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Cake day: July 4th, 2023
  • linuxduck@nerdly.devtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What did "that one" person do to you which made you cut them out of your life?
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    1 year ago

    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… : /

  • linuxduck@nerdly.devtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Twitter is now XEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I enjoy reading about this change because everytime someone writes something like. Look what x did. My first thought isn’t of Twitter or any social media, it’s: “who’s x?” (As in replacement variable)

    So stupid to rebrand like that. Oh well, never used Twitter anyways

  • linuxduck@nerdly.devtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosting a Lemmy instance for just myself?English
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • linuxduck@nerdly.devtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you do to unwind?
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    1 year ago

    Yeah,… my upbringing was not normal. Lots of abuse. So that’s why. If he was healthy and had the support he needed I would have learned! But I think that is why I seeked it out later.

    And YES, if you have kids, absolutely teach them what you know. Don’t force them to keep learning but an introduction is a great idea. Like I wish my parents had taught me how to cook!

  • linuxduck@nerdly.devtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you do to unwind?
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    1 year ago

    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)