StrawberryPigtails
@StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Looking for a selfhostable chat service that people on phone and computers can log onto 3 days ago:
Matrix would probably be one of the better options, but xmpp is a pretty good choice as well.
- Comment on How do you respond to unwanted advice? 4 days ago:
Listen to them, and go “okay”. Then if it was helpful, follow the suggestion. More often than not, though, the advice is not helpful. I’ll still listen and go “okay”, and then go and do whatever it is that I thought was best.
Painful truth is that I am not an expert in everything. I don’t know everything. Even having reached middle age, I’ve not experienced everything. But by listening to those around me, I can often learn something. That thing may not always be what the advice giver intended, (often it’s “This person is an idiot”) but learning is good.
The most important piece of information you can ever learn is “Where can I find more information?” Occasionally it’s the annoying asshole that keeps giving unsolicited advice.
- Comment on Why doesn't NASA have a go fund me page or kickstarter? Really don't know how they work but would donate. 380 million in the US if everyone gave a dollar would do good? 2 weeks ago:
My understanding is that there is a law on the books that prevents government agencies from accepting donations.
- Comment on How do I finally get a long term career and become financially independent? 2 weeks ago:
For me it was getting a CDL. I went through Swift Transportation) to get mine, though most trucking companies either have a trucking school or have tuition reimbursement. Back in 2008, it cost me $800 upfront (going to the state for testing and licensing) plus 2 years working for Swift.
Pay was shit starting out, but at this point in my career I’m making $60,000 a year. I could be making more, but I shifted to running a yard truck instead of running routes.
If you’re not having any luck getting into the trades, that is the direction I would look. Swift literally hired me 30 minutes after I put in the application, in the middle of the night. The trucking industry as a whole tends to be really fast to hire as well. The longest I’ve had to wait to hear back from a company I’ve applied to was 72 hours.
Other options would be to check with local construction companies and farms. Both are probably really hurting for people right now due to ICE. Might also check with HVAC, plumbing and electrician outfits. I know that Alabama, in particular, has been short handed in each of these fields for a while, so they may be willing to train on the job.
Contact the companies themselves, not the unions associated with their fields as the only union I’m aware of that handles job placement as well as training is the Boilermakers. I’ve applied to them once, didn’t hear anything back from the Boilermakers for 3 years. They is a bit slow.
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 3 weeks ago:
I think I first noticed that phrase about 10 years ago. Not sure where it came from.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 4 weeks ago:
So, what would be the community that is the opposite of buy it for life?
Seriously, I get that internet is ubiquitous in some areas, but everything should have the ability to function correctly without internet access.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 4 weeks ago:
If I had to guess, never having used it myself, is that it has a decent UI that simplifies sometimes complicated operations and it has been around seemingly forever.
- Comment on White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents 4 weeks ago:
Of course they did.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
First you need to define what you mean by classical music. Depending on who you’re talking to that could be anything from Mozart or Bach in a group orchestral setting to something instrumental written in the last 5 years played solo, or any combination in-between.
I’m not an orchestral player, more a bluegrass and old-time musician, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
When you are playing in a group orchestra, you are not a musician. You are an instrument. The conductor is the musician. You’re there to play the notes on the page. The conductor may give you some leeway, may not.
In smaller groups, you may or may not have more freedom depending on the musical style and the group dynamics.
Solo, do as you please so long as it sounds good. You are both the instrument and the musician here.
As always, there is only one hard rule in music, If it sounds good, it is good. Everything else is just guidelines.
- Comment on How Long is Too Long for a Reply? 1 month ago:
My opinion, that would fall under technical. Your reply might not be useful to that teacher or the student that she was trying to help, but might be useful to the next teacher or student that runs across the post.
In all my years I have never found anything as poorly documented as how people’s minds work.
- Comment on How Long is Too Long for a Reply? 1 month ago:
If it’s a technical issue, go ahead and answer it if you think your answer will help someone in the future. Someone may be having that exact problem and have found the post via search. This has helped me more times than I can count when working on projects.
Non technical topics, depends on the platform and subject. I’d say use your own judgment.
- Comment on How do I stop sleeping through everything? 1 month ago:
I switched to first to black coffee instead of, in my case, Mt. Dew. Then once I was caffeine free (and more importantly to me at the time, sugar free) save for coffee, I switched to decaf. Felt tired the first week, but no headaches. Decaf still has caffeine in it so you avoid the migraine, but so little it doesn’t affect you much.
Honestly, the massive sugar cravings were a bigger problem for me for months than the caffeine withdrawal, but I lost 20 lbs just cutting the sodas out.
- Comment on How do I stop sleeping through everything? 1 month ago:
I do this even after cutting caffeine almost completely.
Got better after I got an Apple watch as I was able to see exactly how long I was sleeping for. Used that information to change when I went to bed. Will still sleep through a apocalypse, but at least I don’t usually oversleep anymore.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 month ago:
Depends on the application. My NAS is bare metal. That box does exactly one thing and one thing only, and it’s something that is trivial to setup and maintain.
Nextcloud is running in docker (AIO image) on bare metal (Proxmox OS) to balance performance with ease of maintenance. Backups go to the NAS.
Everything else is running on in a VM which makes backups and restores simpler for me.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 1 month ago:
Hmm. Where’d I put the popcorn?
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 1 month ago:
The vast majority of TVs nowadays have really just become manufactured e-waste, mainly due to the piss poor computers they have running the “smart” features. Have a look at your local thrift store or Goodwill. You might find something there for a discount that will last a bit.
Nowadays, I probably wouldn’t buy a new TV. Too much malware preinstalled even if their smart features aren’t under powered. I would look instead at digital displays or larger computer monitors. It will bump the price back up to what TVs used to cost when I was younger, but at least your paying with cash instead of your privacy. Will probably last a bit longer to boot.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 months ago:
It’s been done before. ChromeBooks comes to mind, but there have been others. Usually winds up killing the outfit that tries it.
As far as I know Chromebooks only survive because of the educational market. Locked down devices are preferable in schools.
I won’t buy one, but I could see such systems becoming dominant in another 20 years or so.
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 2 months ago:
There are things I can deal with and there are things I can not. I’m not about to waste precious resources worrying about things I can’t affect. I do my part when opportunity presents, but winter is coming, and Me and Mine are not yet prepared.
If you think you can change what is coming, then by all means, but I’ve got more pressing concerns at present.
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 2 months ago:
That’s fine. My filters will just continue sending them to /dev/null.
- Comment on fediverse/activitypub based linktree alternative 2 months ago:
First I’ve heard of that one. Nice. Looks like the same setup that Github Pages uses too, so should be easy to transfer the site if needed.
- Comment on fediverse/activitypub based linktree alternative 2 months ago:
You have more control, beyond that… It’s not. Better to fully self host it, but not everyone has the capability or interest in developing the capability to do that.
- Comment on fediverse/activitypub based linktree alternative 2 months ago:
Linktree is just a static site with a list of links. You could do the exact same thing using Hugo as a site builder and GitHub Pages for free hosting. All it would cost you is a custom domain name if you wanted one. Not sure activitypub brings anything useful to the table here.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 months ago:
I don’t generally read them to the minute very often. For the most part, 5 min increments are close enough for what I need, most of the time. If I do need a more precise time, I’m usually already closely watching the clock and it’s just addition (was 1341 when I started this, now it’s 1345.).
If I need to get the precise time, cold, than it’s as simple as: closest 5 min tick, then add or subtract minute ticks till you get to the minute hand
Eventually you get to the point where it’s not something you consciously think about. You just look at the clock and then pattern recognition takes over and you just know what time it is.
- Comment on Can you get shadowbanned on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
I can see this post from the SDF. I think you may just be having federation issues.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I tend to use a paper towel with a little bit of canola oil, after hand washing it lightly with soap and water.
My cast iron won’t win beauty pageants, but they are functional equipment, not wall decorations.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
From what I’ve noticed, “not figuring it out” is often either a question of fine motor coordination or poor ear training.
Other times it’s outlandish expectations from yourself. Your not going to be playing "Money for Nothing " by Dire Straits for a while, but something along the lines of “Three Little Birds” by Bob Marley is probably achievable within your first week.
Fine motor control is mostly just a matter of practice. Use a metronome and start SLOW.
Ear training in this context is being able to map a sound in your head to a finger position on your instrument. Again practice, pick a simple melody and try to find that melody on your instrument.
As for what instrument. What do you want to play? You could get any instrument in the world, but it doesn’t matter if you don’t want to play that instrument.
I mostly play and teach guitar, you can easily get a reasonable instrument in the $300-$600 range. Sometimes cheaper.
Serviceable keyboards can be had for about $150.
- Comment on Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber. 3 months ago:
It’s probably mostly legal. Though they might hit you with defacing currency. Technically that’s still a crime, though I don’t think it’s been used in a while.
The dye is available to the general public so that part is easy. Given how trigger happy US law enforcement is, I wouldn’t recommend doing this. Sounds like overly complicated suicide.
- Comment on Recommendations for a version control system 3 months ago:
I use Forgejo for my private git repos but in all honesty, it’s massive overkill for my needs.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Hmm, you’ve noticed that too?
If you pay attention, you’ll notice a few other indicators as well.
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 3 months ago:
I like that description. I may borrow it the next time I’m asked to run a safety training.
To answer your question, yes. Your reaction time does slow down as you become more tired. The effect is similar to being very drunk. This fact is the basis for Hours of Service regulations in the US trucking industry.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3307962/
academic.oup.com/sleep/…/2749684