Going for a walk is an essential activity for me to reset. Riding my bike has a similar effect. I've started leaving my phone at home.

Reading as well. Something light-hearted if I'm seeking joy.

I have a small garden on my balcony. It's not successful right now but it's enjoyable to watch something green grow.

So far:

Work, during which I'm kind of procrastinating.

Tonight my wife will be at the gym so I might finish a garden project.

Then dinner and tidying up.

Followed by video games and then bed.

I'd reckon my day will be about 30% what I want to do which is just slightly above my usual average.

Replaying Bg3 makes me realize how pointless poisons are most of the time.

Anyone beefy who I might like to debuff or DOT is inexplicably immune to poison, blindness or falling asleep. Not even just bosses, feels like anyone I can't kill in two rounds with Lae'zel is immune to these poisons I lovingly made.

Some elixirs are cool though.

Rimworld

Stellaris

FTL: Faster Than Light

Crusader Kings 3

XCOM: Enemy Within

Honorable mentions:

No Man's Sky, Baldur's Gate 3, Dwarf Fortress, Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas.

Imagining Geordi managing Hugh's cables like he's braiding his hair

I work in IT infrastructure (not AWS but something like it) and the reality is that there are a few blocks like AWS and Cloudflare out there. That doesn't really make things less concerning considering if they were actually pulled it would cause a lot of problems.

So to be clear, if something managed to completely disable or "control" AWS it would be disastrous, and AWS is under attack from multiple vectors including AI Agents, including their own INTERNAL AI Agents. In December 2025 Amazon's internal coding AI agent Kiro decided the most efficient course of action to resolve a minor bug in AWS Cost Explorer was to completely rebuild the production environment, causing a 13 hour outage for Cost Explorer while engineers manually rebuilt the environment.

The thing is, in the picture you posted AWS is this fragile single block holding everything up, when in it might be more useful to think of it conceptually as say, a major highway. Would it be a disaster if terrorists were able to suddenly destroy/control all of I-75? Yes. Is that feasible? No. Kiro caused a really bad traffic jam in one segment of one highway, it didn't destroy the whole thing.

A highway can experience traffic incidents and recover. Major jams could be intentionally caused by bad actors or poor maintenance, and highways have to be altered, upgraded and maintained to limit the situations that can completely shut down segments of it.

But the concern is more that key segments will be impacted, not the entire thing.

That's more of what people in my field are concerned with, and there's efforts to try to lock those key segments down and account for potential threats. How well that's being done is a different story.

It is an essential aspect of being Linux users that we claim our preferred distro is the absolute best and others are garbage not worth using. It's in the terms I'm pretty sure.

I do it periodically. My phone contacts are restricted to friends I speak to frequently, family, certain work contacts and a limit of 3 people I don't really talk to anymore but am leaving the door open for.

It's like a monkey's paw. I felt like I was spending too much time online a few years ago and slowly the internet has been giving me more reasons to not use it.

Creating nonexistent patterns in an attempt to understand it. There was a cluster of hand killings near a small town in Kyrgyzstan and there's no way that could just be random chance.

Right now allergies, I'm under-caffeineinated for how little I slept because I had to work last night, and I have unnecessary emails in my inbox.

More generally I feel the time I have to dedicate to the things I would like to do and the time I have to dedicate to work and tasks have reached unsustainable levels.

If I bought a lot of stuff or I bought something age restricted like alcohol. The person who watches the self checkouts is always really busy so if I need to wait for them to come look at my ID I'm going to be there a minute.