[I'm sorry] Reality is optional for some people.

The Google Files app will find duplicates and other things.

Niagara. Full disclosure: it's the first and only one I've tried.

Waiting for the rest of Reddit to follow. [Drums Fingers Impatiently]

Chicken.

I would really love a 'standard' Linux. Mint, Puppy, Fedora and so on are good enough.

I 'pray' every night for a killer Windows upgrade bug, but I think only Apple would benefit. Teens seem to have only iPhones as a status thing.

Hey, sorry for the delay! Yes, stay in touch. Enjoyed the discourse!

My grandfather loved country and western. I loved my grandfather, I loathe country and western (at least if they could play the fcuking track at 45 not 16 rpm .. yes, I know it says 16, it doesn't mean that hopefully .. please god).

Long story short. Physical pain is a good distraction tool. JS.

Now that it's the 21 century, you can identify as a different race. This gives immediate respite.

Seriously though. Just enjoy it. You're not going to be the only one in that situation and no-one is that interested in you, they're more worried about their own issues. Over time you'll find ways to adjust your clothing as your body itself adjusts to the environment.

My skin turns to pizza in heat and I hate it but I can either be miserable and hide or enjoy my opportunity. Eventually my skin calmed down and I found that I made sure I drank much more and changed my diet a little.

Acorn Revs. can't tell you the hours, thousands would be my guess. Elite: not quite as many hours. Discovered the save file format.

Sure. I was looking for a local instance that would be less usdefaultism, understanding that I would probably subscribe to general communities. 🤣😂

I couldn't find anything on join-lemmy that was helpful but happened on a comment by sometime trying me to go to the fediverse site for helpful stuff. I found an instance https://lemmy.podycust.co.uk/ and tried to join that. I recall that it went reasonably and I entered my email address.

Shortly after I found I couldn't log on. The page just gave the spinning-wait indicators. That instance was disappeared from join-lemmy and I had to go through the same process for another instance.

https://lemmy.tedomum.net/ was selected and I joined that. Shortly after that was declared verboten and removed from join-lemmy. I'm not picking these at random and with low user counts. I am directed.

Third time lucky. I found another one that's accepting logon for three days in a row.

I do accept that Lemmy is Alpha and things change but the Devs are systematically removing email addresses and other sources of help from the join-Lemmy . Unironically they are stating that the first point of help is a sub on lemmy which is no fcuking use if you can't log on and well used stable instances are being removed from the join-Lemmy listing because they are well used. Just look at the difflog on GitHub. People are trying to join these instances because they are going through the same pain that I am.

There's no real world WhatsApp or Telegram etc group published for normal people. Most people don't know matrix exists. I don't like WhatsApp or Telegram but that's the popular choice for groups. Asking for a published popular group resulted in me being told that we don't have time to help people full stop. I'm not suggesting that the Devs are on a published group for a moment, but that we give a place for users to help themselves.

Meanwhile a whale is backing Nostr. And the apps work.

I reiterate that I understand Lemmy is Alpha but going out of your way to piss off the users and 'not assisting' any self help is like inviting Lennart Pottering to tea.