AppleStrudel @ AppleStrudel @reddthat.com

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If it's tax, you could pull the "you might be doing tax fraud (or some other kind of fraud if it doesn't work that way) by keeping the tax dollars only" card. I've done that before for a restaurant charging tax on the discounted part of their menu. I could readily believe that it was just some bug in the POS, it only added up to about less than $2 in total, and it certainly wasn't worth the trouble for myself to be bring it up. But those ~$2 per bill really would add up in hurting a lot of people unfairly in a very tiny way. That and that the restaurant would likely (probably?) get a very unpleasant surprise visit from revenue if they had kept it up.

Not sure how it works in Australia, but surely they could put that in as some sort of sales tax reversal or something and not need to pay for services not rendered.

Feels really nice to see my contribution at work improving a community that is so accepting. You're very quick on that too!

Clean up of orphaned dynamic cloud computing resources once they are no longer in use, should the main pipeline fail to do so, such as due to issues like the Jenkins server crashing, or from bugs from the base machine creation pipeline failing to delete them.

Having VMs continue to run without anyone's awareness for however many hours it takes someone to go in and manually clean them up can be very expensive, very very expensive. Will pay for my salary in wasted computing cost expensive. I really should get back to work, see ya 👋.

Being behind on an automation cleanup script. I didn't do very well mentally 2 days ago and had to take a day off, I do feel much better now though.

You're doing great work @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone! Keep it up!

It's nice to see a small and pleasant community grow. We really do need much more of these these days, maybe not all in one place or we may unintentionally emulate the social media giants in result if not in ideal despite our best intentions, but much more of it, in every corner of the internet.

Edit: I'm not talking about Reddthat in any way, by the way. I'm just mildly (very mildly for now) concerned when looking at Lemmy.world. It's not what their doing, or how their doing it. It's the size of that instance and the number of large communities that spring up there. I'm happy for them for reaching the size they have, but federation and decentralization are very powerful stuff that would prevent any one ideal from a very small few people from dominating. We'll all benefit from a diverse set of opinions, even if I would disagree harshly with some of them. And having them all in one place would necessarily prevent that from happening while leaving little room for alternatives.

!rainworld@lemmy.world (a game I had fond memories of) was a community in Lemmy.world. There are traces of it's existence and once some decent activity from the outside (src), but I don't know what happened to it at all. It's just gone... Maybe it's been put into private visibility, which would be the best case scenario, but I can't help but worry that something else might have happened to it. It's a really wholesome community elsewhere on Reddit and YouTube, and it would be a shame if it no longer exists in Lemmy when it once did.

We really do need that decentralization and "replication" of similar communities across different instances run by different people to not have that happen as much. Even if just to protect from a server going down completely like Lemm.ee, as well as the seeming ending of a community by other means.

Um, sorry for the long post. I just had some stuff on my mind, I didn't intend to make it this long when I did the edit.

We do them this way for our Jira tickets at work too (but by component/product). It really is the easiest in the absence of flairs.

Well, I mean, if it works as intended.

For me, it's less about spending money to "pay to win" your way to a higher skill level in a sport via "equipment doping" and more about how much more enjoyment you can get out of it. Below a certain grade and quality, equipment starts to actively get in your way compared to a comparable fairly priced alternative. I'm not going to completely overspend on it, but if I'm not otherwise strapped for cash, I'm not going to grit my teeth and bare it. You can always earn more money, but you can never get your time back. And life is just too short to be cheapening out your experiences like that.

I could have sworn rounding up would've been just enough to cover it. But after fees, I've appeared to have fallen just short.

But that should be okay, this should help relieve you of that donation stress for the year ahead I hope.

So, seeing as how it is now at $19.63/week, and assuming you're not getting any donations from anywhere else...

You're short about just under A$38/month.

It wouldn't be fair for you to both maintain the server on your own time and pay for it out of your own pocket...

Ah, why not. Here's a year's worth of $38/month (A$456) to tide you over.

Thanks for the info, and thank you for being so welcoming.

That sounds like a pretty neat system actually. No community is actually truly dead that way, any new content would be given a fair chance in /all/.

Your pen holder... Is that stiched into the notebook cover? It's really cool.

I currently have a single Midori MD A6 blank notebook as my everything book. I'll take my meeting notes in there, maintain my bullet journaling, routine tracking, the occasional impassioned words on paper while I try to process my thoughts and emotions, some ideas and learnings I got from books I've read and musings I came up with, etc, etc.

I'm tempted to split it up into multiple notebooks to organize it all better, but I know if I do, none of them put together would've gotten filled nearly as much as the one book that I would take with me everywhere. Just a few short months ago, I had tried starting a "Done" List for motivational purposes. But like every other time I had tried, it had failed completely to neglect within the first few pages, and then I would give up completely on it.

So one notebook, and one only. That's my current plan for the foreseeable future. I just make sure I've got a crazy amount of ribbons to know where to return to in all that mess.

Thanks! I'll try to make this the best positive experience I can for social media.

Thanks a lot. I feel so welcomed already.

I'm counting on the lack of algorithms and even the lack of endless niche content of every conceivable subject to make my use of "Reddit" a far healthier affair. Reddit wasn't good for me, but I know I can't give up on an online community entirely. I love to participate and share way too much not to be sucked in again, and without an alternative, I fear I would've likely returned there, and shackle myself once again with a new account.

I wouldn't want that.

I know there are other, more active ADHD communities out there, in fact, I deliberately chose this one because I didn't want this to be some public performance. The ADHD community here is the very definition of dead, I'm the only post here after all, and only Reddthat users should've seen this at all on their local feed if they even would, or at least that was my intention.

Seeing a comment from another instance is a surprise. Not an unwelcomed one, a very pleasant and special one in fact. You must be 1 of the only 80 subscribers here (previously 78), a tiny—and can be argued, were this Reddit: positively insignificant—amount in social media terms. There are no algorithms of discovery that would otherwise bring my post to you, what are the odds. What are the odds.

I had never gone into Reddit to chase inconsequential numbers, and a few comments here and there in a 100k subscriber sub is just inevitable, even if they would make me happy when they're the positive and encouraging kind.

This, this is special.

I think I know what one of them might be: "A friend".