ALostInquirer

@ALostInquirer@lemm.ee

I like to ask a variety of questions, sometimes silly, serious, and/or strange. Never asking in an attempt to pester or “just asking questions” stuff.

I’m generally curious and/or trying to get a sense of people’s views.

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ALostInquirer,

In this scenario I think it’d be likely that they’re being quiet for some reason that’s literally incomprehensible to human-level minds, since they’re likely millions or billions of years more advanced than we are.

Why’s that? It’s not an imposition on my part, especially given that unlike the usual scenarios where the reason one might imagine them to be more advanced is that they aren’t nearby and are capable of reaching us from afar somehow.

Scenario I’ve posed is pretty basic, say some extraterrestrial civilizations were nearby (say, we’re both able to travel & communicate in a more timely fashion than waiting decades for each trip/exchange), but they’re not talking to us because ??? and so…How might ya get’em to meet & talk?

ALostInquirer,

I like to imagine a sort of awkward strangers reasoning for it, personally, where it’s not a matter of anything untoward involved, so much as nobody able to decide how to break the ice. Supposing that, I wonder what the cosmic icebreaker might be?

ALostInquirer,

but what do if u the professional? 😨

ALostInquirer,

…It’s improved? Doesn’t it still handle communication weirdly (needing a separate app for voice chat), or is that on a game-by-game basis?

ALostInquirer, (edited )

Have you watched Shin Godzilla as well? If so, how’s it compare with that? That was the last Godzilla movie I saw and I really dug it.

ALostInquirer,

Nice, I’ll have to see if I can find a time to go see it!

ALostInquirer,

Thanks! Here’s to hoping it grows into a helpful space for folks! Remember to mention it to anyone else that might be interested!

What hobbies help you minimize or avoid navigating commercialism?

By commercialism, I’m aiming at a mix of spending a lot and sifting through bloated business models (e.g. this or that accessory/equipment, microtransactions, etc.). Feel like many can relate to this sort of commercial fatigue, and yet it creeps even into hobbies where one tries to unwind....

ALostInquirer, (edited )

I see commercialism as exploitive, just purchasing things not so much.

Yeah, to elaborate a little, the question’s more aimed at finding activities that aren’t actively trying to rope you into buying more and more to keep up. A couple classic examples of what I had in mind to avoid would probably be like a trading card game or some tabletop game with collectible(?) miniatures (not sure what those games are called), whereas with crafting hobbies it’s simply a necessity upon exhausting craft materials.

ALostInquirer,

Ooh, cool! Cards of varying sizes?

I’ve thought about getting into this 'cause my favorite part of old trading cards was more the art than the games they were associated with.

ALostInquirer,

Learning card magic. You can go a long way with just a pack of cards and the 52Kards YouTube channel

I’ll have to give that a look! I’ve been trying to get better at some different card shuffles, as it’s both practical and fun to do.

ALostInquirer,

Thanks! I’ll have to keep this in mind next time I’m getting supplies to try some of these out. I initially started with some standard Pentel pens and some blank index cards for practicing on when the thought struck me to try out making some small cards.

ALostInquirer,

…or isekai’d? 🤨

ALostInquirer,

🤨 Is this an elaborate joke, or is this query itself demonstrative of the reality of the statement?

ALostInquirer,

Do you think they might use the button sooner if the symbol was a walking turkey?

ALostInquirer,

Yeah! Although, from personal experience reading blogs on Medium, it wouldn’t be my first choice simply due to its pushiness to sign up/subscribe to some of the blogs there.

I never read from any one source there consistently enough to remember if that’s a general platform element or only partnered/select blog element, and I feel like others unfamiliar with it may feel similar.

ALostInquirer,

Appreciate the breakdown! Ngl though you lost me at the end with the ECS container/S3 bucket stuff (as in, I dunno what ECS is, I think S3 bucket may be something akin to a VPS? but yeah), but that may just be an indicator it’s much more than I’d probably need/want for my interests.

ALostInquirer,

Thanks, the assumptions are about where I was aiming so this addresses the question pretty well I think.

An added question that this and other comments bring to mind though is, and this is admittedly a super basic question (which I’ve gone back & forth over asking in NoStupidQuestions tbh), but besides a cleaner and exclusive URL, why might someone go after a domain for a personal site, as in related to them individually?

ALostInquirer,

But if you’re asking about buying your own domain name (firstname-lastname.com) vs. using a subdomain from your hosting provider (myblog.wordpress.com) then it comes down to preference. Having your own domain will make you look more professional and get you more clicks on average.

Mainly the latter, and you cover the reasons for that, so appreciate it! For a more casual approach (and according to one’s preferences), it sounds like you’d be alright to stick with the subdomain-from-host approach, which is how I was leaning but I wasn’t sure if there might be more to it than that within the more managed hosting space.

ALostInquirer,

It’s my hope to see unity and cohesion is the Lemmy-verse.

On a certain level, isn’t this against its basic idea? A variety of instances/sites connecting with each other seems more the point of federation than a unified/coherent whole.

The tripping point/growing pain for these various instances/sites at the moment seems to be there’s more similar, likeminded groups adopting the software to spin them up than there are distinct groups to create the variety that might reduce/mitigate redundant communities (in the Lemmy sense of that term).

ALostInquirer,

Ooh, I see now. It wasn’t clear from the previous comments that you were wanting to use it apart from your phone, which is why I asked. I’ve helped someone with a Garmin watch before and I definitely agree that their software could be improved from the little I experienced of it.

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