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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I’ve been wondering the same for a long time. For example I almost never listen to music from when I was younger.

    Sure it could be trauma like some have suggested in this thread, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the case with me. For one thing I can’t say my childhood was traumatic, and besides I feel the same thing for any given time period in my life (I’m over 40 years old).

    I think it’s because:

    • It’s a strong feeling. Even if it’s a positive feeling, it can be difficult to deal with if it’s too intense.
    • It makes you realize how many other pathways your life could have taken. Every choice you’ve made since has limited the options you have for the future. What if you made the wrong choice? What have you missed? Could you have been happier in an alternate universe? You’re closer to death now than you were then. Time is running out.

    Mindfulness meditation has helped me deal with it. It helps me explore feelings, good or bad, with interest (but detachment) instead of being consumed by anxiety. It has helped me internalize that I can always begin again. I’m not tied down by previous choices. Every day is full of opportunities.







  • The Google Pixel 7P that I have now I bought because I dropped the 6P on the ground so bad that it wouldn’t even start. The 6P I got because it had significantly better camera and was faster than the OnePlus 6T I had before. I know you say 100mp doesn’t make a difference from 12mp but there’s really a huge difference in image quality with the Pixel compared to the 6T, especially in low-light conditions or when you zoom. And it’s not just me, people have been commenting at how good the pictures are without even knowing what phone I own.

    I also enjoy new features like the gestures to control apps. Overall, apps and the OS get slower because new features keep being added, and security updates stop coming, so I need to renew the hardware to keep up. I use the phone for hours a day every day, all year around, so I think it’s worth putting some money into it. But I don’t get a new one every year. Maybe 3 years, or possibly 2 years depending on what gets released.



  • I replaced one of the DLLs (winmm.dll?) with a DLL of my own. It got loaded before the login dialog and installed a hook that saved your login details to a file. This was Windows for Workgroups so no access controls for files.

    That way we managed to get the login info for a teacher that nobody liked, then we filled his home directory with porn. IIRC there was a quota of 5 MB and after that the admins got involved.







  • I mean it’s not any different from how email works. You decide on an email provider that you want to use, and then you can send messages to other people who use other email servers. It think it just seems difficult because it’s different, but it clicks once you get into the right mindset about it. If Lemmy becomes big then a few larger providers will probably surface and be the go-to for non-technical people (c.f. GMail, Yahoo Mail, etc).