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Yeah! Not enough lynching going on nowadays.

/s (almost forgot it)

On est en train de doucement re-regarder les DVD de la série 'Sherlock Holmes' de 1984 (Granada), avec les excellents Jeremy Brett et David Burke.

Pour moi, Brett est toujours la plus jouissive des incarnations de Sherlock Holmes. Il est juste parfait, du moins dans la première saison (edit: celle qu'on regarde pour le moment), et son partenaire Watson/Burke est jouissif lui aussi. Je suis comme un gosse quand je les regarde jouer (et c'est un compliment), je me régale ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(1984_TV_series)

Thx for your feedback.

I’m almost positive that you can become a mod even if it isn’t on your instance.

That would be a fine compromise, even though I would probably not pick me as a mod if there was any alternative :p

it can be harder to mod due to federation issues though.

Not sure to understand that, but that shouldn't come as a surprise since I've no expertise on the internals of Lemmy.

I remember reading their first few issues (not that I am old, I am a time traveler that's it). I liked their magazine and that they made their PDF for screen. I also liked its quirks. But back then I was not even a Linux user so I did not follow their work, and nowadays I don't use Ubuntu much, so... ;)

Thx a lot for reminding me this magazine existed, I will read a few of their most recent issues.

It won't be the longest time compared to others that commented here, nor will it be the funniest one, but it ought to be the stupidest thing one has searched for.

I spend the last couple months searching for a 1$ notebook (without any important or precious notes in it) plus the 0.50$ crystal Bic pen that accompanied it.

I don't care about these two but I also cannot understand how/where/when I lost them. It just makes no sense. So, for the last two months I've been searching everywhere, which also means searching every single one of the many streets I could have walked by (I try to go everywhere I can walking).

And, yep, I am still searching today. Maybe not as actively but I still am. And that still drives me crazy to not know what happened to them :p

On the other hand, around the same time I also lost a portable Samsung SSD drive that was worth a couple hundred. But this one I barely searched for it as I was almost certain I had mistakenly put it in bag of stuff I gave away to a charity (yep, the drive was encrypted, like all my other drives) ;)

I’m an analog man in a digital world. I’m gonna find me an analog girl, who loves me for what I am, I’m an analog man.

:)

What's that music I got playing in my head?

I like analog because in a world of screens it just feels nice

I could have said exactly that too, it's so true. Thx for reminding me how important this is :)

The same goes, for me at least, with reading books. I mean, I have no issue with ebooks at all, I had been reading ebooks almost exclusively since I got them available on my PDA (somewhere back in the early 00s, I reckon), they were too practical to not use them. But thinking hard about it they were also an endless list of file names on my computer screen or on my e-reader.

I am trying right now and I just can't remember any precious reading moment I had on my Kindle or whatever else device I have used along the years. I remember reading great and very memorable ebooks, obviously a book is great no matter how it is read, but I can't remember any feeling or special emotion while I was reading them and holding them. That was just a screen I was reading...

Maybe it's just me? But it feels like I have no 'sweet memories' like I have with some of the printed books I have read, as an adult and as a child :)

I like that it can’t be hacked or tracked, show me ads or ask for subscriptions.

Yeah, for me this has a been a long lasting issue. I remember, that was well over a decade ago when Amazon deleted a copy of 1984 from some of their customers' Kindle, I started wondering it ebooks were a viable long-term solution. And that very day, as reaction against amazon, I decided to... order a second Kindle from them so I could transform the one I already had into an 100% offline one that Amazon would never get access to ever again. I was that much into ebooks that it did not even occur to me that I could simply quit reading ebooks, at least ebooks sold with DRM.

I am happy having started to read printed books again, it feels good. Not only to read like printed pages but also to know that no one can enter my home to remove any book I purchased from my bookshelves. Or try to modify/rewrite it, because someone somewhere would have decided it was not politically correct anymore the way it was written.

As a shut in with social anxiety and very introverted I’m wondering how to find friends now that I got better.

Like others have rightly suggested: hobbies, volunteering, taking classes. Imho, hobbies with IRL encounters are great. You can also check moist local public libraries, they will often have activities.

Are you into sketching or anything art-related (photo, painting,...)? Try to find groups, classes,... Urban sketching groups should be the simpler to find in many cities, no matter how big or small they are. People going out together to make some (street) photography, maybe?

Do you play chess? There are cafés, clubs, shops that will organize encounters or simply let anyone play some games with other people. Here in Paris, beside a shop or maybe two where you're almost sure to meet other players (not to play there as there is no room for that, but to chat), the first place I would suggest any newcomer to go and have a look, weather allowing, is at the jardin du Luxemboug. There is a dedicated spot where anyone can meet other players and start playing. Chess sure is a great way to meet and start talking to people be it as a player or as a spectator.

Scale modelling is too. Be part of a club with regular meetings. Imho this is one of the best way for anyone looking to spend hours discussing with other people that often are more than willing to talk about a common interest: building/painting/criticizing scale models and, well, just having a chat about the hobby and whatever thematic a specific model kit may be about (race cars, tanks, planes, boats, scifi, figurines, such or such history period, it's endless). Scale modeling is not only a niche hobby it is also a rather lonely hobby too. So, any opportunity to meet a fellow modeler will often be appreciated — any impression I may have been a scale modeler myself would not be a pure coincidence, and even though I quit practicing the hobby I'm still always more than happy to talk about it.

very introverted

No mater what you decided to try, as an extreme introvert myself, I would say the most important thing to keep in mind is that there is no assurance this will work.

As a matter of fact, I would say that more often than not it won't work. And that's nothing to do with you (, or I, or anyone else)? It's just that most people are not going to those places/gatherings in order to be picked up as new friends by others. They go there to enjoy whatever it is they're enjoying doing.

Just be fine with it and don't ever think it is because of you that you did not met a new friend. Even if it happens you will screw something because you were too shy, or too anxious or whatever, that's fine. That's just how things are and how they work. This also why true friendship is at least as precious as love is, it's rare. Also, the older you get the harder it will be, says I a 50+ years old dude.

Just keep on trying... and don't push too hard or you risk pushing people away ;)

I think this is kind of shitty behaviour, leaving a person you know alone on Christmas eve,

I think that it's not to you to decide who to invite at a diner you're not organising. Even less so if said diner is presented as a family gathering and as a first of its kind by the person organizing it. Right?

You should still feel free to politely discuss your issue like the two adults you're supposed to be, aka without any mention of a 'shitty behaviour'. So, you should still feel free to let him know that you, not him, are facing a real dilemma regarding that invitation. Which is that you cannot be at two places at the same time and as much as you would like to be there for Christmas you also feel like you cannot leave your friend alone that evening. Once again, it matters to remember that it's your dilemma, not anyone else. Forgetting that is the surest way to create a clash where none is needed.

Also, telling him that, you should keep in mind he could very well still say 'nope'. And you still should be fine with that, and that would not make an asshole out of him. Then, the only thing you will need to do is decide which place you will be that evening, that's all. I would also try to find ways to compensate for my absence with the other person, to make her feel I don't value her company less.

At least, that's how I would see things and how I would face the issue.

edit: typos.

No need to apologise, thx for making it clearer :)

Being accused of something does not mean being guilty of that something.
Nor does believing someone may be guilty of that something can be used as a proof they're guilty of that something.

Frankly I’m completely disgusted with him.

If rumours are enough to make you feel disgusted by your husband maybe you should consider leaving him because, imho, there must be deeper and much longer lasting reasons for you to feel that way toward him.
Please, do note that I have absolutely no idea if you're being right or wrong in feeling the way you feel as I don't know you, nor him. I'm just telling you what I would certainly do if I was living with someone I feel disgusted by. That said, it's important to keep in mind that feeling disgusted by someone does not means that person is guilty of anything either. Not being liked is not a crime... Not yet?

I have just started watching this 1961 movie "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" I find surprisingly not old.