the democrats have ignored their voters like this and sided with the republicans.

“ReAcHiNg AcRoSs ThE AiSLe”

I remember that! Kids going down slides and playing with bottles that…looked like fish? O.o

I’d really like to know if there’s any practical guide on testing backups without requiring like, a crapton of backup-testing-only drives or something to keep from overwriting your current data.

Like I totally understand it in principle just not how it’s done. Especially on humble “I just wanna back up my stuff not replicate enterprise infrastructure” setups.

Fair.

I’m struggling with that a lot right now. I’m not even “old”, I’m a martial artist, I’m a computer graphics artist, I want to design games, but I’m constantly feeling too slow to handle everything.

Am I getting dumber? Am I getting slower? Why is it taking longer to remember things?

And I feel my sense of imagination and wonder is slipping, being replaced more and more by “impending threats” anxiety: “Oh shit, food prices are doing what now?” “Wait what fundamental freedom are they now ‘cracking down’ on?”

A lot of artists and gamedevs and tabletop game masters all say they have “too many ideas.” Lately I just see fog and don’t know how to engage my creativity.

I wonder if COVID stole my brain power. :(

As a millennial who’s still just trying my damnedest to learn everything I can and be a capable, intelligent, creative human being with my life, and maybe do something neat with all that…

These findings bring me to enraged tears over what they did to us in 2020.

This is a very valuable take and much needed perspective here. I appreciate you sharing it!

Also can’t help but lol at your experience with the wild girl who definitely used Skinner Box conditioning to make sure you always opened her emails! 😂

I miss a lot of the spirit of the hijinks and lulz internet, but I definitely don’t miss all the disgusting shock content that came with deeper web exploration. I visited the famous /b/ exactly once and decided my soul didn’t need that shit.

There’s a lot of gore stuff that I think was photoshopped, but also damn someone spent time making that?! I didn’t care to analyze it, I just wished there was such a thing as brain bleach.

There was also sites that would punish hotlinking by replacing images with the infamous “goatse” (no.), which was really great when trying to send my girlfriend a funny picture I found and she got to it too late. LOL that was fun to explain why she was seeing what she was seeing.

People warned me of misnamed videos on Kazaa and stuff turning out to be abuse material or execution footage but thankfully I mostly avoided that.

I remember clicking a phony download link and getting eyeball-blasted with CSAM ads seared into my brain once. (Actually I think I sent the link to the FBI on this one.)

Yeah, I miss the expressive freedom of “at your own risk” Internet, simply because you weren’t as much constantly being tailed by marketing bots and algorithms, but I don’t miss the mental trauma that came with clicking the wrong link.

You’re right though, in a weird way a bit of prior desensitizing can almost help us keep it together if we find ourselves in a really, really bad place. But I wish for a world where nobody has to do that…

This is all also why, even though I find the Dark Web super intriguing…I don’t need that shit. Lol

“add me on stoat!”

“Yeah bro I’m so stoakt!” Huh, that’s almost a better name LOL.

First Riot chat, now Revolt.

Funny how rebelliously flavored chat alternatives that challenge the centralized status quo keep getting put down!

Aww yeah, this is Tumbleweed life. :D

“You can set up your own email server at home, for fun!”

– The 90’s, Probably.

Lol. I’m kinda sad I missed out on that expressive time of making websites when I was growing up. You’re right, now everything is very homogenized and there’s a billion botswarms just waiting for you to be 3 seconds late to a security update so they can zombify your site for…

(Flips papers) Crypto somehow… it’s always crypto.

Internet crime isn’t even cool anymore. Lol

“Temper, temper!”

Oh definitely! If there’s one thing I’m done with, it’s people calling on speakerphone while their phone is like, seemingly, in their gym bag in the trunk LOL.

Like bro, you’re not Jack Bauer and I’m not your handler, it can wait until you’re done going 75 on the freeway.

Maybe my work’s phone network service is just awful, even landline to landline, but yeah, for how much faster data connections have gotten, I feel like I got clearer voice quality on my cordless Vtech in 2004 LOL.

Maybe it’s me and I should get my hearing checked. 😅

The good thing about YOUR homelab is that YOU’RE taking notes solely for YOURSELF and only YOU know how YOU work and how YOU organize YOUR thoughts.

Normally I’d agree, in that it’s not some corporate production environment, but also I personally want to document my self hosted setup in a kind of document that can at least be accessed and understood by my closest family, if something were to happen to me.

Convincing them to archive stuff on my Nextcloud instance for example, and them losing access because I’m not around, temporarily or permanently, would spoil the whole point of the endeavor.

HOW WAS I THINKING THIS EXACT SAME THING.

Oh this is REALLY cool. I’ve been using Daylio for a long time, and this seems like it’s aiming to be a great self hosted replacement!

So, multiple users can journal on their own accounts, or can you control who sees your entries?

This is such a neat idea. As a soon to be parent, I 100% understand the motive behind building it too. I can’t wait to try it! :)

The standardized NATO phonetic alphabet

…for when you need to read alpha numeric codes or clarify spellings.

Especially with, how, inexplicably, phone connections seem to have gotten more garbly in recent years.

This code was invented to be reasonably understood as much as possible in less-than-ideal communication conditions.

As time goes on, civilian life is full of situations where you’ll need to read off serial numbers, codes, or even spelling your own name, to somebody seemingly connected to you from a million miles away via coconuts and twine.

So, learn it, and you never need to go “M as in…uh…‘Mancy’?” ever again! Your IT department might thank you.

…and let’s be honest, it sounds kinda cool. :)

Y’know…this. I might not like it, and many of their choices are… questionable…

…but I think it’s good we have some effort coming from full-time career paid Linux developers, rather than just sponsorship money from FOSS-leeches like “mEtA” and “aMaZoN.”

By simply not using Ubuntu, and ignoring the MOTD on my VM servers…I don’t really feel affected by their actions in any meaningful way. And that makes me happy.

As opposed to having to just accept whatever new footgun Microsoft wants to blast users with next.

Hey now, garbage companies actually do something productive for society. :p

However if you tell their api that you are an smart tv running Linux it works…

I wanna figure out how the heck to do this. 1080p doesn’t particularly bother me, but it’s pretty ridiculous getting discriminated against like that.

I also blame the Uni for not advertising that it would be required for the coursework.

Just like Steam now says "REQUIRES KERNEL LEVEL ANTICHEAT" like a big ugly Surgeon General’s warning, I think college courses should say stuff like this too.

Along with “REQUIRES INVASIVE KERNEL LEVEL REMOTE ACCESS MALWARE BROWSER TO TAKE EXAMS”

Heroic is so aptly titled. Combined with one of those helper apps to install “Proton GE”, it makes you just about unstoppable.

I’m finding that Linux has given me better compatibility with my game library as a whole!

For real legacy stuff, Bottles also works a treat. Never thought I’d get Sims 1 working again with so little hassle.

It’s a wonderful time.