Well, this is off topic, but c/all for all the popular instances are like 99% the same, save for the occasional obscure community in one of the instances that nobody else is subscribed to. You can confirm that yourself by opening up lemmy.world and sopuli.xyz in private tabs and selecting all with the same sort in both. But I should’ve also mentioned that I sort by the “top” sorts when I browse all. If you browse with hot or active, then it is a significantly different experience from the top sorts.

But alright, I won’t pester you anymore. I apologize if I sounded angry too. I’ve been having issues with that recently that I’m trying to be more conscious of. I shouldn’t have even made my original comment in here, now that I’m thinking of it. That was kind of poor forum etiquette. It’s easy enough to just ignore the migration notices. So sorry about that haha. I wish you the best of luck with your communities, though.

I’m not subscribed to any communities. I’m seeing all these notices on c/all. This is like the 5th c/ps5 migration notice I’ve seen in the past two days. That’s why I suggested to just start posting new threads in [email protected] and be done with it. Lemmy is still really small, so basically every thread has the potential to succeed in c/all, even for new communities that are still starting out. So [email protected] will grow very easily without having to have this big hoopla about migrations and whatnot.

But I’m afraid to say I don’t think your idea is going to fly long term. While lemmy.ml advertises itself as a FOSS focused instance, if you browse local top day for it, you can see that in actuality it’s a lot of memes and other more casual posts. And you’re squatting on the ps5 name for lemmy.ml now, which could cause issues down the road.

You should either keep both communities active and be the mod of both, or seek out mods to replace you at [email protected].

Just start posting in [email protected] and be done with this whole migration thing. Posts in your new community will make it to c/all and people will participate and subscribe. [email protected] is going to continue to exist with new mods and people will continue to post there, and there’s really nothing you can do about that. That’s just the nature of decentralized communities. Kind of like how c/asklemmy posts are split 50/50 between [email protected] and [email protected].

Thanks, this thread has been highly informative for me. I now know there’s a little bit of vitamin loss from the canning process, so I should look into that.

There was a time when I tried getting into cooking (mostly variations of rice and beans) and I ended up leaning pretty heavily on canned chopped/diced tomatoes too. I liked the different flavors you could buy, in terms of the seasoning that’s put in the can, and you’re right, you could put anything in it and it would taste good.

Haha yeah, the canned fruit is loaded with sugar from that extra syrup they add. I’ve been rationalizing it as at least I’m not drinking soda anymore, but I need to fix that too.

This is great info, though. Dried fruit is a good idea about ditching that sugary syrup. Plus, it’s easier than canned fruit anyway. I have been avoiding the premixed canned stuff and I do eat a lot of nuts and seeds, but I don’t do any dried vegetables. I’ll start looking into trying those. They do sound like they’d be a good way to get more variety.

Thanks! Yeah, I’ll start trying to introduce frozen veggies into my routine. Never considered the pickled section of the grocery store, but I’ll take a look there too.

Thanks cool, that’s good to know that I’m ok with the cans. I just have to start buying the low/no salt versions from now on, it sounds like. I’ll probably try to start mixing it up with the other lazy healthy options too, though. If only for a little more variety.

Cool, thanks for the recipe!

Thanks, I’ll try getting the low salt versions of things I can, and trying alternatives too, like frozen versions. I thought about dried beans before too, so maybe I’ll give those an honest go now. I was thinking they’d probably be just as easy as what I’m currently doing if you cook those in batch, and they’d probably taste better too.

Thanks for the alternatives ideas. I should try to mix up my “cooking” game a little, just to get a little more variety in my diet.

Yeah, that’s the type of thing I was wondering about. Some weird chemical type thing or something that does damage over time. I haven’t been worrying about it too much, but figured I should probably at least check before I knock too many canned meals back.

And yeah, this is metal cans I’m talking about.

For the microplastics, I guess I’m not too concerned with this if I can’t avoid them anyway.

I forgot to mention that I also eat a sandwich or something with the canned food meal. Like peanut butter and jelly or something. And about the salt content, I rinse both the beans and vegetables off before I mix them. I’m pretty sure there’s little to no salt left at that point, because I don’t taste any.

I know about two forms of meditation: mindfulness meditation and transcendental meditation. They’re both pretty much exactly the same, except in mindfulness meditation, you focus on your breath traveling through the tips of your nostrils, and in transcendental meditation, you focus on a sound/word/phrase in your head.

This guy explains transcendental meditation really well. If you want to try mindfulness meditation, then just change his instructions to focus on your breath instead of a sound, and keep the rest of the instructions exactly as they are: https://youtu.be/nBCsFuoFRp8

One thing to note is that there’s transcendental meditation, and then there’s Transcendental Meditation™. They’re the same exact thing, except with with transcendental meditation, you pick whatever sound you want, but with Transcendental Meditation™, you pay $1600 to have some dude sprinkle a bunch of essential oils or some shit on you and pick your sound for you. Plus, who knows what kind of recurring hidden fee nonsense you’re signing up for, so I suggest avoiding Transcendental Meditation™.

What is this referring to?

Yes, it’s a safe bet that it’s just my current job. I was a lot happier at a previous job with a government contractor that was very low stress. I’m going to start applying for new dev jobs.

I’ll most likely stay in the dev field because it’s the path of least resistance for me, and because the job security most definitely shields me from a lot of new stressors I’m probably not even aware of. But I still wonder sometimes what it would be like to have a job outside like that one guy who said he became a wildlife ranger. Or to have a job where you solve physical problems with your hands, instead of abstract problems with your brain.

Thanks for the info. Yeah, two year Associate Degree might not be too bad, if I really wanted to make the transition.

That’s a good one, thanks for the suggestion. You mentioned another contributing factor to my hypothetical career change too. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to work at some place that has a more direct impact on my community. My current job is more indirect, I would say.

Definitely my current team is a huge contributor. My previous job was a government contracting job with basically no stress, but now I’m in banking, and the stress is off the charts. My team is also a bit mismanged, which doesn’t help.

I think if I could find another team like my previous job with low stress, then I’d definitely be happy to continue being a web developer.

That’s true that healthcare jobs are plentiful out in rural areas. I never thought of that. I’m not too sure how I would feel about having to go back to school, but it’s a good option to consider.