Ok people, I was quite overwhelmed that my last post went so viral and my chats were flooded by people begging me to already release the shortcut, that I decided to already release what I have. I tried to keep the shortcut as simple and lightweight as possible (Less than 40 tasks!) to make it battery friendly if you decide to run it frequently throughout the day. There is no ‘user-friendly’ import questions ect. just to keep the shortcut as small as possible. Everything you should know is below.
**Expected behavior of WeatherWalls 1.0**
Every time the shortcut runs, it checks for the weather conditions at your current location and applies a corresponding wallpaper to your LS/HS.
Currently only will work on iPhone models. iPad models are currently not supported.
The Shortcut has 14 different wallpapers, depending on the weather conditions:
Each of this wallpaper has a light/dark mode variant.
**Setup**
Before you …
I listen to a bunch of podcasts and gravitate twords personal stories/mini doc series (S-town, Snap Judgement, Spooked, The Habitat) and My year in Mensa was a short fun series about a comedian who joins Mensa and go to the gatherings and the hidden Facebook groups and comments on her experience! It’s dark sometimes but it’s mostly just a silly light hearted experience.
It’s only 4 episodes so it’s a quick listen, but it’s very charming! I love this subreddit and I’ve found so many great recommendations from it so I hope this adds to the collection :)
It’s weird but it helps me keep my hands busy while listening. Otherwise I won’t listen. But I feel a weird ‘bisecting’ sensation in my brain. I know studies say multitasking isn’t great for you but is there anything about this? Could it be potentially harmful?
Edit: Spelling, but also I’m so happy this provoked so much discussion! I think my big personal takeaway is that Overwatch is waaaaay too intense to play while listening to podcasts. I’m going to switch to playing The Forest (a great survival horror game!) which will allow me to pay more attention to the podcast as well as allow the podcast voices to assuage my fears. There are a number of studies that show that multitasking is pretty harmful.
However most resources usually focus on two cognitively involved tasks at once (like overwatch, derp). With more ‘chill’ …
https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/amazon-acquires-wondery-1234876677/
This doesn’t sit well with me at all
Here are some of the shows I would recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about the First and Second World Wars. You can also read this list on Podchaser.
I think it’s fair to say that Dan Carlin likes talking about the World Wars. From the ‘Blueprint for Armageddon’, to his current series ‘Supernova in the East’, some of the most famous episodes of Hardcore History focus on some aspect of the wars. Blueprint might be the most recommended history podcast ever, or at least that’s how it seems if you spend any time on /r/Podcasts!
Listen to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History HERE
Now completed, Wesley Livesay’s monumental examination of the First World War covers every aspect of the conflict, and into the post-war years. If you have an image in your head of a war of trenches, artillery duels, and victories measured in inches, you aren’t wrong. But this was only one …
I’ve enjoyed the genre of mysteries about weird, seemingly inconsequential things that lead to uncovering even stranger little worlds, often in an investigative format, e.g. the mystery-oriented episodes of Reply All and the show Finding Drago/Finding Desperado. I’m not necessarily opposed to crime elements, but I’d prefer lighter stories that still manage to be deep and engaging.
(Also open to book/article recommendations, but it looks like podcasts have more of this sort of content.)
I used to be big into true crime like S &S (before it went to shit), Casefile, Obscura, etc and a lot of paranormal and the like but I honestly became a bit numb to it all and just stuck to comedy or weird.
I’m wanting to get back into the ‘scary cos it’s real’ podcasts. Is there anything that you listened to last year that stayed with you?
To give an example the S&S esiodes about the cannibal pedophiles gave me genuine chills as did the Obscura episode about the guy who masturbated using his own feeces.
Edit: thank you all so much for the suggestions, I love this community!
Hey book friends, I didn’t hit my reading goal. Nowhere near it. The pandemic fucked my concentration, and being forced to work from my home for increasingly long hours meant I never felt like I could relax.
I didn’t hit my goal, but that’s okay. It’s okay if you didn’t either.
The best book I read this year was To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers - it was short (that helped), but very beautiful. I’m hoping to read some of her other books in 2021 if I can find any motivation/concentration.
What’s the best short book/novella you’ve read recently? Give me some recs and I might actually get through them :)
Edit: Thanks for all the wonderful suggestions so far! I hope everyone finds something new to read from all these <3
My 2020 resolution was to read 60 books, 5 books a month. And finished the year with 63 books read!!! I feel incredibly proud of myself (and feel like bragging lol). Now I want to push myself further and read 6 books a month.
My favorite books I read in 2020 were…
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling
Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Any great book suggestions like those are gladly appreciated :)
I’m sure this gets posted a lot but I’m getting so sick of reading books where women are constantly described by their appearance, especially their mystical appeal to men. I just started the Three Body Problem by Cexin Liu, and while I’m enjoying it so far we’ve already had a description of 1) a woman getting showered by bullets then impaled but we still need a description of how slender and beautiful she is (note: don’t think this is a spoiler because it’s on like page 2 of the book), and 2) a top-tier physicist who of course also needs to be slim, beautiful, and has magical appeal to all the men around her. I also recently finished Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell and The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda and both books spend so much time describing female characters’ appearance and their mysterious, witchy allure. Extra disappointing that women authors seem to be just as guilty of this as men. I swear if I read another passage about cold, passive …
Edit: The response to this post has been amazing and I just love it. I can’t express how much appreciation. I honestly wish we could just keep this going until all, if not most, countries are represented here. Lets keep this going. P.S. To all the people that gave this post awards- You are the best part of Reddit and you keep everything going. All of us are.