Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiotoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comCognizant descent
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    23 hours ago

    I have been there.

    It’s not a fun place.

    In my experience the thing that gets everything else going is going for a walk. Start small. Walk to your front door and open it. Next time do it again. Perhaps take a step outside. Do it again. Then two steps, closing the door behind you - bring your keys!

    The idea is to do something slightly bigger than before, but not so much that you are exhausted or afraid to try again.

    The only one who is going to change anything is you, harness your energy and have a crack. Nobody is watching so no need to be ashamed.

    Have at it.


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    For anyone reading this.

    From personal experience, have a shower daily, go for a walk, even if it’s only to the end of your garden or street and drink plenty of water. Sleep if you need to.

    This won’t fix things, but it will give you an opportunity to give yourself a break.

    In my experience, beating yourself up about everything you suck at is the single biggest thing that made it worse for me.

    Finally, talk to someone, anyone. In the street, at the bus, at work, friends, family, online, anyone.

    This too will pass.



  • I think that the missing link for the fediverse is the user interface that most users see.

    This is oxymoronic given that the original Reddit looks eerily similar to Lemmy today, but it’s not just looks I’m talking about.

    Moderation and usability tools, bots, blocks, filtering and spam control need to go through several iterations before we can actually grow this community.

    Search is another issue, as is post deletion. Right now a post vanishes, but all the stuff hanging off it is still there. This makes for a complex user experience.

    Finally, Lemmy appears to be run by developers who appear to be interested in their own issues and regularly appear to dismiss issues raised by users. This is not sustainable.

    I consider myself a user of the fediverse before I’m a Lemmy or Mastodon user. We have a way to go before this settles down.


  • At one point, before we virtualised everything, I had a custom desk built in an L-shape. Instead of a desk and a return, I had the refurbishment team put together a desk with two desks instead. It gave me two sets of drawers, two computer cubby holes and the gap was too small for the horrible keyboard adjustable shelf that kept hitting your knees, so they replaced it with a fixed surface instead.

    People laughed.

    Colleagues sniggered.

    Then they wanted one too.

    Now I have a mobile lectern with an iMac clamped to it. Height adjustable, wheels, enough space for keyboard, trackpad and USB hub. I move around my office as the mood or light takes me.


  • I am part of the Reddit exodus. I’m here because I have no interest in promoting or supporting the atrocious policies that now govern Reddit.

    The pace here is different, but the interactions feel more measured.

    Based on being online since 1990, I’m comfortable with being an “early adopter”, even though I’ve only been here for a few months and Lemmy is five years old.

    Will Lemmy survive? Who knows. The horse and buggy didn’t, neither did Yahoo!, MySpace or Google+, but here we are nonetheless.

    I like it here.




  • Whilst I agree with your opinion, it continues to astonish me that the majority of non-technical people using a search engine have absolutely no idea just how bad the search landscape has become.

    I suppose my question did probably exclude that part of the population, but old habits die hard.

    I still use + and - to exclude search terms until I remember that Google+ broke that and I forgot just how ad infested the internet is until I accidentally click on a piece of empty space in an article that would have an ad, were it not for the pihole in my network.

    So, yeah. Point taken.




  • I found that it didn’t all come off on the first attempt. I used a cool shower and washed it off. Soap didn’t seem to help, but if I recall, it was a few years ago, sorbolene did help wash it off.

    Ultimately it’s likely still in your pores and causing grief. I was still pulling hairs off days later.

    I didn’t need an immediate result, so not quite the perilous journey that you are experiencing.

    Good luck.


  • It’s a package management system in the same way that Flatpack, yum, apt-get, snap and dozens of others are.

    If you use MacOS and Linux, it’s not inconceivable that you might want to use the same package management system across both.

    I’ve used it, didn’t particularly warm to it and didn’t install it on my most recent MacOS install after it shat all over itself on a previous installation.

    I didn’t know that it was available for Linux. Not tempted to try.

    I’m a firm believer in apt-get and failing that, Docker with side journeys into podman.



  • Yes, and some days it even acknowledges that there are humans living outside of New York, or even beyond the United States.

    Perhaps you might expand your game “design” team to include people outside those sitting in the same office.

    At the rate you’re going, we are enjoying it less every day.





  • I had no access to or use of a car until I was around 23. Up to that point I lived in a country where you could cycle for most of your daily routine, take the bus a couple of times a month and the train sporadically.

    I moved to a country where cycling was for the poor and foolhardy, me for several years, and public transport was atrocious.

    Public transport has marginally improved, my bicycle hasn’t been used for 20+ years and our household has one car.

    Learning to drive is a process. It takes time. Just like learning to fly a plane takes time. If you have a need to drive, learning how is step one. In my country even when you pass your test, you are required to keep a logbook for at least two years and drive in a variety of conditions before you can actually upgrade your probationary licence.