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Truthfully I have never used RSS, beyond having to support it in a piece of software. I've never really understood the appeal and I've never been able to make it fit into my life.

Maybe I'm missing the point, I never read news or other such things, so perhaps there's just no use case for me.

> Just once, for one device

The Mini 2 was ruined by iOS 11. I was lucky that I was able to immediately downgrade back to iOS 10.

Somehow people are still trying to convince themselves Musk is a good, virtuous guy. It probably has a lot to do with them not being able to admit they were wrong, or that they bought his PR bullshit.

The reality is he's an awful person who in this case is the proverbial dog that caught the car.

Heating would have no real impact, ICE cars are heated using the heat their engines naturally produce.

Winter tyres though and winter fuel mixes? Those definitely have an effect.

HTMX is awesome. In a world of front end frameworks I don't understand and frankly don't care to understand, it lets me write nice, interactive websites in a very simple way.

I've normally extremely skeptical of anything like this, but HTMX just feels right when using it.

Exactly what mine was designed for. It keeps my contacts, appointments, and todos in check.

I have major, major issues with distractibility, so having a device that only makes sound when something actually important needs to happen is helpful. I find even with notifications reduced on my phone about half the time when it makes a noise it's not actually important. As such I turn off my phone for the majority of the day.

Additionally, once I clear a notification on the Palm it's not like I can then fall into web browsing on it.

Whether one believes it's a thing or not, I've been diagnosed with severe inattentive ADHD and I find simple, limited use devices really do help me stay on track.

How to be less distracting is certainly one of those things. Modern computers are constantly begging for one's attention. It's one of the things I really resent about a lot of modern platforms, leave me alone.

> You can sync Newtons and Palm Pilots with modern desktops

Yep and I am seriously thankful JPilot exists, even though it's one of the most homely programs I've ever used. Keeps my Palm Pilot and laptop in sync with each other with absolutely no issues. Without it I'm not actually sure what I'd do.

The old Mac community is excellent, maybe even one of the better retro hardware communities. It's filled with people who are very smart and making cool things.

There's definitely a higher barrier to entry with old macs compared to old PCs, but the community has done a good job lowering those barriers over time via devices like the FloppyEMU.

I should have restored an SE/30 like you, but instead I fixed up this[1] Mac, it really is the ship of theseus in computer form.

[1] http://muezza.ca/computers.html#classic2

Right now I've got a Plus I'm working on fixing up. Compact Macs are addictive, you've been warned ;)

I was diagnosed with it, but have found it almost impossible to get treatment for it in my province so it's still a huge daily struggle that never really lets up.

It's really, really frustrating knowing help exists but I can't get it, be it therapy or medication. It actually makes me angry, I read stories of people whose lives have gotten so much better, but around every corner all I find are brick walls.

> stayed and made where you're from better.

In my experience this is a recipe for burnout, depression, social ostracization, and the like. Some places are not fixable, many are actively hostile to the idea of change.

A lot of these places were abandoned for a reason, not just because people felt like it one day.

I fall into this group in Canada and I wish I didn't at this point.

> To be honest, I already got to the “why bother” state by seeing on the internet how many human artists are so much better than me.

Same here, it's extremely hard to find motivation when I know every idea I have has been done better by someone who isn't me, or recently by a computer. In either case I can't meaningfully compete and if it's been done better, why do it at all?

This applies to art, but even more broadly than that. I get no satisfaction in creating something when I can see people who have done it far better than me via a quick search.

This dude happened https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinarySausage

People do this when they have nothing to say, but find a post uncomfortable and want to try to either weaken the post, or discredit its author.

Assisted suicide (death in friendlier terms) like we have in Canada is only going to become more permissive and other pleases will continue to adopt such laws.

In the future when people have real options this is less likely to be an issue.

> What they're saying is that it happens. Constantly.

And I’m personally not okay with that when it comes to the work I do.

It was a personally very eye opening experience to drive around with a guy who built homes. He'd point out every house he worked on, even ones 30 years ago and you could tell he was really, truly proud of his work and showing it off.

I realised if someone asked to see my past work it simply doesn't exist in any meaningful capacity. I take pride in my work, but it doesn't exist long term like his does. I want that same kind of satisfaction he had, but there's no way for me to get it. His work lasts a lifetime and makes the lives of people better, mine lasts a few years at best and often doesn't.

Nah, this is a huge deal for some of us. Many of us put in years of work for something to be thrown away without a second thought, all of our time and effort for nothing.

I am someone who wants to build long lasting, useful systems. When my last employer was acquired and killed it really, really upset me to see all my hard work and my coworkers hard work destroyed.

I’d go so far as to say it seriously affected my view of the industry in a negative way and permanently hurt my career satisfaction.

I've done this before within the country and ultimately just found it extremely stressful. I could never get comfortable in the AirBNB, I constantly felt like I'd just shown up and invaded someone's apartment.

I absolutely hate traveling, I just want to live somewhere and for it to become home.

You're probably right about the cutting off legs part, though I've simply lost sight of an exit from my current situation. I own a house, I have responsibilities, and I'm burnt out from work. I actually had a plan in place to move before I burnt out, but that fucked up everything.

I could honestly see it happening. Something like VRchat is never going to replicate IRL socialization, but it's close enough that it could fill a huge gap for a lot of people.

VR socialization might not be great, but like the BigMac is to food it might be just good enough for many.

I'm in a similar situation in a very rural area, except probably worse to some degree. I do have a couple of family members local, but there's no bars, zero dating potential, no hobby groups, and no events for people my age whatsoever.

I've seriously considered moving to a city, but then I'll have to lose the tiny bit of social interaction I actually do have, my family. In some ways I want to believe I could build a better social life in a city and be happier since there's more opportunity on all fronts, but I don't actually believe that would be the case.

I've never even met my coworkers, my social life is non-existent. It's actually crazy to think it's even possible to end up in a situation like I have.

The loneliness has seriously messed with me mentally at this point and I really can't see things getting better anywhere I am. I'm not sure I could muster the will to move at this point anyway. I think I may be too far gone.

I don't have a fix for you, but I completely get where you're coming from.

Yes, that's exactly what it is. We live in a society where happiness is just an amazon box away. It doesn't last long, but with overnight shipping people don't need it to.

Almost every ad you see is trying to tell people how much better their life will be with a product and how much happier they'll be.

That's is extremely unpopular with the general public, much less here on HN.

Ask people to reduce their consumption and they have a tendency to lash out.

Probably not, because video game addicts will not admit they have an issue, much less one that wastes valuable time.

I mean when disaster happens weapons are always a top of list item even above food since they are a means to sourcing it (and not just in a killing animals kind of way).

I would not be leaving my property, I live hours from the nearest city, and 30 minutes from “town”. There would be little benefit for me in attempting to travel. I would still like access to information if possible, buts it’s definitely not at the top of the list.

Doing CW QRP at 1 watt in the right conditions will cover a huge distance, especially if the power has gone out. It really doesn’t take much when you get down to the absolute minimum viable setup.

> Critical facilities like cellular base stations and data-centers often have an on-site backup generator. These generators have enough fuel to extend the resiliency beyond 24 to 48 hours.

During the 2019 hurricane here in Nova Scotia people stole the fuel (and even a few generators somehow), so don’t even count on that.

We had no internet, cellular, or landline service for days where I live as a result, much less power. The only reliable communication option in a true disaster is as it always has been, amateur radio.

> Now try doing that job for 20 to 30 years, your entire body will be totally broken and riddled with arthritis.

I see this a lot on HN, but never forget that sitting for eight hours a day has long term negative health consequences too, some that are very very serious.

A new one I started is gopher://gophernews.net:70, but the best place to find stuff is on Floodgap: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

Lynx is probably the best that most people already have, but Gophie is a nice, modern client written in Java.

I think Gemini is nice, but I have no interest personally due to the TLS requirement. That makes it a nonstarter for my older computers.

Gopher, not many of us use it anymore, but a handful of people including myself are keeping it alive and writing new services that can be accessed via it. It’s a nice group of technical, slightly eccentric computer users.

The vintage Mac community is excellent and is full of extremely smart people. Lots of people writing new software, designing new hardware, and doing really complex repair and preservation work.

> Computers are telling me what to do, but I can’t tell them what to do.

This absolutely infuriates me, I feel like I have zero control over my computer these days and it has gotten far, far worse in only the last few years.

The computer does things I didn’t ask it to do, things I don’t want it to do, and it refuses to listen when I say otherwise.

It legitimately angers me when something unexpected and unpredictable happens because someone else somewhere decided it needed to “for my own good”, and I don’t have the power to stop it.

I have strongly “rebelled” against this on my personal computers and it has heavily influenced the operating systems and software on top of them I am willing to use.