Yep. I’ve said this before, but I don’t understand how a community that only provides links to external communities is supposed to help Lemmy grow, as opposed to taking people away 🤷🏻‍♂️

Get a fairly stiff brush, it feels really good, like scratching an itch that you couldn’t reach :)

It works in Voyager on Android if I tap the image, but it’s static in the thread.

I really enjoy reading, but I can’t picture a scene, or what characters look like. It can be a bit confusing at times, but doesn’t usually take away from the enjoyment.

As an example, my favourite sci fi author Randolph Lalonde (great independent author, buy his books 👍) had a scene in a recent book where some characters had a shootout in a warehouse that held several spaceships. The ships were all at least a few metres long, so the warehouse was huge. In my head, everything was centred on a small area around the characters, and I could sort of picture them being within a few feet of each other.

I couldn’t picture any details, it was as if he had written that ‘the man stood near the woman, and pointed the gun towards the crates’, even though the scene was well written with good descriptions. My brain couldn’t translate the description into a layout in my head.

I still really enjoyed the scene, but every now and then it was as if my brain realised that things should be further apart, or one character should be taller than another, for example.

USB floppy drives are pretty easy to buy online now. I bought one from either Amazon or Ali Express a little while ago, and it works perfectly :)

You can remember what you were thinking about earlier? 🤨🤥

I wish I’d thought to take a photo of a computer I cleaned in 2010. It had been sent to the recycler I worked for from a factory as it had stopped working, and I opened the case to see what sort of components it had.

It was a mid sized ATX tower case, and was literally filled with dust. I don’t mean that there was lots of dust, I mean I couldn’t see any of the internals. I took the side panel off, and it looked like someone had filled the case with foam.

The business next door sold cars, and had an air compressor, so me and the guy who ran it took it in turns blowing the dust out. I never found out what the specs were, as even the PSU was full, and I didn’t want to risk turning it on, even after cleaning it.

It’s a great series too. I’m overdue a catchup 🙂

Ken. I don’t get out much.

That might just be the best thing on the internet :D

‘There’s something out there waiting for us, and it ain’t no man’

This is what I’m like now. The memories are there, but I can’t deliberately recall them. My memory used to be amazing, and I’d be the one who could remember all the details of everything.

Now, I struggle to remember anything without context. I can’t remember most of what I did this week, but if someone said that we went to the supermarket on Monday, for example, then I’d recall lots of random details, but not necessarily anything important. It can be very frustrating.

How big is the pin?

‘Get out of the way, I’m trying to see that ship that crashed!’

Can you trick yourself into doing it the other way?

‘GUI building blocks let me see the shape of the finished code. Once I know the shape, I can work backwards to finer detail.’

‘Making music with the simplified tools lets me get the tune out so I don’t forget it, then I can replace parts with the proper instruments and tools.’

I’m still trying to get my head around coding, but I use the music trick to learn songs. I play them one note at a time on either bass or guitar to figure out the tune, then play them properly with chords or figure out the bass line once I know where the song’s going :)

Consciously processing the information that is coming at you while driving is just too much. Noticing everything.

Approaching intersection. Light is green. Four way intersection. Nobody turning left. Car in front of me holding speed. Black car. Behind me car holding speed red car. Pedestrians crossing in line with traffic on other side of street. No pedestrians this side. Light is still green. Car in front is still black. Car in front slowing slightly. Lane change behind me car is now green and matching my speed. Car turning right at intersection is silver and stopped to give me right of way.

Whew.

Ironically, this is the reason I love my motorbike. I can ride for hours in that state, and it feels amazing, like it’s feeding the hyperfocus, hyperactive part of my brain.

The second I stop though, I’m exhausted.

They don’t travel to clean up, they hire a cleaning company for a fraction of what they charged the guests. No-one’s travelling half way across the country every week to change the sheets and empty the bins.

The whole point of holiday homes is that they’re not near the main home, otherwise it defeats the object.

Or impose a minimum radius around a property where you can’t buy a second one and then a minimum around both where you can’t have a third one and so on. Want to have a house in the city and a cottage >100km away in a straight line? Go ahead.

But this is what’s causing the problems. People are buying second houses in holiday destinations, then either leaving them empty for most of the year, or renting them out for things like Airbnb. House prices are going up, and locals can’t afford to buy. Off season, the local businesses don’t have enough custom to sustain themselves, and end up going under.

‘YOU! You know what you did! Make it right!’

Then sit back and look at all the guilty faces.