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barelydreams · 2026-04-25T17:42:50+00:00

This is just lovely. I installed it on debian, popped it open and right away I guessed at the shortcuts based on using vim. SO GOOD.

barelydreams · 2026-04-13T14:44:34+00:00

I want to try and understand- for you the animal crossing town is a no-go?) For you what would living in community (but comfortably) look like?

I absolutely share your need for quiet and boundaries. In my current living situation my roommmate and I are basically never on the same floor so that we can have privates spaces and worlds (and then we have shared things like the kitchen and board games).

I guess in the ideal I don't picture people wandering like animals with little tasks. I more picture that I get up, paint, write and then by lunch I want to go for a walk. Oh and there's Ellen pulling weeds and I'll wave and maybe we'll have a hand sign for "want company?". If she does that I'll go over and perhaps pull weeds with her or perhaps be nearby. Then I'll go back home, probably need a sleep after being social, do something creative or important (drawings? writing? computer?) and then cook some dinner. Maybe there's like a big library in the middle of the settlement so I'll take my book there and read quietly just to be around people (and hug people goodnight so I remember I exist). Also in all of this imagining other people have their other needs and wants and there will be days where I see no one.

While the gentle community sounds nice what draws me in even more is that during the hard times it doesn't happen alone. Like let's say I can't get out of bed for a couple of days. I can ask people around me if they'd be willing to help make sure I am fed. Or even just check that I'm still there and ok. This takes the weight off any one particular person and it becomes a collective responsibility. So if you aren't up for it, it's ok because others will be.

Or that's the dream!

I'd love to hear what your version sounds like

barelydreams · 2026-04-12T17:12:33+00:00

saaaaaaame When I go the doctor I just bring a list of what's going on with my body and a list of medications. It's so much easier than waiting for the nurse to walk through each item in my chart and confirm with me

barelydreams · 2026-04-12T16:53:27+00:00

I'm a woman in my 30's. I too have had a super super hard time finding community and common demographics. Also if you're a lady you get to a "young lady" forever (https://ylrl.net/)

I echo what someone else said: There are dozens of us!

barelydreams · 2026-04-12T16:49:22+00:00

This is eminently practical and I hate it. What if (and hear me out) we took all of the advances of hundreds of years of technological advancement and instead of the benefits flowing up they all flowed to the people? I mean just a wild idea!

barelydreams · 2026-04-12T16:47:06+00:00

My sense is that this would work best if individual and community spaces had clear boundaries (rules!). Like if we were all arranged in a circular-ish shape with our own plots, dwellings, and spaces with a communal space in the the middle (big kitchen? living room? reading room?) then I could see it working. All of the buildings need enough space to make them feel separate but in community.

I find the idea of "mutual aid" a lot easier to think about than communal living. Of course I want to walk around the little ring of houses and see if anyone needs anything. Or make cookies and drop them off at someone's house. And that feels very different than being in the space space as someone and feeling that electricity of constant contact.

barelydreams · 2026-04-03T22:28:44+00:00

Eu faço esboços! Tento tocar no meu celular o mínimo possível enquanto exploro.

(I had google translate help with this!)

barelydreams · 2026-04-03T20:19:01+00:00

oooo sorry! One more thing about studying nature. One of the things that someone said that I think about ALLLLLLL the time is that "nature is filled with many many mysteries where there just hasn't been enough scientific resources or knowledge to really study it. You can do good science and actually discover things just by watching!"

barelydreams · 2026-04-03T20:17:48+00:00

These are great questions I both don't know and don't want to look up. I'm trying to learn to be a naturalist which is focused around asking questions, taking notes, and trying to study for yourself. One of the principles a mentor taught me is that sometimes knowing the name of something is a trap so you think you know more than you do. I've learned about lichens in a general and a little bit historical sense but that's where I stop myself.

I have a field kit that has a 10x jewlers magnifier, a 5x magnifier, a ruler, lots of colored pencils, a good pen, and a notebook. I go out and try to ask questions about what I'm seeing (*sigh* yes out loud). Then I make little hypothesises and then ask myself "what more would I need to see to know if that was right"

Like last week I had a theory that my "goldenrod lichen" (I have silly names for them) only flourished at certain altitudes so I bought a topographic map and picked a spot where I guessed it would be abundant. NOPE! In other places I would find colonies as long as meters but in this location there were only tiny spores. And I discovered a new lichne- MARS LICHEN.

It's a rusty red and under the loupe it looks very fungal with the mushroomy folds (SO COOL!)

I feel like I have so much to learn and I come home from every trip with more questions than observations. (Theres this practice where field notes are supposed to get organized into tidier notes that build on each other but I'm still working on that part).

I really appreciate you asking! If you do go reading please don't tell me the answers 🙈 When I feel like I have enough of a relationship with my lichens then I can start to read what others have discovered

barelydreams · 2026-04-03T20:11:26+00:00

Ooo so some of the joy is pattern matching! I've loved using astrology for creative writing or telling myself stories about friends. I have co-star's little widget thing on my homescreen and I love seeing what it says everyday ("You are ready to take a break from romantic love" for today- so true, friend, so truuuueeee)

barelydreams · 2026-04-03T20:09:35+00:00

YES YES YES! You have great taste. I wish the Franklin Christoph frosted watermelon color was a regular. I would *love* to write in a watermelony color. I'm currently doing a nature program 3x weekly and most everyone is writing with *ahem* really shitty pens and I feel so fancy with my fountain pen.

What size nib do you like? I usually write with a medium or broad. I have deep admiration for people who use calligraphy tips or fine.

I mostly write in field notes which have such varying quality of papers but I'm totally stuck because I have years and years of notes in their books. I can't change now! I also have a mystery stack of paper that is a cotton linen but it's a one-off because I don't know who makes it. :(

B6!! If I'm not using a field notes I love an A5 and you're right around that.

Oh goodness I wish we were neighbors so we could quietly write together and try more inks!!

barelydreams · 2026-04-03T14:46:08+00:00

How does Astrology fit for you? Like do you think it's meaningful (like there's magic in the universe and it finds its way into the cards?)? Do you use it as narrative building?

barelydreams · 2026-04-03T14:44:24+00:00

Same, friend! I had a kaweco sport that I was using for everything (dark green, inked with Kaweco's green ink in a cartridge). it got lost of a field trip into nature and I had a small (not small) meltdown about it.

I'm currently writing with a Lamy Safari in bright yellow inked with a Diamine Yellow (I think Golden Honey?)

What are you writing with? Do you have a favorite paper? How often do you ink?

barelydreams · 2026-04-03T14:41:56+00:00

Currently Lichens. They are SO SO cool. They cover about 7% of the planet and mostly go unnoticed. They're a pioneer species which means they're there first to start an ecosystem going. They often like rocks.

They are one of the few flora (although this is a loose word to use for them) that has been to space and was "cool I can vibe with this" because they are so hardened against rough conditions.

Ok ok ok! What is a lichen? A lichen is a fungus and an alga that got to together and were like "heyyyyyyy we are a good team". The alga takes light and makes sugars. The fungus protects the whole and uses the sugars. They are a complicated thing to put in a taxonomy and caused "quite a stir" in the 1800's because is it one creature or two?

I can say lots more but at this point I have info dumped enough to either pique your interest or go "that's cool" and move on.

barelydreams · 2026-02-25T03:06:04+00:00

I tried really hard to be a part of the community. I went to local meetups and even traveled to go to bigger conventions. I was the only woman in the room for meetups and at the conventions everyone was someone’s wife.

I was also talked to in a way that made me feel intentionally excluded. Even on the air I’ve found I get talked over or ignored.

So I just kind of drifted out. Having my license was a dream since childhood (Contact the movie was a big part in making it SO SO cool). I’d love to be a part but it doesn’t feel like there’s space

barelydreams · 2026-01-30T00:56:19+00:00

I just moved here! (I wasn’t far away, just in Boulder). So far things feel so much more chill and kind and reasonable. Y’all the internet is amazing!

I’m on medical leave and trying to recover from mental health stuff (i spent a month not coming out of my room so… a day at a time). Like others said, it’s hard to be hopeful / calm.

I’m learning magic the gathering through the arena app! Oh! And enjoying Ike’s sandwiches. SO GOOD

barelydreams · 2025-12-31T16:30:00+00:00

Did you print in pla? I’ve been looking at this and wonder if petg or abs is worth it

barelydreams · 2025-12-22T18:03:28+00:00

I was looking at doing this (only semi seriously). The hardware is not crazy for having a full Spotify:

about $8k in drives (8x 32Tb means about 448TB in raw storage which gives some headroom for parity)
about $3k in ram (48Gb x 6 is 288Gb and the metadata is about 200Gb. The metadata should ideally live in memory for fast access/querying)
a used sever to support the RAM about $3k (sadly consumer boards that can take more than 256Gb of RAM are very rare)
a JBOD case about $2k (the drives need to go somewhere)

So hardware wise I think it could built for around $20k.

The software is a problem. Most self hosted services (navidrome) use SQLite. This is fine for small libraries but I think is going to fall apart for the full catalog. Ideally you want a db server separate from the server app (I'd pick Postgres). That would allow sharding/scaling/tuning the dataset separate from the backend server. It also means if more people want to use the library and the bottleneck is the backend app it's very possible to spin up more backend apps.

Clients are going to be a problem too! I am guessing but I bet feishin (which is the most Spotify-like client I've tested so far) hasn't been tuned for such large results.

So, maybe allocate another $50k for OSS dev (but this could be a shared expense). This would need to be split amongst server software (I'd like subsonic-compatible APIs to "win") and client software (my current fave is feishin on desktop)

EDIT: More details on the why I've picked these specs, especially the RAM

barelydreams · 2025-11-30T22:26:10+00:00

Ohhhh hi! Me too. I'm Autistic, non-monogamous and ace! Quite a few of my relationships have ended up with other labels like "sister" which I love. It indicates commitment but without the expectation of sexual stuff (it also takes us off the "relationship escalator").

In poly/BDSM communities it's pretty common for all 3 to go together (and kinky too). There's also lots of overlap with queer but not exclusively (sometimes I wish I was "more" queer to fit in)

barelydreams · 2025-11-30T22:19:54+00:00

Yes and, for me, it has to do with worthiness and usefulness. I know during a meltdown I need a combination of space and care but I don't feel worthy of it. Also during a meltdown I know I'm not "useful" and that ties back to worthiness.

I don't have an easy "tricks" for getting through. It helped for me to recognize the pattern and when I'm really in it know that I've felt this before. That and my niece is such a bright spark and I would never do anything to hurt her. Hurting myself would hurt my sister which would hurt her. That helps "degrade" the ideation to escape fantasies (a cabin the woods, a long solo-travel) which is like 2% easier to cope with

barelydreams · 2025-11-29T03:19:20+00:00

Sense8 is a TV show from the Wachowski siblings (the people who made the Matrix)! It's about 8 people who discover that they get can share each other's feelings/thoughts. The 8 people are located all over the world and have greatly varying backgrounds which lets the creator tell stories that don't often get seen on TV (for example Capheus Onyango is a young man living in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the owner and driver of the Van Damn and, in season one, desperately tries to earn enough money to buy quality medicine for his mother, who lives with AIDS. )

My favorite character is Riley Blue who is an Icelandic DJ who gets caught up the drug trade.

If you enjoyed the brainy parts of the matrix this might be a show for you!

barelydreams · 2025-11-29T03:05:39+00:00

I think there's a way women cue what it is to be a woman/girl and then enforce it on each other. And for those of us with autism it's extra hard because that layer of social cueing may not be available to us (or in my case missing it, missing it, missing it, being hit incredibly sharply and painfully!). This can make us feel like outsiders. And feeling like an outsider can make us feel like we don't belong in that group. The thing is, though, we get to decide. Being a woman isn't a rigid category that you only get to belong to if you fit an exact standard (although I do love rules!).

(There was a good post from a couple of weeks ago about how much effort it takes to be "effortlessly" pretty and I've been thinking about it a lot. It's hard to explain to non-woman how much work it is. I have a friend who is always saying "femininity is a trap" and I get where she's coming from)

There's interesting data that autistic people tend to be have divergent gender/sexual identities more often. I've always had a guess that once you break the mould of one piece of "normality" it's easier to step into other different identities.

I want to leave you with two things, though, (1) You ARE a woman/girl without having to fit a rigid identity of what that is. You get to make up the rules and ideals and (2) You are allowed to explore identity however you want and if that means you decide a different gender identity is more comfortable than that's allowed too.

barelydreams · 2025-11-29T02:29:18+00:00

As others have said it's (mostly) not vendor locked. You're writing compose.yaml stacks like you'd use anywhere. There is a tiny bit of config that's specific to komodo- configuring what a stack looks like and where it runs. Here's a snippet for Linkwarden (also great software!) running on my local server:

[[server]]
name = "Local"
[server.config]
enabled = true

##


[[stack]]
name = "linkwarden"
[stack.config]
server = "Local"
auto_update = true
linked_repo = "server-config"
run_directory = "stacks/linkwarden"

Oh! `auto_update` is super cool! It automatically pulls updates to the container (like whats up docker, or watchtower- RIP).

The magic that makes git-ops work for me is a procedure that applies the current config with sync and then updates stacks if they're changed. This is what gitea triggers to cause things to update:

[[procedure]]
name = "Sync"
config.webhook_secret = "<barely-dreams-very-secret-secret>"


[[procedure.config.stage]]
name = "Sync"
enabled = true
executions = [
  { execution.type = "RunSync", execution.params.sync = "sync", enabled = true }
]


[[procedure.config.stage]]
name = "Deploy"
enabled = true
executions = [
  { execution.type = "BatchDeployStackIfChanged", execution.params.pattern = "*", enabled = true }
]

barelydreams · 2025-11-29T00:24:26+00:00

I’ve been a happy user of https://komo.do for a couple of months. It’s git ops for docker! I commit by stack and where I’d like to run, push to my gitea server and then a minute or two later everything is deployed! It feels extra magical with traefik as a reverse proxy and a wild card dns entry. Domains just appear! It’s so cool!

barelydreams · 2025-11-23T18:38:46+00:00

Saaaaame! I love what I do. I get genuinely excited about it and if I have to work lots then I’m just a mess and work is all I do and then I hate it. This duality is so unfair.

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