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  • skankhunt42@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.worldGen Z Is Leaving Dating Apps Behind
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    8 months ago

    I’m late 20s/early 30s. Since ~2011 the only social media I used was Reddit. No Facebook, Twitter, etc, etc.

    What you’re saying is exactly how I met my now wife. I looked after myself, did shit I enjoyed, found community events, hobbies groups, lived life, met lots of people, made new friends. Eventually I asked one of the friends on a date and now my best friend is my wife and I can’t be happier.

    I will say, not having Facebook was a problem in some areas though. I missed out on group activities, group hobby chats, that sort of thing but I didn’t care. Friends would invite me to some of them anyway. Also, It might have changed these days but a handfull of people refused to trade numbers, they wanted me to add them on Facebook which was impossible. I didn’t let that get in the way either but it was kind of ‘hard’ to miss out on a potential friendship. It all worked out in the end for me.







  • I’ll try to remember to DM you when/if I get any answers

    Thanks! No worries if not, It’s just a different setup then I’m use to. Safe travels! I think I got sick over the weekend too. hah.

    I also have 500 MBit/s symmetrical internet. They tried to upsell me on 1.5GBit/s but my Firewall only supports “up to 700 MBit/s throughput” even though it has gigabit NICs so watch out for that also :) https://shop.netgate.com/products/1100-pfsense is the one I use. I’d love to upgrade but money has been tight for awhile.

    but of course, don’t ever feel obligated to answer.

    No problem! I’ll answer when I can, even if it’s a “I don’t know”

    I am trying to work myself towards as complete control over my data as possible,

    I started doing this in college. Deleted Facebook, started buying cheap Tiny Lenovo PCs to run everything on. It’s almost a chore now but I still enjoy it. I think the issue is I also do it all day at work so it kind of feels like more work after work, you know? I’m paying a company to host my email because I tried doing it myself and it was too much work.

    I hope you get through your stuff in your personal life. This interaction has in any case been greatly appreciated by me.

    All good, I was just giving context. Thanks though!!


  • My fibre box does TV, phone, and internet all in one. I guess you have one for each? I’m interested to find out if you’ll share.

    I think asking them what each of them do and understand it is a good first step. Maybe you can get that down to 2 boxes. Good luck!

    Nice! Glad its still working! Definitely triple check with something like https://canyouseeme.org/ when you open ports. I’m a Linux Sys Admin and happy to do my best to help of you have any more questions. At least I’ll try and get you on the right track.

    I 100% agree with you on the rest. Canada isn’t doing anything and at this point I’m ready to give up. I’m not sure where to draw the line anymore and self hosting is a bit of a pain for me these days. Personal life is a bit rough and it’s just so easy to make a gmail account and have them host it.


  • I have two small boxes in a cabinet - one is receiving a white cable that comes from outside my home, and outputs an optical signal that goes into the other box. This other box also gets a coax cable from outside my home, and outputs an ethernet connection that is connected to what my ISP calls a WiFi router. This has additional LAN ports as well.

    humm, I’ve never seen or heard of this. I’ve only ever been provided one box by my ISP. I have two guesses… Either you can replace your WiFi router with your own and everything will be okay or you’ll have to add a 3rd that is your own and Plug it into the WiFi router and ask them to put it in bridge mode. My guess is they can help you a lot better then me guessing.

    torrent client is bound to the interface created by the VPN client.

    perfect. Then you can close the open port on your router for sure. My Torrent client (rutorrent) shows what IP and port I’m using at the bottom, these are my VPN IP and the port I opened with the VPN provider.