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This has actually occurred to people who have visited me (as I mentioned in another post I’m in a class 2, just barely off of a class 1).

I find it comforting, but one family member was throughly freaked out/overwhelmed. It was a clear, moonless night and they’d never seen something like it in their entire life.

I live within a Class 2 location and can get to a Class 1 in about a 20 minute drive. It’s one of the few things I actually like about where I live.

In fact it’s probably the single best thing about where I live and it’s an extremely rare privilege to have in North America.

I really need to take advantage of it and get a good camera/telescope. According this this my backyard is 2.91 μcd/m2.

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Man I am sick and tired of posts like these, it would have been better for you to have not posted at all. All comments like this do is make the poster feel better about themselves, “I’ve done something”.

Everyone knows therapists exist, but there can be serious hurdles to “getting help” and even worse, many therapists can be actively harmful. Getting access to a good one who can actually help can be extremely difficult.

Add things like depression and mental illness on top of that and a difficult task can be damn near impossible.

Which shouldn’t come as a surprise. These people hate you, and they hate you getting any leverage. If it were up to them they’d own you.

I hope for your sake this is satire, because a few sentences is all I need to know I’d hate working with you.

Sounds more like you’ve got ADHD than 10Xism.

A sizeable group of us don’t have a meaningful second place either anymore. I work remote and there is really no social aspect to it in a meaningful sense, just pointless meetings and an endless Jira backlog. My home and my work are one and the same.

In the last three years the closest I came to a viable third place was VRChat, it was the best social experience I’ve ever had. I don’t think I need to say much more about that, it speaks for itself.

> Burn out not usually presents with the full "i cant work anymore" symptoms from the onset.

This is true, but many don’t actually recognize it until that point if they’ve never dealt with it. I sure didn’t, but here I am, horrifically burnt out.

It took me a very bad mental health episode to realize what was occurring and I’m no closer to actually recovering seven months later.

People are increasingly angry and disillusioned with how society is, or isn’t working. It’s not really a surprise there’s been an increase in such opinions and thus posts when one looks at the general state of things.

That’s an extremely niche use case, even most technical people would never do such a thing.

I mean I do, but I’m well aware I’m an oddity in this regard.

My issue with the TLS requirement is the artificial limit it places on systems which can access Gemini. It's blocks small systems, anything really DIY, vintage computers, etc.

Gemini could have a really cool niche as a protocol which supports a lot of weird and wonderful systems, allowing them to be more useful and fostering a community interested in that stuff, but the TLS requirement completely prevents that.

I'd love to write a Gemini client for System 6 for example, but that just isn't feasible.

I guess my problem is partly that Gemini isn't useful to me, but even more broadly I don't understand who it's really useful for at all.

From personal experience in my case.

My main issue with Gemini remains the hard requirement of TLS. It makes it useless in a bunch of situations where it could actually excel.

I guess ultimately it doesn’t matter, Gopher has more content, more services, and more users.

> Bitwarden recently raised 100M from VC

I wasn’t aware of this, but I’m glad I am now. If that’s the case it’s time to look elsewhere or self host, VC funds and acquisitions are rarely good for users so I’ll assume the worst.

> I still see personal websites that are almost unreadable on small phones, for instance.

My personal website is like that and I’ve made no effort to improve the phone experience. I really don’t care if phone users have access or not, on every other device it looks fine.

It’s a personal website, if it looks good on my machine that’s enough for me.

The bills aren’t going to pay themselves and jobs are limited where I live. It’s remote or nothing and remote is getting harder to find.

I love them, but don’t think they’ve held up over time. This is subjective, but they just don’t feel right on modern, wide, high resolution displays.

The acceleration always feels wrong and UI elements have gotten smaller or nearly vanished. Trying to position a trackpoint to resize a window is maddening these days.

Back on the old Toshiba Satellites in the Win 9x days though? They felt just right, a solution that truly fit the computer and UI of the era.

That all said I still prefer them over virtually every touchpad.

Always remember: your employer doesn’t give one single iota of a fuck about you when it’s convenient to get rid of you.

It sure does have a mental and physical cost.

Yes, but it’s probably not a landline in the way most people think. Almost all those services use voip backends now with only the last mile being copper.

Due to where I live I have to maintain a wired phone as I can’t get a reliable cell signal.

I just have a voip phone adapter connected to a random old phone and I use voip.ms for the actual service. It costs effectively nothing to run. It’s not a landline in the transitional sense, but those largely don’t exist anymore.

Fair enough, I wasn’t aware they’d made so much progress. I was under the impression it was still a proof of concept and people were glossing over a lot of issues.

I guess that’s the benefit of only having to target a very small amount of hardware, it saves time for improving other things.

I remember preferring Linux on PPC to Linux on intel laptops years ago. Apple PPC laptops tended to “just work” with Linux in my experience.

How much does sleekness actually matter day to day? Both vendors offer very nice hardware these days, it’s not the bad days mid-00s anymore.

> I don’t know why we act like gender norms don’t exist.

They’re inconvenient, uncomfortable, and people want to pretend they don’t exist because there’s a one in a million exception.

In the real world a man who can’t provide is going to find out almost no woman will tolerate that, even if they claim otherwise.

I hate this quote/pop advice. For some people location really, truly does matter.

There are irredeemable places, and places that just don’t work for an individual. They key is knowing when it’s a problem instead of just running somewhere random.

From watching other people’s lives this seems way easier on paper than in reality. It’s a huge risk no matter what.

I’ll never be overly critical of anyone’s computing choices, but this just seems like the worst of both worlds to me unless you specifically want to tinker with Apple-ARM Linux.

Why not Linux on much better supported hardware from Lenovo or Dell? It just doesn’t make sense to me to buy such an expensive computer only to remove a core part of the package, Mac OS.