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If by family you mean biological family, I never really cared much what they think about anything (or about anyone). Also, I was still a little boy when I had to learn how to protect my privacy from my intrusive mom. So, yeah what anyone else may think about my choice and priorities was never that important.

If you’re referring to my real family, aka the person I decided to share my life with almost 30 years ago, we’re both adults and we both are fine with the other not doing things exactly like we would do them (it happens we also both care about preserving as much of our privacy), like we’re fine with the other having activities we’re not involved in ;)

Thx, I just joined the Discord.

Hi,

Based on the screenshots and your description, it looks nice and it certainly is an app many people would like to use. I also like that it is both an app and a selfhosted web-thingy (making it available anywhere while being fully private)

Give Journiv a try, share your feedback and report issues. It means a lot at this stage.

As the admin of the !journaling@sh.itjust.works community, as someone who has been journaling for almost 50 years now, and as someone that was also heavy into digital journaling (I have probably used most digital tools one can imagine, and was also a DO user since it was first introduced years before it became sub-based) that have quit using digital journaling years ago out of privacy concerns, I would love to try your app and give you some feedback if I can, and to share my experience using it with our little journaling community.

Alas, I’m also not that much of a geek and, reading the Docker guide, I did not even manage to understand how I was supposed to install the ‘Docker Compose’ and/or the ‘Docker Desktop’ parts of the install process. So, well, I’m kinda stuck at what most people would consider a rather early stage ;)

Would you happen to know any noob-friendly intro and an install guide for that Docker thingy, beside its official doc? Or is there another way to install it?

I’m fine with charging them regularly. It’s just kinda… shortsighted they all use the same-ish type of battery instead of a larger one (hence offering more energy). The few added grams would not be an issue, at least not for me.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure they’re devised for your standard paperback. I’m serious about making my own, but time… What really bugs me is that they all use the same length for the arm, like nobody was actually using those on a daily basis without feeling they could easily be much better without spending much more to make them.

I use a pair of 19 led cheapo ones from amazon (the more led they come with, the brighter). They seem to last quite well (more than 2 years for those models and the battery still holds for hours of reading, so far). Why two of them since I can only read one book at a time? So I can keep on reading, when i need to charge one. Also, just to be sure I still have one if I ever damage the other: it’s really useful (even more getting older ;).

Provided they have enough LED, most will be decent (I’ve used a few models along the years) but most of them share similar issues/limitations:

• the twisty arm is never long enough to accommodate larger, taller, or thicker books (it’s even worse with non-twistable models).
• Battery maybe be meh. I’m quite happy with those ‘ZYRIVON’ ones I use.

The arm being a tad too short means I constantly need to adjust the lamp position to focus the light on one page or on the bottom part of that page when the book is taller. Still, they’re really incredibly useful and I use them every single day.

One day, I will craft my own to fit my specific needs (aka a longer arm, and a tad more led to get a larger coverage without having to twitch the lamp). I already customized mines by adding a small DIY lampshade to prevent the light to spread to widely and risk blinding my partner while we’re sitting one next to another, or when in bed reading late at night.

Why is it when I hear ‘basement full of people’ I immediately remember that chapter in McCarthy’s novel ‘The Road’? That scene was so… horrifyingly plausible—not recommended to anyone easily frightened and/or disgusted. A truly wonderful book, nonetheless. Really amazing.

I would say the movie adaptation is a bit easier to watch but still more than quite tense.

There are people like that, you should not lose hope. Those people just don’t advertise themselves like that, and they are not waiting to meet anyone. This just happens when two persons start appreciating discussing with one another. Hence, the necessity to put in some work, and to make oneself available to them too. A few of those persons may even become good friends, with any luck.

back to being alone then, thanks.

Why would that be? It’s just a matter of deciding what one is looking for. Is it a (sex) toy for you to play with? Good for you, but that most probably won’t be a friend/partner (they don’t have battery to power them on will and they have their own needs). Is it a partner/friend? Even better, but don’t hope to find them in the (sex) toy department ;)

Thx, much appreciated. Doing my best which is often not that great (English is not my native language)

maybe you should develop a little more?

I mean, one does not ‘find a friend or partner on lemmy’, or anywhere else. Friendship, like love, is something that may happen and that will often not happen but we all need to work for it to maybe become a thing. Friends and partners are not stored somewhere, patiently waiting for us to need/want them ;)

Edit: clarifications.

Thx (to both of you), edited my post to reflect that. I was convinced they were French.

‘Safe’ is a bit too vague: what are you looking for?

• If you just need an email that doesn’t belong to GAFAM and is not subjected to US privacy-less laws but need no extra security (no end to end encryption): Infomaniak KSuite(Swiss) is available both as a free plan (20GB email + 15GB Cloud free) and as a paid version (unlimited email storage and 1To Cloud). They also offer just the email, if you don’t need cloud: Kmail ;) . There is also mailbox.org (Germany)
• End to end encryption: Tuta (German), Proton (Swiss).

Edit: moved mailbox out of the E2EE section.

Nothing special.

I have a decent quality paper notebook and a pencil attached to it sitting on a shelf nearby the shower (using a softer pencil than your usual HB/2B, say a 4B or 6B) and I can easily reach out for them whenever I need to jot something down. Not worrying at all about messing the paper with water as its sole purpose is to hold the notes for as long as it takes me to finish showering: it being decent/good quality paper, Clairefontaine in my case, it won’t instantly break apart when faced with water. I simply don’t write under the shower.

• Lazy questions. Those whose answer anyone could easily find by themselves.
• Fake questions. Questions that are only there to trigger (emotional) reactions or as a way to get some validation for the OP, and not as a way to spark a sincere (aka, open) discussion.

What’s great is that no matter how easy it is to ask those kind of questions, even for the most… intellectually challenged trolls, it’s even simpler for all of us readers to ignore them and not get triggered, or even not worrying about them being a thing ;)

In what region of the world are you located (it may help, as abroad shipping will most probably be over 100$). Beside that My first suggestion would have been to contact your local library but it’s already covered so ;)

Is keeping the exact same name, with a ‘2.0’, the best choice if they wish to make it clear they’re not related to the previous team/org?

I loved the idea of NaNoWriMo when it all started (yep, I’m getting old) but I also gave up bothering about it entirely when it became that almost business-like endeavor, way too serious. I liked my NaNo to be informal, and fun, and quirky too as I had more than enough serious writing activities, already.

So, reading the new introduction, I kinda love that (a lot):

At this point, it’s probably best to leave NaNoWriMo as an idea that no-one owns or administrates.

But, once again, I sincerely doubt keeping the exact same name was the best way to ‘leave’ any of that sad past behind them. Maybe they could have gone for that International the OP did not consider originally. Saying that as someone who did the NaNo a few time, not living in the USA and not writing in English.

Enough worrying, it’s great news to see people trying to revive this excellent idea (and an even better excuse) to encourage people to effing start writing instead of dreaming that one day they will do it.

Get a pen and some paper, or open a new document file if you prefer a computer, and start writing that stupid story you keep thinking about! I’m willing to bet it won’t be that stupid once you finish it. And if it is that stupid, well… that’s great news as you’ve just freed your mind for a brand new and much better story idea. And at most it will have taken you a month to do so—I don’t know about you but I have often wasted a lot more than a single month ruminating about some ‘cool idea’ I had that, once I stopped thinking how great it was to actually start writing it, ended up being not that great) :)

100% this.

It’s also the reason why I would love for the OP to not be able to delete their original post and delete the entire thread with it. It should be ok for them to delete the content in their post if they really want to, but said post should remain accessible with a ‘content deleted by OP’ mention or something like that… while all comments remain untouched.

As someone that seldom posts new content but do like to comment it’s one of the things that is certainly preventing me to comment more on certain discussions, as it already happened too often to see everything vanish because the OP was not happy with the way the discussion turned.

They should not own the discussion even when they initiate it. That’s what an open discussion should be about: inviting participation, not censoring it.

edit: typos and clarifications.

I can’t talk about younger generations, I’m well into my 50s, but I know they do a lot of things online. Heck, they even date online which to me seems as odd as wanting to eat an… air sandwich (so odd that I’m half expecting some app to popup offering them to have virtual sex too… for a monthly fee, obviously). But even like that there are still a lot of people (of all ages) that prefer IRL/physical/analog to online/digital to a subscription-based lifestyle. They’re just… less visible online (and they seldom complain about it online either) ;)

The thing with the Internet is that it creates this self-validation bubble, and I mean not just for political discussions where people expect to never have to listen to anything/anyone not agreeing with them, I mean it as a space itself, the Internet is good at downplaying alternatives to itself as a place to be and do things… Things like meeting people IRL, doing offline activities and hobbies. Who decided we needed to use a phone to watch a movie or to read a book or an app to meet someone we find attractive?

To me, all of that should have been one of the things education needed to talk more about to kids. If it ever tried, it obviously utterly failed. The real question being then: who decided we should stop doing all of those things our species have been doing for… ever. And why? And the answer may be as simple and obvious as: ourselves. It is us that did this to ourselves, it’s our own laziness and maybe our own fear, and our own stupidity.

Until then, ill go back to being mostly disconnected on weekends. Its great.

I don’t have dedicated offline days, but i do have a lot of offline time so allow me to congratulate you nonetheless on that decision and wish you had an even better WE than usual when you will read my comment. Because, you’re 100% right:

Its great.

And not just on WE ;)

I sincerely have no idea how other people may feel about (not) speaking foreign languages, it’s up to them. Also, it’s not a competition with a single winner and many losers. It’s like being able to draw (I love doing that, I’m shit at it) or to dance (I can’t, but I love watching dance and ballet).

Personally, I don’t feel better because of the languages I speak. It’s just a decision I made, and then a question of putting in the required work (aka, time and efforts). But I am happy to be able to read/speak those languages.

As an avid reader, it’s something I always considered a necessity as I wanted to be able read books in their native language in order to fully appreciate them. It’s also so much better when interacting with other people, even for someone as shy as I am, to be able to speak in their native language even poorly and in a limited way (I’m not fluent in all of the few languages I understand, far from it).

I think it’s important to mention that as I too often met people that are afraid to learn and even more so that are unable to speak in a foreign language because they worry so much about being judged. It’s true we all are bad when we’re starting out but that’s still a real sad mistake to let that stop us as a vast majority of people will be more than welcoming to anyone trying to speak their language. For the record, I say that as someone who is monstrously shy (like, really) and speaks with a terrible French accent. So, I know perfectly well what it’s like to feel intimidated ;)

The one language I would love the most to learn but never managed to is Chinese.

There are writers, thinkers, and poets I would love to read not in a translation (and many more that are not even available in translation, sadly). But it’s also so complex to the point of being intimidating… This year, I almost managed to convince myself to apply to one of the schools teaching Chinese, here in Paris, but money and, like I said, me being utterly shy made it so that I not-that-accidentally missed the deadline.

Also, I’m starting to get old (well into my 50s) and my health not being that great I worry more and more it would be a waste of a seat that a much younger person could make better use of.