For lack of a better term, girly content, and parent content. I miss A Bra That Fits, Big Boob Problems, Makeup Addiction, Babybumps, New Parents. And all those small weird (more or less) niche stuff like Minithreats or Accidental Swastika or Moldy Interesting.
But I am still getting used to Lemmy and figuring out how this works, so maybe I have just not found the right communities yet. Searching for them and adding them is so confusing.
It really is. Even for data analysis there are (apparently and hopefully) much better programs/languages (not sure what term would be correct here). I was actually assigned to an institude for computational biology to help me with the coding for my Master’s thesis but the people DID NOT USE R so they didn’t provide any help anyway. And I had to use R. They mostly used mathlab. Later, when I started working, Graphpad Prism absolutely did the job necessary. Most of the “coding” I used R for could have honestly just be done in Excel.
But the worst part of it is making it through and it completely doesn’t matter. Like, people who actually code for a living don’t care in the slightest about R. Just because I now have fought my way through it doesn’t mean it is anywhere useful to learn C or PHP or whatever, mostly because the field of use is so narrow and specific and not one of those “universal” languages (for lack of a better term) that you actually can build software and websites and apps with. I cannot code anything “for fun” even if I wanted to. I remember there was something HTML something in R, but come on. (Also I forgot what HTML is.) This is not what it is used for and it gives me nothing. While my spouse, who is a software developer with the patience of a saint when it comes to my stupid questions, used his knowledge of python to learn Rust and then play around with C and now Go and even go to a conference about Go and actually understand whats going on there. There seem to be much more crosslinks and transferring going on and also a similar usefulness.
Please excuse the R-rant/R-rage, I am really frustrated about it because I went in with the best intentions and I wasted a year on this bullshit and it doesn’t even make my CV look good.
Bro I don’t even understand what a server is. My spouse explains it to me like every second week and I get it for like 30 seconds but I just don’t understand to remember. I’m also not sure what a router is. Apparently Wifi is like radio, just waves? Wtf
I’ve got a MSc degree in Biomedicine and before going on parental leave (still am) I’ve worked in pharmaceutical research and with DNA/RNA analytical services in the lab. My biggest tech experience was trying to code with R and I hated it and it was a mess.
God yeah, the complexity. Yesterday late at night I decided to “check out this lemmy thing real quick and make an account”. Bad idea. I ended up on some lemmy server (?) that asked me to write a whole application to open an account before I figured out that there are different sites (?) where you can register and it somehow doesn’t matter anyway? I am not very tech savvy (I still forget/don’t get what a server is although I get a weekly explanation) and I’ve never really heard of lemmy before so somewhen around 1 am I was about to just give up because I was so confused. And this is just the beginning, I still need to figure out how to adjust everything, follow communities etc.
So far really confusing. But honestly I didn’t use reddit for 4 years despite having an account because I couldn’t figure out how to even begin and I only got it going thanks to boost and my spouse (no one else I know is/was on reddit). So I have hopes that over time it will sort itself out and I will have figured out how this works. Let’s see if I can even post this comment.
That was my thought as well. I am unfortunately not able to afford an expensive phone if it won’t last significantly longer than a regular. But then again, my Xiaomi phone became unusable after about 2, maybe 3 years I think. It was just to unbearably slow. So ok, it’s about 150-200€ every 2 years - maybe 700€ for 5 wouldn’t be that bad then. I also saw there is something like a subscription thing where you pay per month?