My oldest account is at 9 years 10 months at the moment. Was a lurker for a time before that too. I haven’t deleted my accounts out of concern of my comments reappearing, but I’ve kept any interaction with that site at a minimum.

Most of the time, I just check to see if any comments resurfaced, or if I’ve got a love letter from the admins. Neither has happened so far, but I’m not sure it won’t happen. Until then, I will keep scrubbing my accounts.

I don’t see myself returning there. I’ve lost any desire to do so, and my old, yet scrubbed accounts will serve as a reminder never to interact with that site ever again. Peek, if I must, but never interact.

Low salary, with great state of mental well-being. So long as my finances can still maintain that “great state of mental well-being.”

But you know, there’s a case to be made for enduring that high-salary, low-happiness lifestyle just for enough time to save up, and then switch to the low-salary, high-happiness life. I am not sure I can endure that though.

Ah, kaya pala di ko rin siya makita kahit na mag-search ako by post sa lemm.ee.

I was unaware of the flooding that Ondoy caused during its peak. Electricity wasn’t cut off in our area either, internet connection was doing fine as well. It was only when I attempted to go out of the house to buy some food that I realized the damage it caused. No floods in our area, thankfully, but we’re almost literally an island that day.

I should have been aware of the near-constant torrential rain all night and all throughout that morning though.

On a more practical sense, someone once told me that discipline and habit is far more important than motivation once things are properly rolling. Motivation might be the spark that gotten things rolling, but it’s discipline and habit that keeps it going. (And that I ought to listen to that advice myself.)

However, in a more philosophical sense, I think accepting that you’ve lost your own spark and facing that very question “how does one be alive?” with the intent of reigniting that lost spark is pretty much facing the absurd. That facing that question every waking day of one’s life, answering that question for every moment, is pretty much the point. Whether or not the answer makes sense (in the moment or otherwise) or not is irrelevant, because the value is not in the answer, but in the way we face it.

It could be that for today, I could face it by making a slight detour in my daily commute and allowing myself to get lost on the way home, for example. It could be that for some other day, just as an example, I could choose to face it by not wearing any underwear during a work zoom meeting, relishing on that danger of being exposed. Or it could be as trivial as making pancit by using spaghetti. Or making spaghetti by using pancit bihon. All trivial things in the big picture, but if it makes my day any little more tolerable, then so be it.

And is that a bad thing? The womb is a dark, warm, and comforting place. A place for us to get ready for the bright wide world outside.

Lemm.ee seems to be down right now.

That’s my Subscriptions feed, sorted by hot. This is the only post that’s about that orangered site.

PS: Oh, if you’re wondering, yeah, that’s from Lemm.ee I am using my lemmy.world account right now to make this comment though.

I can’t reply to lemm.ee users pero para kay megane kun yung reply ko kay decadentrebel is not lost naisingit ko lang yung about kay lemmy.world kasi mukhang maraming nagkakaproblema, mabilis naman mag comment sakin d2, di lang tlga ako maka reply sa mga lemm.ee users,

Ah, got it~ ‌Thanks!!

yung sa pangalawa naman is just a personal rant I didn’t reveal the details of what my exact problem since it’s just to lessen the burden of my problem I’m not suicidal btw I’m just extremely anxious right now and panicking since that required document will have a huge impact in the direction of my life

Ah, don’t worry about it. I hope that whatever it is, it’d eventually be alright.

One thing that I think has catapulted the amount of people flocking to lemmy.world is the reputation of the instance as being run by competent people as well as having a very decent uptime especially compared to other large instances at the time of the Reddit blackouts.

People just want to be on an instance that’s trustworthy and reliable. Thus, I kind of understand why people just piled onto Lemmy.world. Besides, a lot of them just got redirected to Lemmy.world by well-meaning people who just wanted to keep things simple–simple for the refugees who just wanted simple instructions (without having to choose an instance with everything that entails).

Wala pa ako mobile internet a long time ago so I’d have to send my tweets to a dedicated Globe number and they will post it. Parang old school telegram, lmao.

I did this for Plurk back in the late 2000’s, but not that often since the amount of lag is just incredible (but defensively so). It’s a really nifty service back then though, posting through SMS, even if limited to just text.

I didn’t even think about the possibility of government censorship, tbh. I was just thinking that creating a PH-centric instance might not be viable, but perhaps an instance to serve South-east Asia might be. I also briefly entertained the mental image of a very salty SEA-centric instance (like the infamous amount of salt present in SEA gaming servers), but that just intensifies the pun in my head.

On a more serious note, yeah. It doesn’t have to be hosted here in the Philippines, maybe perhaps Singapore? That still faces the issues of skilled admins (to handle all the technical stuff associated in hosting an instance), as well as the associated expenses (and managing donations).

French fries for me. Though recently I’ve started appreciating kamote fries.

I was talking to a friend about the recent issues Lemmy, and lemmy.world in particular is facing.

I suggested that while the scaling issues on the Lemmy software itself is being worked upon, maybe more “bland” country/region instances where people can join is a viable solution…

That I’d love to make an account on lemmy.sea (a Southeast Asian Lemmy instance)

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Grabe kung maka-Dyson, wagas!‌

I see, thanks! Suspiciously low kasi yung pasahe sa EDSA‌ bus carousel eh, that’s why I was wondering if it’s a subsidized fare.

Here’s a news story I found that makes me think it’s indeed a discounted (subsidized) price: LTFRB eyes discounts instead of ‘Libreng Sakay’ in EDSA Bus Carousel Kaso ala naman akong makitang news article kung ano nangyari dun sa plano na yan.

Ah, thanks for this info. Di pa ako nakakasakay ng EDSA bus carousel eh, pero di ba subsidized din ito? 🤔

My random guesstimate of 60 PhP for the entire line is based on pre-pandemic bus fares eh, so wala pang EDSA bus carousel.

Echoing the sentiment of the others here: MRT‌ has been operating at a loss, and this has effects on maintenance and service.

Masakit mang pasanin, kailangan talagang tanggapin. MRT without gov’t subsidy would need to charge fares roughly around 60php (random guesstimate) for the entire line–kapantay ng bus fares covering the same distance, to somehow break even. I haven’t crunched any numbers here though. Magkano na ba bus fares ngayon?

I have Mastodon, and I’ve been on the waitlist for Bluesky. I am not really into Twitter, though, and my usage of Mastodon is nearly zero.

There’s one “Twitter alternative” that I’ve used before though: Plurk.

Yep! I learned that the hard way.

A good rule of thumb that I ended up following is to “plan for your worst day.” This means that if I were to make a commitment to do something everyday, I should make sure that I can actually do it even on the days I couldn’t be bothered to do anything. Not only does it make sure that I can actually do it (and hence, form a habit), it also forces me to prioritize the things I actually want to do.

Another rule of sorts I picked up is “a moment is roughly 20 minutes.” The way I see it, it means that there’s no use micromanaging my day down to the minute. I‌ normally just divide my day into at most three chunks: morning, afternoon and evening, and then allot at most two things (appointments, errands, etc.) per chunk. That way, I won’t feel hurried or pressured for time.

But yeah, the main idea is not to make a schedule so oppressive I’d actually feel resentful at it, as you’ve said, but to make sure that it has the things I can commit myself to doing daily–even in my roughest days.