Just coincidence, mostly because I followed love and first time because I am a late repatriate.
Are you lonly? If so, what are you doing about it?
Basically what the title says, two questions:
- Do you feel lonely or socially isolated?
- If you are, what are you trying to change that?
According to the WHO it's an epidemic,
I've been emigrating to different countries about every 15 years and had to rebuild a network of friends from scratch every time. The younger I was the easier it was obviously. But that is a lot of work and you need to invest time and energy which I sometimes don't have so much, especially now with a small child which needs a lot of attention.
We meet up as a family with other families about once a month and it's really great, but while my wife keeps in contact with the other mothers in between online, somehow we dads don't even have a group chat where we would do that and perhaps propose to meet up, it's always the women who propose it.
It's kind of weird that its like that and I should change it.
While the WHO doesn't call it outright an epidemic, it seems they think it's such a big problem that they created a specific commission to foster social connection: https://www.who.int/news/item/15-11-2023-who-launches-commission-to-foster-social-connection
It's not bad, at least not worse than many of the podcasts where people ran out of steam after some time but refuse to stop making new episodes.
One good thing is, no advertisement break.
Oh and if you're interested in hosting a PeerTube instance then you also might be interested in my channel PeerTube Admin Chronicles: https://tube.jeena.net/c/peertube_admin_chronicles/videos
I pay $5 / month for object storage for about 120 GB of video files (about 400 videos). And I pay another $5 for a small VPS to run the software.
I have been running it from home on a old NUC I had for years though too without problems until the NUC broke down.
Most of my videos are private though and have around 10 views from my friends and family.
If you have a public one with a lot of viewers it will get more expensive, but at the same time other instances will do redundancy and the p2p nature helps also to reduce costs.
Oh and you then could also do a cache on your server for the most viewed videos to reduce the egress cost from the object storage provider.
I had my videos on a block storage but the costs started to be too much, for the 120 GB I had to pay $13 / month or so.
Jebus Christ, it was a joke.
Just like a drone pilot!
Hey more jobs for taxi drivers and safer to do from the comfort of your home. Just like a drone pilot!
Who would have thought that Taxi drivers one day would be able to work from home?
Ich bin Generation Iks. Das Telefon war da nur schon so als wir in die Wohnung anfang der 90er eingezogen sind.
It all depends if the person responsible for the gonocede is considered a friend or not, simple as that.
That means there is now a comet out there seeding live everywhere in at least the solar system!
I like their UX, the button doesn't say "Share screen" but "Make Selection". On Element my dad every time has such a hard time to share the screen because even though he did it already a hundred times, he presses the share screen button and then waits, without choosing which window or screen to share.
No, lav mikes are too complicated to set up quickly when you walk around. I had the Zoom H5 recorder with the microphones on top like in this picture:
But I also had the wind screen on because the wind was very often blowing a lot and also people speaking sometimes make weird sounds into the microphone and it kind of functions like a pop-filter too to some degree. So it actually looked like this:
That makes it also obvious that you're recording someone so they can deny to talk to you or decide that they do want to be recorded.
Yeah, I was also surprised when I read about it on Wikipedia.
Approaching Shadow (1954) by Fan Ho
For me it was/is exactly the same. I've not been using reddit a lot anyway but once I heard about Lemmy I was very quick to move around the API disaster. I also don't know anyone from reddit so I didn't have a desire to convince anyone.
I spread the news around in my other networks and I think 2 people joined lemmy, but they would have joined without me advocating for it anyway probably.
I think it does not make it less funny, everyone believes it because it's so in character.
"Install anyway?" Question on every update
Is there a way to trust Fdroid to run the updates semi automatically? Every time there are updates to apps I need to answer twice for each app that I am sure that I want to update it. And sometimes the update fails and I have to do it over and over tp get the updates installed.
Coffee Tonic
Because I don't have a espresso machine I bought some cold brew in a bottle. I got some nice tonic water too and ice cubes, and now I can make a nice Coffee Tonic every morning to enjoy. Ok I agree that it's better during summer, but every now and then during winter I still want to have a refreshing glass of fruity coffee.
Lemmyverse removed a bunch of instances?
So I remember a couple of days ago when I went to https://lemmyverse.net/ it showed about 30k communities, now it only shows 9k. Does anyone know what happens?
I was trying to search for a coffee community and it didn't basically show anything, same for espresso while I know that there are communities about it.
Do some alternative community search engines exist which perhaps even find PieFed and Mbin communities?
3 years ago I had to lie for the Korean TV about my burned stake at a African restaurant in Seoul
We went to some African restaurant in Seoul to try it out for the first time. My steak was burned but I was still eating it. Suddenly a guy with a camera introduced himself that he is recording for...
We went to some African restaurant in Seoul to try it out. Suddenly a guy with a camera introduced himself that he is recording for some TV show about restaurants with foreign food in Seoul.
He asked if he could record me, but to praise the food and say how amazing it is. They like to show foreigners praising food on TV here.
Anyway my stake was burned so I had to lie about why this is a good thing and why it is so amazing.
5 years ago - In Israel/Palestine, Hebron
Today 5 years ago I was in Hebron, Palestine. I spent there a couple of days at a AirBnb. The story is quite fascinating and I recorded audio while talking to many local people there.
Many different things happened during my stay which you can hear about in the podcast episode. From the bus driver who drove me there from Jerusalem not wanting to let me go out because he feared for my safety then two 10 years old trying mug me while other teenagers escorting me to the military checkpoint. My confusion about the maps of palestine and Israel and explanations of it. I also visited a family who's house has been bulldozered by the #IDF several times and they kept rebuilding it. Their son just married the weekend before and on the way to the wedding the IDF stopped him and harassed him to give them money so they'd let him go to his wedding. Anyway there is much more in there than I can mention here.
So check it out https://jeena.net/pods/21
I also recorded a half an hour video back then walking around in the old city, you can watch it while you listen to the podcast: https://tube.jeena.net/w/3FhHLhdfxHpEJGdGPTA3uA
5 years ago - In Israel/Palestine, Hebron
Today 5 years ago I was in Hebron, Palestine. I spent there a couple of days at a AirBnb. The story is quite fascinating and I recorded audio while talking to many local people there.
Many different things happened during my stay which you can hear about in the podcast episode. From the bus driver who drove me there from Jerusalem not wanting to let me go out because he feared for my safety then two 10 years old trying mug me while other teenagers escorting me to the military checkpoint. My confusion about the maps of palestine and Israel and explanations of it. I also visited a family who's house has been bulldozered by the #IDF several times and they kept rebuilding it. Their son just married the weekend before and on the way to the wedding the IDF stopped him and harassed him to give them money so they'd let him go to his wedding. Anyway there is much more in there than I can mention here.
So check it out https://jeena.net/pods/21
I also recorded a half an hour video back then walking around in the old city, you can watch it while you listen to the podcast: https://tube.jeena.net/w/3FhHLhdfxHpEJGdGPTA3uA
Paying for the first date
So I'm from Europe and went on a business trip to South Korea. I haven't been dating much but installed a dating app thinking why the hell not. Anyway, I matched with one woman and we start talking and it gets deep quickly and after a couple of days she gets impatient that I didn't suggest to meet up so she suggests it. We meet up in a Korean sashimi restaurant and I talk most of the time - I guess because she is self conscious of her English - but she listens actively and it's really nice.
Once we're done we stand up, she gets her coat and I walk to the counter to pay (you don't pay at the table in Korea). Suddenly I realize she somehow already payed! I low key panic, it's the first date and I'm supposed to pay, what is going on? Korea, what are you doing, what is going on? I try to explain to her that this is not how it's supposed to be but she just brushes it off and we go out for coffee (which I pay, this is another custom in Korea that if one pays for the food, the other pays for the coffee afterwards) and for a long romantic walk by the river.
Anyway, this was four years ago and last months was our wedding and our son is 22 moth old and we and her daughter all live as a happy little family here in Korea.
Just around the corner at our house older Koreans are doing guerilla gardening.
RQuickShare - Rust implementation of NearbyShare/QuickShare from Android for Linux and macOS
I have always been struggling to move big files from my Android phone to my Linux laptop. KDE connect is kind of working but is kind of cumbersome to set up on gnome with the extension that every now and then is incompatible. It also often loses the connection and you need to set it up again and then you forgot how to even get the UI for it because it's not an app but a gnome extension, etc. very cumbersome.
But I just saw that every android phone already has QuickShare build in to the sharing button. And now I saw that there is a Linux implementation of it and it's super nice that it's just an app. It looks a bit awkward because it's not a gnome application but other than that it works really nice.
Johnny Somali banned from leaving South Korea as streamer faces over 10 years in jail
Streamer Johnny Somali has been barred from leaving South Korea and could be jailed for over 10 years if convicted of assault and drug use.
Sleep vs No sleep
Do you guys, who have a espresso machine at home, really want to drink a espresso late in the evening, or night for that matter?
How to make sure I don't miss posts from low volume communities?
I subscribe to really many communities to always have some new content to look at. I also have some communities which I'm particularly interested in which sadly are quite low volume like !korea@lemmy.funami.tech !vaeter@feddit.org and !piefed_meta@piefed.social The problem is now that I most of the time miss posts from those communities because they are such low volume.
In Mastodon I have the same problem, but there I was able to create a new column which I call Homies and it shows posts from a list of manually selected users from whom I don't want to miss any post.
I was thinking that something like that would be interesting to have, like we have the filters "Subscribed", "Local", "Popular", "All" I would imagine a "Favorites" one which would show only the posts from my favorite communities.
As a workaround for now I am letting PieFed to notify me of new posts in the four communities so I don't miss anything. How do you guys deal with this problem?
Tool for organizing and cutting off uninteresting parts
We record a lot of family videos, especially when we travel or when the children have some event, etc. Especially the travel videos are then everything my wife records on her iPhone, everything I record on my Samsung phone and the bulk of the videos are what I record with my Sony A7C. I then get everything into one directory but then all the files have different naming conventions, so it's a bit difficult to organize into a timeline. I think all of the files have their date/time baked in into the files so it theoretically should be at least possible to rename them to be able to sort them.
But then the real work starts, going through every single clip and trimming it and putting it in order into the timeline. So I wonder if there is some tool which can help with that.
Tool for organizing and cutting off uninteresting parts
We record a lot of family videos, especially when we travel or when the children have some event, etc. Especially the travel videos are then everything my wife records on her iPhone, everything I record on my Samsung phone and the bulk of the videos are what I record with my Sony A7C. I then get everything into one directory but then all the files have different naming conventions, so it's a bit difficult to organize into a timeline. I think all of the files have their date/time baked in into the files so it theoretically should be at least possible to rename them to be able to sort them.
But then the real work starts, going through every single clip and trimming it and putting it in order into the timeline. So I wonder if there is some tool which can help with that.
North Korea Claims Mobilisation of 1.4 Million Youth for “Holy War”
According to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the mobilisation was carried out over two days, on 14 and 15 October, with an overwhelming
It's getting weirder and weirder, should I start looking for flight tickets for my family?
북한이 13일 ‘국경선 부근(최전방) 8개 포병 여단’이라며 구체적인 부대 수까지 공개하며 ‘완전 사격 준비 태세’를 갖추겠다고 밝히자 합동참모본부가 예하 부대에 대북 감시경계 및 화력대기 태세 강화 지침을 하달했다
North Korea threatens simultaneous barrage of 5,700 long-range artillery shells, ‘raining shells on the Seoul metropolitan area’.
North Korea has threatened to rain down 5,700 shells on the Seoul metropolitan area using its long-range artillery. This escalation in threats follows North Korea's declaration of heightened readiness across eight frontline artillery brigades, which are deployed along the western and eastern sections of the demilitarized zone, targeting the South Korean capital. The North is estimated to possess around 570 long-range artillery pieces, including 240mm and 300mm rocket launchers, capable of reaching Seoul and surrounding regions.
This development has significantly raised tensions on the Korean Peninsula, with South Korean forces also strengthening their counter-artillery preparations. Additionally, North Korea is reportedly preparing to blow up key transportation routes connecting the two Koreas, further intensifying military and political standoffs.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, has made repeated public statements holding the United States responsible for escalating tensions and threatening that any perceived violations of North Korean sovereignty, particularly regarding drone incursions, would result in consequences for both South Korea and the U.S.
South Korean military officials have heightened their surveillance and are preparing for any potential provocations from the North, which could involve artillery strikes, missile launches, or other forms of military aggression.