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Fashion is a weird thing
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Fashion is a weird thing
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Splitting the rent.
If a partner moved in with me they absolutely would help pay my mortgage. But I wouldn't lie that I didn't own the place. Just set standards of what I expect
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What did "that one" person do to you which made you cut them out of your life?
Family started to make fun of my pronouns. I'm just tired of people choosing to be cruel for cruel sake. So I deleted Facebook, essentially cutting them out.
My mom refused to use pronouns and I'd given her 6 years to learn and grow, cut her out.
In the past, a coworker on purpose set up a birthday for one of my best friends and didn't invite me. They made up super weird reasons why I wasn't invited. I realized he was manipulative... I cut him out...
Another co-worker was a friend but then one day he wanted to start touching me. I don't like being touched. I kept asking him to stop, he did it more. Til one day he pushed me into a cold case (we worked at a grocery store). I cut him out.
Regardless of who I cut out though, there is ALWAYS room to come back if they change and grow up.
I'm still hoping my mom will before she passes... : /
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Self hosting a Lemmy instance for just myself?
I have both a misskey and lemmy instance. For both I used https://servarica.com/ with the cheapest summer deal Flying Fish SSD. It's like 55 a year. (Or you can pay monthly but I'd highly suggest to save up and pay yearly) (kinda lie, I got a bigger one for lemmy but it's overkill)
If you have never installed software before on a VPS (virtual private server) you're in for a learning ride. If this is the case, be patient, don't give up.
Misskey is similar to mastadon. You can also look into calkey which is similar to misskey.
The hardest part of setting it up was the settings. But since I already know Docker and whatever it was easy going otherwise.
Though I still don't have email working... Bleh
Misskey you add relays. Relays are like lists of instances to join in the fediverse. You then block instances you don't like.
Lemmy, you block instances you don't approve and can set it up so you can white list as well.
Also important, lemmy doesn't automatically add other instances. How it works is, any user on your instances has to subscribe to another using the full search key ![email protected] then once ONE user is subscribed, everyone else can search it via keyword.
Because of that I created a bot that went through all my approved instances and subscribed to all communities in there. It stopped around 3500 subscribed communities. I'll have to run it again sometime.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Booted From Right-Wing House Freedom Caucus
She's fucking insane, but most of them are. The only good I see of this is that there is in-fighting. The more they tear each other apart the less grip they have...
Someone smarter than me hopefully will post a better picture on what this means...
:/
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For this who aren’t aware, Memmy for lemmy is now available in the app store [iOS]
angry android noises
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People who work in food service or customer service: What’s the dumbest thing a customer ever insisted was “the law” or “illegal”?
Not exactly to the title but I was alone with a coworker and explaining my precancerous cells I was being checked up on and a customer walked up as I was explaining.
He said, "that sounds like bullshit and I would know because I have a PHD."
he was an idiot.
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What do you do to unwind?
Whatever I can focus on, it helps me release the day
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Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?
I have tinnitus. Had it my whole life. I live with a fan running in every room except the kitchen and bathroom. They are on 24/7 365. The silence literally makes my head feel like it's about to pop
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Share Your Favorite Linux Distros and Why You Love Them
Manjaro. It just worked on any device I installed it on. And wifi just worked with no fiddling.
Then I installed it on surface tablet. What didn't work, I found kernel fixes I could implement.
Of all the distros, for me, it was the easiest to use, install and manipulate!!
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What do you do to unwind?
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If you don't mind a long-ish story:
I have always wanted to get into it. My dad was an RF engineer, but he never would teach me anything.
I moved to Seattle in 2010 (I was about 25yo) and I learned about maker spaces.
Well a guy at that maker space didn't mind showing me the basics. So he taught me briefly how solder works and then asked what I wanted to make. I said, "I want things to light up"
So he gave me a breadboard, LEDs, resistors, wire and a battery and said, "Figure it out". Pretty quick I got them lit up. So I went back to him and said, "I want them to change brightness when its dark or light out."
So he gave me a photo resistor (when there is no light it slows/stops the current of electricity), and he said, "Figure it out". So I learned how to use the photo resistor to make the lights brighter when the ambient light was brighter. Then I told him, "I want them to light up when it's dark out, not light".
So he gave me a transistor and said, "Figure it out". This took me 3 months, all alone, to read the schematic of that transistor. But EVENTUALLY I got it working.
Since then I have learned to create my own PCB's, programmed line followers and have built robots that move around and do image recognition!
I haven't done much as of late but I want to get back to that! (I have moved a lot in my life so the second to last move I did, I had to donate ALL my robotics so I am starting from scratch)
I would look up maker spaces in your area. You can use them to do more than just robotics. The one I went to also had engravers, 3D printers, and knitting machines (or crochet? can't remember)
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Early disappointment
I loved learning lambda calculus (though for me it was super hard)
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take care o7
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Wtf... No. Nightmare fuel
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Game recommendation time
Just recently bought Twilight Inscription (single player games) and I love it. Favorite type of game is deck builder. Favorite game of all time is Cosmic Encounters.
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Gender assumptions
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What habits or practies have you adopted from cultures besides your own?
So many. I bow (learned from Japanese class). I wobble my head side to side, similar to South Asians, I have no idea why I started that, just feels normal now. I will often walk out of a room facing the room and close the door facing the room, learned from taekwondo. I'm sure there are so many more... I have this thing where I unconsciously mimic things.
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any step parenting subs?
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Bonk
I've missed bonk doggo
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US swelters as south-west braces for record-breaking heatwave up to 120F
I mean Maricopa county in Arizona when I last lived there was a regular 125-126 degrees during the hottest two weeks of the year. Never drops down below 100 at night. The wind slams you like a blow dryer in the face.
.... I moved away in 2010
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What are your niche hobbies you’d like to share with other people?
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I made a replacement cipher for my friend. I sent him a very short story and he was able to decipher it! Made me happy!