I definitely understand the frustration, in terms of close family members being really bad with money. And then, after a long chain of horrible decisions, asking for financial help.

But if it weren't for the whole "didn't save anything, spent way beyond my means, and MUST scramble for money now", I'd really admire the initiative someone in their 70's starting a business, or staying active and making money some other way.

So many people in their 70's (and 60's) are sitting around, not doing much, watching a lot of videos, or taking cruise after cruise (if they have money to spare). As for me, I want to be as busy as is compatible with happiness when I hit that age.

This is what I do - DIY hotel cooking kit - how to eat healthier when traveling

I don't know that I've ever had room service at all. It sounds like I've missed the chance to have decent room service.

Oh okay. I'm still learning my way around this whole thing, and need to figure out Cursor. Cursor will actually write out the files for you, correct? Do you have a paid subscription?

With AI prompting in the tool I'm using , it'll create the files, but you have to save them in the right location manually, and then also keep updating them manually, as you and the AI make changes.

Nice. And you created this just via prompting AI with Claude 4, nothing like Cursor or CoPilot? What is it written in?

Sounds interesting. How are you structuring it? Do you have a background in IT?

I almost put my original post in the DIY section. It feels more like a DIY project, than a dev project.

Don't most of them offer a free trial? Also, if you want to try out a bunch of different AI models, you can check out Pay Per Query - http://ppq.ai. Pay with lightning, and no login needed.

"whichever one I have the most experience with".

So - public education. Although the healthcare system runs a close second.

I absolutely agree with that. Don't want government to push me to commit suicide, but after a certain point, I do not want medical care - the mind of medical care that keeps you alive as a vegetable, in bed wearing diapers.

It's all about the hospitals making a huge chunk of money in those last months/years of life - it's not at all about making people's lives better.

It looks interesting. I wonder what kinds of events they schedule, to get people out from behind screens/underneath headsets.

Interesting...by chance do you know what plant this is, and if the passing would be easy? I'm curious because I'll bet a lot of people would be interested.

A story from a friend of mine who owns a private plane...this friend knows some other people in the flying community. One of them - let's call him Joe - was very seriously ill with a fatal, painful cancer. Joe knew that in higher elevations, you pass out without oxygen, and then you painlessly pass away. As pre-arranged, a couple of Joe's friends took him up for a flight very high up, where you'd normally need oxygen. The Joe took his oxygen mask off, and after a period of time, passed away.

The problem is when government is pushing these options.

As in - aren't there some people who should be committing suicide, but aren't? Maybe we should encourage them?

Seriously, there's a checkpoint in a public square in Turkey, and they force people to get on the scale, announce their weight, and tell them to lose weight?

I'm all for healthy living, but if that's true (I doubt it), it's insane.

Okay, after a lot of "vibe-coding" with AI, I think I have the browser extension. I'm going to test it some more, and if everything goes okay, maybe I'll put it on github.

It really is a useful little thing - instead of me instantly popping up a new tab at the slightest little hint of boredom, I pause for a sec, and decide whether I really want/need to. If I decide that I DO want to, I just open the tab, am presented with the little math problem, execute a bit of mental arithmetic to solve the problem, and VOILA the new tab comes up.

So far so good. I'm really impressed with this vibe-coding thing. I'm using ppq.ai., with grok 3. It's taken quite a few prompts - there's bugs, I tell the ai model what the bugs are, I get some updates, load them, and repeat.

But right now, I'm at a state where it seems to be working fine. I'll probably need to change it to make the math problem more difficult. Or maybe allow an option in that regard. Also it needs an icon...

Yes, right now it's so automatic (cntrl + T to open a tab, type url in browser, hit enter) that if I'm just a tiny bit bored or frustrated, I will instantly pop open another tab, and do whatever (check weather forecast, stacker.news).

It's like scratching a little itch, or biting a fingernail or something. It's mindless. And very destructive of my ability to focus.

So...on a lot of platforms (for instance, Gumroad, where you can sell digital content), you can also request a tip.

That kind of tip is now tax free? Or doesn't that count in the list of occupations?

Holy smokes, yes.

All the time. And I try HARD to work against this. My digital detox (most Sundays) is really useful.

I'm thinking about making a browser extension. Key would be that before opening ANY new tab, you'd have to solve a tiny math problem - something simple, but not too simple - maybe adding two 2 digit numbers together. When you do that, you can open the tab.

I'd have to change the way I browse, though. When I browse, I right click and open a bunch of tabs at a time, then go through them. I'd need - to rethink this.

I do the weekly digital detox, but also need to figure out daily digital detox - i.e. each day have at least an hour or two where I can't access ANY internet.

One of the big barriers to this is that the big tech companies are constantly knocking on government doors, offering goodies if government buys the software.

There's nothing like that, on the side of open source software.

Yeah, when I first started digital detoxes I completely put away both my phone and laptop for the day.

Then I felt resentful that tools like using my phone to call people was not an option. And these are, of course, tools I used regularly BEFORE the internet made the digital environment "dirty" (in other words, touching anything digital meant you were exposed to crazy stimulation).

So right now I draw the line at:

I can understand the desire to be completely without stimulation. Now, when sunbathing, I've started to NOT bring a book, or listen to a podcast. I tried it just as an experiment, but now I'm hooked - it's cool to just be able to let your mind drift. I start focusing on clouds, birds, whatever noises I hear in the neighborhood. And I also think about my projects, and often get good ideas on them.