That whole episode is gold, start to finish, I tell you whut.

Yep - same episode!

Isn’t there a King of the Hill episode that is literally about both of these things?

You know, the human body is amazing. Given the right conditions, one of us thinks 25°C is hot, and the other, cold. 20°C at the beach? That’s a jacket, jeans, and flannel shirt for me.

Sorry about your sunburn. That’s never fun, regardless of temp.

A sign? You expect them to read?

Not only that, the flag that LOST to Lincoln. It’s some bizzare history cuck dom-sub thing. I don’t get it.

Could we just one time have some event in DC with MAGA people where a Confederate loser flag doesn’t show up?

Yeah, OK, that’s a fair point.

Still, I think you all cold-loving people are strange. Why rebuke the loving embrace of Father Sun? Mangoes and wine are your reward!

Or, just like…don’t go places where you need to steal insulating layers from animals just to have a nice time.

And I’ve been to the arctic. No one wears wool when it’s -20. Down, yes. But it’s all encased in petrochemicals.

In Greek, the word for summer is kalokairi. It literally means “good weather.”

Snow can suck a fuck. Totally overrated. Why go somewhere that you need to add layers of polyester just to survive? 1 layer of linen and I’m set.

Edit: Every downvote from you churns a server in a data center that makes the earth heat up. Bring it on. Let the leopards eat your faces!

Plus a large, 6.9 earthquake in Japan at almost the same time, and a number of 5-ish quakes around the Pacific rim and even one in the Mediterranean.

Full on WTF is happening moment. If you live in an earthquake zone, have a go bag ready.

Fair points, though, maybe more so in the abstract. To be fair, when I go try and fix or adjust or tweak something, I do always tell myself “we’re humans, we change our environment to suit our needs.”

Though I think you’re excusing burnout and BS social media hustle culture when some people simply don’t want to do that. If you want to post everything on IG, go for it. But people shouldn’t feel shame for falling into the lower right square. It’s a decision some people make consciously, and others less so. Which, for me, feels like loss. We had this nice thing where it was great to see what my friends from 20 years ago were up to. And now I can’t participate in it because it harvests my data, and I would tell them the same. The infrastructure found us, friction-free. And when it turned out that pipes were to suck us dry, the gap was real, and the previous infrastructure not up to the task of casually serving up information. Now it (barely) takes work to say hello to someone and has to be meaningful again. People should be allowed to be OK with that.

Which is to say that my evolution argument is that we have, within a generation, taxed the limits of a part of us that hasn’t gradually worked up to a universal higher capacity. Better weapons have extinguished genetic lines with no regard for adaptation or evolutionary traits other than what country someone was born into. Given 30 generations, we don’t physically adapt to having bombs dropped on us. We aren’t selecting for terminally online people to reproduce more and be more successful in the species, either. Maybe we are and I’m so far out of it that I can’t tell.

You know, for about a decade, everyone was pushed to share everything they did on social media. It was a mistake. It was a mistake on the scale of cigarettes and smoking inside and in airplanes and in hospitals and in schools. No one thought it was a stupid idea, and a lot of people pushed it as the only way to get jobs and show you’re a clever chimp that can internet so hard because interneting hard was the cool new thing.

Lower right is the hangover from that. Anyone I didn’t find or didn’t find me between 2008 and 2018 wasn’t ever worth connecting with. The people that did find me were nice to hear from once, and we haven’t talked ever again, despite being connected, for 10+ years.

My grandparents and their parents, etc. went their whole lives never seeing people again and not knowing what happened to them because they moved one time and they didn’t know their new address. Whole movies were about that. Elvis had a song about that. The last episode of the first season of The Real World ended with everyone moving out of the apartment, and once that landline and address no longer went to those people, it was 100% possible that those people would be gone from each others’ lives forever.

Y’all, we’re not supposed to collect and keep 27,000 casual contacts throughout our lives. It’s unnatural. Our brains are not built for it. We’re made to have a few dozen up to 100-ish close connections that mean something, including family you don’t pick.

Email some old friends you don’t text with daily. Send anyone you truly care about an email to say hi. If they respond, then great. If not, don’t worry about it. Enjoy high fidelity communications with those who mater to you.

…and a Lemmy account

I love this.

Great advice. I found an old laptop and I’m putting it through the paces now, and I’m really surprised at how easy all of this is. Setting up my own Invidious instance took minutes. Immich is where I’ll need to plateau out, I expect. My partner will immediately fill up the laptop by dumping her phone onto it, so that will need to wait for a long-term solution. That being said, a Lenovo mini whatever seems like a solid standard.

Oh, I can deal with something that’s larger…

-wait, not like that.

Thanks for this, this sounds like where I’m headed. I just hadn’t even considered thin clients/mini PCs, and it sounds like a lot of people are using Lenovos for this exact thing. I’m not at the point yet of doing something big, just small home lab, but I would like to get to the point of hosting immich for the family, and maybe having an LLM or SD in there at some point. But by then I’m hoping the RAMpocalypse is easing up. For now, it’s just privacy front ends until I know what I’m doing.

Thanks - I’ve put it off for a while, and didn’t realize how easy this all was to set up!

Thanks- I found an old laptop to give things a test run. I’ll do some thin client shopping once I cut my teeth a bit.