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>>315756
getting organized about your goals and making plans isn't enough to achieve them. when i was doing this type of shit, i was still stuck at the same obstacles as always and the list of tasks just made me feel bad about not getting any of it done.

if you're the kind of fuckup that feels at home here, then focus on just one task at a time, a single goal with no time limit, you don't need a complicated system or a big plan. that's enough to keep you busy. even basic shit is a challenge for us, so if you pick a goal, make sure it's actually going to make your life better in a tangible way, not just that it looks good for other people, because the amount of energy and willpower you will need to use is not worth it.

Downloaded Supermium browser based on Chromium. When I open it, it says the program can't be opened because some file is missing. And then it starts without a problem. Archive.org shows without problems unlike on old Opera (long before hacking incident). Updated for Windows 7 and even Windows XP. Doesn't freeze while PotPlayer is on unlike old Opera. Old Opera couldn't get to Chrome store and old store version was so tricky that the second time I didn't succeed. This one is without a problem, though as advised on the site I installed not the latest version as the latest had problems on Windows 7.

Waterfox had The Archiver addon, official developer's site had it for Chrome but it failed to install it. So I got an official archive.org extension for Chrome. Works fine,unlike on Waterfox now I can add 3 and even 4 at the time and it doesn't tell me about failure due to having more than 1 operation at the same time. Although 4 is already too much and some failure to archive do happen. With Waterfox I had often problems with 2 and 3 was impossible. 3>1. Supermium wins, now it's better than on my tablet Chrome where I could put 4 links but manually to make it faster than by copy-paste or using split screen that can crash. Hence why the combination laptop + tablet was used.

Haven't checced YouTube yet, it says DSPs like Spotify and Netflix has problems but looks like not YouTube. Waterfox just like old Firefox had problems with audio stuttering and old Opera was freezing and it's player had no skip by keys for picture-in-picture. Using PotPlayer to stream videos worked well though and bonus point — I could screenshot it without a problem and that's on 3 hour video of The Cure latest concert. Waterfox had only a few language options. Supermium had plenty including mine.

In order to click on links faster, I've put links as html file. This time it worked without them changing colors upon opening which was very useful to discern between opened and not yet opened links. The extensions doesn't have archive.ph option, bit I use it for Facebook saving only and not for Telegram. Archive.krg doesn't save Facebook posts. All I had to do is make Supermium as a default browser, refresh the page and now blue links become purple after opening them.

Now instead of 4 browsers (with Internet Explorer), I prolly can have 3 after deleting old Opera. Updating for that missing file won't happen as I have a pirate Windows 7 copy and just updating Windows XP SP2 to SP3 destroyed my OS (other XP was installed on top of it on that previous PC).

>>315850
Windows 7 fags perplex me. Just use Linux at that point if you don't want to use the mainstream OS (Win 10/11).

>>315856
I thought Windows 7 had good style, but modern web requires modern browsers (which Win 7 can't deliver), gonna have to agree with you.

>forgot how to get my monitor to it's advertised high refresh rate
>spend a hour subjected to SEO probably AI written slop that never got to the point and recommended buying shit (that it had affiliate links to)
>Use string of profanities in search out of fustration
>first result is a site that gives me the answer and then some

Search engines are getting even weirder lately.

A few years ago I randomly lost most of the function in my right arm. There was no warning; I woke up one morning and I could barely use my right arm. It wasn't numb or anything and didn't hurt. It wasn't ALL function, either: if I held my right arm straight out, with the palm down, I could move my fingers downward and form a claw grip, but I could not lift the fingers upward. I could make that grip shape, but I would not actually be able to grab or hold anything. Anything would fall straight out of my hand if I tried. I struggled to do certain maneuvers: I remember that in the shower I felt like a retard trying to wash myself; I also had trouble driving and difficulty adjusting after reversing left and right clicking…

But over the course of a few months, I slowly regained total control of my arm. It was little by little, but after 3 months, it was as if nothing had ever been wrong.

I had no insurance and wasn't working at the time so I never saw a doctor. To this day I have no idea why or what exactly happened to me. It was literally an overnight thing! I went to bed one night, no pain or anything, and when I woke up, my arm just wasn't working anymore. But I'm grateful it seemed to fix itself.

>>315902
>It was literally an overnight thing!
You could have rolled over in a way that your circulation was mostly blocked. After several hours of no new blood, nerves and their connections to muscle can die out entirely. These tissues regenerate over time though.

The battery on the smartphone I had been using to watch and listen to stuff in bed swoll up and split the thing into 3 barely connected pieces.
I know there is some sort of special prosedure for disposing of that shit but I couldn't be bothered.
Just rushed it to the local dumpster to make it not my problem anymore. Still, shit was a bit scary as once a batter swells up like that it's basically a ticking time bomb before it catches fire or explodes.

>>315909
there will be a dumpster fire

>>315910
Not my problem, lol.

>>315850
Now it says about that missing component after computer being booted. Once Supermium didn't work while old Opera did. Restarting solved the problem. And it wasn't Avast or Windows Firewall. Same thing has been with my father's old Firefox for years, so whatever.

I'm on the fence about buying an ereader, mostly for free, public domain books and a bit for pirated epub and pdf files. Anyone here owns one?

>>315959
I own one, it's good. I recommend getting one

>>315959
if you actually read, then yeah, it's a good investment. i just have a regular android tablet that i use for reading, browsing, media. the e-ink readers are paper-like, so you get less eyestrain, but everything is black and white and even if you get one of those full android models, the animations are clunky due to the refresh rate. the bigger the screen, the more expensive it is. there are some models where you can even draw with a pen so you can scribble notes on the edges of your books.

friday night and wizchan slows to a crawl….

>>315965
It's Saturday…

>>315966
>>315965
it's wednesday…

I realized recently that one of the main problems of today is that reality is getting less real. By that I mean our collective agreement about what constitutes reality, which has always been somewhat fractious, has begun to splinter apart even more than usual. People can no longer even agree upon basic fundamental truths about reality anymore. There is so much mystical thinking coming back and replacing critical thinking. So many people profess to "believe" obviously fanciful bullshit almost as if navigating reality is just a game rather than something to take seriously. I'm watching humanity regress before my very eyes. It's interesting but also terrifying.

>>315960
>>315963
what do you use/recommend?

>>315969
I am not same person, but I have a Kobo Libra 2 which I am quite pleased with. It have 7 inch screen which I think is good size between being portable yet big enough for reading books. But it is too small for manga imo if you intend to use it for that too. I bought it 2 years ago so not sure what exist on the market today.

>>315968
What are you talking about specifically? I have an odd feeling that you're intentionally being evasive

>>315970
Thanks. I don't care for manga, stylus, colour or any of these fancy features. Libra 2 it is then.

>>315977
I mean that more and more people in society are becoming delusional or divorced from reality. More people are starting to believe things that are obviously untrue. Part of the problem is that the technology to create "illusions" so to speak has become better and better and people are constantly exposed to things which aren't real but which seem real. AI images, deepfakes, photoshop, etc are making it so that people no longer know whether something is real or not and finding out whether it is is too much effort, so they just go with whatever they want to be real, whatever makes them feel good. The result is an effect in which it feels like reality itself is becoming less real. Like facts have less of an impact, and fantasy moreso for stuff like political decisions. Take for example the pizzagate guys who currently support Trump. Based on facts and reality if you actually don't like pedophiles, rape, or human trafficking, logically you shouldn't support Trump, but they would rather believe in some made up stories about pedophiles that are clearly false or lacking in evidence while ignoring actual evidence of pedophilia.

Whatever people are exposed to day in and day out becomes their reality, even if they "know" it's not actually real. For example narratives expressed in fictional media get ingrained into people's worldview. They come to think fictional versions of reality reflect actual reality. People's reality these days stems from the internet, at least for the perpetually online segment of people it does, and that is an increasingly large segment of the population. Most people are just fundamentally unequipped to handle this shifting information environment that includes so much misinformation. They can't parse it properly, so the end result is people are losing touch with reality and therefore the shared conception of reality in the public consciousness is becoming less clear and unified and more splintered and filled with crazy nonsense that doesn't actually reflect reality at all.

I think a lot of it can be traced back to the internet and the fact that people with power and money have figured out how to use it to manipulate the average normie for political and monetary gain. Money and power out controlling everyone like they always do. You have to know if a new technology comes along that facilitates a new type of exploitation/political control by the elites over the masses, it's only a matter of time until they start using that technology. The laws of competition basically preclude it with all certainty. If one megalomaniacal billionaire starts using internet tracking and targeted advertising to manipulate people and you don't, well you're gonna get left in the dust by all the other megalomanical billionaires. Can't have that as a captain of the free world now can we?

Supermium doesn't download audio after it was opened through Inspect function on the audioplayer element. Yet old Opera does within seconds. Although back in the day it had occasional problems with it, but it somehow got fixed after multiple page reloads.

I just bought a 4k OLED gaming monitor and mounting arm. It's weird how all my buys end up feeling like impulse buys to me even though I generally consider something like this for a long time. In the case of a monitor I have been considering it for many years but for some reason I always decide the time isn't right. Now I went and looked at the monitors that were on sale and after a day of comparing options I just bought one. Feels so strange that I didn't spend more time than that but I felt like I had figured out which one I wanted and that was that.

>>316014
>I just bought a 4k OLED gaming monitor and mounting arm. It's weird how all my buys end up feeling like impulse buys to me even though I generally consider something like this for a long time. In the case of a monitor I have been considering it for many years but for some reason I always decide the time isn't right. Now I went and looked at the monitors that were on sale and after a day of comparing options I just bought one. Feels so strange that I didn't spend more time than that but I felt like I had figured out which one I wanted and that was that.
all same as you. I don't spend much money but when I do it feels like impulse buy. then I have remorse and feel guilty buying something expensive or useless things. must be a desire to soothe. and like you said I think of buying that object long time ago but still feels like a waste

>>315699
>like a third of the users came from mainstream social media or something…
Agree, though I'd say they seem like they're from the politically fried sectors of twitter/youtube and the general discussion boards of 4chan (not just /pol/, /int/ and suchlike). So they would disagree with twitter or youtube or reddit being mainstream social media since their subreddit is ebin and supports freebased amphetamines or however the kids say it today. And the really unfortunate thing is that the vibe or atmosphere I get off of that is that people want to turn here into somewhere different, and once that hits a critical mass it includes yourself. If you just want wizchan to stay at wizchan-2015 during wizchan-2019 then you wanted to pull it in a different direction than it was moving, and even if I was pulling against people who needed pullback I was still pulling the place apart at the seams…

Do you also write lengthy posts just to delete them? I often write out what I have in mind, then read it, and think "this is stupid" or "why am I writing this?"

>>316030
yes, i think writing is an effective way to enhance thinking; it doesnt need to be sent to anyone

crawl…

what other imageboards do you read?

>>316125
4chimps, the biggest imageboard around

>>316129
what boards?
i lurk /x/ sometimes in hopes of finding something interesting, but it's mostly deranged insanity
oh and /wg/ for cool papes

>>316130
not the same guy
I don't go on /x/ because it's full of larp and succubi and reading bullshit tarot or trying to summon your tulpa. nothing paranormal.
>/wg/
I also use it to collect plenty of cool high quality pics and images

>>316129
That imageboard is under siege from god knows what.

>>316161
preach
cant be honest on imageboards anymore without having my jimmies rustled by some "witty" normie twat

I've been trying out amanita muscaria microdosing the other day' because where I live people have been going crazy about it for a while now.
Well, I can see why. Basically, it is a natural jew pill. It kills off emotions rather efficiently, you feel sort of 'at ease' and can perform your wage slaving duties more efficiently.
But I can't actually describe the way I feel on it. It is neither bad nor it is good, not tense nor relaxed. Better than usually though. Plus I see rather very strange but fascinating dreams…

God damn internet problems for the past few hours. Had to reset my router and call the company to get it to work again.
Post history is wiped too. Now I will have to just remember what threads I was keeping a eye on and posted in.

I keep breaking my diet, my mind tricks me with "just one piece of chocolate" and it just ends with a slippery slope, does not help that my beloved mom keeps buying me treats very often and she is too retarded for me to explain to her how bad it is for me

>>316274
I really really need to enforce the idea of how much of a slippery slope/rabbit hole this carving is, there is no moderate option for me, at least not until i fully overcome my carving of sweets for a long time enough

have you seen the ugly irl?
i have not

>>316274
I'm trying to quit sweets/dessert altogether.

At 19 I quit drinking cola because I was morbidly obese and started only drinking water. It was good and I lost a lot of weight but I developed an obsession with eating dessert after dinner in order to get my sugar fix.

Now I'm trying to finally stop that and quit eating sweet desserts altogether. I find it helps to create negative associations with the thing you're trying to quit. I heard that eating sugary things can cause kidney stones. So whenever I think about having dessert I think about massive pain in my urethra and that helps kill the cravings.

>>316289
I managed to get rid of my sweets addiction twice before in my life, but my third time is much harder for some reason, I am still confident I can do it, thank you for the input

wizards of the old continent,
let's chat

>>316332
what do you want to talk about

>>316333
im not sure, i havent thought this through

>>316334
well think about it and when you got something , tell me,

I've been with a headache for years, yesterday night I had clarity of mind and realized it.

>>316398
Drink plenty of water

>>314140
I found a nice way to overcome my sweets addiction, basically if i eat some sweets, I will walk 3 hours to make up for it, this will enhance my discipline greatly, I am a NEET, thus, I am up for it