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lucidiot

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Retrospring shuts down in March 2025. I will be moving to https://ask.absturztau.be/@lucidiot

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~lucidiot · 4mo

Migration PSA

Once Retrospring.net shuts down, I plan to migrate to Fragsturztaube.

If you're moving there too, feel free to follow me, but don't expect me to answer questions in a timely manner yet. I do not intend to be fully active on here until the OG Retrospring shuts down. My limit for how much social media I can handle is low so I don't intend to be on two instances at once!

I might put up a page somewhere on one of my websites to include some of the long answers I posted on Retrospring.net, so they don't disappear after it dies.

~lucidiot · 4mo · Pinned

You · 1d

What do you do when you are chronicling your day in your journal and suddenly remember that you left out an important part?

If the rest of the day does not make any sense without this part, I will try to write it in immediately, starting with writing that I forgot to mention something, and maybe summarizing in what sentence the correct order of things so that it stays in order in my head. If I need to or want to write it only later, I write a sticky note and put it on the next page so I don't forget to do that. I sometimes end up keeping the sticky notes and sticking them more permanently into the journal to decorate a bit.

~lucidiot · 1d

You · 2d

Have you ever thought of becoming a hermit?

I have. I don't have that much of an effort to do to get there since I have less and less opportunities to form any kind of relationship with people. I expect to live my entire life mostly alone. But I still have to interact with people to survive even if I can't get close to them at all, so I couldn't ever be completely isolated from anyone even if I tried.

~lucidiot · 1d

Lian · 7 answers · 3d

What's your favorite fictional relationship dynamic, if you have one?

I like reading Doctor Who fanfiction (and none from other shows I like somehow), and my two favorite ships in there are TenRose (tenth doctor and rose tyler), and Thasmin (thirteenth doctor and yasmin kahn, yuri!).

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Flufyf · 3d

Do you sometimes feel the need for a better Internet connection to upload data than VDSL, with the selfhosting you do ?

I don't have enough traffic going to my server for upload to truly be a problem. The most bandwidthphage thing is Syncthing and it just syncs in the background so I don't ever notice any trouble lol

~lucidiot · 3d

You · 3d

Do you ever take pictures of people? Have you ever been asked to?

I initially got my camera to get me to explore my city more and notice the little details that can make a walk much more interesting than just ignoring everything all the way to my destination. I go out with my camera usually to explore a urban area, having researched the architecture and urbanism beforehand, and my subjects are not human beings: buildings, vehicles, infrastructure, litter, plants, clouds, etc. I don't shoot for money or fame, just for my own fun. I don't do photo shoots with models, and if I was asked to take photos of people for their own benefit and felt comfortable saying no, I would say no.

However, following the tips I got from various photography books I read, if there are people in front of the camera, if they are not identifiable and if they add an interesting component to my photo, then I will take the photo. If I'm not sure, I take the photo and decide what to do with it later at home. I might also consider waiting for someone to walk by if I feel a photo needs it, but that has yet to happen.

I remember taking photos of people five times out of my own will:

two with a friend who was okay with starring in some photos if I felt like it
one with a relative who I asked to turn their back to me to look at a sunset
one of a stranger standing in front of two rivers with their back to me

And one day, there was some shady looking person who wanted me to shoot them. I was alone in an area I didn't know well with 2000€ of camera gear on me and didn't feel comfortable saying no, so I took a few photos. They gave me their contact info and left, as they wanted the photos to show off on social media or something. I deleted those photos when I sorted through them at home and never got in touch.

~lucidiot · 3d

You · 4d

Is lichen ethical?

I don't see why it wouldn't be

~lucidiot · 4d

You · 4d

How often do you piss?

A few times a day, I have better things to do than keep count of that

~lucidiot · 4d

You · 4d

Do you think some people were just meant to be lovely?

Depends on what you mean by meant. I don't think anyone is completely predestined to be anything when they are born, because it isn't all about genetics. Their childhood will define how they are; whether they are raised as a gifted child, a spoiled brat, abandoned, abused, etc. will have a lasting impact. This is why I think most neurotypicals cannot be good parents: they simply do not understand this and will believe they still can live their own lives while parenting.

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Flufyf · 5d

Have you ever been on an aerial way of transport (plane, hot air ballon, giant eagle catching you in their claws…) ?

I did one flight on a Cessna with my grandfather, who used to be a pilot, and a friend of his who flew the plane. It was a while ago and I forgot most of it. I'm fairly sure I was really scared, and it probably lasted for an hour or so. I also went on a flight of probably just a few minutes in the front passenger seat of a helicopter during a fair organized by the local military base. I did not get captured by any birb yet!

~lucidiot · 5d

You · 5d

I’ve enjoyed your brain stall recovery metaphor ! I only felt this instinctively, and it’s cool to see it theorized by someone else !

Glad you like it. I hope your brain doesn't end up in a crash investigation :p

~lucidiot · 5d

You · 6d

Have you ever been in an assassination?

I have unfortunately never been involved in a buttbuttination

~lucidiot · 6d

You · 6d

Have you ever been in an association ?

Yup. I was invited into one that was running an e-commerce website to allow people to buy things from independent shops in the city center and get them delivered, to try to help support local shops. I had tea weekly with the other members after school, where i was mostly just chipping in with ideas and searching for things online. I ran the Facebook and Twitter accounts of the association as well. That was fun and lasted for a few months, but we simply couldn't keep it running because we weren't getting any support from the municipality to provide better services and were stuck in some problematic contracts with the bank that we could only cancel by closing entirely. This whole project was inspired by a similar initiative from another city one train station away that greatly succeeded; the only difference with us was that they had gotten support from the municipality.

~lucidiot · 6d

You · 7d

Are you into papercrafts?

I just like to use notebooks, fill them with text or stickers or washi tape or whatever. I rarely ever use paper if it doesn't end up into a notebook afterwards, so I don't do origami for example.

~lucidiot · 6d

You · 7d

Isn't the "cocrafting space" basically a makerspace?

It is like a makerspace yes, but instead of providing you machines, tools and workshops to work with wood or metal and whatnot and build things, it's aimed at working with paper.

~lucidiot · 7d

You · 7d

What are you most ashamed of?

Spending too long thinking about shameful things will make me spiral down some negative thoughts, and there are a lot that I don't want to talk about publicly, so I can't reply to most questions about shameful things. I'm not even sure of how to really compare each shameful thing to find the worst one. I guess it just depends on the day, depends on what my mind wants to bulli me with that day. I've got enough distractions to make it stay rather quiet today and I would rather not change that lol