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That's a common trait in that mindset

This is a very common thing, especially those with Nice Guy (TM) syndrome. The gist of it there is that you don't feel like you have the worth or don't deserve good things, or something along those lines, so someone helping you violates that narrative, more or less.

I don't know if this applies or if I'm way off in left field, but Dr. Robert Glover is a phsychologist who's been working on these traits for a long time. Here's his website and book.

I misread it haha

None of that sounds sexy

I leave them all behind

Sure thing! Hopefully that can help with ideas I got started by doing little short trips in the US. Maybe you can change things up with some weekend road trips or something

1. How do you live day to day, spend the hours, get food, hygiene, etc?

I work office hours at US central time, so things don't really change a whole lot there. I wake up, do breakfast if it's offered, hop on the morning meeting, and optionally find a cafe to work at.

Many places offer breakfast and lots of hostels have kitchens and refrigerators, so I'll take one of those eco bags that I got for $0.50 in latin america and buy a few things for a meal, or I'll eat out, which I do too much.

Hygiene is fine. Every place has showers and toilets - just wear flip flops or shower shoes in shared showers.

2. I'm currently in the US. My company's policy of work abroad changed, so I'll be back here for a while.
3. problems

I've learned to be more flexible. Sometimes places have flakey internet, but I have my phone as a hotspot. Your plans won't always work out and its fine, there will be another way to make it happen. There's another bus, plane, lodging around. It'll be fine.

4. What is a DN?

Your moving long term and have a digitally oriented job.

5. money

I kept my job and I saved a ton of money in latin america. To give you an idea, the cost of my not out of the ordinary apartment plus utilities in Austin, TX came out to about $68 per day. My housing costs in latin america ranged from $10-$40 per day. It's hard to spend there in a day what I was doing just for rent. And that's eating out 2-3 times per day.

So I have way more money now.

6. Best/worst

Best part is the adventure and seeing the world. Worst might be that connections are fleeting and you need to be ok with the finality of things. I think this is good overall, but what I do is I'll travel for a while and then settle for a month or more at a CoLive arrangement. Those have the benefits of hostels in the social aspect, but you often have your own room, sometimes a dorm, and people stay for minimum amounts of time, which is often a month.

The conveniences of home can be missed a bit, but then I can rent a private room or a hotel if I want. Also, sometimes I want my me time, but then I retreat too much, so the social aspects of hostels can pull me out of that.

7. Transportation

Buses in Latin America are great. I flew sometimes, but I have local transit passes for most places that I went to. Going between cities, I often took the bus.

8. Sustainable

I've been doing it for a year and a half and don't see myself stopping. I know people that have been doing it for 7+ years. It's whatever fits you. You don't have to fit a mold. You can try it for short term and go back, you can do it on and off, whatever. It's your life. Live it. haha

I sold all of my possessions and have been traveling as a digital nomad for a year and a half. It was the best thing I've ever done.

that would probably be better as an app, rather than a hosted service.

I run picsur. It's not an image resizer like that. It's like Imgur, but self-hosted and can take size arguments as part of the query. I use it to host images for a markdown based blog and keep the sizes under control.

On a side note, I recently started noticing so many sites that use full sized images regardless of the actual size it shows up on screen.

Can you share some screenshots? It sounds like you're not even reaching the service.

I showed redline to my family who would absolutely hate anime and they asked me for more like it. Unfortunately, there isn't.

It was a huge pita to get it running, but I have it.

One thing about the WA bridge is that element won't let me give display names or look up the contact number, so the people in chatting with don't have names, just "their number (WA)"

Happy birthday!

For backups, I have two drives that are striped and do nightly backups to idrive. I was able to find a containerized version of the console app and I have it run on a schedule from 3-7am.

I use NPM to redirect a domain name to the server with https.

I'm currently using write.as. It's a pretty bare-bones setup when in single user mode and doesn't give the kind of list view you might expect for readers - it loads everything onto a single page. I'm considering maybe using Ghost, which is another big name in the federated blogging space. Write.as doesn't come with comments by default, but I was able to add cactus-comments, but it was a huge PITA because it requires a matrix server.

I do, however, like the minimalist UI aspect of it. You can take a look at mine here. I was also able to get around the list thing by using pinned posts, which stay at the top, so I made an about, a directory, and subscribe pages.

Write.as will post to mastodon under an account that it creates and I have myself on mastodon as a verified owner of the blog site.

Oh god

is the baby federating?

Becky Chambers wrote 4 books that did a really good job of exploring different species getting by with their differences not just in culture, but also in things like how they speak (one species has 5 vocal chords, so you literally cannot speak their language) or 'how does publich transit account for different butt shapes?'

But on to your question on pet peeves:

• throwing science-y words out there that make no sense is probably my biggest.
• deus ex-machina - getting saved at the knick of time by something showing up without warning, but that's just bad writing. I actually like how the Orville series removed transporters as a tech. It's actually a bad plot device.
• but yeah, like you said, things that are obvious but are removed from the show, like cameras

I posted an edit to the post on how I i solved it. Your feedback was helpful in the solution!

I think so. One issue i ran in to is that trying to go anywhere would land on the ui page. If I put npm on ports 80/443, then the UI needs to be elsewhere so I can access it. It shouldn't be too hard, I hope