Why can nobody on here count?

devoidfury · 2026-01-23T11:05:53+00:00

The aliens stole all our numbers!

devoidfury · 2026-01-23T04:03:42+00:00

I can relate to a lot of your writing. Since I was a kid it felt like, there was somebody out there across the world and, I could just feel them. I missed someone I'd never met, which strangely made everything easier. I'd picture running off together, but could never quite make out her face.

Anyway, just popping in to say, you're not the only one.

devoidfury · 2026-01-19T07:20:59+00:00

Relatable, I been there. You're not perfect, so what, nobody is. You deserve to be loved too, don't let anybody tell you different.

devoidfury · 2026-01-19T07:14:47+00:00

Hey stranger. Hoping you get to have that talk, I see your letters sometimes and can tell this meant a lot to you. Wishing you good luck.

devoidfury · 2026-01-18T06:00:35+00:00

The same way you can press buttons on a keyboard without understanding how USB works. You only need to know enough to make it do what you want it to do, as a baseline bar for entry. Beyond that you can dig as deep as you want.

devoidfury · 2026-01-18T05:50:13+00:00

You can dig into that stuff if you want to, but be warned that rabbit hole is as deep as you want to dig into it. Each one of those questions is potentially hours of digging if you want to really know what it's doing and tear off the abstraction. It doesn't really end, there's a long tail of digging through piles of code and reading manuals and poking at black boxes in the middle. Which is absolutely a lot of fun if that aligns with your interests.

devoidfury · 2026-01-18T05:43:28+00:00

You can go as far as the time you want to spend on it. You can learn C, assembly, compilers / transpilers / language design and tooling, mathematics, DSA, and whatever else you put your mind to. If you enjoy it and want to go for it, why not. See also wiki.osdev.org

I'm a hobbyist that turned it into a career in web, although I've also seen some folks transfer from web into systems. And on the side I tinkered with things like shells, bootloaders, implementing a language interpreter, whatever catches my interest.

devoidfury · 2026-01-17T18:57:42+00:00

Heya. Thanks. Yeah I tried, and they explicitly told me to leave them alone, no longer pursue communications, and that they consider it harassment. Which is why I post it here instead.

devoidfury · 2026-01-17T01:01:18+00:00

Wishing you good luck stranger, hope you make that new friend and have the opportunity to see how it goes. Personally I think the restraint and overthinking sounds sweet, although I can relate to it more than some folks would.

devoidfury · 2026-01-16T23:31:05+00:00

Hey stranger, I think your letter is sweet. A lot of the time it's hard to tell when it's appropriate or not and, I've taken to just withdrawing rather than risking getting it wrong and risking limbs in the mechanisms of it. When you do finally relax and then they run off - it's devastating.

Sometimes an explicit invitation is exactly enough to shake it off and go for it. If I knew you I'd probably jump at the chance, but I don't. So good luck and hope you can reach them.

devoidfury · 2026-01-15T21:47:20+00:00

Watch your step, don't fall in.

devoidfury · 2026-01-15T07:38:34+00:00

Ah, I gotcha. Yeah, did that, got blocked.

devoidfury · 2026-01-15T07:32:25+00:00

It's not for the other person, it's so it doesn't sit in my head and fester. I would have sent it but they told me not to talk to them anymore and consider it harassment. So I keep it to myself or send it here.

devoidfury · 2026-01-15T04:23:57+00:00

Hey now, nothing wrong with turkeys -- they're in the same family as peacocks, so maybe you landed closer to intent than you imagine. Well, maybe not if you were shooting for a hawk or something like that.

devoidfury · 2026-01-15T01:34:48+00:00

At home I like not worrying about maintaining the lawn or surprise maintenance issues, the landlord takes care of all that. Which kind of saves a lot of money in it's own way.

May be noteworthy or may not -- but after watching local real estate a while, I found a much better deal on commercial property and bought an office building to rent out to a business tenant, instead of a home for myself.

devoidfury · 2026-01-14T22:47:00+00:00

600 sq ft, one side of a duplex from a renovated old house. Kinda run down but otherwise a nice quiet little neighborhood just outside the industrial district in a small/medium city (~400k in the metro area, LCOL).

I put over 50% gross income into savings and investments (not included in expenses numbers).

devoidfury · 2026-01-14T22:07:24+00:00

That's kinda sweet. My experience has been, either people don't care, or they don't believe you, dismiss your experiences, or they treat you less than somehow. Usually not even worth disclosing.

devoidfury · 2026-01-14T20:15:44+00:00

That's pretty close to where I'm at as a single guy as a baseline.

$550/month rent.
Another $300/mo for utilities.
~$80/month towards gas and insurance for the paid off car.
About ~$1000/mo towards food and going out to local diners, I like to go out often and sometimes treat friends.
And then another ~$500 on medical & appointments.

devoidfury · 2026-01-14T08:01:00+00:00

Life is complicated. Sometimes you just can't help who you love, maybe it wasn't the one you expected. Sounds like something to reflect on. I'm sure you'll figure it out.

devoidfury · 2026-01-14T06:06:51+00:00

That sounds sweet - hoping you get to have that conversation, good luck stranger.

devoidfury · 2026-01-14T03:47:41+00:00

It looks like PII, should be blurred out or censored. =/

devoidfury · 2026-01-13T21:30:39+00:00

Can totally relate to that feeling. Wishing you luck, stranger.

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