In our current day and age, it’s rather hard to meet new people and make new friends, particularly for those of us who do not participate in mainstream social media. So, how and where do you meet new people? Feel free to add some context around that.
Find some groups on meetup.com and attend some. It isn’t that hard it just takes time. Don’t expect to go to 3 or 4 and become friends, depending on the size of the group you may only make friends with one sub group of the main group.
I remember reading somewhere (probably my high school textbook) that one of the reasons people don’t like wind power being built is they cause visual pollution....
Why was the overly attached girlfriend allowed to post her guidelines for managing a violent and abusive relationship with memes on Reddit over a period of years?
Dissolve everything into Cash equivalents, yeet it all into a trust and make all the children beneficiary of the trust.
As for material items you don’t care who gets “The McGuffin” so will it in a way that they must agree to to who gets what.
Your post makes you out to be one of those assholeish aristocratic wankers who only cares how their legacy is handed down.
For me, there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke, and one toy for my kids that was a huge sparkly styrofoam mess waiting to happen, so I threw it out rather than curse anyone else with it.
So I was looking into getting port forwarding set up and I realized just how closed-off the internet has gotten since the early days. It’s concerning. It used to be you would buy your own router and connect it to the internet, and that router would control port-forwarding and what-have-you....
And there is nothing wrong with that. Both systems work for different people. I am on the I like a public address on my place camp, but I have worked where we did cgn for an apartment building and out of the 150 residences none asked for a public address. Saving us a /25 which we could sell to business customers for $5/m per /29
Wondering how much of the Lemmy user base wouldn’t use an adblocker. If you do use one what other blocking do you use to circumvent data collection, YouTube and reddit front ends and things alike?
We have a retroactive Google Sheet which pulled from Reddit years ago where we put our transactions in and categorise them. Lets us see where we spent money
In addition because the providers and cables are owned and operated by private companies the government would have a very hard time convincing telcos to do that.
Hell even internally you can’t with every major city having 2 or 3 places where providers can connect with Google, Amazon, Facebook, Cloudflare, Akamai. Not to mention all the private peering locations.
From a political POV, make legislation that says registered telcos must turn off telecommunications equipment connected to non US locations or black hole non us traffic when entering the country when requested by a government.
What Kind of Natural Disasters Occur Where You Live? And How Have You Prepared for Them?
Bonus points for man-made disaster preparedness tips.
She's just intimidated to be with a rugged lumberjack (startrek.website)
How do you meet new people?
In our current day and age, it’s rather hard to meet new people and make new friends, particularly for those of us who do not participate in mainstream social media. So, how and where do you meet new people? Feel free to add some context around that.
Linux users when (media1.tenor.com)
Does wind power cause visual pollution in your opinion?
I remember reading somewhere (probably my high school textbook) that one of the reasons people don’t like wind power being built is they cause visual pollution....
Was stalking your EX boyfriend normalized during the last decade?
Why was the overly attached girlfriend allowed to post her guidelines for managing a violent and abusive relationship with memes on Reddit over a period of years?
Which child would you prioritize in this hypothetical scenario?
Suppose you had seven children....
What are some tech predictions for 2024 that actually could happen?
What gifts that you received for Christmas this year are already in the trash?
For me, there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke, and one toy for my kids that was a huge sparkly styrofoam mess waiting to happen, so I threw it out rather than curse anyone else with it.
Happy New Year Coders. (lemy.lol)
Happy new year from Europe gang! (lemmy.world)
Me vs my ISP
So I was looking into getting port forwarding set up and I realized just how closed-off the internet has gotten since the early days. It’s concerning. It used to be you would buy your own router and connect it to the internet, and that router would control port-forwarding and what-have-you....
My old upstairs neighbors’ slippers (web.archive.org)
Who doesn't use an adblocker and why?
Wondering how much of the Lemmy user base wouldn’t use an adblocker. If you do use one what other blocking do you use to circumvent data collection, YouTube and reddit front ends and things alike?
If you could only listen to someone talk about one topic for the rest of your life, what would it be, and why?
What are your best flight tips and tricks?
Since I assume lots of people are flying this time of year
Australians (lemmy.zip)
Love you guys
Mirror Chekov aka Bester is a very efficient undercover agent (startrek.website)
What system or method do you use for your monthly budget or personal finance?
What budgeting advice do you recommend? Money management method?
Donald Trump May 'Turn Off the Internet'. How even? A thought experiment. (www.newsweek.com)
Sounds silly of course, and it is silly. But I thought it would be interesting to think it through. And with multiple minds....
This truly is the year of the linux desktop (lemmy.world)