volvoxvsmarla

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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • That was my thought as well. I am unfortunately not able to afford an expensive phone if it won’t last significantly longer than a regular. But then again, my Xiaomi phone became unusable after about 2, maybe 3 years I think. It was just to unbearably slow. So ok, it’s about 150-200€ every 2 years - maybe 700€ for 5 wouldn’t be that bad then. I also saw there is something like a subscription thing where you pay per month?



  • For lack of a better term, girly content, and parent content. I miss A Bra That Fits, Big Boob Problems, Makeup Addiction, Babybumps, New Parents. And all those small weird (more or less) niche stuff like Minithreats or Accidental Swastika or Moldy Interesting.

    But I am still getting used to Lemmy and figuring out how this works, so maybe I have just not found the right communities yet. Searching for them and adding them is so confusing.




  • It really is. Even for data analysis there are (apparently and hopefully) much better programs/languages (not sure what term would be correct here). I was actually assigned to an institude for computational biology to help me with the coding for my Master’s thesis but the people DID NOT USE R so they didn’t provide any help anyway. And I had to use R. They mostly used mathlab. Later, when I started working, Graphpad Prism absolutely did the job necessary. Most of the “coding” I used R for could have honestly just be done in Excel.

    But the worst part of it is making it through and it completely doesn’t matter. Like, people who actually code for a living don’t care in the slightest about R. Just because I now have fought my way through it doesn’t mean it is anywhere useful to learn C or PHP or whatever, mostly because the field of use is so narrow and specific and not one of those “universal” languages (for lack of a better term) that you actually can build software and websites and apps with. I cannot code anything “for fun” even if I wanted to. I remember there was something HTML something in R, but come on. (Also I forgot what HTML is.) This is not what it is used for and it gives me nothing. While my spouse, who is a software developer with the patience of a saint when it comes to my stupid questions, used his knowledge of python to learn Rust and then play around with C and now Go and even go to a conference about Go and actually understand whats going on there. There seem to be much more crosslinks and transferring going on and also a similar usefulness.

    Please excuse the R-rant/R-rage, I am really frustrated about it because I went in with the best intentions and I wasted a year on this bullshit and it doesn’t even make my CV look good.


  • Bro I don’t even understand what a server is. My spouse explains it to me like every second week and I get it for like 30 seconds but I just don’t understand to remember. I’m also not sure what a router is. Apparently Wifi is like radio, just waves? Wtf

    I’ve got a MSc degree in Biomedicine and before going on parental leave (still am) I’ve worked in pharmaceutical research and with DNA/RNA analytical services in the lab. My biggest tech experience was trying to code with R and I hated it and it was a mess.



  • God yeah, the complexity. Yesterday late at night I decided to “check out this lemmy thing real quick and make an account”. Bad idea. I ended up on some lemmy server (?) that asked me to write a whole application to open an account before I figured out that there are different sites (?) where you can register and it somehow doesn’t matter anyway? I am not very tech savvy (I still forget/don’t get what a server is although I get a weekly explanation) and I’ve never really heard of lemmy before so somewhen around 1 am I was about to just give up because I was so confused. And this is just the beginning, I still need to figure out how to adjust everything, follow communities etc.