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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram makes people unhappy and unhappy use Instagram to show that they are not unhappy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If you use Android, check out "Distraction-free Instagram". It's an app that lets you disable various parts of the app like your home feed, stories, etc.

  I really wanted to stop scrolling on Instagram, but I also really wanted to keep posting my photography, as the interactions I sometimes get on my posts are fun and I enjoy sharing my craft. I also have some friends who ONLY interact via instagram messaging.

  I downloaded the app, and disabled everything except messaging, and it's been great. It's definitely made me happier overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the audience of Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards have no idea why slime is a thing.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I desperately wanted to be on Figure It Out (With your host, Summer Sanders)

  I reference the secret slime action fairly frequently, and it seems that maybe I'm the only person in my area who watched/enjoyed the show, because most people have no idea what I am talking about.

  Don't even get me started on Figure It Out Wild Style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich people know their cosmetic surgery is obvious and uncanny, but that's the point; it's a way of signalling that you belong in a certain income bracket and that you're part of the 1%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It can fall under the same umbrella. Unrealistic beauty standards being set by the "rich", who some people look up to as role models. If there were something that you could do that you might be able to afford, like botox or lip fillers, that you believe would make you more beautiful, closer to your role model... If that sort of thing matters to you, then yeah, you might go for it.

  I was sort of thinking more like this though with respect to extreme alterations...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich people know their cosmetic surgery is obvious and uncanny, but that's the point; it's a way of signalling that you belong in a certain income bracket and that you're part of the 1%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it has more to do with an erosion of reasonable beauty standards than anything. Less of a "status symbol" and more of an act of "because I can". I think a lot of the people who you look at and think "what the fuck" actually think they are beautiful and attractive. I don't think someone who has everything, and can get whatever they want would purposely make themselves look grotesque, but I'm neither rich, nor a psychologist, so maybe I'm totally wrong...

  The Bogdanoffification has been happening for a while...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pub cheese would like a word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, I think you might be hard-pressed to find anyone who would consider sugary cake sponge to be "bread". (Something something Ireland's supreme court ruled that Subway's bread isn't legally bread for tax purposes due to its high sugar content)

  It'd be like layering up some sourdough slices with sweet sugary icing slathered between them, most people probably wouldn't call that a cake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I've actually taken note of my navigational skills over the last couple years... I grew up in one state, and then a few years after graduating college, moved to a different state. When I was growing up, phone navigation didn't really exist as it does now, cars didn't have built-in navigation, and standalone navigation devices were slow and not all that great (at least the ones I could afford).

  I find that when I return home, even 10 years later, I am able to navigate all the places I used to go unaided with ease, back-roads, niche routes, able to travel for hours without getting "lost".

  When I moved, though, I had very recently gotten my first smartphone, and google maps was very convenient to "learn" the new area. I ended up just continuing to use navigation since it was convenient. I've found that beyond the major main routes, I don't have the same kind of "built-in" navigational skill that I do for my original home-turf. I never really learned the area.

  I am moving towards a smart-phone-less life, and I've been able to let go of a lot, but GPS navigation remains a sticking point. I need to start training myself to navigate unaided in my current area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it was just an odd way of making him seem more human and normal. Also the fact that he doesn't mention anything about it carrying over from his previous lives leaves an interesting open question that could either lend credence or hinder his whole backstory... At least that's how I interpreted it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reading is consciousness-altering and a bit toxic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's ironic that I have an anecdote that I recently read that feels very fitting here.

  Permutation City by Greg Egan. Post-human digital consciousness via uploaded brain-scan becomes possible, and there are interesting questions about how the "sense of self" is derived, and how much someone can change themselves before they are no longer the same person. There are many different characters that deal with a newfound immortality in different ways, and either embrace, or shun, the ability to change themselves at a whim to fit their needs or wants. It's a very prominent part of the overall plot and is prevalent right up until the last sentence.

  Also, separate from that, I have the exact opposite feeling as OP. When I'm reading a book, I feel like my world is expanded in new directions. I tend to see certain things from slightly different perspectives in the context of what I'm reading. I've been reading Greg Egan's entire body of work (after reading Diaspora and absolutely fucking loving it), and some insight and thoughts I had about the book Quarrantine actually pushed me to make positive changes in my life that have been really hugely impactful, and I don't think I would have had the courage or drive to make them had I not been thinking about my life in such an abstract manner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FxTec Pro1 X... As someone who has spent years searching for a modern-ish phone with a Qwerty keyboard... How has this flown under my radar for 5 years?!?

  I've completely rethought my phone situation recently and it wouldn't really fit my lifestyle, but man I am still tempted to keep my eyes out for a cheap one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Costco bought RAC in 2437 after Costco's CEO Harambe Memelord Disney Jr. offered RAC's CEO Squiggy John John John John Johnson a 2-for 1 deluxe latte coupon and an extra big-ass fry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancel Lemmy - A piefed community to discuss Alternatives to and moving away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not very. Still working on getting a VPN set up and learning the ropes of self-hosting in general. Most of the research I've been doing has mentioned that Piefed seems to take less resources than Lemmy for some reason. We'll see how it goes once I actually figure all this out. I just learned that my choice of home internet might make it difficult since I apparently can't get a static IP. (T mobile 5G)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancel Lemmy - A piefed community to discuss Alternatives to and moving away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'll also comment to say that the "cancel" part of this is stupid and should be reconsidered. (There seems to be a pretty thorough consensus on that). Isn't the whole point of this to have options, to spread the resources out to as many points as possible to prevent a single point of failure, corruption, or censorship?

  I ended up at Piefed, because I'm interested in self-hosting, and I understand Python more than any of the other languages represented. That's really the full depth of my choice, and I'm not sure there should be much more thought behind it other than "How does this particular software package perform and meet my needs?"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They run a custom vendor-locked distro named QTS, so they're not really as easy to modify as a normal system, I don't think you can even install programs like that.

  I'll definitely bookmark it though if I ever get around to building my own solution, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea if it's a QNAP-wide issue, or just some specific models, I haven't bothered to do that much research. I'm guessing that the discs WOULD spin down if you have that option selected if they weren't constantly being pinged a couple times a minute. That constant pinging is the part I can't seem to track down.

  An excerpt from a post I was reading while researching this sums it up prettt well: "700 posts about spindown/sleep/standby not working in the QNAP HDD Spin Down Forum. No one seems to be able to resolve it. Qnap clearly couldn't care less."

  The only solution that I've found that seems to work is to install some other operating system on it, which kind of defeats the purpose of buying a turn-key NAS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can figure out how to get a qnap to spin down its disks, please let me know lol. I've been searching for months and haven't found a reliable solution. I basically only need to access it once a day at MOST, so having the disks spinning away for like 99% of their life sucking down power is something I'd like to avoid. The problem seems to be that even with a perfectly clean slate, no services running, all the system set up in their own RAID0 SSD pool, the HDD's, even with 0 bytes of data on them, are being pinged for access at least once a minute. I'm assuming it's some log being written to, but it's not anything visible in the file system, and I haven't been able to find any solution online, lots of people seem to have the same issue.

  I'm tempted more and more every day to just grab one of those low-power embedded ITX boards and build up a custom rig.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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 beige 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.