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Interested in self-hosting, decentralization, and learning more about the fediverse.
I also do photography, but with digital cameras from the 90’s.
This is a hilarious example of “Read headline, formed opinion, investigated no further”
You could probably run a study on this. Call it “Regarding the Leap Year of '45”
Also, I swear I reached this page from the top of a community page, how have I traveled 7 months into the future… Uh oh. (It was probably a cross-post)
I signed up for the physical print edition at the tail end of last year. They are excellent reading and I have 0 regrets. Well I do have one regret… Not signing up sooner. I missed the November 2024 publication to tie the whole shit-sandwich together.
Their marketing/member emails are also amazing.
All the browser settings are also stored there, too. I turned all the AI stuff off, then the next time I booted up my PC the AI was back. Turned it off again. Same thing the next time I logged back on…
I finally looked into it and it was because I had firefox set to clear the cache on shutdown.
I would unironically love if there were enough people in my life that also wanted to live that way to make it viable… Also the lack of functioning payphones these days would be challenging.
The place (at least in the USA) where I’ve found the most functional-looking payphones was actually Hawaii… And even then, so many are decaying and non-functional. I’ve had a silly idea to go back and just roam around and photograph as many as I can.
That solidifies my suspicion that it’s a standard Android feature… I also don’t get many spam calls, and only distinctly remember performing that action on this most recent phone.
Based on OP’s comment “…I always assume that rejecting the call outright will also be detected as a deliberate action and therefore a person is on the other side…”, I figured maybe they didn’t know about that feature and/or have an iPhone and they somehow don’t behave that way.
I also miss the old days of Android… I got a smartphone specifically to play Pokemon go in 2016 lol, up until that point I was still rocking one of those Casio Gzone indestructible flip-phones. Walked into WalMart, bought the cheapest LG whatever phone I could find (Android 5 I think?), caught a bazillion Pokemon. I remember buying multiple batteries for longer sessions, because you could just pop the back off and replace it on the go.
I don’t know if it’s a universal thing, I’ve never bothered to research further. On my several-year-old Oneplus phone (Android), if I single-press the power button, it mutes the ringer and vibrate but the call doesn’t end or reject (I could still then go and answer or reject the call normally, it doesn’t affect the user interface, just the ringer/vibrate). That’s how I’ve been “rejecting” unknown calls for a long time. A simple, elegant solution that doesn’t give the caller any hints.
I’ve been building a small 10" server rack and have also been using the bone PLA for the “beige” parts to match my stack of variously-yellowed desktops, but yeah, this will be awesome to have “authentic” beige! The bone white is a little too brown/tan if you look too hard.
I should pre-order some. I wonder if it will be a constant offering, or if I should order like 4 rolls haha.
I discovered my all-time favorite video a while ago, and I feel like yes, sometimes the simplest most descriptive title is the best. Not quite as old as some of the ones here, but still, over a decade. Man time flies.
It’s been 2 years, I have no idea. I definitely know that I didn’t consciously choose to start hyperventilating and losing the edges of my vision… It’s not like it’s anything I worry about now, it was a highly situational kind of anxiety. I know I just need to suck it up and make an appointment.
Reasonable, logical thoughts would lead one to think that way… But unfortunately, anxiety works in mysterious ways.
I had a good streak of going every 6 months for almost a decade. One day I had an appointment in the afternoon, and was on my way to the office when a line of severe thunderstorms rolled through, it was super windy, crazy thunder, and pounding rain.
The thought of sitting in the chair with tools in my mouth if the power went out was enough to send me into a panic attack. I had to pull over. I calmed myself down, turned around and went home and no-showed the appointment and ignored all their calls… That break in the routine made it REALLY hard to get back into the routine. I’m in the process of making a lot of other positive changes in my life right now, so I just need to be strong and include the thing I don’t want to do but I know I NEED to.
I’m currently in the process of somewhat neglecting my dental needs… I brush every day, but I’m pretty sure I’ve had a cavity or two for a while, and haven’t been to the dentist in almost 2 years, despite having dental insurance… I just REALLY hate the dentist.
I know I am going to regret it someday soon. Maybe I can use this as a kick in the pants to finally at least try and make an appointment lol
I got my first at 31 (33 now). I have 2 now, and have plans for more. I was constantly wishy washy about what I’d want, and decided to just do something simple for my first, I got the outline of the James Webb Space Telescope main mirror on the back of my calf. Figured someday I could either fill it in with some cool space-y patterns, or incorporate it into some other piece. For a while I thought about filling it with parts of the first JWST deep-field shot, and also getting a bee with a space helmet (since the mirrors are hexagonal it kinda looks like a honeycomb, and bees are cool), but I couldn’t figure out any way to make a bee look reasonable with a space helmet, so dropped the bee plan lol.
My second, I got a Figbash riding a unicycle above my left kneecap at a halloween flash event on Cape Cod to benefit the Edward Gorey House museum. I love my silly little guy and it’s made me want some more silly little guys. Specifically, the “tines” fork driving a racecar from the valentines day Teen Girl Squad episode, and a design I saw for Richard Scarry’s Lowly Worm driving his apple car, but the car was a skull instead of an apple. I can’t actually find any photos of Figbash healed up, and I can’t get to him when wearing pants so I can’t take one now, but he looks great and I have no regrets.
I’ve never been to a large outdoor festival, but I saw Nekrogoblikon a few weeks ago (again, for the 3rd time), and each time I see them, they step their game up so SO hard.
I don’t actually remember the specifics of the first time I saw them, but it wasn’t anything crazy special, besides having John on stage. This was like 2018 or 2019 after they released Welcome to Bonkers.
The second time in 2022, they toured with Gwar, and that was great. Dickie Allen filled in on vocals because the vocalist was sick, which was pretty awesome.
This last time, they headlined. Fog machines, laser light show, a giant inflatable goblin head, and a constant supply of balloons to bop around in the air. The pit was the biggest I have ever seen at the venue (I go to a lot of shows there), the energy was insane, and it was super courteous and there was not a ton of crowd killing, because there was barely any crowd that didn’t want in on the action. I think their vocalist maybe left the band? Because Dickie Allen was back lol. Hearing John Goblikon say “Well, you guys moshed SO good on that last one… Do you think we can all do a wall of death?”… It was like that viral Knocked Loose video, except smaller because the venue is smaller. It was the most fun moshing I’ve had in a long time.
I already hopped to piefed! Figured I literally just started posting with my lemm.ee account yesterday, might as well move my account somewhere else asap.
I say give it a go.
I have no idea what my local laws are, but I noticed something the other day about my local police vehicles that I will never be able to unsee.
Excellent font choice.