My contribution is katzenjammer, which is a word describing a really bad hangover (in the English language). I believe it is used a bit differently in the German language, but don’t take my word for it.

And övermorgon in Swedish

Force myself to go to the gym every day.

Runter in den bunker by Noisuf-x

Pretty sure he’d be the hermit in Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”.

Nice post, thanks for sharing!

The simplicity of a lot of things, such as search engines giving you workable links, torrent pages didn’t have 11 buttons that said download. Even malware was innocent and you could avoid getting into trouble by avoiding Linkin-park_Hybrid-theory.exe

A shiv

So if you’re “disconnecting” and you spend the first few days just sleeping or staring at the TV, that’s pretty understandable. You’re paying off a fair bit of “rest debt”.

This is actually a very solid point, thanks!

One suggestion: instead of regularly turning off your phone, just permanently put it in silent mode.

These days, I even set it to flight mode and vibration only for notifications, and I usually never check my phone during working hours.

I love to read but have a really hard time choosing a book over television.

Have you tried audio books or podcasts? I usually switch off my screens around two hours prior to sleep and tend to listen to podcasts and audio books until I fall asleep. Important to remember is that the voice of the narrator is super important, so make you get one that make you feel comfortable.

If your energy peaks at a particular time of day, that’s when you should plan to exercise.

This is very sound advice and I can’t believe I didn’t think of it.

I’m going to go with Leopold II of Belgium because of the atrocities this fucker unleashed upon the democratic republic of the Kongo.

Kissinger also come to mind, but he’s not been dead long enough to be brought back yet, I think I’ll leave that fucker to a generation that doesn’t get hypertension just hearing the name.

Any purism product, overpriced, outdated and their hardware basically breaks when connecting it to external devices.

One thing that helped me to minimize my digital life was to uninstall a bunch of apps from my phone and only use my computer to check on those sites. The key here is that I’m too lazy to go get my laptop just to scroll through endless feeds and instead I do other things.

None, I subscribe to the ones I want and occasionally browse all to see if there’s anything new I want to subscribe to.

The death penalty, because that shit is barbaric.

I’m not sure of the specifics you refer to, but it sounds a bit like walled-garden-thinking that there’s a central authority that can enforce rules. Lemmy is very different in that regard, every instance is subject to its owner/admin and as long as mods operate within what the operator finds acceptable, it goes.

We have a similar saying in my family, but it translates into break one generation at a time, meaning you allow the kids to be lazy while the parents work themselves to death. It is usually used as a dig when someone younger is lazy.

I’m stealing that one.

Were you born in the 1970s? Both me and my wife heard that exact same sentence from our mothers.