I don’t have advice but that does just sound like being 13. It’s a rough time. If you can see, or if she asks for, something actionable that would help (like “my homework is really stressing me out, can you help me”) by all means do it. But for me I think I just learnt coping mechanisms the hard way as I grew up. Most people change a lot in the ensuing years after 13, usually for the better. I’m sorry your sister is going through that.

One thing that does come to mind is to check if there’s any external issues that are causing her to feel so bad. There often are. You might be able to learn something by talking to her more?

How else are you supposed to pronounce it?

Waybar/polybar or one of the scriptable widget systems.

Artix as my daily driver because of the AUR, and I like runit. I no longer feel the need to distro hop; I’m happy here.

I think yt-dlp allows you to use your browser’s cookies to appear as a signed in user for downloading videos. I never bothered trying that.

How easy is it to make a throwaway google account nowadays?

I make throwaway Google accounts semi-frequently, though I don’t remember what they require. If you have a phone number it’s definitely sufficient but I don’t remember if you can make one without a phone number. If they require a phone number you can just buy a cheap sim card (in cash if you care about privacy) and use that. It costs money so if you need hundreds of throwaway accounts maybe not, but if it’s just one for downloading videos then it’s probably NBD, you’d be spending money on the VPN anyway.

yt-dlp hasn’t worked for me for a few months on Mullvad. Using Swiss and Swedish servers but I’ve tried a couple other countries too, same problem.

I guess depends on the reason. If it’s just a one off accident then I’d just put the dirtied clothes in the laundry (after a preliminary shit removal with just water), shower, and wash my clothes properly. But if I’m shitting myself it might be food poisoning in which case I am staying home, possibly glued to the toilet seat, and/or going to hospital if it’s serious enough.

I like Lemmy more.

In that case I suggest documenting things to prove it’s not you making the noise, and escalate to local government/council/etc

I personally think portrait monitors, like a standard modern smartphone, would resolve most of these problems.

Also for programming, most IDEs make good use of the horizontal space and expect a roughly 16:9 screen where the IDE takes up most of the space on that screen. Not that you can’t just minimise the side panels but still, it’s a helpful feature of the software.

As for why portrait isn’t the default, I dunno, but if you start using a portrait monitor at work you’ll probably get some coworkers following suit if it’s such an improvement.

I would agree to complain to a third party. The landlord, and if they don’t do anything, try whatever the equivalent of a local government/city council/etc is in your country. Depending on your legal system, this may be a dispute that could be resolved in a civil court if escalating to landlords/councils/etc goes nowhere. And also, clearly there is nothing you can do to stop them from making these noises, so stop trying, and be as loud as you want. They are already being as loud as they want.

Are you the only two households in this block? If not, your neighbours also have neighbours who will be annoyed by the noise. You could lodge a collective complaint to the aforementioned authorities, or you could as a group confront these neighbours, if you don’t expect them to be violent/armed. By “confront” I mean knocking on their door and talking to them about it directly, to be clear.

I have a blog generated with Hugo, but currently pretty sparse. I have a few tech tutorials explaining how I did cool projects I did, but I post very intermittently. I don’t want to post if I don’t have anything interesting or helpful to say. If I had more time, I would love to have time to read more books and write essays for my blog, but at the moment I don’t feel well-read enough to have anything super unique to say that’s not been better said by another writer I can link to.

Why are the feet significantly different sizes

Idk about an informal word but I call it butt crease. Probably not the medical term but it’s what I call it for medical contexts (as a patient)

I’m not sure about a dedicated website but you can already do that by just having a blog and sharing your blog posts to a link aggregator (like Lemmy or Hacker News). You could possibly create a Lemmy community that only allows “grassroots” “journalism”, ie no professional news articles but only amateur/hobbyist blog posts.

The implementation is cute. I would like that plushie.

Once in a blue moon? Not habitually though

Depends on context but generally no. I use it myself to either agree with or acknowledge messages if I don’t have anything to add. I don’t see why you should interpret it as rude if the person you’re speaking to, or people in general, have stated they don’t intend it to be rude.

A job (assuming it’s one I’ve not already got): they don’t want you, move on. It’s the same thing as a rejection. You can chase up once but I don’t see why bother more than once.

A person you’re talking to romantically: check in on them, if they don’t respond after messaging a few times over a few days it’s deliberate and they’re not interested. Move on. It probably wasn’t that serious if they ghosted you, or if you’re actually in a serious monogamous relationship and they ghost you then I’d either worry they’ve actually gone missing or something’s happened to them, or they are just a massive asshole to not be able to actually break up with you properly.

Keep telling yourself that. Thanks.