Self proclaimed archivist here. Thank you for sharing. This is important work, and while I’m to an extant already doing “my part” the job is never truly done and I will be taking a lot of guidance from this.

In an effort to not shame ourselves anymore than we already do, my AFK friends and I have deemed smiley fries and dino nuggets “rot (affectionate) foods”. We all keep a bag or two of each in our freezers and will periodically host “rot night” which is basically parallel play night with no shame for wanting to be barely human, or just not be for that matter.

I’m in this picture, and not as part of the crowd :/

Have my upvote.

Yeeaaahhh, sorry to disappoint. Though I was pleasantly surprised it looked as good as it did after quite literally just cutting out the demon core image and pasting it on. Very low effort lol

After prolonged exposure to the demon core, much less two of them, anything is possible.

Yes, it’s the demon core. I have no clue why I was compelled to make this. Well I do know why demon core memes were on my mind, but I have no clue what inspired the truck…

Loooolll!! I was chuckling thinking about the order that they appear and how there’s a dog that got prioritized over 2 of the kids. Assuming all the stickers were applied at the same time.

The only experience I have is small leadership roles in some discord (🤮) communities, but I’d be willing to try my hand at moderating here. I’m trans, I like to think of myself as a good listener, and while my neurodivergence sometimes makes me “not get the joke” I generally think it forces me take a step back from my emotional response to things and look toward community reaction for guidance on various posts and issues. First and foremost I’m glad this community was made to help us stay on LBZ, and I’d love to help contribute to it even though I’m not a frequent poster.

I guess I’ll add a strong affinity for privacy, opt-in centric policy, self governance, and mutual accountability, as core tenants of digital communities. Especially in leadership roles I want to hear from my members, and create systems that work for them, not work the way I maybe envision them.

I second Touch! Though just with my own experience I project some level of transness onto the robot. Sort of this feeling, or moment, of finally becoming “living” and knowing what human contact and connection feels like, but struggling to find it.

Mah’s Joint - Jon Bellion

“When my mother was a mother to my mom”

Always brings me to tears

Product of my Own Design - Artio

“Get on your knees and pray to me
The problem child becomes the only God you’ll ever see
You made me believe that I was never mine
I made my goddamn self, a product of my own design”

This song is fairly explicitly about being trans and struggling being seen as who you really are by family. It’s not really trying to be sad about it though, more empowering in spite of that struggle. Great song.

I love lemmy for people like you!! Feel like this type of generosity just doesn’t show up on other platforms. OP please see this^

Any chance on getting more info about the hardware specifics? From the sounds and looks of it this is almost exactly the scale of what I’d like and running pretty much the same things I’m thinking interested in.

Maine I think loops back around to y’all territory…

I’ve integrated a Boox e-ink tablet with my Linux system using syncthing. Note taking is a treat and can be done right onto PDFs or e-books.

Bump for 4get

4get.ca

Has been very refreshing to use. It’s a bit slow, and you need to do a captcha periodically because they get hella bot spam. It’s got a clean interface, no sponsored results and other junk, and so far it’s felt like “old google” more than anything else. Plus they have my preferred color scheme as a built in option!

I use foot, it’s very bare bones, but I’m using zellig to get all the QoL features I could want!

You might already have something picked out, but for potential future reader I’m reviving this thread a little to add another good word for the Healthy Rips vapes. In an effort to deep, deep, clean (I’m talking definitely voiding any warranty type deep) my old piece I killed the power button. Even though I had a few issues with the design of the vape, I ordered a new one with little hesitation as I liked the first more than anything else I’ve tried. Plus, it lasted me 5+ years and way exceeded my expectations for price compared to how much “material” was put through it in its lifetime.

When I got the new one I was pleasantly surprised they in the years since buying the original, almost all of my design issues were addressed and I’d now recommend the vape even more so.

Yeah, I was running it through Tailscale too. I’m definitely closer to a newbie than I am a self hosting vet, so there’s likely some fault of mine that made things not run so well.

Yeah I had my eye on this a few months back when I was looking for a FOSS windows Remote Desktop alternative. Between the security issues, and generally struggle to get it working well, I eventually went to a sunshine/moonlight combo for shockingly high performance screen sharing that can even handle basic gaming if need be.