I live in a campervan with my dog Muffin. 95% solar / 5% alternator.

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Cake day: May 31st, 2023

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  • do you have any suggestions for links to/communities on lemmy or other federated platforms?

    I’ve been poking around but haven’t found anything. Giving serious thought to starting a community (lemmy) or magazine (kbin) but haven’t picked a side yet as a post-reddit home. I’d like to include carfolk since there are many shared challenges.

    my rig is a 1987 Ford/Grumman Kabmaster,

    Outstanding rig. There were no stepvans available around me at the time I was buying because of a Perfect Storm:

    • food truck craze - anything vaguely operable was snatched up
    • “hork every 4bt for rockcrawler jeeps” craze
    • “scrap the abandoned backyard projects because aluminum prices just spiked” craze :-(

    I still covet those straight walls and all that roof real estate for panel. I drive very little and even then at ~55mph so I think I would have been quite happy in one.

    it’s been in the shop for a while now

    Hopefully it will emerge victorious and not require you to sell off any children to pay the bill. :-)







  • fratermustoAsklemmyHow are we going to pay for all this?
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    2 years ago

    Not lost, the interface loaded a comment I had written elsewhere into this thread, which I didn’t even have open and wasn’t reading. When I reloaded the page to try to stop the post it showed the original thread I intended to post to. I had to manually open this thread to see where it posted.





  • Tangentially-related, perhaps: I’m a member of a subreddit that went from ~20,000 to over 2 million while I’ve been there. The increased quantity was fine, but the quality of postings cratered.

    It had been a forum for people who did a particular thing, then suddenly 95% of the posters were dreamers/tirekickers who saw influencer YT/Insta content and came in to ask the same spoonfeedy questions over and over. Five minutes reading the sub would answer the FAQs, but no.

    In order to keep my blood pressure under control I focus on specific technical areas and reply only to those that seem to be able/willing to understand.