ALostInquirer @ ALostInquirer @lemm.ee

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I omitted my personal reasoning in the OP to avoid sidetracking the conversation, but since it's had some time to develop & you ask, I just personally don't like the smell of much alcohol or the erratic behavior it causes. The former I just find unpleasant, meanwhile the latter makes me uncomfortable & anxious on top of being annoyed by the scents.

As someone being sober, I'd feel like I'm half-expected to be responsible for some of those getting drunk around me (even if I'm not, really), and it just makes it hard for me to relax as I'd like.

I could, and I may end up caving and finding a bar with an atmosphere I don't mind, but I was hoping there might be some alternatives to spaces that I generally just find uncomfortable to be in. Also, and this just comes down to the area I'm in right now, many of the bars have a specific style/theme to them here that I don't care for whatsoever, at least from the little bit I've looked around.

Is hackerspace the common term for these? I think I've also seen makerspace, or at least it sounds like there's overlap. I may have to do some more searching along these terms, but any time I've read of these it seems like they're more around larger cities or university towns/cities, which I don't happen to live in at the moment.

Fwiw I sometimes do the same, but as mentioned in another comment, I haven't settled on a good way to phrase asking that doesn't sound clunky af, or end up going down a process of elimination of which sites/services you're both on & down for using.

What if your hobbies & interests don't lend themselves to meetups? I tend to have a lot of those that are more solitary in nature, which means others with them were probably drawn to them for similar reasons, being relatively content alone.

Up until they have that nagging feeling that they may benefit from socializing, anyway.

Oh wow, that's a load more examples than I'd expected, thanks! I'll have to look over these for what might apply to what I'm interested in.

Wait, Australia, the place notorious for dangerous critters, made small, public enclosed spaces...Without doors? 😂 I'm guessing these were mainly in cities, so maybe the critter problem wasn't as much of a concern, but I love the image this produces of an Aussie going to make a call and some snake or spider is sitting there around the phone.

Thanks! Fwiw in this context I'm thinking of the outdoor, completely(?) enclosed type of booths, but your reply includes those as well I gather.

By any chance do you have some go-to examples of good resumes you like to point people to as what to do with theirs vs. what not to do? I realize this will vary given jobs and you should tailor it accordingly, but some base starting points are better than nothing.

As in, you're still in some way paying U.S. taxes as well as those where you are abroad, or that the taxes abroad are brutal...? I'm not sure I follow which way you mean, mainly as I've never had the opportunity to live in another country.

That's unfortunate...It really can be hard to read when someone's open to exchanging contact info of any kind sometimes. Some folks, easy as can be, others you think it may be and then you've tripped their brick walls without expecting it.

You got the gist enough despite the term I used & answered what I was wondering about (as did the other person replying), so I appreciate it! Parse was just another way of trying to say see the file in full, filename, additional metadata, & content. With visual media I'd think you'd have to do like you (& they) said, configure it to be opened via something else for a comprehensive review.

I tend to work with visual media more, so for me a CLI feels like more of a backwards approach to navigation & data management.

Have you heard of Bookshop? For physical books they seem a decent option, albeit their reach is limited at the moment to the US, UK, and Spain.

Outside of that, and suggesting folks check their libraries, I've nothing else to add to your good suggestions.

Thanks for the book suggestion! I checked and it's available via my library, so I may have to give it a read sometime!

What about a traveling circus? Bonuses: it's mobile, it's a circus by design, it's inclusive, and goofing around is just part of the culture!

It's more on the hobbyist end of things, but as an example I was thinking like if you had a server you're using to back up or store photos on, trying to parse it strictly via CLI doesn't seem like it'd be terribly useful.

You'd also want to view the images directly, I'd think, but I'm guessing in that situation you'd just use whatever web UI the software you're using might provide.

Nice! You're literally handing out cat pics!

That doesn't come across as a little odd? Maybe it's age/living under a rock, but I'd been of the thinking that you might prefer to ask first, even if on good terms or having a mutual friend.

It's sort of the other way around, rather than the approach, I was curious about what might make someone hesitant to ask another's contact info. Should have phrased it differently, looking at the majority of the replies, but I thought the added body text might help clarify where I was coming from.

Like I completely get not wanting to read as romantically interested/flirting, or general anxiety, but I was wondering what some other situations might be.

Same idea for GUIs/terminal, it has a higher learning curve but if you try to avoid the curve you’ll never be able to do it fast, so the time investment is worth it if you’re going to be doing this daily (like most server admins do)

Yeah, part of the thinking behind this question was with those doing this more as a hobby in mind (e.g. self-hosters) where it's sort of a limbo. You may be doing it daily as part of your hobby, but also never on the level that really demands the degree of proficiency or efficiency you describe as you're not going to be casually handling a large network of servers (probably), so on one hand learning the CLI may simply be part of the fun, but on the other, it may also lean into overkill depending on what you're aiming to do.

Doesn't Google Photos produce something similar from stored photos? I don't use it much myself, as I don't take many photos, but I've used it to view screenshots & such on my phone & I seem to recall something like that.

If so, would definitely be an option to avoid posting while producing a similar yearbook/photo album.