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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • I remember back when I first started learning to drive, dad tried to teach me in his SAAB 95 BioPower estate, it was a manual, it was terrifying.

    I only took a few lessons before stopping, almost two daceds later, 2022 I enrolled with a local driving school, learned in a VW Golf Automatic. It was still scary at first, but at 34 was ready in a different way than when I was 18 or so.

    Still, it took me almost a year of driving lessons to pass my test, though I did do it while working full time at the same time (I didn’t take a vacation that year, I took sporadic days to attend driving classes).

    The first time I took the test I failed as I didn’t keep attention to where the car were in relation to a wall and the examinor had to step on the brake.

    The second time went well, and I passed it.

    Then for half a year, my dad and me went out on the weekends and I drove his car (a Volvo v90 Automatic), that was absolutely critical, I got the practice I needed and got to spend some quallity time with dad.

    Then in the summer of 2023, I bought my first car, a 2021 Seat Leon PHEV hatchback Automatic, and I just went nuts!

    In the first year of owning the car I drove 40000km, I drove like absolute mad, every day I got in my car and drove for hours, I explored the local area and the car, not to mention got used to driving.

    That was also critical, driving so much has made me a confident driver, though perhaps a bit over confident as I got my first speeding ticket this summer going 10kmh over the limit at a surprise police speed trap.

    Then this summer a badger decided to run into my car while I was driving 60, getting that sorted now.

    These incidents have made me a calmer driver, especially when it is now getting darker here in Sweden.

    I have a few rules of my own that have been very helpful to my being a better driver.

    A. If something unexpected happens at an intersection, it might be me getting my priorities mixed up, or someone else behavinf oddly, if that happens, when I get home, I go on Google Streetview and look up the intersection and look at signs, makring and the general look of the place from as many directions as possible, I try to figure out why I drove the way I drove, and why other did it their way. This has helped me hugely.

    B. I try turn around (at a suitable place) and drive the road properly after something either happened, or nearly happened. I do this so that the last time I drove a road went well, so an old mistake doesn’t haunt me making me lore worried.


  • I have boycotted Logitech since they started pushing Logitech Download Assistant through Windows Update, as soon as you plug a Logitech device into your Windows computer you get the program Logitech Downlod Assitant that you can’t uninstall or easily stop running.

    So I got myself a Xtrfy M4 and later the Xtrfy M4 Wireless, they require zero program to configure it, it’s brilliant!

    Last week I got myself a Pulsar Xlite V3, it needs a program to configure it, but it is manually installed, require no internet connection and saves the config to the mouse.

    As for keyboards, I am a huge fan of Ducky keyboards, they just work for me.

    For my audio, I use a Röde Videomic Go II, no software needed, but Röde central is used to configure it, it acts as a soundcard that I connect my Philips X2HR Fidelio headphones to.

    It works brilliantly!


  • There is no golden rule for this, just like any social media, laws vary in different countries.

    You should block all NSFW instances and all NSFW communities on general instances if you are concerned about breaking the law, doing that shows that you are intentionally blocking content that is seen as questionable.

    My blocklist is huge, I tend to browse all, and add instances or communities to the list constantly. Most of the stuff is things I find annoying, ourt of sight, out of mind, other times it is hard NSFW and I don’t want to get porn by randomly browsing Lemmy, if that is what I am after I will use a dedicated account.

    You can also just subscribe to communities you want to read and only browse those.


  • I would not have any external user interaction on my website at all.

    It is MY website, it is made BY me, FOR me.

    I actually have a small website where I publish photos, it is a simple static HTML/CSS page that I manually update in the code when I have new photo galleries (generated in digiKam) to link to.

    This makes the site increadibly fast, there is zero access time to wait for a DB query to finnish, or a caching server to load or a google analytics script, it just loads instantly and looks great.

    Since it is just HTML I don’t worry about anyone gaining access to the backend.



  • I feel like I belong to one of the last generations that had to figure stuff out on our own when it came to computers back when I was a kid.

    I was born in 87, my first computer ran Windows 3.11, I remember installing Windows 95 from floppy disks.

    The whole “it just works” part of tech is both fantastic and horrible, fantastic in that it works, horrible in that when it doesn’t you get way fewer tools to work with.