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nohappynonsense 4 months ago

Yesterday I hemmed and hawed inside my local thrift store for nearly 20 minutes deciding if I should buy the Season 1 and Season 2 box sets of The Simpsons on DVD. They were priced at $5 each; if I had UK prices I'd probably have an entire collection of DVDs already.

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mikegrindle 4 months ago

I haven't seen any Simpsons yet, but I did find a boxset containing two seasons of The Office (the UK version) for effectively 10p. So, it's theoretically possible that you could get the entire golden era of the Simpsons for like a quid if you were super lucky.

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nohappynonsense 4 months ago

Okay but what is a quid, some kind of bird or something?

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sorbier 4 months ago

"I'll also spare you a lecture on why I dislike the current state of streaming." what? noooooooooooo

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mikegrindle 4 months ago

@nohappynonsense it’s a pound sterling (‘init, bruv?’)

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mikegrindle 4 months ago

@sorbier maybe another time when I feel like having a good moan

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colexdev 4 months ago

I agree with sorbier. I would love to hear your thoughts on that! I have been doing some thinking about "real things" (physical things) recently too, and the pros and cons. As I am with you, streaming can suck :(

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vegacollective 4 months ago

There can be something tactile about physical media, especially things like vinyl. But in an ecosystem where anything could be pulled from a streaming library there is a comfort in being able to hold any physical object that cannot be taken away and potentially even added to a collection of media that can be held in esteem rather than immediately discarded.

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Your photography is wonderful! I really enjoyed looking through your page.
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colexdev 4 months ago

Thank you so much. That means a lot. Your photography is amazing. I am in love with the old school film look.

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manyface 4 months ago

Ah, thank you so much! I appreciate that, we need to take more photos with our film camera...

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Your photography is stunning. The best I have seen on Neocities so far.
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410 4 months ago

thank you so much!! your photos are beautiful :-)

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elilenti 4 months ago

This is a topic that has often weighed on my mind when giving advice to friends. What do you do when they're not receptive? I think one should be gentle but firm in their answer. Do not press upon the person to accept your solutions or ideas right at that moment. But if the topic comes up another day, don't censor yourself, but repeat the same answer you gave before with the same delicacy.

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elilenti 4 months ago

From my own experience, I tend to have "epiphanies" when it come to solving the major problems in my life. I might already know the answer logically, but it takes a bit for me to emotionally accept. (And this acceptance feels like an epiphany to me.) The idea has to germinate in my head a bit, as you say. I think other people probably work similarly, and need time to sit and chew on the information you gave them in t

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elilenti 4 months ago

them in the back of their heads. Especially more emotional sorts like myself.

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elilenti 4 months ago

We can hope that after handling advice this way to others that they take it, and the solution works out in their favor. Some might never try out your ideas though. Too stuck in their own problems, making them self-absorbed. If a sheep is solely fixated on the sheen of his own coat, he'll miss out on how other sheep beautify theirs.

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elilenti 4 months ago

Though, I think good people who are explorative and genuinely open to new ideas and solutions won't have this problem. They will at least consider and play with your ideas a bit and see if they like them or not.

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elilenti 4 months ago

Be careful with concealing how you truly feel about an idea with others. It might be wise to do this a bit if there's a disagreement, to maintain the relationship you have with the other person. But you shouldn't have to do this too much. In my experience, when I concealed how I truly felt about situations or ideas too much, it made me think ill of myself.

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elilenti 4 months ago

Like my thoughts were too strange for people, and that thinking killed my confidence. Really, I just needed to find better company. I'm glad your Dad was receptive of your ideas. The fact that he was willing to reconsider after a bit of time says a lot of good about him.

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colexdev 4 months ago

@elilenti I agree with what you are saying about "epiphanies". I have been calling them "revelations" to myself but I think that your word is much better. I have been thinking about writing about them as well.

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colexdev 4 months ago

I love your idea about the sheep. What a wonderful analogy that also relates back to the one I shared in the post. I am going to save that one. Also I noticed you saying to be careful about concealing your feelings. I may have come across the wrong way. I didn't meant to say that one should hide how they feel, just not force ideas if someone is not wanting to listen. Which part comes off as concealing the ideas?

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colexdev 4 months ago

Yeah it can be tough to find people that share your same thoughts and ideas or people that will be open to hearing them. Just keep on looking for that good company. I believe that it is worth the search.

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heya, i remember you posted something about robots.txt earlier -- that's mostly a convention with no guarantee anyone on the web will follow it. you can request x-bot not to crawl your site but they still can if they want to.
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sorbier 4 months ago

i'm sure you already know! but i just wanted to leave the note! openai seems to be ignoring it for example: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-ai-ignore-rule-scraping-web-contect-robotstxt

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colexdev 4 months ago

Yeah it is very unfortunate that they will not follow it. I know this doesn't apply to neocities, but for people that host their own sites I recently heard cloudflare released a feature to block AI bots.

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mikegrindle 4 months ago

Absolutely, all the robots file does is state that you do not consent - whether companies listen to that (often, they don't) is another matter. I think it's worth doing, but I didn't mean to create a false sense of security.

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I was going back through your old thought reel and had a question. You say that you would like to live a simple life in a cottage away from technology but it is only for the rich. Why do you think so? If you can live frugally I think it is doable. Land can be fairly inexpensive, you can build a small place or buy land with a small place on it. This is something I have been looking into as it interests me as well.
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elilenti 4 months ago

I saw your message, I just want to put some care in my response. :)

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colexdev 4 months ago

Sounds good! No rush, I appreciate it :)

Neocities has been good to me. I have found some great sites on here and talked with some lovely people. But does anyone else dislike the metrics? The follower number, view count and likes on updates/posts. One reason I avoid social media is to avoid having a number correlated with my worth. I was just thinking about it recently and was curious on what opinions others had.
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elilenti 4 months ago

i don't think the view count is accurate. a lot, a lot of it is bots. im probably not the popular opinion on the site but i enjoy having followers and likes. i think there's a way to turn off the like and follower stuff in ur settings tho

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I don't know if I've explicitly told you before, so I'll say it now: your writing is damn good Mr V. Enjoyed the new story too
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nohappynonsense 4 months ago

Hey Grindy - thanks for that. It means a lot, especially coming from you.

nohappynonsense 4 months ago

Your writing is more than just good (it is good though, let's be clear,) but it's also useful in a way that I find extremely meaningful. I was thinking how to sum up your mix of tech, creativity, slow lifestyle writing and the best thing I've come up with so far is "Quietly Important."

nohappynonsense 4 months ago

These topics aren't these large scope things that a lot of writers cover off with platitudes and lots of evergreen nonsense about living a more meaningful life; your writing is the antithesis to that. Small and actionable things that make slow but long-lasting change in the way one thinks and acts.

nohappynonsense 4 months ago

Your "can your site fit on a floppy" article made me re-think my entire site design and ultimately made me into a better dev when I pushed myself to lower my site size as radically as possible without losing functionality. So, thank you, Grinds. Your work is quietly important, at least to me.

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mikegrindle 4 months ago

"Quietly important" has to be nicest genuine thing someone has said about my writing. Really appreciate that coming from you.

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