Len

Putting it out there in case anyone has advice: how do I fix not sleeping well due to being physically uncomfortable in bed? What kind of profession do I need to consult to sort that out?

I don't trust salespeople. If I just go to a bed shop they'll talk me into buying some garbage that won't do the job (this has happened before).

I saw a sleep physician, who told me sorry he can't help with that particular problem. Would have been nice to know that before waiting months for the appointment. He said maybe try a chiropractor, and that's not fucking happening (chiro is pseudoscience).

I'm exhausted. I've been exhausted for years. I'm fucking sick of it.

Help.

Sci fi game where you FTL jump your charming wooden spaceship around the galaxy looking for ingredients for your charming woode tea shop

I flew some PVP with my buddy last night. He's vastly more experienced than me, so he took flight lead. I asked if he was happy to give me on-the-job training, and he said sure.

We had a good time! I had been so wrapped up in trying to learn air-to-air tactics, and dissatisfied with my progress through a certain rather dry air combat textbook that I wasn't sure how it was going to go.

Well, the thing is, you don't have to be *good*, you just have to be better than the enemy. And that's a waaaaaay lower bar to clear than I feared. Like, I have more tactical sense than this poor Harrier driver who kept trying to take off to defend his airfield while it was in the process of being attacked by three F-16s. I don't have to be The Red Baron to realise that's a losing proposition and the smart play would be to pick another airbase!

Good fun. I think I need to work on my deconfliction radio calls a bit, or else wait for randos to make their attack before making mine, because we doubled up a bit and wasted ordinance. But still, no losses from our flight

#DCS #F16

"JDAM Hussain" would make a good shitpost username.

Speedrunners: please, I'm begging you, "oh nooo I didn't mean to die there... ...psych yes I did!" just isn't funny anymore. We've heard that one before. Actually, you've already made that same joke five times this run, and it wasn't funny past maybe the first time.

Please, please get another joke. Any joke, I don't care what it is. But two jokes I'm sick of hearing is at least a little better than one joke I'm sick of hearing, just for the sake of variety.

Okay. This is going to sound pretty weird, but: give this song a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQoIh4VUB9s

Yes, it's a track from videogame Barbie Beauty Boutique. No, I haven't actually played it. Just click the link. Trust me.

Just realised that I don't have to laboriously back up my 1.8tb OS drive nvme before I try switching my desktop to Linux, like I did with my laptop, because I have several drives.

In fact, I have a 1.8tb magnetic drive that's nearly empty and a 500gb nvme that mostly has Steam games; I should just be able to move the installs from that nvme to the magnetic drive, and then install Linux on that smaller nvme, reformatting it as necessary. That would even let me preserve the Windows install if I need it, where it's sitting on the larger nvme. Then I just change the boot settings to use the small nvme instead of the big one!

Nice. I was trying to figure out how to squeeze another 1.8tb out of my NAS to store a backup image of my main drive, but now I don't have to.