BlueÆther @ BlueEther @no.lastname.nz

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Thoughts on New Zealand or Austrailia?

in the communities i hang in here there a a good few that must be in their 50s (and i'm one of them).

just look at the number of posts in the *nix and self hosting communities for comments about pre and early linus users, or selfhosting email back in the day , or bsd/unix usage

I just wonder how up and downvoting would work since that would go very differently from Lemmy.

how so?

sometimes it is a good reference point though

i think ive seen a few in your age bracket. there seems to be a good amount that must be around the 50+ mark

well for me:

• just passed 50 last month
• been kicking around 'PCs' since the vic-20
• buun using linux since Mandrake Helios (6.1)
• have self hosted all sorts (including email for nearly 10 yrs, not any more other than a relay for my lemmy)
• had a mastodon instance for about 2-3 years - but use mastodon.nz
• spun up my instance of lemmy just as the exodus started
• been into tinkering with electronics from childhood

I guess that puts me in the the tech group that seems very common here

other groups that seem well represented are the 'left' and lgbqt+

and then, us as the consumer will pay for the fine as well

I’ve used influx and grafana in the past

There are some good options here for further reading

meh, it's those of us that are entering into our 50's that drove piracy in the early '90s and '00s. Hell, we were copying floppies in the 80s.

You youngins don't know how lucky you are, we had to push our bits up hill in both directions, in bare feet and the rain

You are all crazy, it's how the world should be, drive on the left

Not almost cut my thumb off, the fucking thing ached like I don't know what, espitally while my wife was squeezing my hand during the ceremony.

That was over 25 years ago and the pain was real

Yeah, I saw the 4Mil BTU on another page, that's a lot of heat output

God knows how many KG of that I lifted in the few years I worked in plastics

testing @homeschool@homeschool.villagegreen.org.nz

looks nice

I would like less micro-blog and more old-school blog with the really good threading/comments of lemmy, and the communities of lemmy (maybe magazines of Kbin/Mbin)

This theme seem to be ongoing throughout literature and art, from Hemingway / Banksy to the great...

GNU Terry Pratchett

What I really want is something like hybrid of wordpress/lemmy/mastodon...

Well the documentation is very nice and filled out.

I think I'll spin up a test container for a project that my Mrs is starting on that I was going to put on wordpress with federation.

Been using for what feels like a lifetime, although I went through a few usernames during the late 90s early 00s and somewhere along the way BlueEther or a derivative just stuck, it was after a comment something like "jus putting this out into the blue ether" in a forum post