Emotional_Series7814 @ Emotional_Series7814 @kbin.melroy.org Posts 40Comments 202Joined 1 yr. ago
Icon is fine. As an Mbin user I cannot see the banner. Taking a quick visit to sh.itjust.works shows it to me. I don't care much either way but it certainly is not chasing me off. Thanks for putting effort into reviving this community!
Digital forever.
When I must write physically though, I enjoy a Pilot Precise V5 RT pen. Comes out smoother than every other pen I've ever used. I'm left-handed.
I do not mod ObsidianMD.
However, I know that magazines on Mbin (equivalent to a community on Lemmy) come with an option to automatically tag all posts made in the magazine with a hashtag. I used to do this with a magazine I modded till the instance I was on (kbin.run) died, taking the community with it.
It's possible the mod of ObsidianMD did the same thing with the obsidianmd hashtag. However, I see that ObsidianMD is a lemmy.world community. I'll need to look into this more.
Huh. Admittedly fountain pens are a different story entirely. My comment is about a non-fountain pen.
I use real pens so rarely nowadays because I overwhelmingly prefer digital. But when I must, a Pilot Precise V5 RT pen is so so nice. I'm left-handed too, so if that impacts how nice pens are to use, they are lefty-safe.
Never thought I'd have opinions about how nice a pen is but there you have it.
I have my digital stuff password-protected. And it's not a 4 or 6-digit number one, it is alphanumeric. So you have to be able to break into my phone/computer first, and my password has potentially more different possibilities than the average person's 104 or 106 combinations. (Well, you always could just force me to say it to you, but by then what I have written is the least of my problems.) I feel pretty safe.
That is kind of what I mean though. I did not post because I wasn't contributing to the discussion, because someone else contributed all my thoughts already. I'm not very upset about others making it first. It's just that here, now I'm usually able to contribute because there are not a huge amount of people interested in contributing, so they do not get there before me.
On Reddit I posted a lot less. Often I'm super late to the party and someone had discovered and posted it 6 years ago. Even when I discover it in a timely manner, someone else has usually already gotten to it and posted it. For comments, often people already summed up everything I wanted to say and I have nothing new to add.
Here, usually nobody has posted the thing already, so I am not just duplicating an old post and I can go ahead. And the comments are sparser, so I can post my take without just rehashing someone else.
I can't say any of it is surprising, because almost everything I pop in there is something I anticipate needing in the future. And sometimes I'm right, yeah, I do need it.
Most frequently hit up is the recipe pages, because the original website sucks, crashy and ad-ridden and shifts your place around. Also because I experiment around with the recipe and write what worked well, so I know to (never) modify the recipe like that again.
Not used often but when it is… I have a spot specifically for stuff I 1) spent ages trying to re-find on the internet after finding it once and 2) that I think I'll probably go rabbitholing after again sometime. Once I find it it goes on the list. If it was hard to find the second time, let us make it easy for time number three. I do not always re-access everything on that page, but if I do I'm guaranteed to have saved at least an hour.
I also have a gift ideas list. Whenever someone I anticipate needing to buy a holiday/birthday gift for expresses interest in something purchasable, or I see something I really think they would like, it gets written down. I open the list when it is time to buy gifts. This makes gift-giving a lot easier for me.
What are your needs?
So I actually posted on !journaling@sh.itjust.works but I don't see it when I go to sh.itjust.works. You might also want to know I, a kbin.melroy.org user, can see your test post from my instance, from the account called Libb with a blue profile picture.
It does. I'm not looking to switch right now but I do appreciate finding out about different options!
I super don't make the rules around here but the mod seems to have gone MIA and I seem to be the most frequent poster.
Sidebar seems to have absolutely nothing against it. It never specifies the PKMS must be digital. I say go for it. It is still in the spirit of the community.
I figure I ought to mention !pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone
EDIT: nevermind, community already mentioned it (and I think maybe sticking it in the sidebar?), that post just did not federate over for me
Transcribing as a growth hack is cool because it's also more accessibility for disabled people. Probably even more helpful if you put your transcription of images as alt text.
I've always seen sourcing more as a preemptive "someone's going to ask where I got it from" or a personal ethics thing you might do if you value it, not growth hacking.
Clickbait is a push-away factor for me. I'm not here for outrage.
Exporting the .md file. I also think that for fellow Obsidian users, the bits that have functionality in Obsidian that don't in Markdown in general might come through if they open the file in Obsidian, though I'm not 100% sure.
I know there is probably a plugin for this, as well as the official Obsidian Sync.
https://help.obsidian.md/getting-started/sync-your-notes-across-devices
Out of the options listed here, Syncthing seems to have compatibility with all of your things.
Injury is a lot easier to risk if you won't be charged more than your entire net worth for treatment. If you haven't experienced the misery of medical debt, and know how others live with it, it's absolutely terrifying to think about having to live with, all because you tried to do something good.
I like to try to help others but I am selfish enough to admit I'd never run myself into debt or risk my life for someone else. I always respect those willing to do what I'm not.
I buy groceries without checking a review, try local activities without checking reviews, etc.—I'm not exactly paralyzed. But something that costs a decent chunk of money I am absolutely checking a review and I don't think that is wrong to do. The trouble with checking reviews nowadays is how easy they are to fake, how easy it is to get a genuine negative review deleted on certain sites, how a person who has it out for a small business owner can flood them with untrue negative reviews, how often they are gamed in some way such that it does not reflect the true quality of the thing…
Conversations with strangers… I'll be honest that's a hard one because I'm not good at social cues and I don't want to think I'm having a nice conversation when the other half is composing a OH MY GOD STUPID FUCKING EXTROVERTS THE WORLD HATES INTROVERTS CAN'T THEY TELL I DON'T WANT TO TALK story in their head about me (being extroverted and having autism where you suck at social cues and know you suck at social cues is not a fun combination). I learned this behavior after seeing people express annoyance about strangers talking to them. Some things are obvious, like if you're occupied with a book, but nowadays who isn't occupied on their phone? I have had plenty of situations where I was on my phone but would have loved if someone started conversation with me—but I might be an anomaly so I just keep following the social rule of "occupied = don't talk". If I'm in a space where I think someone is open to socialization I am much more likely to initiate conversation—like a party or something. I'm not afraid of "sorry, not interested," but I am afraid of "yeah I'm cool with you" (actually no I'm not but I'll never tell you I have a problem with you until I blow up about it 6 months later).
I like quick and easy access to 911 or a locksmith's number in case I leave the house and lock myself out and cannot find the spare key but there are other reasons I leave the house with a phone than risk aversion/insurance for screwups I have committed before—for directions, or because it's nice to have a thing that staves away boredom if I know I'll probably be sitting in a line for 30 minutes, or because I have a digital wallet on there that is easier to carry around than my real wallet…
The issue with those metrics is how many other things can motivate those behaviors besides being scared of everything, or factors that make what might be an unreasonable fear for most people actually reasonable for you (for example, a phobia of bees suddenly becomes a lot more reasonable if you are deathly allergic, live near them, and aren't good at recognizing their hives/are accident-prone), but I do get the core of what you are saying. A generation who is more anxious about basic everyday things, which is definitely not good.
Although with checking reviews specifically, I'd argue that given how many times companies lower quality, change stuff, pull the rug out from under you in the name of profit, people have more and more cause to try to verify they are getting something decent when they would not have done so in the past. The more you hear of people getting screwed over, naturally the more you'll check to make sure you are not getting screwed too. This increased risk aversion is entirely rational in my opinion.
I just want people to be happy and to not get exploited. As far as I know, people have been exploited under both capitalism and communism. I am not sure if it's inherent to either economic structure, if there are safe guardrails you can put on either to make them not harmful, if it's not inherent to the economic structure and what matters is also what other government type is happening alongside that economic structure, etc. Something that really doesn't help is that often, if you grow up with one structure, you're also taught the other one is a virus of evil that no good human being would ever support. Well, maybe a misguided one, but nobody good and smart who thinks for themselves.
It would be nice to see a civil discussion with people actually trying to figure out which one is best and least harmful, because as an outsider looking in all I see is
"capitalism is the problem"
"no it's not, also you're not a free thinker"
Is everyone coming in here with some prior knowledge I don't have? Is there somewhere where people have tried to have this civil discussion that I could look at where it stayed civil?
I do think one thing I can certainly say is that there are people who lived under communism who worked hard and tried their best and still suffered in poverty under it and wanted out. And there are people who lived under capitalism who worked hard and tried their best and still suffered in poverty under it and wanted out.