Unfortunelately no, I live on the opposite side of the planet

I’ve only been doing this for around 6 months so I haven’t had any that special jobs so far but I did a small kitchen remodel to one customer where I tore down the old and build a new one for her which was quite enjoyable job.

My favourite jobs are ones that require creativity and problem solving. When ever I can fix something instead of replacing it is fun. This is a recent example of such job:

It’s honestly easier to list what I don’t do which is building something bigger than a shed, electric work, work inside tanks / wells, challenging tree fellings, jobs that require more than one person such as roofing, asbestos demolition and jobs where I need to deal with refrigerants.

It wouldn’t really matter. If I knowingly install something “wrong” it’s on me even if it’s how the customer wanted it. I wouldn’t agree to something like this if I was worried about it causing issues in the future. After 2 years it’s no longer on my responsibility.

I was a nervous wreck for months while getting the preparations done to start up. Never been that anxious before. I just had to do it because I knew I’d regret if I didn’t.

It is. The problem is that vinyl carpet floor can be too soft for vinyl planks and thus in the worst case the seams might open up. Laying vinyl planks on laminate or parquet wouldn’t be an issue because it’s a hard surface.

It’s the original vinyl flooring in this case and even though it’s not generally recommended to lay “luxury vinyl planks” on top of it, it usually is not a problem and the customer didn’t want me to tear out the old flooring due to how much extra work that would cause.

By using Lemmy we’re already filtering out certain people and opinions. I personally think that the more control we have over what we see, the better. I don’t think it’s opposing views people want to filter out. It’s the ones having those views and being dicks about it.

Unavoidably so but then again, going sideways because of a downvote is just more data on who you might want to block.

Echo chamber within echo chamber I guess.

It’s not the people whose opinions I disagree with who I usually block. It’s people making snide comments like this while fishing for upvotes. I’ll reserve my attention to the ones who have something to say rather than ones just wanting to make noise.

If this mean we’d be able to see who has up- / downvoted a comment on our own and possibly on other people’s posts then I’m all for it. This would be highly useful at filtering out the people here I want nothing to do with.

Freshly ground coffee, pine forest and wet asphalt are pretty nice.

When it comes to humans, my favourite smell is no smell.

Whod?

I don’t trust you on this. I have evidence to the contrary. Cynicism is not my game.

When thinking back on my life it’s not things I failed at that I regret, it’s the things I didn’t even try.

That video is unwatchable so I don’t know the details, but maybe just don’t stream you asking someone out? I’d be willing to bet that the risk of being ridiculed for asking is lower than the chance of her saying yes. The realistic worst case scenario is that she says no than you and you’re back exactly where you started from.

What’s the worst thing that can happen? That they say no? Because that’s effectively what happens if you don’t even try.

I use browser for no ads. Applies to many others too. I avoid downloading apps as far as possible.

Three things come to mind:

1. I can relate.

2. If your intention is to find friends / girlfriend then don’t go searching for them in places you don’t like going to or you’ll then need to keep going back there with them.

3. I almost never regret going somewhere I didn’t feel like going to.

But how do we hate-follow Elon then? We need our daily dose of outrage after all.

What even is the point of this thread? It’s like not eating and then complaining about being hungry. Your life is exactly what is to be expected based on the effort you put into it.

One day your mom will die and then you’re all alone because your cynicism and self-pity has pushed everyone away from you. You can blame the universe for it all you want but the truth is that it’s the life you designed. Things wont get any better unless you decide to start making them so.