Well, you’ve already chosen an instance to sign up with and start posting, so the confusing part is done.

Sometimes stuff from the wider network will be missing or inaccessible due to federation issues, but don’t worry too much about it.

First order of business is to curate a decent feed. Try searching for communities that you’re interested in. Browse the All feed and subscribe to interesting communities, generously block the ones you don’t want to see. Check !communitypromo@lemmy.ca (and its pinned thread) and !newcommunities@lemmy.world for cool ones to join.

One thing to be aware of is there are many duplicate communities across instances. Check them out, subscribe to each or pick the most active one - or the one on your least disliked instance. On that note, know that some instances are often considered politically extreme or problematic.

Yup!

Good excuse to switch banks. Every once in a while you can get some kind of sign-on bonus for the trouble too.

I think their point is that by and large consumers are stupid and willing to put up with almost any garbage like that. What makes you think otherwise?

This is also good when self-directed. Usually framed as mindfulness.

Get into the habit of just observing what you’re doing, and stating it to yourself (out loud or just in your mind). When you’re doing something you don’t want to do (eg, eating too much, procrastinating, losing your temper), looking at it from a disconnected perspective helps you evaluate the costs and reconsider.

Security issues for sure, that’s what I mean to acknowledge by saying it takes some level of maintenance.

But like, the feature set and UX don’t have to keep improving forever, IMO. The draw of something like this should be the community, the humans you interact with.

It’s always strange to me that software can never be complete or mature, it’s straight from ‘getting new features’ to ‘dead’. Not picking on the comment in OP, the announcement post reads like that too mostly. I get software requires some level of maintenance, but I wish we treated feature-complete as a good thing, something to celebrate.

Anyway, it was also weird to me how Tildes didn’t seize the moment with the Reddit drama a couple years ago. As I recall, they just weren’t trying to be the target of that migration. That was the first time I’d heard of it. Seems a nice place, from all my impressions of it.

!rssfeeds@lemmy.world

Only once, this past year. (Not quite alone tho, my wife was with me.)

I started feeling nauseated and heavily fatigued Christmas Eve, and by Christmas Day I was pretty sure I had some kind of stomach bug. Sucks to be laid out in bed sick on a holiday.

But also kinda nice to defer the celebrations a couple days and spread out those family visits.

The elevator thing is interesting.

At first, you just would think it works on a delay.

People notice that they don’t really do anything. Rumor spreads that the buttons aren’t even wired.

Eventually I remember coming across an article that explained most of the time it’s a glitch. The button is telling it to close, but there’s some kind of timing limitation that means the auto-close just happens first.

But yeah, for both I’m sure there’s a lot of variation.

As far as I know, the big update was basically that Europe rejected the idea of doing anything to help.

https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.world/post/48245810

But I think maybe California tried to pass some kind of a law?

https://threadiverse.link/piefed.ca/c/skg/p/755580/stop-killing-games-consumer-protection-bill-passes-floor-vote-in-california

It’s amazing how an appealing product can become so grotesque just by attaching Meta’s name.

Glad there’s a way to free them up.

There are probably still a few out there, that you just don’t see much for other noise.

I’m not familiar with the topic at all, but here’s potentially some links: https://ooh.directory/blogs/arts/tailoring/

But yeah, sadly the attention sucking mega-sites and apps take plenty of people out of the market for blogging (and other nicer communications). From their perspective, it’s often “why go to all the trouble to self publish, only for most of my audience to never see me because I’m not on [big social media site]”. The new ways are both easier and reach more people.

When I was a kid, I saw my mom cut expired cards in half when throwing them away.

Ever since then, I always strategically cut my old cards into several pieces, making sure to break up the number, chip, date, name, etc. I’ll throw them away in separate trash cans and maybe wait to throw some pieces out after we take out the trash for a week.

Lol, it’s pure silliness, no one is desperately piecing cards together out of my trash. (In reality, you’d probably just find compromised cards online, or go hit someone with a wrench.)

But this headline makes me feel ever so slightly justified in my goofy behavior.

This was a couple months ago, but I had a conversation with a college-age extended family member. He brought up some games he was playing, mentioning Call of Duty.

I said something along the lines of ‘oh, I liked so and so feature that was in World at War or Black Ops 1’. Kid hits me with “wow, those are old. idk if I was even born yet.”

Looks like you got a lot of good suggestions! Any of them have you excited to jump in and try?

Learn a language. This basically morphs into other hobbies, like reading or listening to stuff. But it’s gratifying.

Video games - but a little different from other suggestions, get really deep into a game. Learning to play some games is a hobby in itself. Speedrun your favorite, get into your local fighting game scene or play Fightcade, get Slippi and play Melee online, go for high scores in some shmups, competitive Tetris or Puyo Puyo. Etc etc (Though re-reading op, I guess a lot of these may have unreasonable learning curves)

I think it’s that the actual game itself gets corrupted. So it’s not even that you can’t save, it’s that you can’t play the game.

Like @ClipperDefiance@piefed.social pointed out in this thread tho, there may be ways to save a corrupted game.

Glad I learned it, and I still use that method to tie things in general, but I actually never do this any more. At some point in my youth, I realized there were plenty of shoes that you just slip on, and honestly I’ve been glad to avoid the hassle.

I wish I had learned more music as a kid. Kept thinking it wasn’t my thing, and then eventually (while still young) that I was too old. Later I got into it; I’m still not any good, but it’s a lot of fun. What keeps you from playing around with music these days?

For the languages, first of all I’d definitely second schipelblorp’s post about Anki.

But also, shameless plug, you should join !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz (if you haven’t already). Participate in the weekly threads to give yourself some accountability, ask for tips from other learners, etc. I know there are also some specific communities for learning German.

A goal is good. Start working toward it, learn what you need as you need it.

Try writing the topics down, then sorting them into a tier list of what you’d most like to learn if you had to choose. Take the few things at the top, and try to set aside regular scheduled time each day/week to focus on them.

Once you have topics, do some searches for ‘how to learn x’, etc. Sort through the slop, you should find some people eager to share how they learned it.

Also, ask around on Lemmy for individual topics.

Depending on the topic/sort of topic, find a textbook. Those are exactly an attempt to layout a learning plan. You don’t have to read it cover to cover or do every exercise, but follow how they’ve organized material. Same kind of thing, you can search and find course syllabi that college profs have put online for free, or MOOC stuff like MIT OCW.