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MuttMutt

@ MuttMutt @lemmy.world

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  • How far back can you remember to your childhood?

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  • My first memory is being in a car seat driving around bawling my head off because I didn't know anyone around me. I was probably 14 to 18 months old.

    I know how it was my birth father but he was never around, he still likes to complain about it as well but doesn't know that I remember and that I still can feel the fear I felt.

  • Why is privacy important? Be specific.

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  • What motivated you to leave the family home when you did?

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  • I left to go to college. Came back when my mother's life fell apart and she begged for help, so I tried to be the good son. About 6 months after going back I left again because I couldn't do anything right (as usual), my mother had allowed two different people to drive my vehicles and both times they were wrecked, and she got physical with my girlfriend and I when I put my foot down over anyone else driving a vehicle we were attempting to lease. Ended up having a restraining order against her for my girlfriend that my mother violated a couple times early on.

    After a couple years ended up being stuck living with my mother again. Had a child born 3 months premature who passed at 9 days old. He had an intestinal blowout and never stopped bleeding after surgery. His blood gasses were toxic so my wife and I took him off the ventilator. My mother told me I was stupid and should have waited. I was dealing with major depression at the time and my mother unbeknownst to me stopped paying her bills so we ended up homeless together. During this time my mother finally told me the truth about never wanting me her words were "I had my whole life planed out" she went on to talk about her training to become a traveling stripper then said "and then I had you." The way she said it was full of contempt, she was drunk but let's be honest that's generally when the truth really comes out.

    Ended up getting away and half way across the country and stayed away from all family members. My mother still tried playing games by contacting the local sheriff's repeatedly for "wellness checks." The checks finally stopped at one point but probably because I made sure to make the idea I was living in New York City get to her.

    I look back and see a ton of things that she did to me now. When I was around 9 she stored a leaking 5 gallon bucket of paint thinner in my bedroom closet even though there was a basement and detached garage that would have been a better place. I still have no idea what problems that caused.

  • What is something about how people view or use technology that needs to die?

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  • That every generation of device is going to be the next greatest thing and they should all have huge leaps like in the early 2000's.

    I doubt people switching from the rotary phones to touch tone phones were complaining a year later about not having something better from the phones.

  • Have you ever hitchhiked before?

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  • Never hitchhiked myself. Picked up a few over the years.

    Last one was a guy from Germany who was walking from a wildlife refuge campground in to town to go to a museum. It was 21 miles to get there so the museum would have likely been closed by the time he got there. It was also forecast to be in the upper 90's and quite a way before any services would have been available. He may have made it but I doubt he would been feeling too good with the amount of water he had.

  • Google's Pixel 10a arrives on March 5 for $499 with specs and design of yesteryear

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  • Google fi is running it for preorder at 249 for 128gb and 349 for 256gb.

    But I agree unless there are some major upgrades the yearly releases in most of the phones are no longer needed. Until we have holographic screens or direct to brain support or something else that is ground breaking I doubt there are going to be much more than incremental changes.

  • What unusual/uncommon item(s) do you always keep around for a perfectly logical reasons?

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  • Paracord. I use it in the house as well as with my SCUBA diving gear. If you need to tie something it's tough stuff, fairly cheap, and can be doubled up to deal with heavier loads. With SCUBA gear you can use it to create tethers for just about anything and if you have one of the camera floats that comes with a cheap little keeper strap save yourself some heartache and replace it with paracord.

    An assortment of screws, bolts, nuts, and washers. Always worth having around. Some little thing breaks or you can't find one you dropped maybe the new thing you are putting together was missing one. Bonus tip, buy them at a place that sells by the pound and not the individual item. Atwoods is a place in the US that still does this that I know of but I'm sure there are a few others. Estate sales will also often have a person who will have jars of random stuff for cheap.

  • Can you touch type?

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  • Yes. Qwerty. I can also touch type on my tablet using the onscreen keyboard which is helpful when taking notes while learning Spanish.

    Oddly enough I've had a couple people who like to listen to me typing.

    When I took a speed and accuracy test about 25 years ago I was around 35wpm and 95% I'm a lot faster now.

  • What do y’all think about Cloudflare?

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  • I use it for a couple websites. I'm a geek and can make things work software wise but I'm absolutely not a programmer, I just don't really grasp a lot of it. Give me some hardware and I can build whatever but I digress. Cloudflare has prevented a bunch of attacks on my sites and the caching function is helping stave off switching to a VPS for now.

    It can be a PITA if you don't have native IPv6 and use Hurricane Electric's IPv6 tunnel broker. A lot of sites that are hooked into cloudflare and some other similar services pop up captcha's every visit or just pain don't function correctly. I'm going to switch to Route64 as an alternative to HE, they only provide a /56 vs a /48 but it's not like I'm going to need that many /64's at this point.

  • Community feedback request regarding Rule 6: "No Politics"

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  • I'll put it this way. I would prefer zero politics. If you allow them I'm gone.

    People who want to talk politics can easily create their own place to do so and nothing is preventing them from joining other places that are political discussion havens.

  • US electrical q:my 240v reads only 190v

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  • If you are showing that low there is something wrong. 240v is the nominal rating but it should be within about 7% of that and you are closer to 20% off.

  • What would you want done with your remains upon death?

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  • About 1/3 will be combined with my wife and her dog who have already passed. Another 1/3 will be combined with my fiancé. These will be scattered in a few different places that are special to us.

    The final 1/3 is to be combined with concrete and made into ice cube sized pieces to be taken to different reefs around the world by whomever will take them.

    I currently carry a tiny portion of my wife and her dog with me everywhere.

  • In your opinion, what is the best brand of cell phones in terms of quality and price today?

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  • I switched from a Motorola Droid (still miss the slide out keyboard) to the LG G3, V10, V20 (loved the knock code unlock) to a Pixel 3a XL and now a Samsung S21 with my next upgrade to the S26 Ultra.

    For me the S26 series checks a lot of boxes, one of the biggest being 7 years of updates while preserving online banking. My S21 still has a lot of life left in it performance wise and bad actors targeting devices is big business. Flagship devices IMHO are at the point where they will be viable for 7 years so upgrading is no longer a game of chasing the latest version. It also helps that my carrier will have the S26 Ultra for around 700 or less cash (the current price for the S25 Ultra is 699 and they often give a 100 dollar discount for preorders) so I'm going to pay about 100 per year or about 27 cents per day for the device over it's lifetime.

    I'm also an amateur photographer/underwater videographer (trying to make a living at it and start funding a non-profit using the income steam) so being able to record high quality B-Roll and get good pictures in the same package is a huge bonus.

    I had been leery of using the amoled screens for a long time and after using the S21 and Tab S8+ for a while now I no longer have that concern and my only issue with the S21 was with physical SIM cards not working right if the phone was compressed. With E-SIM's that is really no longer an issue for me.

    I stick with android because I use linux on my desktop and server. I also have apps that are not available on the walled garden and I choose to use things that not only the garden doesn't allow but neither does Google. I'm also confident I can transfer my 4k video files from my microSD card to my portable HDD with android. Because I have to live out of cases for extended periods while also carrying a ton of equipment I have to maximize portability.

    My use case is very unique, so ymmv.

  • What online sidehustles can i do as someones who stuck at home alot?

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  • Yes there are things you'll can do from home. Many of the news outlets have staff writer positions you can get. Basically you get information from multiple sources on a subject and write something about it.

    You could write a book. You could sell stuff you have sitting around and eventually buy Amazon return pallets locally (many areas have Facebook marketplace pages so just for this.) You could live stream gaming and see if you build an audience and get some Patreon subscribers. You could do freelance graphic art stuff. You could learn to knit, crochet, or sew and sell stuff you make. You could make yard ornaments or decor, custom footpath pavers, or fountains. You could build dog houses. You could offer to watch security cameras for the neighborhood for a small fee. You could get miniatures and start setting up little scenes that you photograph and offer for sale on Etsy. You could design shirts and offer them for sale online through Etsy.

    Having autism doesn't mean you can't do anything but sit around. You may need a little help finding a niche or develop some skills but IMHO there are very few cases where a person can't do anything at all to make a little bit of money.

  • I had emergency surgery and as a result it looks like I will be zonked out on oxys for the next week. Never had these, what are some good movies to watch in this condition?

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  • Lord of the rings series and the hobbit The matrix series The DaVinci Code Series The Librarian Series The Associate Children of the Corn (1983) side note: I drove the road they were on to school every day it's only a couple miles long and the house the kids were playing in is a bed and breakfast now. Downsizing Escape from Pretoria The Dirty Dozen Black Book Book of Eli Cast Away Dances with Wolves The Fugitive and US Marshals Heartbreak Ridge Jumpin Jack Flash Labyrinth of Lies Mr Baseball Medicine Man The Pursuit of Happiness Pleasantville Quigley Down Under Red Sparrow Runaway - 1984 Saturday Night Fever The Shawshank Redemption The Silence of the Lambs series Striking Distance Tank - 1984 Timeline The Tremmors series U 571 V.I. Warshawski View from the Top Wargames - 1983 Welcome to Marwen The Witches - 2020 Woman of the Hour Zathura -- And when you feel up to laughing a little -- Breakup Man (also known as Schlusmacher) Blast from the Past 9 to 5 Every which way but loose and Any which way you can The Frighteners Moscow on the Hudson Loverboy Overboard and the remake Overboard The Secret of my Success Can't Buy Me Love Office Space Real Genius Sex Drive Spaceballs Spies Like Us Summer School - 1987 Wildcats - 1986

    And don't discount some TV series either. OZ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118421 Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis Bates Motel Black Sails Dexter Dollhouse (Watch Epitaph 1 and 2 after the rest of the series or you will be lost) Eureka Frasier Firefly (and the movie Serenity) Halt and Catch Fire Last Man Standing MASH Warehouse 13

    If you get done with all that you will probably be healed up but if not I can add more

  • How you prepare for collapse?

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  • Plans are already in place. I'm gonna kick back, watch Blast from the Past, and kiss my ass goodbye while I get good and drunk/messed up. It's the same thing I do during storm season. I've started from literal nothing too many times. I refuse to do it again.

  • How you prepare for collapse?

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  • Only people at ground zero get that. Everyone else gets radiation poisoning and nuclear winter/starvation unless they built a place that can survive for multiple years.

  • Best way to trigger automation with my return home?

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  • I do something similar with node red and some lights. It's all based off of person.xxxxxxx locations.

    If I was going to try and do something based on if a vehicle was used then I would probably attach Bluetooth trackers to the car and bike and use those for particular automations. There will be a little bit of a delay while the system before the door opens or closes until they connect up and it will require a Bluetooth AP connected to HomeAssistant but it gives finer grained control. But you would need to do checks that both your phone and something else entered the area to prevent the door from also unlocking.

    Or you could use use you phone as a Bluetooth beacon/tracker and set something based on its last seen location before leaving.

    Setting up with each device tracked also gives you the opportunity to give warnings if they leave without your phone as well as to use crowd tracking if they do.

  • Is there an app for recording/streaming police activity currently available?

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  • If you just want to listen check out Broadcastify.

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    Rascal loved the snow.

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    Sea Turtle just hanging with its remora's

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    Nurse Shark Saying Hello

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Steam deck 32GB mod available, breaks UEFI update.

    www.tweaktown.com /news/106920/steam-deck-oled-gets-modded-to-have-32gb-ram-but-this-really-isnt-for-the-faint-hearted/index.html
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Another linux skills game to help learn commands.

    www.howtogeek.com /i-played-this-free-linux-skills-game-and-learned-new-commands/
  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Learn Linux Fast by Playing These Fun and Interactive Games - Make Tech Easier

    www.maketecheasier.com /learn-linux-by-playing-games/
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    NEW OPEN POSITIONS @ THE OPEN HOME FOUNDATION