 pages, and 55 exercises left. What I want most of all is to finish this damn book that's just been staring at me all these years, and I'm so close. Such a silly and small goal but I have to do it.

I think my medication has helped stabilize my mood, helping me continue on with this goal. Currently taking Abilify and Wellbutrin.

How about you, anons, what have you been working on? I wish you success in whatever it is.

>>5071

>I must be retarded if it's taken me this long only to get to chapter 10.

Don't feel bad, anon. I started reading recently as well and I'm taking it slow, in fact I only read one chapter each day but it still feels good. I have found that reading something a bit slowly allows for more time to digest and reflect on the information.

>Several times I've wanted to give up and just throw the shit away, but I haven't. 4 more chapters, 135 pages, and 55 exercises left. What I want most of all is to finish this damn book that's just been staring at me all these years, and I'm so close. Such a silly and small goal but I have to do it.

It doesn't sound so silly to me. You're accomplishing something, and even if it seems small, these things tend to add up to something much bigger. I'm proud of you anon, and you should be proud of yourself too.

>How about you, anons, what have you been working on?

I've been doing a few things in small doses. I'm currently drawing, reading, and writing. Like I said above, I'm reading one chapter of my book each day, and I'm more than 1/3 of the way through it. I haven't been drawing as much as I should but when I do draw I make good progress. Finally, my writing is still only in the preliminary stages, basically still designing the foundations for a good story. I get some really good ideas here and there, but I really need to get a tangible setting mapped out for these stories to take place in.

>>5078

>It doesn't sound so silly to me. You're accomplishing something, and even if it seems small, these things tend to add up to something much bigger. I'm proud of you anon, and you should be proud of yourself too.

I suppose you're right, thanks for the kind words.

>I've been doing a few things in small doses. I'm currently drawing, reading, and writing.

What do you write about? I've been trying to get more into journal writing, but have a hard time coming up with things to write about. Journal writing is more reflective so I suppose it's a matter of thinking long enough.

>>5085

>What do you write about?

Well, like I said above, I'm still only in the beginning stages of the writing process, but I plan to write a fantasy series. I've spent so much of my free time over the years daydreaming about fantasy worlds, I figured I might as well write about one.

i would like to travel by plane and accommodate somewhere in hotel and do trips and journeys abroad from there

any protips?

>>5089

We don't travel.

>walk outside

>so invisible suv doesn't notice me and bumps me away

>yet still deebly concerned about norrmals noticing me

>go back in

There's no scared Satou big enough

>>5100

I can relate anon i get this feeling every time i go to the store.