I’m surprised to hear a phone for $100 referred to as cheap.

Fair point. That was the cheapest I could find one that did GPS, cam/vid, and have some apps on it. I do have a crappy flipphone for $30, but I found out that girls I date like to text. A lot. So texting/sending pics/vids was something I found I needed.

But yeah, my gf has a $1,000 iPhone. I’m like wtf! lol

Good to know. I may have to revisit this idea.

In your experience, is making your own bread cheaper than just buying bread? Or do you do it for the love of making your own bread?

I like the idea of it, but if it ends up being more expensive anyway, I don’t really wanna do it. It’s just so easy to buy a loaf of bread at the store.

But I also like the idea of making some tasty bread and mixing in some protein powder so I could have protein bread. lol

I’ll look into that. It gets quite cold here in the winter, but we have a LOT of sunny days.

I actually had to drop a huge chunk of my savings on a new water heater last year, so this could def be something I’ll look into so I can plan ahead. Thank you!

Love this.

This is an older post, but I wanted to add my thoughts since I recently joined slrpnk.

I work in an elementary school, and while I think homeschooling is a great concept, I also believe it should be paired with regular schooling.

I work with 2nd and 3rd graders, and one of the most important things I see them learning isn’t just academics—it’s social interaction. In the cafeteria, I’ve watched kids handle being excluded, figuring out how to blend in, or learning to stay away from certain situations. In the classroom, they have to navigate being paired with deskmates they might not like or deal with someone who talks too much. These are subtle but incredibly valuable experiences. I’ve noticed that adults who struggle socially often lack these skills. Public school, in my opinion, is an important training ground for navigating social life.

When it comes to academics, I think the foundations provided by schools are solid, but they could be enhanced at home. I wish there was an option where kids could attend school for half the day and then be homeschooled for the other half. That way, they’d get the best of both worlds—social learning from school and personalized education at home.

In my classroom, there are 26 students, one teacher, and me, a teacher’s aide. Even with both of us, it’s tough to give each child the individual attention they need. On top of that, most parents in my area don’t make sure their kids complete homework, even when we reach out to them directly. Homework often goes undone.

So, I think a combination of homeschooling and traditional schooling could be a great solution. But the key is parental involvement, which is sorely lacking these days.

Did you ever find an answer this? Maybe we should start our on community here?

I realize this is an older post, but I just now found it. I’m actually using this this textbook resource right now as a result of your post. Thank you!

Love this cover!

Just curious, and not to beat a dead horse, but if Lemmy can give us notifications that comments are removed, why can’t it do a simple ban notification as well?

Because I always get notified when a post or comment has been removed.

Seems simple enough make the removal notification that led to banning something as simple as “Your comment has been removed for xxxx reason. And now you are banned from the community due to reasons xxxxx.”

I realize that my particular situation here has been resolved and we can move on, but I’m just curious if the lack of banning notifications is a software issue or if it’s a philosophical issue for Lemmy and the fediverse.

Holy shit, that’s a great point that I wouldn’t have thought of. Great fucking point.

Fuck universal, that’s not the issue.

Hey now! lol

But yeah, to your point, I agree that any bots that ban, also need to notify. Especially since it’s a bot, and it’s automated, so it’s not like it would be much harder to do than the auto-banning. And I don’t routinely check modlogs before I post to a community.

This particular bot–if I understand correctly–auto bans based on someone’s downvotes, not necessarily on content. Even if those downvotes happened on another instance. Which to me, seems even worse, because some people can be right, even tho downvoted.

The issue started because I had no idea I was banned, and I accidentally posted to the community.

Apparently, it banned my same username from another instance that I was on. My time on that instance was pre-election, so in the weeks leading to it, Lemmy was quite um, passionate about downvoting anyone who wasn’t openly supporting Harris.

But I haven’t been controversial or posted any controversial content from this slrpnk instance. And I do not have the same downvote ratio on this instance because I stay away from politics here–except for the post to his community. Which was about Bernie Sanders–who I adore.

But the username thing may be an issue in the future too, because some people’s usernames are generic enough that that as we grow bigger, duplicates may be used unintentionally on different instances.

So banning based on downvotes of a user name on different instances, without reading content, seems problematic to me.

I have no problem with him running it in his community tho. His community, his rules, but the noise started because I had no idea what was going on until he posted this here.

But I definitely got the point, and won’t be posting to his community in the future.

I hope that there won’t be many communities doing the same sort of bot modding though.

“Unsalted Counter Info.” That is a great freakin’ name. I wish I would have known about them when I lived in the midwest. That would have been cool to be a part of when I was growing up.

And I didn’t even know the zine world was still a thing. I have a whole new rabbit hole to fall down now.

Ok, thank you! I’m retiring in a few months, and I think I will jump right into this stuff. So I’ll keep an eye out. :)

Part of the point of the violation here is that, if someone’s already blocked your name, they now have to do it again for three new accounts, until you make more beyond those three.

Which takes two seconds. I know because I’ve blocked several people. It’s not that difficult and I think site-wide banning because of opinions you don’t like is bad form. Avoiding that is the entire point of the fediverse.

But like I said, you and I have resolved our issues. We can move on.

Modlog, search for “harassing.”

And no examples. I still have no clue what they determined to be harassing. I got many nasty dm’s and would reply in kind, but I don’t see how that is harassing. Plus I’m quite aware that DM’s aren’t private. But again, their instance and their rules.

Not for your behavior on the previous instances exactly, but for starting up the same behavior from new accounts since you’d already been banned for it, which is against the rules.

Which we have already discussed wasn’t done on this instance, in your community or any other instance. It’s again, your assumption.

Really, let’s just end it here. You obviously think I’m a troll. I disagree. That’s ok. Let’s agree to disagree.

I won’t be posting to your community, now I know how your bot works, and we can just move on. Thank you.

I think some of it was for DM harrassment or posting fan fiction about other people on Lemmy.

Again, assumption. And no, none of that ever happened. Think about it, if that happened and I am so hated, wouldn’t there be ample evidence and screen shots about that? People on that instance hated me with a passion! And I gave you links to the mod log of that community.

And the “fan fiction” wasn’t fan fiction at all. I don’t even know where that term came from. lol

I created a community of creepy pulpy horror tales that tie into Lemmy. I have no idea why anyone would say it was fan fiction or anything of the sort.

It was me writing fun pulpy horror tales. NONE of it was about anyone specific on Lemmy. I parodied the ATTITUDES of Lemmy. Here’s the link to the community: https://sh.itjust.works/c/talesfromthecrypticlemmy

Your participation in previous politics communities was incredibly obnoxious.

Which has nothing to do with your community or this instance. People can easily block my name and never see or hear me ever again.

I’m not trying to be mean about it, and I’m not upset or anything.

Good to know, maybe I missed the tone in your text. I def took it as you were trying to ban me from this instance, lemm.ee, and sh.itjust.works because of what you thought of my previous behavior on an instance that I was banned from weeks ago. Since you are writing to all of the admins there.

If you’re interested in changing how you contribute so that you’re a net positive to the community, let’s talk.

I have already started a community on here. And I may switch my Tales from the Crytpic Lemmy to here as well. Especially after this conversation. And since I am finishing up a horror tale involving a solar power relay.

But again, I won’t be posting to your community, mainly because of all this drama that happened.

I wish no ill will towards you. I think you have a great community idea. After this experience, I can not say I support your robotic mod though. I doubt I will be the first confused person to run afoul of it.

But I do wish you the best of luck with it.

I’m not planning to set the bot up to notify dozens of users about their bans in a community they have never posted in and don’t care about.

Right. As you admit, I didn’t know I was banned. Yet you called for me to be banned from this and other instances for ban evasion. Seems unjust to me.

As I said under the other post, I do believe this evasion was entirely unintentional,

Ok, sorry, I didn’t catch that you were the one that said that in the flurry of responses.

You did know you were being obnoxious previously, and refused to stop doing it until it escalated to an account ban

And for the record, I do realize that you and most people thought I was trolling in .world. But I wasn’t trolling. And I don’t think I should even be considered a troll. A troll is based on intent, not dislike. I had no intention to get negative reactions. But people hated me anyway. And that’s totally their right.

I stand by everything I said and done there. And I accept my ban there, because I don’t run the instance. Their instance, their rules.

But in my definition of Trolling, it’s posting stuff JUST to get a negative response. I posted stuff IN SPITE of getting a negative response, not with the purpose to get one. I am fine with my role of being a dissenting voice.

The majority of my responses that were called “trolling” were just me responding to people. I never name-called, or was unpolite. THAT actually caused people to name-call me and call me a troll. I stand by everything I said there.

People were mad because I wasn’t voting for Harris and that I was voting for third party. And they thought that I was trying to sway the election.

But as we can now see, Harris lost by such a large margin, that even all if everyone who voted for third party would have thrown their support to Harris, she still would have lost.

So my posting my support for third parties didn’t change the election at all.

Here is the link to my comments and posts from .world and that community that led to my banning and bad rep: https://lemmy.world/modlog/1252?page=1&userId=9454261

People were mad because I didn’t vote for Harris. But I didn’t vote for Trump either. And I think it’s silly to think that people were so mad about that, especially after we have now seen how the election played out.

but you’re clearly more interested in figuring out the details of the rules so you can find ways around them and keep doing your same thing.

Again, that’s your assumption of my intent, but that doesn’t make it a reality of my intent. I have no desire to find ways around anything.

I honestly didn’t understand your anger or the ban. And I didn’t realize it was just based on a bot seeing that I had downvotes. I thought bans were based on something posted.

And as we have discussed, I didn’t even realize I was banned. Now you’ve explained it. Now I understand. And I have no desire to post in your community now.

You didn’t have to come at me so hard, man. So I was just confused and it set off a flurry of responses.

Please feel free to DM anytime in the future if you have an issue with me or would like to discuss things further.

As of now, I consider the matter resolved and I appreciate your explanations.

But it really seems that you are mostly upset about what happened in the past on a totally different instance. And I was already banned from that instance, so that matter has been resolved as well.

Nearly every day for the past 30 months, Mr. Spodek has lugged solar panels and a 17-pound battery up and down 11 flights of stairs to his roof to charge them.

Ok, that’s commitment. I guess I should stop complaining about my crappy house and feeling that I am stuck on the grid. I at least have backyard and front yards.

This dude is just crazy enough to be my hero. I am legit going to change up some things because of this find. Thank you OP!

Is there somewhere where we can follow the solar panel stats for this instance or that details the set up? This sounds fascinating to me.