I mostly listen to Lloyd's ASMR lately. Obviously he'll be no good if you see ASMR as a sexual thing, but personally I really love his stuff and his voice is fantastic. Especially the tailor and clothing store videos he does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqNolx2KMoA

Fred's Voice ASMR is pretty funny if you enjoy the idea of a sneering Englishman making constant jabs at you. Some people swear he looks like Chris Hemsworth as Thor in a few of his videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icz-rbHTLKE

Want a soothing lady J.R.R Tolkien? Goodnight Moon is a great choice, especially her old babblebrook videos. The linked video is two hours long but it's like a movie featuring all her fantasy characters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcNQ_4daXv0

>>1774
Last one was quite comfy, a bit higher tempo than what I've listened to before maybe, but I like the soft whispery stuff.

My favorite kind of ASMR is just ambient noises to listen to while I sleep. Does that count?

>>1777
Ambient sounds and audio dramas are fine too.

Reminder that if you hear crackling in your headphones, it's probably a hair touching the driver, I thought my Sennheisers were broken, nope, just had a hair touch the speaker and that fucked with the vibration enough to cause it to sound like ass with bassy ambient

Oh, and if this is ambient asmr thread, I just listen to this on a loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WNzaYIpwVw

>>1582
>Maybe join some kind of sports club?
What a coincidence, my brother asked me if I want to go swimming with his family once a week, for improving health, just as I wanted to.

It's just a bit difficult to schedule it, everyone prefers a different time/day.
But I think, even if we don't manage to go together I'll go swim by myself once a week.
I can go there by bicycle and the 2hours ticket only cost 3€ thats not much (considering the times we live in).

I didn't mention it, but money is an issue so yeah.

>>1583
This also sounds pretty interesting to me, I also want to meet new people so that's a cool idea.
I just don't know where to find groups like that, I'm not in any social media...

>>1584
Nice coincidence there, anon. Hope you enjoy swimming, I always liked it back when I did it as a kid and as a young teen but as I got fatter I never really wanted to show my body and never liked going there anymore. Sure, people don't give a shit and there's probably tons of boomers there with worse bodies but it's still a personal thing for me.

Slowly changing that though! The only exercise I do when I get the time is walking up and down stairs in my flat close to midnight. 14 stories, 10 times. Around 2000 steps going up and 2000 going down, been doing it infrequently since last year and it's been a really good way to exercise for me. I've also recently started listening to audiobooks while I do it, one hour of an audiobook (1.5x speed too) over 3-4 sessions a week means I can get through books in a month if I'm consistent and gives me a reason to exercise some more. Currently listening to Crime and Punishment and so far (Chapter 4) it's been an interesting read (well, listen). I've also started thinking of buying some leg/arm weights to assist in the weight loss, but haven't decided on it yet.

My friend also gave me a dumbbell that I've been lifting occasionally. 4 exercises of 3 sets of 10 reps means I probably lift it around 120 times? Nothing special, but being an amateur at it I'm hoping there can be some improvement if I'm consistent with that and eat some more protein.

Still, enough hijacking the thread with my life.

>I just don't know where to find groups like that, I'm not in any social media...
Maybe check around your community centers for any flyers for things like hiking, or just googling around for things in your area should help you a bit. Could also check the local university (if you have one) for things like that as well.

Cook your own meals. Lots of veggies. Eat fruit. Olive oil, organ meat and low mercury fish. Drink exclusively water. Get a elliptical machine and use it everyday for 30 minutes at a comfortable pace. No smoking, never drink more than 1 glass of 12% alcohol red wine a day.
This seems insignificant, but it should be enough to make you healthier than most people in the entire world.
Don't forget to catch some sunlight(to prevent MS and a shitload of illnesses which are known to be caused by a lack of vitamin D), but not too much because melanoma and other cancers of the skin. Take care.

Keeping your mind in good shape is just as important. You don't realize how much damage you can do to yourself with poor mental habits.

>>1671
That's why I watch so much anime. Keeping all those foreign names in my memory is a real workout for the brain!

Shouldn't it automatically boot into A if B can't boot? Isn't that the whole reason to have two slots?

I have broken OSes before (for example by dd-ing onto the wrong partition), but I am too nervous about hardware to tinker with it and thankfully avoided bricking so far.

>>1598
You'd think so... But evidently this is a problem on Motorola phones like the one I have. I guess I should have done my research beforehand, but my old phone had no issues with this. Now I'm kind of screwed since so much of my stuff relies on 2FA and I can't receive messages. The wonders of the modern world indeed

He answers emails sent to "rms at gnu period org".

>>454
>Should /kind/ send him a get well message?
That's a great idea!

>>464
Imagine wapchan/kind getting answered ^___^

>>464
Thanks anon I'll be sure to send him a message. Pray for his good health.

This man is so resilient! Anon is really happy that he is managing any health issues like a champ. Impressive imho.

YOU'RE AWESOME RICHARD! LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!



https://stallman.org/talks.html

Great to see he is well, or as the man would say himself: happy happy!
The dude is a Greek god of free software, impersonating the ideal itself in his life.
Few have the unbreakable willpower to stand for something in this world like him, I want to hear more crazy future predictions of a madman that never fails to become true in this clown world.

>>1376
What does it mean to be successful?
I just do because I enjoy. Whether I'm good or not or if it's even possible to be good doesn't matter.

>>1382
What do you enjoy, anon? I think I feel I need to be good at it to enjoy it, or I just end up feeling ashamed and frustrated for failing...

>>1384
I enjoy reading manga and lurking on a few imageboards, but there's not much "being good at that" (or maybe there is?). You could say I'm trying to get better at reading manga since I started learning Japanese. I'm pretty damn horrible as a complete beginner, but I work on it bit by bit every single day and having fun with that (most of the time..). Consistency and persevering is key to going from bad to good, but I don't have becoming good or fluent as a goal. I have a simple goal of being able to read manga/vns, watch anime, and play old japanese games without many translations. I don't know how far I need to get to reach that point and I don't know how good I would be just from being able to do that, but I want to do it because it seems fun.

I also like to code sometimes. I'm still pretty damn bad at that even after a decade because I don't seek to improve my pretty basic knowledge at all, but it's fun making things even if they're not groundbreaking or useful to anyone other than me. I also get frustrated a lot doing that so it's not always fun, but I do get a lot of enjoyment from using my own creations.

Just remember that in order to get good at something, you need to be bad at it, a lot. You need to continue being bad at it as much as possible while trying to improve with babysteps. I have another thing I want to do as a hobby which is drawing. Will definitely pick it up soon-ish. I'm HORRIBLE at drawing by the way. I'm irredeemably bad, but I think it would be fun to be able to draw cute little anime reactions to attach with my posts in various places so I'd like to pick it up as a hobby regardless. It will have to wait a bit though, but I'm definitely definitely DEFINITELY picking it up eventually because I want to. I don't even want to get good. I just want to do it, so I'll have to make do with being very bad at it in the beginning. There's no way around it.　仕方がない。I'll probably never get good, but that's perfectly fine.

I'm sure there's some motivational video I could send you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Vg4uyYwEk

tl;dr you have to be bad to get good, but you don't even have to get goPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1385
Learning japanese sounds fun anon... I remember I learnt it for a bit in high school, but sadly it's mostly all forgotten now. Did you ever play those steam games called something like "learn japanese to survive!"? What kinda manga are you trying to read? Every now and then I get inspired to learn japanese so I can read yotsuba in it's original language...

Thank you for the rocky speech. It was inspiring... It does suck to suck but everyone else has managed to push past it so far

>>1400
>Learning japanese sounds fun anon... I remember I learnt it for a bit in high school, but sadly it's mostly all forgotten now.
You can always pick it up again if you ever feel inspired. I got tricked into beginning by a friend.
>Did you ever play those steam games called something like "learn japanese to survive!"? ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/438270/Learn_Japanese_To_Survive_Hiragana_Battle/ )
No, but it looks like a fun way to learn. I watched a few videos on youtube for katakana then hiragana and played kana warrior ( https://www.kongregate.com/games/tukkun/kana-warrior ) with incrementing amount of kana after each lesson I'd done, played both typing defence and obstacle. I think some could've probably learned kana much faster just grinding some anki deck, but learning to learn and finding ways to enjoy it is a skill too.
>What kinda manga are you trying to read? Every now and then I get inspired to learn japanese so I can read yotsuba in it's original language...
Yotsuba& is a good start, but even just that is a pretty big task for a beginner.
There's a lot of untranslated works I want to read. I have some manga at home in physical copy that I bought in Japan, some from a friend, and a yōkai yuri VN I really liked has a spin-off that's not translated. I generally read a lot of yuri because I think close friendships between young girls is a very precious thing. It gives that healing feeling.

>>1220
You could be 60 and pickup the violin for the very first time and still get pretty good at it in a year at most.
Stop giving a shit about your age anon

I'm almost 30 and learning a new language that's known to be difficult. Working hard and making progress.
The idea that you have to be young to learn something or get even remotely good at it is a complete neurosis if you have any free time (which most people do, one hour a day after work for a year can do a lot from nowhere to something, and after many years suddenly you've got a real skill especially if you try to dedicate more hours of efficient practice). I've learned tons of time intensive things in my free time just because I can.
There's even people who are 40+ who quit their jobs, learn a new skill, a new language, and move to a completely different country and get residency there.
Never limit yourself. If you want something, do it.

Nice to see /kind/ spirit still lives on. I haven't been here since shortly before the previous .moe shut down. A few bad apples at the time made me go elsewhere.

>>1360
You put it very well! I believe one of the few advantages when learning something as a child is that it's an almost automatic process, like basic grammar and dialect are picked up like your mothertongue, which means you don't have to think about the how.
I think usually the older you get, the more advantages shift. You become more focused, patient, resistent against setbacks and so on, essentially your life experience can push you forward in many ways.

>>1360
>>1361
all this talk about learning new skills reminds me of the comiket in japan! it's a good place to see people show off their creativity!

>>1220
Ryo Fukui taught himself to play piano when he was 22 and released this when he was 28:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrr3dp7zRQY

I think the age thing really only applies to competitive sports and first-language acquisition. Unless you have hand arthritis or something, you can learn to play most of the repertoire as long as you develop good technique. My experience as a (former) violinist is that the hardest part as a beginner is getting a good sound out of the instrument and this can be very frustrating, but it's just something that takes practice. You should definitely get a teacher, though. If you live near a music college, they might offer discount lessons from students there. I could recommend some practice books but there's no replacement for a good teacher, especially with something like the violin.

>>1257
>per the OP, what kind of songs are best for learning on a violin as well?
There are a lot of books with practice pieces specifically for beginners. I'd have to dig through storage to be sure, but I'm pretty sure I used Kayser's 36 Violin Studies as a student.
It's not really for absolute beginners, but Vivaldi's violin concerto in A minor is a well-known, relatively easy piece if you want to play "real" music.
Folk music can also be a good source for easy tunes.

>>1360
Welcome home friend.

>>1320
By the way, Here's how they look like, and feel free to show me your results!

>>1320
Good timing for this thread, with SLC being confirmed to get a proper NHL team.

Parker? Is that you? What's with the Olympic mascots?!

Can you put the sticky >>1 back? We had one for as long as I can remember, across all servers, it feels wrong without it.

>>1314
It's back, my bad. Would you mind if I edited the sticky in the future?

>>1315
Thank you. Of course, feel free to edit it.

>>1127
Hope you have a nice day too, OP.

You too anon

>>1127
hmm... thanks. i will be lazy today!

I read this post every morning and every night before I go to bed.
Thank you, anon.