When I tell people the only social media I use is Lemmy, I always wait patiently for follow up questions immediately after, which never come, because nobody gives a shit about what obscure social media the 35 year old man uses.
Yeah, 30 is a blip, but I remember 35 felt like the first time that my 30s really hit home - that the years would just keep coming.
This is a bit male centric, but Neal Stephenson had a good line about this feeling in Snow Crash:
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years.
if my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
The process of getting old is bit like getting farther and farther away from that point. And maturity is what you do with that feeling.
You wanna see me install a Raspberry Pi 3 into my minivan to run the rear seat entertainment system? 😅
I’m more of a lurker than anything else haha. I scour forums for issues my cars/bikes are dealing with, and occasionally will ask a question here or there. I don’t really make many posts anymore, unless I’m doing a specific job or troubleshooting process that I haven’t seen documented anywhere else.
I do have a blog for my XR500 that I’m slowly working to make street legal. I initially called it a “restoration”, but it’s more of a “refresh with some light modernization” than anything else haha. I intend on keeping it as apocalypse-friendly as I can, since it’s kickstart-only, runs off a CDI system, and technically doesn’t need a battery (except for lighting)… The biggest hangup I have with that bike right now is the damn 23" front wheel that’s cracked. Not a single wheel repair shop I’ve called wants to touch it, a not-cracked 23" hoop is ~$150, and it’s too much work to convert it to 21" (that requires a disc brake conversion - I’m not tracking this thing, it’s just a commuter).
It is kind of crazy how motorcycle/car culture hasn’t really moved off of old-school internet forums. I very rarely need to visit them because I’m not a car guy, but I do think very fondly of them whenever I visit, they remind me of the internet of my childhood
There’s not a whole lot of crossover between car/motorcycle enthusiasts and tech enthusiasts. IT guys seem to be an exception here (source: I worked in IT for a bit), but they’re a small minority. Car enthusiasts in general tend to lean towards the conservative side of things anyway… 👀
When I tell people the only social media I use is Lemmy, I always wait patiently for follow up questions immediately after, which never come, because nobody gives a shit about what obscure social media the 35 year old man uses.
Hey I am not an 35 year old man! I am still in my 20’s!
…well, 29 actually, shit.
35 is rough. I’m starting to understand the whole “mid life crisis” thing.
I still don’t understand the mid life crisis thing, but then again I never had a life
Yeah, 30 is a blip, but I remember 35 felt like the first time that my 30s really hit home - that the years would just keep coming.
This is a bit male centric, but Neal Stephenson had a good line about this feeling in Snow Crash:
The process of getting old is bit like getting farther and farther away from that point. And maturity is what you do with that feeling.
Man that’s exactly how it feels. I read snow crash when I was like 16 or something and that totally didn’t even register with me.
48 here big dawg - the hits just keep on coming (good with the bad, too)
53 checking in 🙂
I’ve just had crisis when 28, lol. Don’t remind me.
I just say “I frequent a few niche forums”. No follow up questions. I’m old as well.
they all think you’re talking about 4chan
Or flashback.org if you are a swede
I frequent forums, too. Mostly car and motorcycle forums. Lemmy doesn’t really have those kinds of forums.
If you have content please post it. I’d love to have a motorcycle forum here but can’t really add content
You wanna see me install a Raspberry Pi 3 into my minivan to run the rear seat entertainment system? 😅
I’m more of a lurker than anything else haha. I scour forums for issues my cars/bikes are dealing with, and occasionally will ask a question here or there. I don’t really make many posts anymore, unless I’m doing a specific job or troubleshooting process that I haven’t seen documented anywhere else.
I want to know more about the raspberry pi 3 entertainment system!
If you insist 😅
https://imgur.com/a/F4PoRtg
That’s really cool! So the media system was there already, but you added the raspberry pi and modified it to accept hdmi as well?
Ah, too many of us lurkers. We have to get some content people to make content for us
I do have a blog for my XR500 that I’m slowly working to make street legal. I initially called it a “restoration”, but it’s more of a “refresh with some light modernization” than anything else haha. I intend on keeping it as apocalypse-friendly as I can, since it’s kickstart-only, runs off a CDI system, and technically doesn’t need a battery (except for lighting)… The biggest hangup I have with that bike right now is the damn 23" front wheel that’s cracked. Not a single wheel repair shop I’ve called wants to touch it, a not-cracked 23" hoop is ~$150, and it’s too much work to convert it to 21" (that requires a disc brake conversion - I’m not tracking this thing, it’s just a commuter).
Lemmy is missing so much stuff, it’s pretty tough to be only here if you want any content except (left wing) politics and tech stuff
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It is kind of crazy how motorcycle/car culture hasn’t really moved off of old-school internet forums. I very rarely need to visit them because I’m not a car guy, but I do think very fondly of them whenever I visit, they remind me of the internet of my childhood
There’s not a whole lot of crossover between car/motorcycle enthusiasts and tech enthusiasts. IT guys seem to be an exception here (source: I worked in IT for a bit), but they’re a small minority. Car enthusiasts in general tend to lean towards the conservative side of things anyway… 👀
I told one of my co-workers I used Lemmy, and he actually used Mastodan, so I’m the one who ended up asking him questions
As a 23 year old man, i quite often get the follow up “whats lemmy” but nothing beyond that.
“It’s like Reddit but less”
Then they ask me what’s reddit… And I go “it’s like Orkut communities, just without the profiles” and they go “oh that sounds cool”
(Orkut was actually a thing here in Brazil)