I drive a big four door truck for work. Most of my colleagues will just fill the back up with tools and stuff. I however keep mine clean and organized. This way I can use the backseat as an office vs trying to use a computer with a steering wheel in my way. Recently my boss let me tint the windows for security in case I keep anything back there. Now I have my very own mobile privacy box! I even got a sun shade for the windshield for complete privacy.

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Hi Everyone,

tldr: Reviving the hardware group on Matrix with a focus on RISC-V and prototyping for fun.

Lately I’ve found myself wanting to study in a group setting, as it’s easier to absorb topics when there is a friendly cohort chugging along together.

The topics I want to cover are comprehensive involving hardware, design, and software.

So that the group benefits from others’ expertise/special interests…

If you are interested, send me a DM, or post in this forum what you would like to see/teach in a small group of 5-10 individuals.

The greater goal is to design a piece of computer hardware together. I am thinking we could work on a RISC-V Core and maybe a board just as a group hobby project.

Cheers,

-G

"Why can't you be normal!?" Ummm why can't you be weird?

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Hold on, I know what you are thinking! "He's a telepath" Was I right?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30345557

I made bread!

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hello, funny image unrelated

It's Memorial Day in the U.S. Which means my morning TV routine is going to be off.

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cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/27039608

How many of us would be bankrupt?

My cats like to go out into the garage and roll around on the dirty floor. Then come in and demand I clean them.

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Happy Friday Everyone,

tldr: What times has the modern web frustrated you by forcing you to create an account or use a platform you don’t want to?

A food truck that I love, and learned by serendipity that it serves the public more than once a week… Has thrown me into a fit of rage. But not the truck itself.

Coming to Lemmy has been an overall benefit for my psyche and has helped me overcome some executive function issues I’ve dealt with throughout my life. I have enjoyed chatting with many of you, and am glad that corporate social media platforms are now all gone from my life.

Less algorithmic ensnarement, more thoughtful interactions with community members among other positives. I’m sure that many of us are also the Linux weirdo of our respective spheres of influence. It has also helped me encourage others to be more mindful of the technologies they use and has resulted in deeper friendships.

However, living in today’s world, it is impossible to go more than 2 feet or several links without being met with a Linktree, Facebook page, Instagram, or some larger company to gatekeep.

I’d imagine this food truck would not get nearly the publicity they do without utilizing the most common ways people interact with their pocket electronic boxes… But when I forgot the password to the Facebook account, the displayed automated message implied I was abusing the reset password feature and that I was blocked from doing so.

It made me wonder, what ever happened to people having their own websites?? I’m in the intermediate age where I didn't grow up with dial-up or less-abstracted computing systems, but remember how ubiquitous personal sites were.

This has made me want to get into spinning up my own website. I have acquired a domain name as well as a server for storage hosted by a provider. I do not want to start with anything complicated, nor do I intend to use a corporate service like Wordpress to host this site. However, because I am new to this, I don’t want to accidentally dox myself or do something idiotic with the server.

Since this is not a technology page, I would like this post to open up discussion about your own frustrations with local businesses being inaccessible without a larger big brother platform like Meta or Google gatekeeping the advertisement and accessibility of a service.

Thanks and stay cool and weird,

-G

1. All public transport now runs on schedule. I love schedules.
2. It's illegal to show up at someone's door unnanounced. You must text first.
3. No music in supermarkets. Also, ordering groceries to your address is now free.
4. Instead of engaging in meaningless small talk, people ask what topic someone has been obsessed with lately.
5. Ads are abandoned.
6. Working from home is now default.
7. Restaurants carry common "Safe food" menus, and silent seating options.
8. Social capital is no longer about how much you earn, and what kind of success you have, but about knowledge of obscure movie references.
9. What's on TV? Oh, it's your comfort show on rerun again!
10. People of support level 2 and higher will be granted magical powers to compensate for their difficulties. Not sure how I'll implement this in practice but I'll damn sure give it a shot.

Yesterday was my three anniversary at work.

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I feel kinda alone in it

I have monkey toes. I use my feet as hands if I'm barefoot. Drop a pen? Not bending over for that. Cat drops the ball at my feet. Well just going to hand it up to myself.

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My 5yr old son has just been diagnosed. The diagnosis was binary (yes:no) rather than a scale which was the first lesson for me.

I need to understand how to support him and am not sure where to start. Does anyone have any advice please?

I'm awake. Yeah I'm awake. I just have to stay awake. Didn't sleep well last night.

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I always got called out for being weird throughout my life but NOBODY ever mentioned to me they thought I was so I just got exhausted of being misunderstood and misinterpreted sometimes and tried learning the social etiquette my entire life, somethings I don't necessarily agree but I do it anyway and try understanding others doing for the sake of fitting in and I just got quite used to it, miserable at times yes, but it's become my life all of that and any quirkness I just assumed to be due to having more individuality than others since no one ever questioned me directly if I had anything other than just plainly calling me weird. I've honestly been hopeless with life more than I'd like to admit so I'm not sure how I'm going to process all of this, I figured if anyone could understand or relate to this life experience I have would be others diagnosed as well, has it been like this for everyone here and felt this same way when diagnosed (for those who were diagnosed after already becoming adults)? I'm overwhelmed and needed to talk to someone about this but I have no one other than my psychologist however I'm not comfortable discussing it with her right now about it and since Lemmy is semi-anonymous/anonymous I feel a bit more inclined to talk about it here 😞

There was a nicotine + adhd thread today in c/[email protected] and I got to write a few paragraphs about my favorite subject: anything tobacco.
I don't know particularly what is so cool about it, but I just can't get enough information on the subject. Old fashioned snuffboxes, cigarette boxes and holders, pipes... And the rich history and culture of each brand and style and how it evolved in every part of the world is just so interesting to me.
So it made me curious about what are some of the other more unconventional special interests around this community

I torture myself with a tongue scraper every morning. I hate it, but it helps with bad breath.

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