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Kaffeburk@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do I get myself to actually do thing?
5·5 months agoIs this hobby you want to start actually something you find fun or something you think you’d enjoy if you were the person you think you are?
My tricks to get going; Talk to people about it, this gives me external accountability. It then becomes ”I said I was gonna do it” and I don’t want to be someone who just talks shit. Or the person joins the activity and that makes it much harder to skip.
Think about the end goal or find a critical point. If i want to be a hobby farmer, i need to do the boring part of soil prep. Otherwise summer comes and Ill again be a shit talker. If i don’t sow these seeds now, theres nothing to farm later.
Prepare a work station and leave stuff out; In place and in the way. I make little specialised toolboxes or work stations. Its about lowering the barrier to getting started.
Simplify your ideas. You don’t need to see A-Z. Just reaching B can change circumstances and create inspiration. I employ ”donkey mode” by briefly considering the consequence of doing a bad job, how poorly others have done it but still succeeding, and repeat the mantra donkey mode donkey mode. I can deal with the consequence of my poor labour after the fact. Someone already made it worse than I did.
If things feel insurmountable; just focus on a small thing. I have many projects running in parallel and taking just a single step forward is great. When all the pieces are in place: execute. Dig that damn garden, don’t worry what gets planted.
And don’t be afraid to cut projects loose or shelve them. Having an infinite todo list where hobbies usually get knocked down, prevents the brain from feeling ”done and settled”, which keeps me from getting into something fun.
Cheers and good luck ✌️
Kaffeburk@lemmy.worldOPtoFrugal@lemmy.world•Diluting and thickening soap the dumb wayEnglish
1·6 months ago
In a few weeks we’ll know how microbe friendly the diluted soap is :) made sure to smudge my dirty hands in each dish for maximum yuck. Then exposed them to the air for a few hours before lidding them up.
I wonder how to measure surfactancy and general soap efficiency tho if anyone knows :)
Kaffeburk@lemmy.worldOPtoFrugal@lemmy.world•Diluting and thickening soap the dumb wayEnglish
1·6 months agoYea perhaps looking into making the dispenser foaming is a better approach.
Kaffeburk@lemmy.worldOPtoFrugal@lemmy.world•Diluting and thickening soap the dumb wayEnglish
2·6 months agoGetting a new dispenser also spending tho. I tried modifying my old dispenser with a ziptie around the neck but the dispenser broke very quickly, which I think was due to the force you expect to put into it. But thats just a guess, could’ve been a bad pump too
But thats what lead me to looking into dilution/gelling.
But yea buying gum is another purchase whereas i already have plenty of starch.
Kaffeburk@lemmy.worldOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Nas options for an office environmentEnglish
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Kaffeburk@lemmy.worldOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Nas options for an office environmentEnglish
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I put openwrt on their router and an adblock dns already but a dns sink would be cool too
Neither of us want to learn proxmox, but I am still convinced there are simple and feature rich solutions that don’t require that.