Sorting by scaled helps a little bit, but some communities just post soooo much that they drown out everything else. In order to fix that you would need “multireddits”, which don’t exist on Lemmy.

For the time being, I recommend making two accounts and using one exclusively for subscribing to the really busy communities. The other one could be used for everything else. It’s also an opportunity to try out a different instance.

If you find that one feed is getting dominated by a single community again, you may need to create a third account to manage your subscriptions appropriately.

Walked to a bus stop, and the bus was just arriving. I took a few faster steps, and my timing was spot on! I went to a shopping mall, did my shopping, and made my way back to another bus stop. This time, the timing was even better. No fast walking was required. I just walked at my usual pace, and when I arrived at the stop, so did the bus.

It was so satisfying!

My pet vacuum is doing fine. He’s getting old, and his battery is getting weaker. Regardless, he tries very hard, and manage to do a great job every time cleaning the floor. I just need to remember to pick up any socks off the floor every day. It’s a choking hazard, you see.

Didn’t say anything about the massive troll population and what they’re mainly exporting to the rest of the world?

That might be interesting for a while.

Generally speaking, I don’t really look back very much. Going forward is more like my thing. I feel like looking back might be boring, depressing or otherwise useless. Maybe I’m just escaping my past, who knows.

Thanks for taking the time to write back. That was an interesting viewpoint.

I’ve met some immigrants who seem to fall between cultures and languages. They are not 50/50. More like 40% each culture and 20% something that doesn’t seem to fit anywhere. It’s a pretty rough identity to have. Some of them seem to embrace the concept of being a world citizen instead. Have you thought about it that way?

But you still speak Chinese and know Chinese culture, don’t you? That should give you a hybrid identity. You could travel between the two places and feel relatively comfortable in either one.

Artificial limitations.

Which color pencil should I use for drawing this picture? There are so many to choose from!
Pick 4 pencils, and close the box.

When buying a train ticket, I need to choose a seat. There are so many!
Narrow it down to just the prime numbered ones.

What should I eat at a restaurant?
Narrow it down to just the vegetarian meals. Now you have about 5 meals to choose from.

Which toilet paper brand should I pick?
Limit your options to the ones that don’t have pictures of animals on the package.

What if there was a federated platform for supporting the channels you like? Maybe something like Patreon? Or how about some sort of merch store for people who can sell the things they make?

Turns out, asklemmy just banned that account for being a bot.

The real tip is in the comments.

Posting this much isn’t normal. Looks very fishy to me.

Like a cab, but it’s your car and you take care of everything.

If you need a car only once a year when going to the airport, a cab will be cheaper. If you need to go somewhere at least once a week, driving your own car will be cheaper. Likewise, if you need only a little bit of cloud storage for your photos, free iCloud or Google Drive might be fine. If you need a whole lot of storage, self-hosting becomes cheaper.

When you take a cab, do you need to worry about maintenance, gasoline, insurance, or other things? No. The same goes for cloud storage. When you throw your photos on Google Drive, you don’t need to worry about electricity bills, security updates, or hardware maintenance.

When you drive your own car, you need to be a responsible driver and a car owner. Maintenance is your responsibility. Likewise, self-hosting means you need to be a responsible server admin.

On the downside, they probably ended up spending more money and receiving less in return. If they bought their junk from Amazon, they also contributed to upholding poor labor practices. Nobody wins in this situation except for the corpos.

That is just amazing. How the human mind works is so bizarre at times. Even when there’s a good deal, people just don’t take it? Wasn’t it enticing enough?

Either way, some companies exploit the same mechanics to sell trash for a high price. It’s so weird and pretty dark.

Others might call it straight-up lying, deception or even misleading. Calling it “Amazon sales policy” just makes it sound nicer.

If you’re really good at customer service (i.e. manipulation), you’ll say the price just went up 10% this morning, but you’ll get a discount of the same amount, because you’re such a great pal. Basically just the normal price, but it feels nicer.

I really like the idea of having my own server, where I could have a bunch of cool stuff like email, VPN, Nextcloud, and so much more. The primary reason why I don’t have a server like that, is because I can’t trust myself to follow the best practices. For a while now, I’ve been thinking that I should hire a proper professional to take care of all that.

Congrats on leveling up and unlocking a new perk! 🫡

Oh that’s pretty cool! The number and the system. Never really used github, branches or anything like that. My tiny software projects were never big enough to warrant heavy infrastructure like that, so I never looked into it.