jeffhykin

Weeding the grass and feeling good about it

If you make one I will join.

Of course I won't have anything to post because I don't own a paramotor but eventually I will!

While I don't know of any software for managing it at the moment, I'm a software engineer and it wouldn't be too hard to make a site that tracks it. I was already planning on making such a site, so when I do I'll come back here and let you know!

This is exactly what I was hoping for! Thank you so much.

These are useful categories, and "shades" is a good name.

The "now solar" almost fees more like "ancient solar" to me, because 1800's America, at least in the Appalachian mountains, very much had that kind of jugaad/frugal-engineering vibe. Places with water wheels, front yard gardens, small windmills, compost, wells, rainwater systems, and lots of clever wooden hacks. With a general style a little bit like this place

I'm not opposed to the idea but I don't know how to get it working in practice.

• Where would I put the tools? I can't host it myself because I don't have the space and I'm rarely home.
• How would I tell everyone that the service is available? I don't have a media following. People know to look at the city website for these kinds of services, in addition to the city having many avenues for announcing the service.
• If I were to ask a large donor for an initial tool supply, they would likely be confident donating to a library. But if it was just some shed somewhere, I would have a lot harder time convincing them.
• When a tool is checked-out, who would keep track of it being checked out? If there's no book-keeper equivalent, who would host a website, or prevent one bad person from just straight up stealing all the tools? If there is a book-keeper equivalent who would have the time/availability for it?

Actually, that's my point we CAN'T rank them.

• on reddit for every 1 post there are 100 or 1000 lurkers voting/ranking the post
• but on Lemmy: there are so many bot posts, that every 1 bot post has like 0.1 Lemmy users voting/ranking it

It is totally impractical for us to correctly/effectively rank the absolute torrent of posts coming from reddit, and the result is that every high quality 1000-reddit-upvote post is surrounded by an ocean of straightup-spam 1-reddit-upvote posts.

Real Lemmy posts in a community are completely drowned out by bot posts. I can't even find real users posting in a community because there's so many bot posts.

I mean ideally yeah, and I figured I'd get this comment here.

Librares receive continuous funding for books that wear out over time and books that never get returned. Our existing libraries, at least in the US, are not self perpetuating.

Proposing anything to a city council is going to be an uphill battle. And if there's one thing they're always going to ask/listen-for, it's "funding". It's a really big selling point to say the tool system won't require any continuous funds; tools are donated, use the existing library infrastructure for storage/tracking, and when a tool is not returned by the deadline, the collateral can be lent-out instead meaning the number of tools stays the same until they completely break.

If anything, I'm concerned about them saying something about collateral value-appraisal, and or cost of wear and tear (misuse/mistreatment of the tool). I want to say something along the lines of "just let the librarian eyeball it, and that should be good enough", and "the library gives a fine for a mistreated book, and they can do the same for a mistreated tool"

If people use the service a lot, and 99% of people return their tools, THEN I can easily go back to the council, present the evidence, and ask for the collateral requirement to be dropped.

It also prevents gradual decline. If someone keeps a shovel forever, but they left an axe, well now the library has an axe they can lend out.

Yeah it looks like I didn't do a good job explaining myself since I have so many comments looking for clarification.

I thought it would be easier for people to talk about a service/similar services, compared to me just describing something that might not even exist. Oh well, anyways, I edited the post to reflect what I actually was looking for but I'll paste it here too:

I'd like a small group with strict/well-defined meeting times that has a coach/conversation-conductor to keep topics on track. I feel like it would work really well to give and receive real-time advice from others with ADHD, while having a leader do stuff like

• make sure 1 person doesn't dominate the conversation
• keep meeting notes
• call/text people that miss a meeting
• follow up with people who said they were going to do something

But I've never really heard of such a system.

Thanks I appreciate the opinion :) And I'll let you know if I end up trying them.

Also fun tip for autobill stuff: I never have to remember to cancel stuff because I always use virtual credit cards (I got a privacy.com account back when it was fully free). Just create a virtual card, add a $ limit, and after the first transaction it'll decline every charge automatically. And for things I actually do use monthly and then eventually want to cancel, it's also awesome; it's 2 clicks to cancel the card for any website.

I feel like that expensive coach would be viable if split between 5-10 people. And I would want the advice from those people as well. Alas, I don't know of a service that works like that.

Life.

I mean that both as a joke, but also entirely literally. And I don't mean this as a way to brush off your comment (I'll explain) but there isn't "an area".

But also it's not a "need". If it were a need I'd look for a therapist. I've been officially diagnosed for +15 years, but I'm high functioning (an Eagle Scout, PhD student, and I'm getting married this year). I'm looking for a coach because I know I could be doing better across the board; healthier, happier, better partner in relationships, more productive at school/reseach. I keep track of missteps and their reasons; in high school I was likely operating near the best of my potential, but right now I can tell there's a sizeable gap.

The other, subtle, part of my post is I want to be able to give advice in a small group setting. I've learned a lot of things that are worth sharing, and I feel advice works best when tailored to an individual situation.