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.

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.

There’s also lemmynsfw for that kind of thing.

Wouldn’t that end up as porn?

Thanks for this tip. I’ll keep this in mind the next time I’d literally touch grass (like a camping trip or sth), lol!

If you’ve got a way to access your user profile via a browser (mobile works too), you can see your saved posts there.

On any page, click/press the hamburger icon on the top-leftmost part of your screen. It’d open up a menu (or an area) where you can see your profile picture and username at the very bottom. There’s a triangle next to your username, click/press that.

Another menu/area opens up that has options “Profile”, “Settings”, and “Logout”. Click/press “Profile” to see your user profile.

You’re then taken to a different page (which you can directly go to via https://your.lemmy.instance/u/your_username, for example:‌‌‌ https://lemmy.world/u/AllGoesUpMustGoDown). There, you can choose between “Overview”, “Comments”, “Posts” and “Saved.” That last link (to your saved posts/comments) won’t be visible to others (I tried).

PS: I tried looking for the same in wefwef, but I can’t find it as well.

PPS: Weirdly enough, it might be faster to just go directly via the address bar of your (mobile) browser if you know what you’re doing, lol!

Edit: Typos and shit. Added PPS part.

Yeah, I suppose it isn’t as crazy as I thought people would perceive it to be.

I’ve always used a Bluetooth speaker for listening to music in the shower. It’s much easier and doesn’t require me touching my phone.

Doesn’t this damage your Bluetooth speaker? Or is it, and especially its controls, waterproof/water-resistant?

Hahaha! Touché. I’ve had none. I’ve some weird thoughts as I drift off to sleep though.

I sometimes listen to music or watch videos in the shower. I double-bag it in clear plastic bags, and then put it in a safe location. When I change songs or videos, I‌ can interact with the screen like normal. Maybe it’s just my phone or the plastic bags I use–maybe both?

I use something like below, minus the ziplock:

I suppose there are actual products meant for making phones more waterproof in these situations, but I didn’t bother looking for those.

I’ve used my smartphone in the shower a handful of times already, but I usually take steps to double bag it (put it in a clear plastic bag upside down first, fold the excess, then put it in another clear plastic bag the right way up this time). I also just let it play music/video so that I can listen/watch while I shower.

It feels like a luxury to me when I do that.

“Reports revealed that the suspects were caught in the act of disrespecting the Philippine National Flag. They were observed pulling and damaging the flag before discarding it in a grassy area near the camp,” the PNP said in a statement.

The PNP said the incident occurred at 5:40 a.m. at Marine Base Gregorio Lim in Sitio Calumpang, Barangay Sapang 1 in Ternate, Cavite.

I’d understand if it’s done in some kind of protest. But without anything to go by, it just seems so lolwutrandom. Perhaps a result of a night full of alcohol and/or other substances.

But even then, so many questions still: are they tourists? How did they end up in the (marine) base? Did they sneak in? What were they thinking?

I’m aware that Richard Stallman had some questionable or inadequate behaviours. I’m not defending those nor the man himself. I’m not defending blindly following that particular human (nor any particular human). I’m defending a philosophy, not the philosopher. I claim that his historical vision and his original ideas are still adequate today. Maybe more than ever.

This is really an important note. I’ve always maintained that while not every little one of Stallman’s ideas are gold, his ideas on things he’s got expertise on (especially open-source software) are pretty much on point—even if his ideas are a bit too idealistic and are seen as aspirational ideals rather than calls for action and the fact that a lot of them are painful for ordinary people to follow.

So, I guess the problem for country subreddits opening up and doing malicious compliance is that there’s not much constraining them to a theme.

I’ve tried coming up with ideas for /r/Philippines, and to be quite honest, the couple I came up with are kinda forced and have some problems:

• Making the content all about this guy: Philip II of Spain – the problem I see with that is that it might still be interesting, or deep enough for the posts to be valuable.
• Bringing back things to normal, but with a twist: everything must be written in Tagalog, and in Baybayin (except possibly for loanwords) – the problem i see here is that it’s just way too much work for the mods (translating stuff to pure Tagalog, for one, then writing it to Baybayin). Its one redeeming factor is that without proper font support, no one will be able to read shit.

Is this a headcount of everyone who were from Rəddıt and moved over here?

If so, count me in.

Updated my app just now. It works!

Not the guy you asked, but let me try to explain the difference as far as I understand it.

Filipino is the national language of the Philippines, based on the Tagalog language, with vocabulary from various different Philippine languages such as Cebuano, Bicol, Kapangpangan, Ilocano, among others. At least, that’s how it is defined. However, since Filipino is so heavily based on Tagalog, the two names are used interchangeably to refer to what many people see as the same language.

Now, I am supposing that ‘provincial language Tagalog’ refers to the various dialects of Tagalog spoken outside of (Metro) Manila such as Bulacan Tagalog, Batangas Tagalog, Quezon Tagalog, etc.

As far as I know, the standard being taught to non-native students of Tagalog is taken from the Manila dialect.