What a nice surprise. Loading this community on my home instance shows just 2 subscribers! I was wondering why no one was subscribing!

Unfortunately I’m not yet a DN so I’ve little to contribute right now but I loved lurking on Reddit and really don’t want to go there anymore. I’d love to see this place become a success.

I just wanted to put the thought out there given the lack of movement on here (despite your best efforts). My concern with lemmy.ml is its lack of reliability right now for federating to other servers. Subscription requests stuck at pending and posts and comments not making it to other servers so things look dead when they may not be (seen this when viewing lemmy.ml communities that have had more traction from other instance accounts). That being said lemmy.ml has a large (too large maybe) local user base that can look at the original local copy so maybe that offsets the federation issues.

I don’t know. I just wanted to put it out there that lemmy.ml has been unreliable and I ended up making accounts on other instances to be able to reliably see what was going on their communities and the same for here. wayfarershaven.eu is a reliable instance focused on “Creating a space for inspiration, creativity, handwork, reading, travel, etc.” which has onebag and solotravel communities on it. The instance admin was interested in perhaps hosting a DN community but I told them there one was already running here. Maybe that would offer a more reliable home than lemmy.ml which is overloaded and really originally focused on tech like privacy and FOSS.

Let’s hope so.

I did just want to follow up my original comment with another saying a big thank you for creating this space, whatever instance it resides on. I don’t want you to feel my words were a complaint. Just sharing of an observation and possible solution.

I hope that once my life calms a little (just moved apartments and downsized) I’ll be able to contribute more to this space and help it grow.

I see it now. Nice. ❤️

Fair enough. I just wanted to put the idea out there.

Lemmy certainly has growing pains and that is understandable given it is still under development. I just felt that being on this instance in particular appeared to be amplifying those growing pains and hobbling the community, perhaps avoidably.

For me the only reliable method right now is separate accounts on multiple instances that house the communities I sub to. Then I can view and comment locally with up a full and up to date view of the posts. It certainly isn’t a convenient or simple solution but it is the most reliable. I hope I can revert to a single account in the future and others aren’t discouraged from migrating here as Tte Reddit situation certainly isn’t improving.

Hey @G59, I found another OneBag community at https://wayfarershaven.eu/c/onebag. That instance is all about inspiration, creativity, handwork, reading, travel so it seems like a good fit. c/onebag has little content right now but c/heronebag is also there and is getting a little traction. It also isn’t on lemmy.ml which seems to be overloded right now so that is a bonus.

I just see your comment. No picture.

I’m also balancing the hope to become (with my wife) a digital nomad in the future, a one bag digital nomad if at all possible (I like a challenge). In that case a laptop and portable monitor are really the only good option so I’m tempted to go that route now just to get used to it. Of course there is no guarantee DNing will happen and I’d just be making my current life potentially difficult for no reason.

Ah, the challenges of balancing simple living, minimalism, and frugality. You can normally get two out of the three in any decision but rarely all of them. Another interesting topic for discussion perhaps?

It is Greg McKeown’s book, and yes my burn out was a mix of minimalism, productivity, no surf books (Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, Stolen Focus, Year of Less. The Shallows, The Future is Analog, Getting Things Done). Tried some H.P. Lovecraft in between who is an author I’ve not tried before. Not entirely sure I’m that into his work but it provided something different for a while and provides some background to a few board games I’ve played with friends.

Already subscribed and participating at minimalism on lemmy.world. See you there.!

I’d like to know this too. Although r/onebag is available again I’d like to move away from Reddit, especially now we are seeing mods forced out of their roles and subs forced to re-open. It is all going to go downhill there now. Profits before people.

Essentialism.

I started it once before and didn’t really like it and gave up, but I had been on a minimalism/simple living reading marathon for a while at that point and was a bit burnt out and needed some fiction. I’ve waited 6 weeks for a copy to become available again at my library again so am starting again now.

My wife and I wanted to live on a boat. Sadly, it never happened, but as part of the preparation process we went from a 1200 sqft house to a 600sq ft studio apartment and got rid of a load of stuff to make it happen. It was great!

We did well for several years of keeping a small footprint, even after the dream of the boat collapsed, but experienced a slight relapse during the pandemic. Just now reducing again having moved from a two bedroom place to a one bedroom to offset unaffordable rent.

I find this to be a catch-22 situation. If I buy cheap and then find it to be very useful (but inferior because it was cheap) then I would feel bad about replacing it with a quality item and wasting the cheap one (even if I donate it) because I feel strongly about minimizing waste and promoting the use of throw away products. Then again, if I buy expensive and the item sits around I have wasted needless money that frankly I don’t have.

Right now I have just downsized from a two bedroom apartment to a one bedroom due to skyrocketing rent. I have to shrink my WFH desk space and am considering transitioning from my 32" widescreen monitor to just my laptop screen and a 15.6" portable monitor that can be packed away. The portable monitor would also become my main monitor for my gaming PC. This may or may not work out as being practical for my use case. I could get a no-name cheap portable monitor for about $100 but the brightness and colors may not be that great and response times for gaming poor. Or I could spend $400 on one with higher refresh rate, better colors and likely better stand options but if it doesn’t work out I’ve likely lost a lot of money even if I resell it. On top of that I’ve now contributed to consumerism and pollution twice which goes against my ethos.

I think a third option of buying-used needs to be a consideration. Personally, I dislike buying used for most things (especially tech). I generally get burnt by finding out the item was being sold because of some unreported defect and that bugs me as I like to keep my stuff pristine.

No real answer for you there, just an acknowledgement that the struggle is real.

100% agreed!

I’m quite enjoying Nicolas Garofola’s content. I am seeing an increase in sponsored stuff in recent videos though so have started to become mindful of any mentioned products. In general though I like his stuff. Very chill.

As someone who did phone helpdesk, then deskside support, then server support over a 10 year period and then, after the 2008 recession, moved into programming for another 10 years I would agree that support was the more enjoyable and simple role. You had to learn new tech, but not at the rate you do in programming, plus each day felt different as you were presented with different problems/people. In programming it seems like same stuff different day and it gets old.

I will say that this doesn’t have to be so black and white. A helpdesk role can have progression into desktop and server support and that brings fiscal increases and I didn’t feel any of those positions were overly complex in my life like programming is.

Slight caveat though, I haven’t had to interact people in a helpdesk sense for years now and with the advent of social media and the inflation of ego’s and narcissism in general it might now be that such a role is now less enjoyable. Perhaps your experience is more recent.

Same question. I hope we can get some folks over here.