I do a lot of photography and I share it on my deviant art page.
One thing I would recommend though is if you have some hobbies try to find beginner friendly communities for those hobbies as they are usually super positive and helpful, and they’ll give you the chance to be that as well.
Personally I found helping people dive into the stuff I’m interested in was a massive boost to my mental health.
There’s just something wonderful about it that I really can’t explain.
They mostly turn into crabs in a bucket communities because the ones that stick around long term in those communities are usually the doomer types.
Or at least that was my experience with it years ago.
My best advice is to avoid those communities as I found they only made my mental health worse rather than better.
I’d say that consuming content that only confirms your biases is a form of failing media literacy as you’re failing to see the biases inherent to the content you’re consuming. There’s the flaw of “I think it’s this way” seeking out that content and not seeing that it’s poorly sourced (if at all) and eating it up.
Not to mention the role that content suggestion algorithms play in reinforcing that behavior and providing you with even more content along the lines of the biases you’re reinforcing.
It’s a complicated can of worms for sure.
Off to a rocky start but the week is looking like it’s going to shape up pretty good.
Started a much needed server migration, it’s started out pretty rough with having to change the number of drives and forgetting I had to mask the 3v pins on the hard drives before hooking them up or the wouldn’t power on.
I’m currently on day 3 of the migration and I’m hoping to finish it by Wednesday.
Update: My server is back up but a portion of my network is down (whole 3D printing corner is down) and will hopefully be operational by Sunday.
It’s less the cost of gear and more the having the time to spare
I used to fish all the time back in the day with my family and I really enjoyed it
If only I could afford to be that mouse fishing
NGL I love this too
NGL I didn’t even think of that lol
I was thinking that getting to know her better might give me the chance to grow my friend group bigger by getting to know some of her friends lol
Having her as a friend will be great that’s for sure (we’re planning to go rock climbing next weekend which will be awesome!)
The main bummer is having to go back to the Gauntlet to see if I can find a romantic partner.
That shit sucks so goddamned much.
I’m not sure exactly what model but it’s a 4k 75in hisense running Android from like 5 years ago
Personally I just setup a PC as a NAS‡ and installed VLC on my TV so that I can just browse the NAS and play the files directly
Is it efficient? No.
Is it the best way? Also no.
Does it work? Yes, surprisingly well in fact.
‡ The first time was simply a network shared folder, the second time was using TrueNAS.
Recent events with streaming services has really been the best argument for self hosting your own content
Went on a coffee date with someone that went quite well, we’re even making plans for a second date.
She’s also been sending pictures of some of the rocks in her collection to me, which is awesome!
She has this barely-contained-chaotic-joy about her that’s just awesome to see. We were talking intermittently for a few weeks before I got a glimpse of that joy, then we were talking quite a bit more. And then we went to get coffee which turned into lunch as well.
NGL last week was pretty great. Only the second successful date in the last 4 years for me, but I’ll take any win I can.
Edit: Nevermind.
I mean she wants to be friends which is cool as she’s an awesome person so having her among my very short list of friends (which has only shrunk over the years) would be great but she’s not interested in me in a romantic kind of way which is a bummer. Guess it’s back to the Gauntlet.
Fuckin preach it friend!
That’s the joy of Linux, the “have it your way” approach to an OS
A different driver set for each chip architecture maybe?
My Mini Factory is primarily where I get mine (if you want a list of users I primarily buy mine)
Cults3D is another place but they’re a lot more hit and miss on quality IMO
The best models are purchased models (in general) though MZ4250 on Printables models are free and also pretty high quality.
Personally I won’t pirate models of people in the 3D printing mini community as I want to support the creators in that space as they’re not giant megacorps.