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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • Same. I also cannot fathom the number of people who say “I’m not looking forward to retirement, I don’t know what I would do with myself”.

    In this day and age, there are unlimited options to read, watch, listen to, interact with, play and learn. And this isn’t even limited to consuming digital content. Learn to sculpt, or take apart a computer, or make a movie on your phone, or write a story, or learn a language, or learn a new physical skill (juggling?).

    The amount of time and energy (and money, although many options are free) are the barriers, not the options available… and yet I sit here and play Balatro and Enter the Gungeon for the millionth time (#noragrets).






  • I’ve just finished setting up exactpy what you describe (Synology NAS and Debian mini PC server) and it is working so well. Why do you need a more powerful NAS? If you use it for just storage you won’t really be falling short of NAS compute power.

    I considered adding the drives directly to the mini PC as well, but I’m happy I’ve kept the Synology for the best of both worlds. Synology makes it so much easier to share the storage, set up reverse proxy, provide constant 2 way sync with my online cloud WebDAV service, etc.










  • I don’t understand how social media is seen as the only source of enriching content. I have loads of stuff to talk to people about without social media.

    The only social media I’m on is Lemmy.

    • follow news via RSS. Use an app that let’s you blacklist content you don’t want to see.
    • follow interests via RSS (gaming news, tech news, movie news, biking news… Whatever you like)
    • listen to podcasts
    • watch movies and TV shows
    • read books
    • follow sports
    • pick a hobby or skill of interest
    • talk to people about their interests

    There are tons of ways to keep up with things. Social media isnt the only option… Unless you particularly want follow social media trash specifically. If that’s the case, then you’re welcome to join any social media you want. You won’t die. Use fake details, burner emails, burner phone sims if you want. The world won’t end if one person goes back to contributing to data mining and consuming algorithm trash. You’ve got to live in your social circle and that’s more important than what a bunch of people on Lemmy think.


  • No

    I can’t see how people would find out unless your son tells them.

    If you’re wondering if ANYONE out there would find this weird, then the answer is yes. There are lots of people who have strange ideas and odd thoughts about what is inappropriate. So if you told lots of people, I’m sure someone would find it weird.

    But that doesnt actually make it weird or wrong. You were right to do what you did. Anyone who tried to judge you for it would be wrong.