This is actually a great post. I've struggled with this and it feels like all those tiling window managers are for power users. They're a pain to customize and 0 intuitive (at lest for me). I share your question!

Sorry man. Feels like 2024, no more no less. Friendship and willingness to be around people (in person) is an old fart thing. Nowadays I only invite or make plans with my really close friends. Friends that are more family than friends.

Those casual friends we used to have are gone for good between laziness and socializing on-line, whatever that is.

If you were my neighbor and invited me I would've totally attended and decimated those delicious quesitos!

How hard would be for me to switch coming from catchyOS? And would it be worth it lol

Wasn't only for 48h? I might be wrong, but I remember reading about communities going private as a protest.

Anyway, welcome to the fediverse! You'll get used to it. It's easier if you don't think much about what's coming from where and where you're writing from, I think haha

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It's so much easier for common folks to read this articles (written by the actual researchers of course) than the actual papers.

When I learned about tipping points and collapse of ecosystems I instantly thought about the time when I was into fish tanks and helped other people on the hobby. If you let that thing go sideways in any way for too long, you were facing catastrophic consequences, be it plagues of snails, algae, etc. At some point it just goes downhill, and most of the time the buildup is unnoticeable and when you do notice that something is off, it's already almost impossible to save the ecosystem.

Glad to read that! I know some folks that got long COVID and they are yet to make a comeback. I'll share your comment, it gives some hope 🫂

Is there anything you can think of that made a difference or it's been just a matter of patience?

You could read Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson. It's an essay(ish) book about taste in music, funny to read and not too long (~200pg I'd say).

About the comfort zone, you could try and read something about contemporary problems and predicaments. A poison like no other talks about plastics in our everyday life (not fun), or something really old like Seneca's On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (~100pg)

I just found out something else: restic can't access the folders because root:root. this is so annoying! I'll try podman again... I didn't see how to make it find my containers lol

I never heard of it, thanks for sharing.

I've been thinking about buying a meshtastic device for a while now but I'll tinker with reticulum first, because the concept is amazing and would solve an actual problem for me. Thanks for sharing!

I just found this community thanks to your post! So hello/welcome/thanks all in one lol

My brother-in-law gave me a Raspberry P1, so I might be able to do something! I'll be checking those communities, thank you!

As for Arduino, I bought years ago an Arduino Super (?), but it doesn't have wifi nor bluetooth is it essential, or I could use this one? I'll have a look at those sensors. It came with a little screen, so I might be able to do some of that!

Probably because of my background I'm used to learning and understanding something before getting my hands dirty, so to speak. This might prove as a good chance to try another approach. Thank you!

Definitely one of my favorites! My fiancé doesn’t play games and at some point she didn’t want to continue playing, because that would be the end of the game for her, since she only wanted one story (I mean no second runs).

I encourage you to play it in autumn/winter 💪🏼

That's what makes it so scary. I didn't have long COVID and I was feeling alright about the "cold" but it took a month for me to feel like I had the same amount of energy I had before catching it.

About the younger ones... I don't want to think about it but I can't help thinking about my nephews. Some of them got COVID two or even three times.

The studies I've read aren't too optimistic about their future health. I hope they're wrong.

Yes it does!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...

It is true that I thought it would be easier to know what learning is essential to me and not. I find myself now saving stuff for later and with loads of new stuff that I didn't even know that existed before haha So far it's fun though! I'll probably stick to python and learn a bit of HTML and CSS for now.

I think neither of that is low-tech. The chips and software itself are state-of-the-art technology. From my perspective you’d need to add the “low”-aspect with some context. Make them solar-powered or host a blog on those services.

This is something I plan on doing. Going solar is something I definitely want to do for my website and, to be honest, I want to learn more about electronics for that same reason. It would be a sin not to since I live in Spain lol

That's so cool! I've taken care of cabbage loopers three times now, and it's so cool to see them do their thing. My fiancée is not a fan though since both her and the caterpillars love our Swedish ivies lol

We're suffering a serious drought here though, even Barcelona's tap water might be not available this summer! We should split our sunny and rainy days! We visited Frankfurt and Heidelberg and loved the cold and rainy days… which makes sense: we barely had any winter this year 😅

You make some good points, and being overwhelmed after trying to bite too much at once is something I'm used to, sadly, so I'll try to think about how to approach all this. Probably pre-configured hosting as you said, so I can see the website running sooner, and we'll then see how it goes or what calls my attention!

So, happy tinkering… Keep us posted in case you start another low-tech blog coming from Spain to us. And don’t let any complexity stop you 😊

That would be so cool! I don't know much about practical stuff, but I plan on putting my reflections about morals and society online. It would be nice to have some kind of low-tech website like that and inspire some conversation on the topics. I'll keep you guys posted for sure!

PS: I'm pretty sure I had a coffee with Kris, but I didn't know about the website back then. I thought it was a cool guy, we had a good time (well me at least lol).

https://bookwyrm.social/ is what I've been using. I'm not an avid tracker though.

I tried thestorygraph, liked the idea but I don't like my readings to be guided by an algorithm and also I don't feel like paying for a platform, especially if I'm not using the main feature (the recommendations)