she/they

Bit of a mess, kinda depressed, and going through a gender identity crisis :3

(Ongoing issues, brain pls fix)

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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • There are a lot of people here saying they’re both, for me it’s a firm type two. Even in retrospect I can’t find any signs, because I can barely remember anything about my childhood in more than the broadest strokes.

    My first “sign” I can remember was someone pointing me to r/egg_irl, and I’m still not sure if that was because I showed proper signs or just because I didn’t understand that guys can be bottoms too at that point. And for some reason, because of that, I’m still scared that I am somehow faking it to myself, because I saw an identity that partially matched and then adapted the rest, as I pretty much grew up in online transfem spaces and my dysphoria was never that extreme, almost always just a nagging at the back of my head. But it’s been over eight years at this point, so you know, it’s part of me either way at this point, and I doubt I could talk myself into something that lasts this long. Still sometimes a bit afraid of faking things though.




  • The problem is, even if I am willing to deal with some inconveniences, many others aren’t. How am I going to move a server with >100 active users and multiple thousand inactive ones? And what about the six others I have that fit that description? There’s quite a few servers I could go without, but around a dozen that I’d much prefer not to lose.

    I’ve already been trying, but people don’t like Revolt, Nerimity, Matrix, hell I tried Mattermost. Some people are fine with some of these platforms, but there is never any remote consensus.

    At least some have cancelled their nitro subscription, making them a net loss for Discord in the future.

    Discord has, despite everything, been my primary chat/social app and to switch to something else one has to uproot absolutely everything. That’s sadly not feasible.


  • Sure, but what are those? Maybe I’m the issue, but the website seems to be made for people who are already intimately familiar with the possibilities of a custom launcher, because they’re hardly listed anywhere, there’s no list of features or anything.

    Well, there is one list, but it’s

    1. “Pixel design, but more customizable somehow” How? Dunno, isn’t explained
    2. “The latest android features” which is cool but also something I have on my stock launcher
    3. “QuickSwitch support” which is not explained (some research makes me believe it’s API access to the default launcher that’s needed to show recent applications, which is also a feature my native launcher has) and needs root according to the FAQ. So can I not access my recent applications if my phone isn’t rooted?

    And the wiki is just from the dev side, which is interesting, but doesn’t provide the proper info. I’m sure it’s cool if so many people here like it, but the website’s doing a poor job at showing that off.

    Edit: Basically it seems to me like the selling points of most Android forks, which are generally “We’re slightly worse in some areas, but generally have feature-parity, possibly slightly better customization/settings, and you’re free of Google spyware” which is admittedly a selling point, but here you don’t even get rid of spyware if you’re on regular Android, and if you are already on a fork, then why bother?




  • On your point about it being “easy” to install containers via the app interface, are there any guidelines for how to configure them when all you’ve got for reference is a Docker Compose file?

    A lot of stuff matches 1:1, but there are often oddities here and there, and I’m still not entirely sure of the correct way to configure storage. Some guides say to create datasets in the pool and then configure some to use the “apps” preset, while others should use “generic.” Others say to just use the automatic permissions checkbox, and others still tell you to check the “Use ACL” box. When I haven’t found a guide, I just created the datasets manually, set them to “apps,” and so far it has worked.

    And when I want to use Docker containers normally, I’ve been advised against it. There used to be something called “jails,” but that was deprecated with the new Containers tab in the GUI. Apparently, that’s being dropped again for some reason, but the jails are still deprecated, and any time I search for how to use Docker Compose, I get so much conflicting info. Some say to just run docker compose as you would on a regular server via the command line, while others say that could break the system and tell me to just use VMs instead, and it’s all a mess.

    The SMART stuff I mentioned was definitely my lesser worry, just a mild annoyance that tipped me over to consider switching, but the apps feel like I’m learning a whole new abstraction layer instead of just writing a Docker Compose file with input fields. Maybe that’s just a me problem though and I’m simply refusing to adapt, I am really not sure.




  • I recently set up Home Assistant for the first time and I was super confused about the todo list there. It is the most barebones implementation of a todo list I have ever seen, yet it’s featured in the sidebar by default, like it’s super important. And then scripts and automations are in the settings menu?

    I could understand it if it was a proper todo list, with dates and priorities and repeating tasks and bonus points for a CalDAV Integration, but that one is downright pathetic.

    Still love the fact that HA exists, I am super happy about not being locked into any particular ecosystem, but some choices are very confusing to me.







  • I must admit I still don’t see the point. Whether it’s double/triple/quadruple of a million or just 3*n+1 doesn’t seem to matter much. Of course it’d be better if a “thousand” was just called a “million” then, since that’d remove the +1, but the million milliard system doesn’t seem to have any notable advantages otherwise, especially considering every “iard” step is a .5 one, which isn’t much cleaner.

    1,000 -> 3x0+1 zeroes

    1,000,000 -> 3x1+1 zeroes

    1,000,000,000 -> 3x2+1 zeroes

    vs

    1,000,000 -> 1x6 zeroes

    (1,000,000,000 -> 1.5x6 zeroes)

    1,000,000,000,000 -> 2x6 zeroes

    (1,000,000,000,000,000 -> 2.5x6 zeroes)

    1,000,000,000,000,000,000 -> 3x6 zeroes