I know it would be good for me to work out an hour per day but I don't. I just can't bring myself to it.

It's the same with eating, I'm obese but simply eating less just doesn't work.

I can only do exercise when I combine it with something else. Like exploring new trails in nature.

I just don't have discipline and it's not in my character to build it. It'll just end up a few weeks till I drop it again. And more importantly I wouldn't be happy being a disciplined person.

Mediation probably would bring me benefits but it's just too much friction to get to that point so I'll never get there. I've stopped feeling bad about not doing all those things and instead focusing on the things I can do well and that do work for me.

So the problem isn't with mediation, it's with me. But either way it's just out of reach and that's why it didn't work for me.

The point of programming being meditative is equally the point. It just happens to be a way people can get into that. It's something that works for them. It doesn't necessarily mean that more traditional mediation will suit them.

Personally if my job would change so much and I didn't like it I'd pivot to something else instead. Though that's admittedly not always easy.

But most people I know run it mainly during the day, as it's cheaper on a dynamic contract (and basically free if you have solar panels). The heating during the night isn't high.

And we don't keep it at 18C or course, otherwise you get this slap in the face every time you leave the house.

I don't have AC (rental flat) and 25C is fine for the night. The problem is now when it's 31 in the house. I don't leave the windows open at night due to the cockroaches.

I don't see anyone moralising it anyway. On the contrary.

I've really tried a LOT during therapy and in some other situations. And it just doesn't work for me.

Same with traditional exercise by the way. I can't do exercise in a gym (too empty) or have those 'gamification' goals, it must be more natural. I'm extremely anticompetitive and antiauthoritarian so some watch telling me I'm doing great just generates irritation.

Absolutely. I've tried mediation in many situations and some classes but it's just not for me. My ADHD brain doesn't work that way. It's painfully boring and not relaxing at all. What does work for me is a walk through nature after a stressful day. There's another thing that works even better but too fringey and a bit nsfw to go into detail :) But anyway mediation definitely does not.

You need to find what works for you.

I like the command for viewing the ARC cache size, never knew that. It's only 2GB on my system (of 64GB RAM).

Doesn't mean you're automatically underclass. In her whole family nobody is involved in anything criminal. In terms of wealth I would consider them middle class. Like me, I'm also a middle class immigrant though from a western (richer than here) country with university education. I'm just not very ambitious so I coast in a middle level job by choice.

But they all came here with nothing more than high school diplomas. They just work harder for it than I do. Nights, tough work etc. She worked very hard to get a local passport too. Because that's not easy these days.

The stereotype of immigrants ending up straight in the ghetto is incorrect IMO.

Some of them are doctors and scientists especially from places like Syria.

By the way this is only during the validation of their asylum-seeker status. Once they get permanent residency they can work.

Meanwhile Trump threatened China with 100+% tariffs. The EU just suspended an exemption for small personal packages that was due to expire in 2028 anyway.

Why should the EU be the pariah?