Ask HN: 2025 Resolutions?

Hey, that makes it: "5) All of the above".

That would be a bingo.

Now I would say it can sometimes be impossible to completely get away from on-line or machine responsibilities so you should carefully review what your options are all the time.

This is the easiest thing to get in the habit of not doing. :\

What if you think you would enjoy "all of the above" or just give it a little try? Is it even within reach?

You would have to figure out how to overcome any obstacles. If it doesn't look easy that's why I say carefully review.

For me I'm badly compromised and settle for "less than all" quite a bit, but pretty much when I really want to.

It's just the damn machines need so much work that nobody else is going to do :(

But there's only so much you can do, and you have to push away from the table.

So I've got a bench with gig ethernet and 4 to 6 PC's which I may run at the same time. That's a lot. Can simulate a small company on only one bench.

And the ethernet cords are right there whenever I need them. I just hardly ever plug them into the internet. Mainly to test and update OS & software. There's plenty that needs to be done and should be worthwhile on the machines alone without the internet. My default is to keep PC's unplugged from the internet except when I have a good reason, since it's so easy to do.

But this way, time away from the internet does not exactly give me time away from the machine.

Though it does feel good to kind of separate the two, and that bleeds over into browsing which I do in a completely different room at a regular desk on a small PC which I do not need to work on.

The machine wastes all my time at the workbench and the internet wastes all my time at the mainstream desk :\

So for better or worse, phone never had a chance to gain a foothold, some say I'm lucky to average 0 hours per day, mainly talk & text not much different than a flip phone which I remember well.

I guess that is so far out of the mainstream now it could be hard to relate to, but even without a "mobile habit" I still have to push away from two different banks of dazzling monitors if I want to get up and do anything else worthwhile.

Then I don't even bring a phone most of the time, I got up from the machines for a reason. I don't want to waste even more time on a machine, or settle for a small screen when I don't have to, plus I really want to pay maximum attention to what's going on around me.

Then there's the thing where you can end up in a posture hunched over the phone in one had, touching it with the other and you look like a Cro-Magnon domino player :)

PS. Kind of like a sort of AI "intelectual debt" ...´

... that we might wholesale be accruing.-

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