I’m exactly like you’re describing and a little older than you (44). Songs, TV shows, movies, animated series. It’s a trivial feat to make me tear up at pretty much anything someone might consider touching.
I suppose it’s outside of the statistical norm for our demographic, but I wouldn’t say there’s anything wrong with it. We feel things and we express those feelings when we have them. I’d argue it’s a lot healthier than what the statistical mean of our cohort does.
Half of an ortholinear split keyboard and a trackball that’s missing the ball.
A thought for why it may have been easier for you to regularly use your paper journal while not maintaining the digital journal: it may be a matter of visual cuing.
With the paper journal it sits somewhere that you’ll see it regularly, probably along your route to bed. Seeing the journal may have been your mental cue to write in it, as opposed to simple routine or habit. You don’t get the same kind of cue from a digital journal because even a set reminder is no different from the bevy of notifications your phone gives you throughout the day.
Something that could help you keep up with your digital journal is to start keeping a physical journal in the same place you kept your old one. Maybe put an NFC tag in it that just launches your digital journal when scanned/tapped. Then you’ll still have that visual cue and habit reaction force to keep you journaling.
This is the story I came to this thread for. Amazing! Thanks for posting!
A thought: any ai-image detector is a defacto trainer for ai-image generators. It necessarily becomes a kind of arms race in the same way that spam generators test their payloads against spam filters.
Thank you for reposting it! I’ve been looking for resources like these.
Memmy has a broken implementation of instance filtering that currently needs to be configured on every startup, but it exists. Hopefully it will eventually be meaningfully functional. Precisely for the instance you mentioned.
Big same on the acts of selflessness. Especially over the last few years…