Takes years to fully dial

Be you while you can and don’t let anyone stop you. It is a waste of energy to worry about things you cannot change including stupidity in other people. Live without regrets. One day, if the winds of fortune turn unfavorable in life, you will most value the times you were bold, the times you were true to yourself, and the times you were true for others. You only have one worst day to deal with. For all the rest you can brag to yourself “I’ve seen worse.”

When some punk kid threatens me on a bike trail these days I tell them “do you think you can hit harder than a Jeep Cherokee and Mitsubishi Montero, because I took on both of those but I’m still here and they were total losses.” My real emotional worst low was 3 flat tires in 40F rain at night with a headwind, when a 1:45 ride took over 3 hours. All the other miserables are not really memorable to me specifically because I only allow myself to hold onto the worst in mind. I’ve actually been hit twice badly by cars but by 7 cars in total. Now I’m physically disabled and kinda stuck lying down at home most of the time. Live your life like you could become me. You won’t regret being real to yourself. You will regret the opposite. It is just one bad day at worst.

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Yeah, I’m kinda volunteering for the mod part. In truth I think it would take the respective instance admin setting up such a thing specifically. Like create a throwaway or something so that the actual user is not propagated to other admin or the full activity pub feed being transported. The one instance admin would know and have the ability to filter or block, but that information would never escape the one server. As a mod I would be blind to actual potential bad actors and only filter at the liberal community and comments level. So basically a normal community that replaces the OP name with Anon, and never shares the real ID with anyone.

I keep seeing people go to the effort of creating a throwaway account to say or post stuff they want or need to externalize on the threadiverse. I’m willing to bet that for every person that goes to that much effort, there are likely somewhere between 10-100 people that lack an outlet and motivation to do the same. Greentext is just a mutual pretext on my part for genuinely caring about people under pressure right now and in need of an outlet in a way that is not really well supported by the fediverse or activity pub.

We are small enough here that regular names and people can hold meaning in familiarity and memorable history. Kind words and social interaction anonymously from these may hold considerably more value and meaning within this social dynamic that is not afforded elsewhere.

Close the fediverse, we already had a solution

Hired, you start tomorrow. Yes I know. And your previous ghola may have had a conversation with me once about machining questions or something in that vain that I vaguely recall. I worked in two machine shops for a short time and still have small desktop aspirations here and there for jeweler’s scale or maybe something like a gingery lathe.

proper turtle neck tie

could be better. a proper very experienced machinist could do it in metal…

Figured out some CAD stuff yesterday that has been bugging me for two weeks. I should have a printable model tomorrow or the day after.

Trying to make stuff nicer than a simple rectangular box can be hard to do right. I had never tried mentally inverting my spaces in CAD and modeling all complex voids between shells as objects too, but that allows me to navigate more complexity now. Basically I discovered I can do a bunch of operations, then merge objects up tree at an earlier point in history to apply all of the later operations to both objects in useful ways.

It was surprisingly challenging to think about a hollow rectangular hourglass inside an oval at the waist of the hourglass, and then how wires, connectors, and a circuit board cross between the asymmetric voids in the center. It is not just hollow spaces to pocket out. I need print orientation based mounts and clips that grow from all faces in different directions because it is all one monolithic print and I never use printed supports.

It is a silly thing to describe, and to do, but it is my silly thing.

Bottom taco always does

Isn’t there a universal interface for photon on any instance? I tried using them at some point but neither is compatible with my networking practices. In only use Alexandrite.

It is harder to do this with the newer metal tooth variety. The tooth digs into the tail where you need to tighten, avoid back pressure, and really need a knife to get under the tooth reliably.

Sure, you can send me a nas with drives and another network switch, wiring, and pay for labor to run it, while setting it up to work with my hardware and firewall. I have no interest in these projects to support something maybe useful to you but that I already know. I’d rather just do what I do now and keep it to myself. I’m physically disabled with no meaningful income. Gatekeep your hobby and financial position all you’d like, but **** your random prejudiced negative vitriol towards strangers.

Not necessarily. Like I don’t have my YT stuff stored anywhere any more.

Shorter format stuff – sure, and that seems to be the only focus really for peertube now. Most of the YT stuff I posted was like bits and pieces of my journey of creating a product photography studio and progress I was making while still in my collar with a broken neck. I also made electrical hobby and bicycle stuff. I typically uploaded long format with 20-40 minutes detailing what I tried and what did or did not work when fixing stuff that is supposed to be unserviceable or undocumented and like reverse engineering type content. Some of those proved to be a reference I used many years later. My digital storage has never been at a very high quality level. Most of my motivation is like here on Lemmy; I want to share and just be a little social while maybe providing some useful tidbit that helps someone. I’d rather relegate that digital archiving to someone else mostly because my life has never been well supported or super stable.

We probably need to also get more of us actually uploading to peertube and posting stuff here with better integration.

First step is streamlining account creation and uploading. Is there a post goto for how to sign up? What servers are stable versus maybe not so much? Really useful video content is a major undertaking for technically useful stuff. I did several on YT in the past and some in the hundreds of thousands of views about how to fix or hack stuff where I was the only source posted. Editing something well is at least 1 hour per minute, and twice that with a good setup and recording. So like, I’d be far more bummed if that stuff got lost by instances disappearing. That is probably the biggest hesitation I have had. IMO, useful original content is the holy grail for this kind of thing, or maybe that is just my perspective bias.

You kinda have a judgemental disposition that limits your perspective, and should be open to questions and interchange instead of hot take negativity and rude mockery.

I’m referring to a larger and more abstract scope than your assumption. No company that attempts to shape the world to their will and company’s ways fairs well in the long run. When they double down, as google is doing, it may seem like a position of leveraged power at the time, but it is the initial convulsion of a death throw. It will take a long time, but just like IBM is an irrelevant shadow of its former self, so will Google after trying to shape the world to its ways instead of changing with the times to align with public demands. The same can be said of the American auto industry, Motorola, HP, or any of the many former giant brands that are nothing more than a sticker placed on foreign contract manufactured mass produced goods. These all failed to shift and adapt to an ever changing and evolving public.

If Google had any sense whatsoever, it would not respond to Graphene as a problem but as a sign of their pending irrelevance. The move reflects an aging culture of insular egotism at the top of the company. Such a culture does not innovate or lead by brilliantly following what consumers really want. It tries to dictate the market and in so doing causes its own irrelevance in the long term. It is the monarchy succession crisis playing out to rhyming effect. Meritocracy is hard to create in practice, especially for the seats at the top. Great wealth is rarely meritorious – often inherited, and therefore is incapable of picking effective leadership in succession of those that built something great from the bottom up. Wealth also easily corrodes those that built with the passage of time and a class divide of disproportionate prosperity.

Google is dying to become the new IBM of American irrelevance

Two week low of major pain let up today. I have been modeling a ton of stuff in CAD to integrate into my bedside laptop stand.

So I knew I could hack this old iPod-dock clock radio easily from multiple approaches, but I finally got around to looking up the display and chips used and it turns out that it is all petty well documented and approachable. Not to mention the hardware build is half decent, especially for an old thrift store junk find. I have to avoid going too far down this rabbit hole and getting lost in the side project, like programming often ends up becoming for me, but it was a nice surprise reading the datasheet and realizing I could mess with it easily. I also seemed to have a few days streak of only encountering nice, real people on Lemmy without any vitriol.

Nice one Matt. I hadn’t seen you as much for awhile there. Maybe it was just a coincidence of timing or my selection bias, but has everything been alright; going well?

Shady pico de gallo seeds are currently 2 tomato, and a jalapeño plant. I had one sweet onion decided to grow past the point of use, and I didn’t have the heart to kill its dreams. I have never actually seen what one looks like when growing or how they seed or propagate. So I guess I’ll learn this year. I haven’t pirated anything quite yet, but only just getting my head around how early seeds actually need to be planted for the growing season.