ballskicker

@ballskicker@sh.itjust.works

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How do you connect with people and make friends without social media?

I'm struggling to figure out how to make friends without having Instagram or any other social media. I have discord but don't use it much. I see all my acquaintances in discord channels and sharing Instagram posts and stuff. It's already hard for me to make friends, but I feel like not having any of the traditional social media...

ballskicker ,

You aren't the only one feeling that way, just put yourself in a position to meet others. Start going to meetups of things that interest you, or, at the very least, engage with others on things that interest them and you'll usually find common ground eventually.
It can feel difficult and awkward, but everybody struggles with that when they first start to put themselves out there. Just persevere, you'll find people.

Refinishing this little table/desk for my young kid. What will yield a fine-not-perfect result? ( lemmy.world )

It has seen some water damage and the varnish is flaking off (especially on the top). But I don't necessarily have the time/energy for a full strip/sand/refinish, especially as this may get dinged up; I'm just looking for a reasonably pleasing look....

ballskicker ,

This is what I'd do as well, paint will be a lot less effort and a whole lot easier to touch up as it gets used. Plus the kid can paint their own patterns or emblems or logos or whatever on it

ballskicker ,

Same. If it were just up to the wife and I we would've simply gone to the courthouse and signed some stuff but we decided on a ceremony because it was "important to our families" and did things more traditionally than if it were only the two of us.
We would've had a lot more fun with the whole thing if we could have just realized that the day was for us and about us and should've been done our way.

ballskicker ,

LegoMasters started in the UK, right? I'll take that or the Aussie one over the crap they tried making in the US. I'd rather watch the incredible things people can do with Lego instead of pretend to enjoy the showrunners' poor attempts at a weekly emotional tug job

ballskicker ,

It's YOUR day regardless of how important your families consider it to be for themselves. My wife and I kept ours small but still kinda capitulated to both our moms when it came to the ceremony. We've since discussed that if we could do it again we'd just go sign the legal papers at a courthouse and call it good. We got married in the fall with a small reception in our town and then planned a bigger reception the following summer around where I grew up, would you be able to do something similar in both your hometowns?
My family lived several hours away but we were close to hers so the logistics of everything weren't as bad as yours but they still kinda sucked. If you two wanna get married then get married in a way that both of you will enjoy and cherish over time, make it a ceremony for you as a couple as not as a ceremony for everyone else. If you both want to keep it small, simple, and affordable then just be practical and do it that way so you can more easily buy a house in the future

ballskicker ,

It's amazing how dumb this entire situation is. To my knowledge she hasn't even publicly endorsed a candidate or political party, right? Just suggested her fans register to vote?

ballskicker ,

Plenty of good suggestions already but I for the under cabinet kitchen lighting (16' strip of cob LED) I installed a few years ago I just used thermostat (18/2 I think?) wire to run the gap between cabinets.
Just don't make the same mistake I did and use the cheap solder that comes with the kits, it was such a frustrating experience until I bit the bullet and bought some nicer stuff, made the process WAY easier

What else can I do with this tear out?

Hi there! I'm confused with this one... I've got these plywood squares that I had to drill a bunch of holes in. Despite using a low speed on my drill and adding masking tape (below) there's still pretty nasty tear out on nearly all holes. (EDIT: These are not through holes, this is for crochet square blocking boards. Metal rods...

ballskicker ,

First you should edit the title so it makes sense, then you could try clamping a sacrificial board (MDF, 1/4", dimensional, whatever's easiest) beneath and running the drill faster but moving slower.
You might even try just going back to trying tape but changing your drilling method just to see if that improves anything before killing another piece of wood

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