Maybe something like radicle?

For me it does not seem to print anything

I’m using fish, which is great :)

So basically another Carrington Event. Which is actually not impossible, and nobody knows what would happen if a geomagnetic storm of that size would occur today.

I’ve basically done this for games and other programs using this desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Run with Bottles
Comment=Run directly with bottles
Icon=com.usebottles.bottles
Exec=bottles-cli run --bottle Gaming --executable %f
Terminal=false
NoDisplay=true
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;GNOME;GTK;
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=bottles
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/bottles;application/x-ms-dos-executable;application/x-msi;application/x-ms-shortcut;application/x-wine-extension-msp;
Keywords=wine;windows;
X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true

Save as runwithbottles.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications And remember to change --bottle Gaming to whatever bottle you want to use.

Now you can run any .exe by double clicking on it. If you associate it with ‘Run with Bottles’ This needs bottles to be installed, but allows you to run executables with Proton or Proton-GE too.

I bought an Asus Zenbook 14 about a year ago, specifically for immediately installing linux on it and doing some light gaming (I also have a linux desktop)

It has been surprisingly good. When the windows setup launched, the fans were spinning up loudly. I wiped the laptop and installed NixOs. Suddenly the fans went quiet, and I got an estimated battery life of around 11 hours with light usage, excellent.

It has an AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS CPU with 780M graphics. I was surprised at what you can run on this. Even Elden Ring was working smoothly on low to medium settings. And the laptop weighs around 1.2kg. I found it even more practical to carry around than my steam deck. (which I’ve sold)

Overall pretty great experience. Planning to build an Egpu to connect to the USB4 ports so I can add a bit of extra horsepower with an external GPU when needed.

That’s great, thanks for the suggestion!

Yeah, it’s agarbatti. It mentions not to use in badly ventilated areas. My bad.

What types of incense would be better suited for indoors?

Not sure I want to try that option :P

Meditation beads are interesting though. How long would it take you to go through the full beads?

The type i’m most used to is vipassana, which has the eyes closed. I’ve done with eyes slightly open before, but found it more difficult to pay attention to my breathing or sensations on the body that way

Not sure what specific type of incense it is, but got it from an indian friend.

This is actually quite a good option. I think even a regular watch with a timer option would be great (and then you don’t need all the tracking/bluetooth connection and whatnot)

But I suppose regular watches usually don’t have a vibrating alarm, only an audible one. I guess that’s because that uses more battery

Do you mean like an hourglass? That would be difficult to notice if you are closing your eyes though. Or can you actually hear when the sand stops moving?

I’ve heard of this one. It’s actually quite a good idea. I’ll have to try it. Now to see if we have any stick candles at home.

I will try this, hope I don’t accidentally spend 6 hours meditating

Something else I’ve heard about is a water clock, which is basically just a pot of water with a small hole in it, where trips of water will fall out into a small bowl.

You basically fill up the pot of water depending on how long you want to sit and then it will start dripping on the bowl making dripping sound and then when the dripping sound stops you know it’s time to stop

I often do meditation without a timer too. But I find it a good practice to try and do a certain amount of time, instead of however much you feel like. As that quickly turns into stopping meditation early to chase some interesting thought/idea.

Also, when meditating in the morning, it’s good to know when you need to stop and start getting ready to go out. Otherwise I would be late very often.

Kitchen timer would probably scare the hell out of my partner. We have a very noisy one!

Body timer does work for me. But obviously there are days where your mind immediately feels sluggish, and in those cases I would like to keep trying, at least for a bit (to see whether my mind is just trying to avoid meditation)

Also, over time, it takes longer and longer to reach a point where your body complains or your mind finds it difficult to continue. For me this point is typically already longer than 1 hour, so not really good if I want to do a shorter meditation.

Alarm I used in the past, but only a silent one on my phone (I don’t want to wake up my partner)

I am sitting in the same room as my partner who is getting ready to sleep, so that’s why I always used an alarm without sound on my phone. But now I would like to get rid of the phone too.

I find it quite difficult to notice however. And maybe if your mind is drifting a bit, you might not realise it’s already gone.

But I suppose this is something that improves if you do it regularly that way

I actually used some incense yesterday to try. But I’m not sure how long this one goes, so I will have to time it.

It’s a bit more tricky to use it in the bedroom though, the smell is nice, but I can feel it in my eyes if there is not enough ventilation. I also find it quite difficult to notice that the smell is gone. But maybe that’s something you learn.

Noticing that your body goes numb is quite a good way to notice too. But I feel like this is also something that changes over time. Nowadays I could sit for 1 hour without any discomfort or slumping, so it becomes a less reliable tell.

Something else that I’ve seen are these water clocks (if that’s how you call them) Basically a pot of water that slowly drips into a bowl. It will make a dripping sound until the water is empty. So you can choose how long to meditate by filling the pot with the appropriate amount.

Now to figure out how to make something like that myself.