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What did you do this week?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
didn't kill myself. therapy has really been helping the past 6 or so months. i'm on SSI and medicaid so all my treatment is paid for. Which is why i'm such a supporter of M4A. I would literally be dead without the medicine I get each month. Here are just 3 of the medicines I'm on. https://i.imgur.com/uGDNbQW.png
Stay strong man! Definitely keep up with the therapy. I had a really rough patch for a few years (still getting out of it tbh), and if it weren't for the CBT I might have truly ended up broken, and it's likely I wouldn't exist anymore. I'm a supporter of M4A, as well, because of how terrible our current health care system/landscape is (just see how bad people with "pre-existing conditions," etc. have it... it's horrible).
I changed out the battery in my phone (Moto X Pure), which is a much more noteworthy ordeal now than it would've been a few years ago. Had to go at it with a heat gun and guitar picks, undo 20 of those tiny little 1mm torx screws, and shape the battery to the frame by hand before installing it. Totally worth it, haven't even managed to discharge the new battery from full yet, but based on the numbers so far it looks like I'll be going from about 1 hour of screen on time to closer to 10, and no more of those pesky phone deaths at "30%" charge. Wish I'd done it a while ago, but I was intimidated by the process. Even more so than the headphone jack, I feel like user replaceable batteries are the most significant casualty of increasingly hostile smartphone designs.
I had three midterms (Linear Algebra, Algorithms Design and Analysis, and Database Management) this past week. The algorithm exam was a bit rough for me, but I'm starting to enjoy the class much more. It finally is starting to click :) I have a week "off" for Spring Break now, and I'm planning on finishing up more internship/co-op applications, and changing my Hackintosh desktop from using Clover to OpenCore. Additionally, I started "playing" with Swift Playgrounds. I'm hoping to learn Swift, so hopefully, this will "game-ify" the learning experience.
Went to a funny math (made by the government so in the school-y sense and limited to the stuff that can be played with hands-on like a toy, although there was some actually quite interesting stuff like these slide rules that existed long ago, although the one I actually saw was less elaborate) expo. It was pretty fun and the polygonal pieces that you can use to make polyhedrons would actually make a really good toy.