ALostInquirer

Whether it's a form of note-taking or regular repetition or the like, what are some self-education techniques and tools you've developed to help yourself learn on your own?

It's always interesting imo to read about how some folks teach themselves different stuff.

There's herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores, but is there any category of animal life that can sustain itself on anything else that isn't related to living organisms?

Is the only known example of this at the moment basically...Plants, give or take the particular species & how one may interpret the question of relation to other life?

Phone number or other contact info. Supposing you're on good terms, they're not someone you're interested in romantically or the like (so none of the anxiety from that at least), what's kept you from asking?

Supposing that something has on occasion, anyway.

Or is that more of a stereotype, and there are some (maybe more?) out there using some form of graphical interfaces/web dashboards/etc.?

It's struck me as interesting how when you look up info about managing servers that they primarily go through command-line interfaces/terminals/etc. It's made me wonder how much of that's preference and how much of it's an absence of graphical interfaces.

Awhile ago I started dabbling with espeak-ng and through some trial & error managed to get some fun sounding results, but I had to trial & error as I had difficulty finding advice or guides on using it. Would anyone here happen to have any pointers to more info on how to work with espeak-ng in general?

To be clear, I'm not trying to make it sound more human, and in fact, I like that it doesn't sound that human, which is part of why I'm using it. Machine-speech as its own distinct voice is fascinating & cool to me.

Mainly I'm trying to learn how to adjust some of its enunciation so that it may be more readily understood, and maybe some ways to enable it to vocalize nonsense with slightly more flow rather than flopping over & repeating letters, lol

Do you have some methods to mitigate the downsides of search engines and "AI" summarizers? Besides talking to folks online, what other methods might one use to sift through the internet's vast expanses?

Not that I mind the last option, but for any of us to be able to provide each other novel information that we couldn't otherwise search, it seems like there must be some other way to find info that one hasn't produced or compiled themselves.

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For a more recent & livelier discussion of a similar topic, see this thread.

And in a similar vein, does the "Hot" sort type still cause issues as noted in some older posts?

The reason I ask is that I wonder if perhaps the default should be different, or if some encouragement to run a different sort type for awhile after spinning up an instance might be wise. As-is, if other software is any indication, many will stick with the defaults and the folks that join may leave if they get tired of them before even considering adjusting them.

For those that have poked around other fediverse stuff beyond Lemmy, and been around the spaces awhile, what's stuck out to you as stumbling blocks, or basic user experience fumbles? Which parts do you think may be technical, and which may be cultural?

Assuaging or reconciling, couldn't really decide.

Lately I've been feeling in something of a rut on how to go about participating in much of, well, anything given how things are. You buy this or that, despite knowing workers probably aren't being treated well, but you aren't sure what you could do to help.

This could be anything ranging from histories of organizing to help guide action, contemporary works that better help pointing to what may be done today, or general old meditations on this from throughout time.

One I've already set aside to dig through, despite some misgivings with it from parts I've read (or perhaps it was from another related work by the author, it's been awhile), is Moral Man and Immoral Society by Reinhold Niebuhr.

Another I've kept meaning to finish that somewhat touches on this subject as well was Pragmatism by William James, which I'd easily recommend as remarkably prescient for the time it was written, at least imo.

Thanks for any suggestions, and p.s. the first book I've mentioned may be available through your library if you're curious about it.

As an example, you're having a good conversation but have to part, and the other person goes, "Oh btw are you on [social media/messaging app/whatever]?"

I think I already know what the common answer may be, but I'm curious to see how wrong I might be.

Given the approach/philosophy of Beehaw, I'm kind of confused and surprised by the choice of Lemmy for building this community space. Not that I disagree with it, but it undeniably complicates administration/moderation in a variety of ways thanks to federation (as has become apparent with new Lemmy instances & the population surge) and its modest development only compounds those complications through lack of sufficient tools.

Was this something of a hindsight is 20/20 situation, wherein with more consideration, something else may have been adopted? Or has it been banking on some optimism in federated communities becoming the new norm?

I've read over some of the philosophy/thinking posts regarding Beehaw, but so far as I recall this technical choice wasn't a focal point in them. Sorry if I overlooked some explanations, though!

Whether it's hiking, driving, or roaming around a new city, would love to read your tales of disorientation!