Nope, not at all.

Behind every successful story, is a lot of failures. (or- really rich parents).

I agree, I’d be picking up a bunch of those, if that were the case.

esp32-c6 (supports zigbee), is pretty cheap.

No.

I wouldn’t vote for Hillary period for many reasons. Her sex is not one of them.

A random fact, I actually did vote for a woman to be president. But, it damn sure was not Hillary. There is too much stink associated with her. Too much shit swept under the rug.

The other admin now “owns” this instance, and hosts it in the EU.

I am just a glorified moderator now.

I’d say, you have a small instance.

I used to host lemmyonline.com, which has somewhere around 50-100 users.

It was upwards of 50-80g of disk space, and it used a pretty good chunk of bandwidth. CPU/Memory requirements were not very high though.

I’d gladly donate a few TB, but Not about to fill my entire array for books i’ll never read…

Nope.

Still just feel like a kid, with extra responsibilities, while raising my own kids. Guess sometime around 50 or so i’ll start feeling like an “adult”

Although, at least I call myself a dumbass, after doing something stupid, or wasting money on crap.

This platform* is getting overrun by trolls and tankies. I’m going back to Reddit

It could end up being a shart.

Don’t make the same mistake reddit did, by assuming active users = engagement.

Look at reddit’s stats, active users didn’t drop very drastically when everyone left. However, engagement/comments dropped drastically.

For me, that would have been over 15 years ago. Even my NAS from 2014 was pushing 16T or so.

Hope all is well. Also- How are you?

One thing your generation does not understand

I’m under 40.

I was in school when 9/11 happened.

I was a grunt in the military during the iraq war.

I was around when the market collapsed in 2008-ish.

I lived on a diet of Ramen noodles and crackers for years, in the early 20-teens.

My “college degree” is actually worth less then nothing now. I paid one hundred thousand dollars, to a fucking school, which was not accredited, and no longer exists. There were no bailouts for me. And, every so often, I get reminded of it, when I see another lawsuit ad against them on the news…

is the sheer crushing depression that everyone I know has been dealing with

For literally a decade, I also fought through those issues. Doctors will just give you lovely trazodones, and other drugs, to “make you happy”. The worst part, is they make sure you know, it’s YOUR fault.

I lived through the fun of trying to decide if I wanted to pay the bills, or get something to eat.

I recall, all of the wonderful… insomnia which results from depression.

And, best of yet, the feeling of having all sorts of fun bills arrive.

It never really ends either. It just gets funner… and the risks get higher, especially when you have kids involved.

That being said- I might be doing OK now, but, life has not been rainbows and daisy’s for me. Thanks… to a short stay in the armed forces, I am quite certain my emotions are beyond repair, and well. I can’t hear worth a damn.

But, I did learn a few useful things in the military.

1. Adapt, and overcome.
2. Drive on.

Edit, matter of fact, I still have issues with depression. Knock on wood though, my kids are fantastic at making me forget about it. But, life still has its ups and downs. Although, I generally do a pretty good job of hiding it. Although, it still takes a significant effort to want to “do things”

Yup.

Suppose I am the youngest boomer ever.

Nearly a half of a century off too.

But, in either case, everyone has the opportunity to apply themselves, and seek out a better life. Can blame others, or bash on me for being a “boomer”. But, in the end, the only one who can improve you, is you.

If, universal basic income became a thing, poor people are still going to be poor. The price of milk is just going to go up to compensate for inflation, and you wouldn’t be much better off.

No. it’s not that bad.

I grew up poor, without many opportunities. No free ride, college etc. I grew up in a small town, without much going on.

I was able to work hard, put myself through college, buy a house, and raise a family on my single income, and live comfortably. I have medical coverage, we have new-ish vehicles.

That being said, the opportunity is there. But, it is NOT given to you. You do have to work for it.

But, again, nothing has been “given” to me. I didn’t have the advantage of having rich parents, or large inheritances (or- well, ANY inheritances). I didn’t have a family member give me a 4,000sq-ft house they purchased in 1952, for 1,200$.

Every single thing I own, I have worked for.

Now, there are a few sides to this argument-

There are a lot of people who don’t want to work. They see someone who is doing financially well, and believe they have some claim to someone else’s fortune. I do not agree with this.

On the other side, we don’t have universal healthcare. This is a touchy subject.

I do believe we need it, but, HOW we get that, is a different story.

Our government has proven time and time again, if you give them a simple task, they will fuck it up, royally, and hemorrhage money. Our medical system as a whole, is completely fucked. It’s not the doctors getting rich. Its the damn insurance companies, and all of the bureaucracy and bullshit involved. Granted, doctors aren’t living on sticks. But, do remember- they literally spent OVER two decades of their life in school, to learn how to be a doctor. Its expected they should have a salary greater then someone who works at your local fast food place.

I realize, lots of people will disagree with my post. And- for that, I don’t give a shit. If you don’t want to be poor, then take control over your life. Identify an in-demand profession, which has good compensation, and work for it. Quit blaming everyone else due to you working at McDonalds because your liberal arts degree, isn’t marketable.

Also- OP- lots of the people you talk to on social media, are statistically younger, in the 20s, and still trying to figure out how to live life.

Edit- Also, one more thing. Drama sells news. News outlets are only going to show news, which people want to watch. People don’t tune into the news to watch good things happening. They want to see the bad. As such, news and social media can give inaccurate vision of how things actually are. (Unless you live in Chicago or NYC. Then- it’s actually even worse than the news shows)

I built a homemade one. 2.4kwh of capacity.

Should be good for a few decades easily.

Wouldn’t call it cheap. But, it will be around for 15 or 20 years.

https://xtremeownage.com/2021/06/12/portable-2-4kwh-power-supply-ups/

Its only a problem when you get the electric bill! (Or the wife finds your ebay receipts)

I use twitter. So, let me piss on mastadon. I use reddit. So, let me piss on lemmy. /s.

Seriously, stop pissing on alternatives just because they don’t work for you. More choice, is generally a good thing (with the exception of streaming services…)

Well, if ya need help getting one stood up, LMK.

I have kubernetes manifests which can be used, or, the normal github repo for lemmy has docker-compose and ansible playbooks.