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Ask HN: If you had a month of free time, what would you do?

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Re: Ask HN: If you had a month of free time, what would you do?

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Post by house9-2 »

traviswingo wrote: post #3

Nothing. The value of doing nothing can far outweigh the value of doing something. Consider taking the time to just live before you go back to whatever grind you’re always on in a month. :)

> The value of doing nothing can far outweigh the value of doing something.

This might be the most profound thing I have ever read on HN :)

Re: Ask HN: If you had a month of free time, what would you do?

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Post by gamechangr »

warent wrote: post #8

Not really sure what you mean by free time. Everyone inherently has 24 hours of "free time", we just chose to fill it with what we do day to day. So I would continue doing what I already do day to day

I'm calling Bullshit.

"Not really sure what you mean by free time".

Give me a break, you understand the question just fine.

The worst part is that you didn't contribute to the question at all. Why did you comment?

Re: Ask HN: If you had a month of free time, what would you do?

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Post by lucb1e »

TL;DR: mostly technical debt of things I manage in my private life (server, laptop, family's laptop, my phone).

I would do things that need doing for a long time:

- I have an old server on its last legs running Windows 7 (yes, not even Windows Server or anything) with services which I'd like to migrate to my newer Linux server;

- I'd check and reconfigure some backups, and setup automatic backups for devices that don't have it yet (my own laptop and my grandma's new laptop);

- I'd reinstall my phone which is running Cyanogenmod based on Android 4.4, but it's a lot of work to reconfigure everything (considering how many custom settings I have to firewall apps, disallow most autostarts and wakelocks, deny most broadcast events to apps such as those from the Google framework, etc.);

- and finally a hobby project: I'd finish calendar software that I'm writing (I can't find open source, collaborative, self-hostable calendar software) and finally have friends and family be able to just look in my calendar instead of going back and forth, and my girlfriend be able to edit in it and I in hers, etc.

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