I love this

The struggle is real

I know I show favoritism with people and pets, but I’ve been in so many situations in my life where I’ve had to consciously remove that behavior that nowadays it comes automatically for a lot of situations. When someone asks me who I’d prefer to do something with, my knee jerk reaction isn’t “who do I want to do this with more?” It’s “who did I do this with most recently?”

Also, favorites are just way too situational. My favorite color? On what? A hamburger? Pink. My clothes? Black. My computer? Mauve.

My favorite food? For which meal? How was my day? What have I eaten recently?

There are some easy favorites. My favorite hoodie is the one that my, now ex previously partner, brought to me while I was going through one of my lowest points in life. I’m grateful they let me keep it.

My favorite thing about life is learning. Perhaps that’s why I struggle to pick favorites. My favorite anything is one that I have not yet experienced, because I get to learn something when I do. I’m really trying to keep my love for learning against the odds. I know that it becomes more difficult as you get older, and I’ve definitely slipped into complacency with my knowledge for a few periods in my life. I also know that if I continue to fight for myself and others ability and access to knowledge, it will be easier to maintain my desire to learn. Otherwise I’d be a hypocrite for telling everyone to go pick up a book haha

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I’m the same way. I write a comment, reread it, rewrite it (repeat between two and two hundred times) then send it, reread it and potentially rewrite it again lol

Same! I think that’s actually part of what influenced this behavior in me. I would miss texts, so I built the habit of going and checking/rereading them occasionally

“Hey, people liked this”

This is definitely part of why I do it, call me conceited. I like looking back and seeing if my comment came across the way I wanted to, and votes can help determine that

I think I just have too much free time. I run out of things to scroll past in my feeds, and who else knows my sense of humor better than me?

What was your favorite comment that you made?

I’ve always been bad at picking favorites, I’m not sure if that’s a normal issue. But for this particular case, I have an extra struggle: option paralysis. I’ve made 516 comments on this account, how could I choose any one to be my favorite?

Is there one that makes you smile?

Not necessarily this comment in particular, but I’ve had many conversations lately where I’ve practiced and tried to influence people towards people-centric language

I had a lot of fun giving this DND dungeon Master advice!

I have always found internet browsers to be clunky, so I mostly interact with social media through apps. As such I use Voyager for Lemmy, and PWAs for some of the services that I haven’t found an app for

If you’re gonna self-host you’re gonna need to learn to use a search engine. Find a tool that can be used to check what ports are open for a machine, there a several available.

I would try searching things like “Linux cli port scanner”

Reading through this made me realize that “procedurally generated” was the “AI” of my childhood. I remember seeing that phrase everywhere in game announcements and even education software. I’m surprised to see it again, because one could argue that a “procedurally generated” level is AI generated.

But I suppose Steam just proved that a lot of PC gamers aren’t buying into the AI bubble, so perhaps they’re avoiding that phrasing on purpose?

I just don’t understand your logic. In your mind it’s okay to make an assumption about the content of a link based off the name of the link. However, it’s not okay to make an assumption about the content of the other link and find out why the OP started the discussion. Rather, you believe it would be better to attack the OP for not explaining what their links were to your satisfaction.

Is that right?

The upfront reason was so that you would understand the discussion you’re part of lol

Have you hit it with anything to check if your ports are still open? There are a handful of tools for the task

What port do you have SSH set to? What ports did you change the services to? Is the SSH port open?

I have a ring from a 3 month stint a few years back. It was supposed to be an engagement ring (I was dumb lol) but now I just wear it cause it’s a nice ring

I haven’t put out any FOSS yet because I’m still writing a lot of “wtf is this” code but once I can I really want to try to hold myself to the idea of “I do this in my free time, so I provide it for free”

Zenni works the same, and they ship to the EU it’s just a bit more expensive. Most of the time still worth paying the reduced price for the frames, not to mention (I haven’t done extensive research on this so I could be wrong, but from cursory glance) they seem to have a more ethical workflow

I’ve only been using Linux for around a year in total, so I’ve done plenty of “fuck this issue, where’s a ‘just works’ distro” hops lol. I still check out other distributions occasionally to see how they are, but I’ve been trying to grow accustomed to just googling anything the computer tells me that I don’t understand. If it throws a code at me, I wanna know what that code is.

Getting into this habit has made it a lot easier to just say “why are you being stupid? Let me make you not stupid and go about my business” a lot more often

My question remains, are you getting an error code? If so, google it. If not, launch from a terminal and see if you get one in there and then google it