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  • kenvaldtoDiscussAccountability Check In
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    1 year ago

    I have a woodworking project that’s been “in progress” for a long time. It’s small but I experienced a setback early on which killed all motivation. But I went back to it yesterday and moved it forward a bit more!



  • kenvaldtoDiscussHolding myself accountable
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    1 year ago

    I’ve a couple of small projects laying around. I’d like to create something(app, game, whatever) used by other people. That isn’t just what I make at work.

    I try to work on them on and off at least somewhat consistently. Doesn’t always work like that though, hah.


  • kenvaldtoNeurodivergentHi, your server is having issues.
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    1 year ago

    Hah sorry, I should’ve thought of that. Long story short: This instance is running on latest Lemmy beta version. Lemmy made a recent change to the beta version which breaks 3rd party apps like Jerboa. DO tried to rollback their version but it failed. We now have to wait until the 3rd party apps release an update that works with Lemmy beta(or future v0.19 when released).

    The most recent update from instance owners saying the same thing:

    After some additional digging through the Lemmy diff for beta.5 to beta.8 (and then looking through the PRs that were merged to create this diff), the issue is indeed with the Lemmy code and is even called out in one of the PRs,. What this means is that the 3rd party clients that are not able to access the site will need to update their code to fix things on their side (or else they will be broken when v0.19 is released and all other instances update to it).





  • kenvaldtoNeurodivergentHas anyone tried meditation?
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    1 year ago

    I tried it once using a meditation app I don’t remember the name of. It didn’t really do much for me other than temporarily relax me until I got back to work or whatever I was doing. But sometimes I do a basic meditation method when I have trouble falling asleep. The idea behind it is to try and clear your mind and think of nothing. Unfortunately I can’t empty my head completely.

    What I do instead is trying to force everything out of my mind best I can and picture a balloon. Focusing on it alone, imagining it inflating when I breath in and deflate when I breath out. Doesn’t work every time but it’s given me the most success. Making me relaxed enough to allow myself to fall asleep easier.





  • kenvaldtoDiscussWhat's up?
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    1 year ago

    This Discuss community isn’t specifically to talk about this one Lemmy instance. It’s to talk about anything and everything. For example the fact that Vlemmy unfortunately had to shut down without notice. I hadn’t visited that instance but it always sucks when things suddenly go away.



  • kenvaldtoDiscussLurkers of Lemmy
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    1 year ago

    On Reddit everything I saw usually had thousands of comments already since I never sorted by new. Nothing really to add that would be seen by anyone. Over almost a decade on Reddit I think I posted at most 20-30 times.

    Lemmy definitely feels more approachable because of the smaller size of the communities. But then If it becomes massive I’ll probably slow down my activity again because of the same reasons mentioned above.



  • kenvaldtoDiscussAMA: I’m jgrim, the site admin
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been trying a lot of things to try to get traffic here.

    Would you mind sharing some of the things you have tried? Since there now are a couple of settled “main” instances it seems real hard to grow organically as a smaller instance. Is there something we can do to help other than word of mouth or donate?