• Bizarroland
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    208 months ago

    Also used it to save information to the internet for future people to find if they ever need it.

    I just recently I had an issue getting an OLED display driver to work on an esp8266 board, and given that it was a cheap board on a popular sale site I recorded the information so that other people when they are looking for the exact same thing I’m looking for will be able to find it from my post.

    I have little to no intention of further referencing that post

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      How are there only 2 arduino posts in the Arduino Lemmy? Are there no other Lemmys for microcontrollers?

      • Bizarroland
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        58 months ago

        On the old site my username was AmNotSatan, with the premise being that I may not be good but at least I AmNotSatan.

        People would constantly accuse me of secretly being Satan all of the time, to which I would invariably reply, Am Not

    • @[email protected]
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      Also used it to save information to the internet for future people to find if they ever need it.

      If more people did that, we’d be cured of the “found a solution in an old post -> solution is deleted” trend which has woefully plagued the web.

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      We have that. It is a mastodon bot. I don’t remember what server it is on, but tagging it will set the reminder.

  • @[email protected]
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    88 months ago

    That and not being able to be notified when there are new replies to a topic (you are only notified if some repplies to something you wrote.) That means you read something and have to go back to it regularly to see if there are new replies. That doesn’t work at all.

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      38 months ago

      Yeah, I’d like it to be a watch topic, or similar.

      that's interesting, but there are no comments yet as it was just posted. I would like to be notified when it starts to get some discussion

  • BarrierWithAshes
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    78 months ago

    I didn’t even know saving posts was an option. I dont think its available on kbin.

  • synae[he/him]
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    68 months ago

    Idk if it’s my lemmy client (eternity) or instance (lemmy.sdf.org) but it seems like “saved posts” doesn’t work for me :/ so if I ever need to keep one, I open it in my browser and leave the tab open forever (because I will never come back to it).

      • synae[he/him]
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        48 months ago

        There’s dozens of us ;)

        I’m just glad federation is back after that scare!

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      I open it in my browser and leave the tab open forever (because I will never come back to it).

      I do this too, to a degree, but have you tried bookmarking in your browser more? I have and it’s been pretty nice for maintaining this habit without having a tab perpetually open (I write as I have like 10+ tabs perpetually open that I swear I’ll get back to eventually).

      • synae[he/him]
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        28 months ago

        Honestly, I exaggerated for humor. Eventually I do get all my tabs closed, either by reading them (or whatever), or sometimes they don’t interest me anymore. My tabs are basically a queue (a stack actually!) of things to do

      • threelonmusketeers
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        18 months ago

        I have like 10+ tabs perpetually open

        Those are rookie numbers. I have 10+ windows.

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      I use Eternity as well, but with the instance reddthat.com as such my saved posts work fine. Maybe try the web page for your instance to see if they work there?

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    That’s why I save everything into my “Note to self” encrypted Signal blob. It’s searchable and you can improvise tags by just writing words