Mechanical Engineer here. Although, most of us are either kinda’ into tech, or kinda’ in cars. I’m definitely not into cars.

I was kinda oblivious to the world of FOSS until simultaneously switching to Lemmy and also resuscitating an old computer by installing Linux. It took a long time for me to wrap my head around the fact that people are just cranking out parts of OS’s, or pw managers, or file zip utilities for shits and giggles in their free time, and not even charging for it. A game or two as a passion project I could understand, but who sits down after work and plods through a zip utility?

After years and years of “if the service is free, you’re the product” it really takes some time to rewire my brain. It’s almost enough to make me wish I went into software instead of mechanical, so I could pitch in on something.

In America, I’ve seen nurses and diabetics use deciliters in reference to medication or concentration before.

I’m not OP but I might as well be. My family has a group chat that exists almost exclusively to send pics/videos of the kids to each other. It’s a mixed group of android/iOS, so the videos come through with 12 pixels. I have begged and pleaded for every key to switch to telegram, GroupMe, Gchat, Facebook… ANYTHING!!

But they’re all on iPhone because they specifically don’t want to be tweaking or customizing anything in their phones.

Silver lining: It gave me the opportunity to “dislike” Jordan Peterson, which was not an opportunity I previously had.

I mean, I guess I always HAD the option, but there’s something to be said about having somebody serve it up on a platter like that.

Subsurface

Its dive planning and dive logging software. It’s also the only software I’m aware of that can actually pull the data from my dive computer, which uses some crappy proprietary cable and software. The fact that subsurface exists and is automatically in Linux repositories is what finally allowed me wipe out my aging and barely functioning computer, and revive it with Linux.

For me, the ol’ days was yesterday, when I came to terms with the idea that VLemmy wasn’t coming back, and I manually copied over all my subscriptions from a duplicate account.

After 2 years of ignoring the fact that I use a duplicate password in over 100 places, and that password has officially been in breaches, I finally came to terms with the fact that it was time to find a password manager and generate unique passwords. I didn’t do a ton of research and ended up with bitwarden. If I opened this thread to see a bunch of people ragging on bitwarden I was prepared to be VERY upset.

I independently came up with the 13 x 28 idea to align monthly things like bills to weekly things like paychecks.

My solution was to make that odd day a holiday and celebrate the really awesome, cool, and good-looking dude that came up with this new calendar. (Me)

Dr. Adolph Hutter.

I’m guessing that man has an immaculate signature that makes sure it’s super clear that there are two t’s and no l’s in his last name.