Ancestors

Written by Amin Hollon 🏳 on 2025-01-20 at 16:40

Hey, everyone! I'm back from my break from Fedi.

To start things off, here's a blog post in which I rethink my relationship with social media given my experience in this week without it:

https://benjaminhollon.com/musings/thoughts-on-social-media/

I'll be back later, once I've gotten some work done.

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Toot

Written by Amin Hollon 🏳 on 2025-01-20 at 18:04

So far a bunch of people have replied to my post about wanting to constrict my social media usage here on fedi but no one has replied via email. 😢

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Descendants

Written by Amin Hollon 🏳 on 2025-01-20 at 20:19

I take it back! I've received a couple great replies via email, which I appreciate a lot!

Seriously, a reply by email to a post tends to make my day.

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Written by OpenComputeDesign on 2025-01-20 at 18:08

@amin In my defense, it usually takes me about a month of anxiety to send an email :P

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Written by Amin Hollon 🏳 on 2025-01-20 at 18:47

@OpenComputeDesign

I'll expect an email in a month, then. ;D

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Written by OrbitalMartian on 2025-01-20 at 19:11

@amin Lies… there should be at least 1.

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Written by Amin Hollon 🏳 on 2025-01-20 at 19:22

@orbitalmartian

There is now! ;D

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Written by CJ on 2025-01-20 at 19:29

@amin To be fair, if I had a reply I probably would have just sent it on Signal or something. Email is the bane of my existence these days.

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Written by Amin Hollon 🏳 on 2025-01-20 at 19:30

@roguefoam

Sounds like you should work out some changes to your email setup, then. That's what I did a year or so again and I'm much happier with it now. :)

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Written by CJ on 2025-01-20 at 19:33

@amin I need to but....that's a lot of work right now.

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Written by Amin Hollon 🏳 on 2025-01-20 at 19:33

@roguefoam

Understood. :)

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Written by Amin Hollon 🏳 on 2025-01-20 at 19:33

@roguefoam

I'm working on some different changes now, since aerc (which I switched to from Thunderbird) unfortunately is very fixed in the always-online mindset.

I've got mbsync and notmuch syncing and indexing a local copy of my email, now I'm just trying to figure out more and more ways to interact with that local copy and sync it up when I'm online.

aerc does have notmuch support but I haven't interacted with it much yet.

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Written by sotolf on 2025-01-20 at 19:54

@amin @roguefoam meh emails are mostly just spam and bad news, don't want to associate you with that ;)

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Written by Amin Hollon 🏳 on 2025-01-20 at 20:04

@sotolf @roguefoam

I curate mine well enough that mine are pretty good signal-to-noise. :)

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Written by sotolf on 2025-01-20 at 20:07

@amin @roguefoam so you just delete bills and bad news? :p

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Written by OpenComputeDesign on 2025-01-20 at 20:08

@sotolf @amin @roguefoam Whenever I can, yes ;)

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Written by sotolf on 2025-01-20 at 20:10

@OpenComputeDesign @amin @roguefoam I tried just deleting all the bills once when I was deepest in my depression, not a good Idea, they tend to just grow and they become more :p

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Written by OpenComputeDesign on 2025-01-20 at 20:15

@sotolf @amin @roguefoam I lost my learner's permit once. couldn't find it for the life of me.

Finally found it like five years later, turned out I never even opened the envelope, I just saw it was from the DMV and tossed it into a pile of expired textbooks I also didn't feel like dealing with

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Written by sotolf on 2025-01-20 at 19:53

@amin I don't feel like doing mail when I can just write in this box here and you will get the answer :p

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Written by Amin Hollon 🏳 on 2025-01-20 at 20:04

@sotolf

Heh, fair. ;)

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