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After consultations with my physiotherapist and a specialist, I have been diagnosed with a left paracentral disc protrusion at the L5-S1 level, which is impinging on the left S1 nerve root. This issue has been exacerbated by prolonged sitting, which is a significant part of my working role (IT). While my back will not fully recover, the goal is to achieve a state of...

We have this big project at work...an "all hands on deck" kinda thing that has us rank-and-file frontend devs working alongside our manager more closely than I'm used to. And it was fine, because I like the guy and he's been a decent manager. But this project is killing me. On multiple occasions now I've written code, had it pass code review (often with...

I was diagnosed as an adult about 5 years ago. I'll spare my life story, but I've spent those five years doing everything I can to give myself an environment where I can achieve my goals, and I have done a great job with that. Apart from getting meds, I've built a strong task management/journaling system, I've built mental habits that help me overcome...

In light of recent events, I would like to create a list of Lynchian media: gimme your books, music, movies, TV, video games, comics, &c. Anything. Everything. Personal projects if you have 'em (there was a comic posted in the announcement thread, stick that in here if you like, OP). Let's make this as exhaustive as we can. Pls&thx Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~arts/1leg/lynchian_recommendation_request Votes: 22...

I am looking for a new mouse that meets the following: Must have: at least 3 (ideally 5+) programmable buttons on the top (not the sides), preferably to the outer edges (of the top), rather than in the middle those top buttons should not be right-handed-biased (most that I've seen put more additional buttons beside left click, and fewer near right click) Nice to...

This is going to be a rant with a question at the end, asking how to end this infinite loop of nondelivery? So my friend bought a new laptop from Lenovo back in December. It was supposed to be delivered by UPS but of course they were going to attempt to deliver it while my friend is at work. He attempted to have it...

I get that it’s supposed to make things more secure, but it feels like a constant chore every time I try to log in somewhere. Grab a code from my phone. Check my email. Open an authenticator app. Repeat this process for every single account, over and over. I know there are tools like YubiKey that are supposed to make 2FA easier, but the...

What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :) Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits. You can make a chart...

As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it! Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~talk/1le7/what_did_you_do_this_week_and_weekend Votes: 5 Comments: 3

My 5-year-old loves doing “science experiments” at home with me and her older siblings, but it seems that the online lists of experiments we’re choosing from are truncated to leave off all but the least dangerous activities. This makes sense for a lot of low-parental-involvement contexts, but I’m going to be directing and deeply involved in these experiments. And I want fire. Smoke. Sparks....

Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like matt mullenweg, neil gaiman and candy crush. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was bemused. But one of my favourite tags happens to be offbeat! Taking its original inspiration from Sir Nils Olav III, this thread is looking for any far-fetched offbeat stories...