I set up a mumble server on my cloud computer, it isnt bad!
hardest part is going to be convincing people to switch over. it was so difficult to migrate people from Xbox and ps parties to discord, but it is what it is lol
this is the best time for me to share my journey of adopting a similar dog. if you get to the end of my comment and it inspires you to help (this dog or any animal) in any way you can, thank you.
I adopted a senior shih tzu that was extremely aggressive and blind from cataracts. the person holding my future dog was at a pet store about to consult to see what the pet store can do about finding her a new home. my mom was passing by and commented how cute the dog was, and the woman asked if she wanted her.
apparently, she was bouncing around home after home because of her aggression, the second to last family abandoned her with church people that didn't have the resources to help her after two months.
when I got her, she was covered in knots everywhere because local groomers could not handle her aggression and would quit midway. hell, there were 2 moments I was ready to give her up... I was tired of the constant biting and blood she was drawing from me. however, I am so glad I persevered.
if you are reading this and have the capacity to not give up when working with an aggressive dog, please do.
I will not lie, the road to where she is now was very hard and difficult. she was always biting me, cutting my skin and making me bleed, anger management issues like crazy at first. she is still aggressive and doesnt like to be touched at all, but it is absolutely nowhere around where she was before I gave her stability and I was able to get her eye surgery to fix her vision. now that she sees, she is so much more confident and actually allows me to pet her sometimes
here she is a couple of days ago wagging her tail like crazy!
im doing too much so im beginning to feel burnt out:
my job is getting more and more difficult and its starting to mess up my efficiency and personal metrics, im trying to begin a business so going through those motions is a hassle (duh lol), im involved in my local community with an extremely important and critical role (but thankfully my role only lasts for a year and I have about two weeks left before I am finished 🙂). all while attepting to have a personal life while keeping my family close...
add in trying to shove in some quality time for myself, doing the thing I love to do unwinding video games lol (addicted to arc raiders and getting back into tekken 8)
thankfully, I am going away on vacation this friday for awhile with my girlfriend for my first vacation in over a year and a half. hoping the good vibes will get me back on track 🙏
this may be a steam deck situation where they have different tiers and the lowest tier has the least amount of storage and ram, I can definitely see that happening
I feel like this is why I dropped playing many rogue-likes and am currently addicted to playing arc raiders, as you lose so many things if you die and have to self-evaluate every single time you don't get home.
I have to get home and survive in order to actually grow my character positively, where dying punishes me for losing (almost) everything and gaining very little experience points to allocate to my characters permanent buffs.
the world is accelerating to destroying the middle and lower class at an absolutely absurd rate, incredible to reflect on where we were a year ago and now
this happens to me all the time because of gestures. I use sync for lemmy but have to look into another one that feels similar to this one since it's been abandoned, just havent had the time to research a good alternative
thanks, and this is great news! I see the other thread you have with the other commenter.
I'm rooting for you both and hope you keep this thread updated! 🙂