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Interested in self-hosting, decentralization, and learning more about the fediverse.
I also do photography, but with digital cameras from the 90’s.
As someone who doesn’t quite care for sweet things, I’ve always been a big fan of unsweetened peanut butter. At least in my area, the Teddie brand is surprisingly affordable compared to the other “specialty” peanut butters with no stabilizers/sugar, it’s just peanuts and salt (and you can get unsalted, too)
Yeah, my main Gmail is almost 20 years old, it’s been leaked a ton, that’s the one I share with people. I have a Proton mail for the really important stuff like identity-related things. There’s still a bunch of services that have my Gmail as the main contact, and I’ve thought about going and meticulously changing them all to the Proton address, but it hasn’t been a problem thus far. Plus, having a firstname.lastname gmail address is convenient, and I haven’t found another service that I could switch to these days that will give me that same convenience (I’ve been gaining interest in self-hosting, so that’s on the horizon maybe)
I get surprisingly little actual junk/spam all things considered.
I would unironically love if there were enough people in my life that also wanted to live that way to make it viable… Also the lack of functioning payphones these days would be challenging.
The place (at least in the USA) where I’ve found the most functional-looking payphones was actually Hawaii… And even then, so many are decaying and non-functional. I’ve had a silly idea to go back and just roam around and photograph as many as I can.
A couple months back I went through and marked every single email as read in my inbox, and now I keep up with it every day. I currently have 0. Feels good.
Keeping up with at least opening every email I get also allows me to unsubscribe to the annoying ones with extreme prejudice.
The one that’s been baffling me is “Instant Gaming”… I never signed up for their service, had never even heard of it before. I started getting weekly emails. I went to go unsubscribe, and in order to unsubscribe, I need to log in, which obviously I can’t do because I don’t have an account. There’s no way I’m going to sign up JUST to unsubscribe. I’ve tried contacting their customer service but nobody cares. I just set it as spam.
I’ve always been so impressed with those large planes! My dad used to take my brother and I to a flying field when we were younger just to watch.
I’m much too anxious a person in general to fly something so large and complex. The foam was perfect for me haha. It was also easy to teach people how to fly, I’d just hand the transmitter to people. That’s how I got my dad into it, he’s still flying occasionally these days.
That Kadet is such a classic, classic design. If you were to take an average of every RC plane ever flown, it’d probably look exactly like that.
Excellent examples of that all around me where they installed a bunch of flex posts around previously unprotected bike lanes.
It’s been about a year (I think. Time is hard), and there are significantly less flex posts, some stretches have none at all anymore, because people just run them over like they don’t exist. Even on a street where the bike lane was ALREADY separated from the lane of travel by a ~5 foot section of cross-hatched pavement, people still somehow find a way to run over and destroy the poles. It’s baffling.
I couldn’t possibly mind, go for it! I stumbled across an album cover with the effect (Trails by The Floating Mountain Band, 29 minutes of interesting ambient) a while back and thought “Huh, that’s really cool, I wonder if I could make some…”, and squirreled the idea away for another day. It is very similar to the other art I already have on my walls.
I am working on trying to see how small of a line pattern I can get with various printer nozzles. The best results are with the 0.2mm nozzle, but printing the whole roller I want (3" in diameter, 4" wide), is going to take over 24 hours to print. I have a roller designed for 0.4mm nozzles, and I just need to print it and try it out. I’m trying to figure out what kind of ink and paper would work good. I’m thinking I might need some kind of soft rubber mat to lay the paper on, as a hard plastic roller won’t do a great job of transferring ink to a hard, stiff surface like paper on a tabletop. I got some cheap water-based paint that I am going to thin out a bit with some water just to test, I have NO idea how that will turn out haha.
I will definitely make a post about it somewhere when I get some kind of satisfactory result! I’ll probably post at least the simple roller model for others to print.
I used to be big into the foam-board electric planes a bunch of years ago. Loved building one in an afternoon, flying it, crashing it, fixing it, building another one out of $4 of foam board when the old one got too squishy… I used to fly almost exclusively the FT Bloody Wonder, I could almost cut a new one out by heart.
I’m always tempted to fly again, but I just have SO many hobbies and so little space. I would have to hang them from the ceiling in my living room or something… Honestly wouldn’t be the worst thing.
What airframe(s) do you fly?
I’m not technically a manager. I’m at the same level as some managers, but don’t have any employees under me. I still have to go through the anti-union training every year and it makes me sick. It makes me want to try and start the plant operators unionizing.
My original choice was between the BRZ and an MX-5… I don’t have another car, so I needed just the tiny bit more practicality of the trunk and back-seat space. I HAVE in fact taken 4 people in it, though it’s only a last resort kind of thing… It was really tough, because I fucking love convertibles. If I had a more reasonable car, or even the space to park a more reasonable car when I was looking into it originally (I live in an apartment in a downtown metro with only 1 parking space), I’d have 100% gotten a convertible miat.
And I’m only 5’10", but I think I just have a long torso. My seat is all the way down, and there isn’t enough head clearance for me to wear a helmet, which just saves me from the temptation to beat on it at autocross or something, so honestly a positive.
This week is and will continue to be a hobby black hole… Sunday morning I am going to a local tech flea market to try and offload a ton of superfluous crap I’ve accumulated since I went and sold a bunch of crap last year lol. Laptops, the spare 3D printer I don’t use, random electronic gizmos, the works…It’s all currently in a massive pile in my kitchen. It’s been a ton of work to curate and price everything, and I can tell that it’s going to come down to the wire.
Once that’s passed, though, I want to get back to the art project I was working on, I want to try and print Moire interference patterns with 3-d printed "wood"block rollers. That, and working on actually starting up my homelab and diving into that world.
You’re right, I stand corrected. I was looking at a post on Lemmy.World that was a changelog that mentioned adding keyword content filters.
Turns out that it was a changelog for a particular mobile Lemmy client (Summit).
My quick glance wasn’t quite deep enough, it seems.
Piefed has a content filter to remove it. Signing up for piefed.social, one of the first questions it asks is “How tired are you of the Trump/Musk spam?”. I just checked my filters, and the only 2 words are “trump” and “musk”, and I have not seen a single lick of US politics in any of my browsing over the last week or so since joining. (EDIT: Lemmy doesn’t have content filters, I was looking at the wrong info, sorry!)
I get my news elsewhere and I’m part of local political action groups. One of the reasons I left Reddit a couple weeks back was to get away from the constant dooming. Even after meticulously curating my communities, it was hard to get away from. There’s a time and place for worrying about news and politics, but anywhere and everywhere 24/7 isn’t it.
I can see how it could be a problem if you WANT to see a little bit of it, though.
Not very. Still working on getting a VPN set up and learning the ropes of self-hosting in general. Most of the research I’ve been doing has mentioned that Piefed seems to take less resources than Lemmy for some reason. We’ll see how it goes once I actually figure all this out. I just learned that my choice of home internet might make it difficult since I apparently can’t get a static IP. (T mobile 5G)
I drive a BRZ, lowered an inch and a half, and I’m tall enough that the seat needs to be as low as it will go so I don’t bump my head on the roof. Stopped at lights, I can look over at regular non-lifted pickup trucks and think “Huh, that guy’s asscheeks are at the same level as my eyeballs”.
I’ve gotten over the feeling of being small while driving amongst traffic, but the stark differences while stopped close to other vehicles is hard to ignore.
I really wish I could buy the new Suzuki Jimny. I saw one in person for the first time on a trip a few months back, and it’s so perfect.
I was at an event recently, and one of the speakers was a hair over 100 years old, born in 1925. They were remarkably articulate, and it was so interesting listening to the perspectives they had with the massive amount of life experience they have. It was super impactful listening to them talk.
I’ll also comment to say that the “cancel” part of this is stupid and should be reconsidered. (There seems to be a pretty thorough consensus on that). Isn’t the whole point of this to have options, to spread the resources out to as many points as possible to prevent a single point of failure, corruption, or censorship?
I ended up at Piefed, because I’m interested in self-hosting, and I understand Python more than any of the other languages represented. That’s really the full depth of my choice, and I’m not sure there should be much more thought behind it other than “How does this particular software package perform and meet my needs?”
I was hanging out with some people this weekend, and we somehow got on the subject of fiber consumption, and how americans eat far too little fiber. Over the course of the day, we continued to joke about fiber, and built a made-up authoritarian town government based around maintaining healthy fiber intake for its citizens. Increased septic pipe diameters, Navy Bean distribution infrastructure, mandatory weekly stool scans, “fiber re-education” camps for failing a scan. When people die, their fiber will be reprocessed and returned to the citizens (like the sacred water in Dune)…
When we all parted ways, later in the evening, one of them sent a link to the group chat they had been talking about earlier in the day. IMMEDIATELY someone responded “This isn’t fiber related :(”
It’s been a long time since I’ve witnessed the birth of a stupid inside joke, it was providing smiles all day. “Hey Alex, I bet that tree bark has a TON of fiber…”
I was just talking about this with someone this past weekend. For me, it has been removing most “smart” features from my phone.
The only thing I use my phone now is calling/texting, navigation, music, a calendar, and a notes app. It’s taken me a long time to get here, almost 3 years at this point, but being able to take my phone out, use it for the one intentional thing I need, then put it away… It’s so liberating. I use Olauncher, which is a minimal text-based home screen, and it also tracks your daily screen-time and displays it on the home-screen. I’m down to around 30-45 minutes MAX of screen time per day. Most days its 15 or below.
Costco bought RAC in a stunning buyout in 2437 after Costco’s CEO Harambe Memelord Disney Jr. offered RAC’s CEO Squiggy John John John John Johnson a 2-for 1 deluxe latte coupon and an extra big-ass fry.