Raven is responsible for the imperial system?

Sent you a PM. Let’s meet…to discuss this further.

I’ll be gay for €87. Where do I sign? Is there any induction material to read? Does anyone show me around gay headquarters? Do I have to meet any key stakeholders?

Jellyfin has been the thing I use most for my kids. I’ve got an account for them with their movies and TV shows. If they’re interested in YouTube videos (they like some music lyric videos and Mario play through videos) so I download these and put them onto Jellyfin to keep them away from YouTube. I’ve also put their music on the server and put a music app on their device.

The other thing I tried was deploying an Element server so they could talk to family on their own without risk of exposure to the world at large, but ended up abandoning this.

The other use of the server for kids has been to hold the ROMs for the emulator games they play and Syncthing to sync saves across devices.

One kid is interested in taking and sharing pictures so I’m thinking of making a user for him in Immich.

Other consideration I’ve become aware of with time:

Some instances are defederated from many others. I’ve had to look to find one that isn’t. I want the option to block instances but don’t want the decision made for me. I forget the resource someone gave me for this.

I’ve had to look for an instance that seems stable enough and not at risk of being killed off or going down for extended periods without maintainance. I had accounts on Lemm.ee and the NSFW instance that were both killed off.

You’ve mentioned smaller numbers (which isn’t a bad thing). But the distributed nature is an issue for me. Communities are not unified and you get multiple small communities across multiple instances and a very fragmented userbase.

Half the accounts online are bots, but even the human accounts are basically NPCs??

I can’t fill one wheelie bin with trash in 2 weeks. My cousin and his 3 kids would fill 2 wheelie bins with trash every single week. The amount of food thrown straight into the bin astounded me.

Wastage is a problem. My way around that is to put very little food in for myself. If the kids don’t finish their food then I eat it. If they do finish their food then I go for seconds of the normal grown up food. Sometimes it turns into an insane meal of spicy curry and rice, 2 fish fingers from one kid and the other kid’s bland pasta and veg… but I’m ok with eating random stuff like that for my dinner. I think this keeps us to being a pretty low waste house despite the kids.

Real talk though…

Here’s the best way to make a child eat: don’t.

Adults get to decide for food: what, when and where.

Children get to decide: if, and how much, and which parts.

Respect the choices and they’ll start taking responsibility for the choices. Encourage and support and then back off.

How? How can people tell? Someone points this out for most content posted. It seems like a race to be the first to say “AI slop”. Between actual AI slop, and content accused of being AI slop; there really isn’t much content left to be able to enjoy online.

Not paying a living wage and terrible work conditions…Have you tried mindfulness?

Don’t have pets,but the house plants are all slowly dying. We keep buying more and bringing them home thinking this time it will be different. Maybe one day we’ll manage to keep them alive.

Kinda like the monarchy in Canada.

Thank you all for coming to this TED talk on biological determinism.

The regular socks are now made of recycled toilet paper and provide no such warming.

You have to get the premium socks for warmth. Any elasticity you want is an extra monthly subscription on top of that.

There’s de-googling and privacy and all…thats all great. But it is a completely separate thing to take back attention from distractions, bullshit notifications and letting tech overlords reach into our daily lives and disrupting our focus and attention whenever they feel like it. Notification real estate is hugely valuable and the default for every app should be “off”, with further fine tuning as needed. Better bulk settings are needed for notification settings adjustment.

Technology Connections has done a brilliant video about notifications recently.

Sent you a PM. Let’s meet up…to discuss this further…

The unfortunate truth is that most people are gross as hell. A huge number of people don’t wash after peeing. Ive come across some who don’t even wash after poop (confronted a person once and they said that they only touch toilet paper so it’s not like their hands are contaminated). Once you’re in common spaces, you will obviously have to touch the same things as these people. There have been swab and culture studies that show fecal bacteria on a lot of touch surfaces. There will even be fecal bacteria on your toothbrush from being in a toilet with aerosol toilet water with every flush. It is gross, but our immune systems handle this environmental contamination really well without OCD cleaning habits needed.

Some points for others:

1. You might think your genitals are “clean” but you wouldn’t want to touch any random person’s clean genitals. Your hands are going to touch common surfaces. Wash them as courtesy (the same courtesy you would want from others).

2. Washing isn’t about bacteria contamination. Pee has no bacteria on it but it would still be gross to be splashed by it. Hygiene gets rid of gross/ick things and it’s worth washing what you would expect others to wash.

3. There’s huge personal world-view at play here for each individual. Many wouldn’t put up with the inconvenience of wearing masks to protect others from COVID at inconvenience to themselves. Unfortunately this mindset extends to things like hygiene for a lot of people. Please consider the world you live in and some inconveniences (like washing hands repeatedly) are for the sake of your fellow humans.

4. Same goes for things like picking your nose or jerking off…people, please.

Everything here is dead in comparison to Reddit. Reddit has huge numbers of users and enough users to have constant active participation in even very niche communities. Lemmy has very limited numbers of users. You certainly won’t find niches here. Even popular things like piracy or even games and movies don’t get anywhere near as much active participation. The population here is also very different (very tech adept, mostly politically left, mostly older/millennial). People might just not need to ask any piracy questions because they’ve got a good handle on it anyway. Lemmy is nothing like Reddit. You mostly can’t expect as much engagement with your posts. I don’t even bother with subscribing to communities because they have such little content that it’s pointless to browse anything other than “all”. On Lemmy you only get what you get…whether you consider that a good or bad thing is up to you.

Hold up. Ice in milk isn’t right? Who says?