Artaca

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[–] Artaca 57 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Lost one of my boys a little over a year ago. Still get crippled with grief from time to time - maybe every other day now instead of multiple times a day. It gets easier, but never easy. In the process of getting a ring with some of his ashes built into them and I think that'll be pretty special to get to bring him everywhere I go.

Not looking for condolences, just wanted to put this perspective out there in a sea of folks who seemed to have bad relationships with their parents. To those: I'm sorry. I can't imagine.

[–] Artaca 7 points 1 month ago

Have friends moving abroad on student visas they didn't really want but are doing as an excuse to get out. My partner won't entertain the ideas of leaving, as our entire family is here and most are too old to consider leaving. I imagine it's going to be too late before long.

[–] Artaca 3 points 1 month ago

Tried Seafile, Nextcloud, and Filebrowser Quantum. Nextcloud won out, although FBQ with a few files for select individuals does remain.

[–] Artaca 3 points 1 month ago

I'm on book 5 and damn these are maybe my new favorite series. If Sanderson is planning 10 books, it would make sense that one per season tries to hold as long as possible. 9 episodes a pop, release them in 3 episode arcs a month or three apart perhaps to try and stretch out the intrigue and hype and cut down wait between seasons. I dunno. But I'm excited!

[–] Artaca 1 points 2 months ago

The Open Split Deck is what the above commenter is referring to! Very cool project that is exactly what I'm looking for...just not for sale yet lol!

[–] Artaca 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I want this controller but split down the center so I can walk with them on a treadmill. There are joycons and third party joycons but none that I've found with the little track pads. That'd be HUGE.

[–] Artaca 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I always thought of it as more of an efficiency thing. Perhaps a bad analogy, but let's say I have a few hundred photos I took on vacation. Yes, I could store them all together in a single batch. However, grouping them with some kind of predetermined taxonomy can help make sense of things through the noise. In a similar fashion, elected officials, imperfect though they may be, consolidate the voices of many into the voices of a few. At a certain scale and across certain distances it does make sense.

I think it was somewhere here in Lemmy, but I saw a proposal of randomized government appointments akin to jury duty which I found quite fun. Good way to make sure the populace is smart because any of them may be called up.

[–] Artaca 17 points 2 months ago

Honestly I found it delightful. It was so fun to see so many faces again, and even the new characters melded in surprisingly well. My one gripe is I think they would have benefited from adding a layer of artificial grit or something so it didn't look quite so hi-def.

[–] Artaca 2 points 2 months ago

Midwest here. Just had the procedure about two weeks ago (recovery slightly slower than the commenter above, but not by much). They said something like $500 without insurance which honestly wasn't even that bad. After insurance it was $110. One consultation of "you sure big dawg?" Then the procedure about 4 weeks later, which took maybe 20-30 minutes and I was just chatting away with some Valium in my system. Very easy.

[–] Artaca 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Someone may have replied with this already, but: https://stoptrumpswars.org/ we're trying.

[–] Artaca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dang I had so many of these books growing up. Either my memory is trash or I didn't actually read most of them because the only thing I remember is some guy got stuck as a hawk lmao

 

I am a registered architect. As an active contributor to one of the most damaging industries to our climate (construction & building systems), I often daydream about pivoting careers into something more productive for the planet. I'm not talking about stuff like green washing or ~LEED accreditation~. Even sustainably-focused jobs are hard to come by and usually pretty regionally specific. Architects have a broad set of skills, and it's not always clear where I can take those skills and put them to better use.

Any thoughts/insight would be appreciated as I hop into my mid-life crisis before 30.

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