Lumberjacked

joined 10 months ago
[–] Lumberjacked@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

I make specialty vehicle electronics. My immediate thought was very small and cheap sensors. Similar to tire pressure monitoring but wired with CAN or something similar.

[–] Lumberjacked@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Washing dishes is the first thing that comes to mind. Foot rubs is another. I’m sure ill think of others

[–] Lumberjacked@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There are other things of I can do with my own hands but is somehow better when done by my spouse.

[–] Lumberjacked@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hugo and bear blog are not Federated though right?

[–] Lumberjacked@lemm.ee 9 points 3 days ago

As soon as you think you know all the fediverse services out there...

[–] Lumberjacked@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. I've done WP before just wanted to try something new. Sounds like your setup isn't too bad though.

 

I have a personal website that is just a landing page made with Carrd. I’ve been interacting on the Fediverse (Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, BlueSky so far). I would like to consolidate my public Fediverse persona, write a little bit longer form blogging, and be able to have a central spot for my pictures and posts.

I’m looking at using write.as or micro.blog on a subdomain of my personal website. What are people’s experience with these two platforms and are there other good ones?

Has anyone found a good workflow for consolidating personas? I know you can use mastodon logins on Pixelfed. Is there a scenario where I just have one server login and tie everything to that?

Someday I’ll try self hosting but for now, I’ll pay for decent services.

[–] Lumberjacked@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well I’m at least 20 years from retirement. so I’ve got time. I’m looking into several options including coop and ESOP. First 5 years of business was living off savings and raiding retirement funds instead of getting investors. At present I’m aiming for selfish goals of repaying myself and saving for my kids.

[–] Lumberjacked@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There are tech companies who don’t want to sell. I started my tech company 9 years ago and we did almost $5M last year. My plan is to do this for next 20 years and then sell to my employees. Sure there’s a number big enough that I’d sell my company but so far any acquisition offers have been met with snark and disrespect (from me) and died pretty quick. I talk to other tech owners in similar boats. We just don’t need to tell everyone because we aren’t trying to get acquired. One vocal exception is 37 Signals.

[–] Lumberjacked@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

For me it sunk in that we really need both. Insurance against the inability to work due to just getting old and retirement to allow for enjoyment and experience a life beyond the grind.

Seems reasonable.

[–] Lumberjacked@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago

That’s cool.

 

It’s a subtle difference but I always heard it presented like it was a federal retirement account but is actually insurance for getting old.

Wikipedia: Social Security (USA)

[–] Lumberjacked@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

I agree. AI could be good for first line of defense specifically for sorting our traumatizing gore and the like.

For normal moderation I think it’s only useful in the same way as spell check. Second set or eyes but human makes the final call.

 

I use Bluesky and Mastodon. Mastodon better hits where I want the fediverse to go but Bluesky is so much easier to use. Signup, UI, flagship app, feeds, and content is just so much less of a headache. But it feels like it's a matter of time before it's enshittified.

I was thinking about how much I hate big tech but there's a lot of small and mid-size companies that I have neutral to positive views on. Canonical, Mozilla, 37 Signals, Odoo are the ones that come to mind. All of those have a revenue model but also actively support open source initiatives and developers. None are perfect but better than "big tech" and get more done than just donation based development.

It feels like there needs to be some for-profit companies (without ads and maintaining privacy) that can help support the development around ActivityPub and maintain apps and servers that are easier to onboard and easier to use. Does this exist?

What could be some non-evil revenue models? I pay $20/month for a blogging platform for my business website. Maybe have a service to host AP servers for businesses or journalists? Personal private encrypted cloud services like photo backups that are integrated with AP?

 

Does anyone know of any instances on Lemmy or Mastadon that focus only on positive news?

I’m trying to reduce social media usage in general but when I do use it I would prefer to be able to explore uplifting things only.

I know I can block negative stuff but I also like going an exploring communities I’m not interested in subscribing. It would be great to have a local feed that’s better for mental health.

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