What are you proud of this year? I don’t wanna hear i ran 3 marathons.
I want to hear the crazy awards stuff like…I drove the same road 438 times and exclusively listened to Fleetwood Mac.
Common share your special skill or unique achievement this year.
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Found out my eye color is only present in 5% of the population. Felt like an accomplishment.
Rescued a whimpering puppy from a metre depth, straight down in a narrow drainpipe.
When we got the callout for an animal rescue, I had forgot that the cat-in-a-tree type incidents are stereotypical for firefighters.
Was a unique achievement for me.
That’s amazing! How did you get him out? Drop a loop around or for him to bite onto?
The pup was initially fully stuck, head first in the horizontal pipe at bottom. Coaxed it to turn around head-up, with some gentle words and tapping the top of the pipe.
It would not bite onto a strap covered in wet catfood. One person with the skinniest arms reached down and grabbed him out.
We had a pole-and-loop snare en route but didn’t use it.
Good result.
Aw making me cry here. That’s really nice
It was a bit tense on arrival, but had a happy ending. This was a week ago.
Aww this is amazing! Did you end up keeping the puppy?
I did not. The puppy had a home already.
I re-entered the job market after 5 years burning through all my saving and being super depressed after I was laid off during the pandemic.
How do you feel?
Like I’m just going through the motions. But I suppose a lot of people probably are.
i listened to ‘welcome to the black parade’ by my chemical romance over 200 times
I listened to it exactly once, but it was live
thatll be me next year im so excited :)
Reading this title, I was like as the doomer guy myself, “hah nothing achieved this year” and it then clicked in my head that I was actually doing some pushups and squats in my home on consistent basis.
I am very lean guy with my weight usually hanging around the underweight to healthy weight but I’ve started to develop some belly which is very noticeably to the people around me. So I decided to do some very basic body weight exercises -pushups and squats.
I started with not being able to do 2-3 pushups a day to current personal best of 12 pushups in one go! I have visible enough biceps and triceps now too :P (highlighted as a tldr answer)
I still haven’t figured out the right way to go about my calisthenics journey with proper plans and programs, it feels kinda tough to find proper resources for a complete beginner, so if you know a really good resource do share it with me! I’d would’ve have a calisthenics focused community on lemmy too.
Congratulations and well done dude!!! I’ve found Hybrid Calisthenics (the app and the YouTube channel) to be a friendly, easy way to build routine and understand what you’re doing and why you’re doing it when you’re exercising. The app can be a little glitchy on my phone but it’s just visual glitches.
Thanks dude! :)
I just checked the YouTube channel and wow this is like a goldmine to me! Surprised how this channel never got recommended to me by YT algorithm from how much of calisthenics content I was watching. Will be checking their app too!
Fiton app is free to use with paid options for music upgrades and even that is only like $25 per year. They have both strength and cardio classes, as well as a lot of other options. You can filter classes by things like – bodyweight only, or use dumbbells, or focus on upper body, or I only have 10 minutes, or intensity ratings, etc.
Thanks I’ll check this one out.
Fixed my monitor rather than tossing more e-waste in the landfill. Replaced a couple blown caps and it’s running like a champ again.
I have a monitor that recently died. I ought to give it a go to see if I can fix it.
A couple years ago I grabbed a 55" LG tv from a curb dump. Owner said the screen would flash briefly, then turn off. Found out that’s typical when one of the backlight LEDs dies (resistance is screwed up). Got all new LED backlight strips for the price of a decent dinner and spent an afternoon switching them out. It’s been our primary TV since and I’m stupid proud about keeping it from the landfill. 100% recommend repairing stuff like this.
This sort of thing is just awesome. I really wish there was more information on repairing these sorts of electronics out there and accessible to non-electricians. I do get that sometimes it really does take someone with a lot of specialized knowledge and training to troubleshoot and fix things like this. But, even basic, “look for X and try Y” type stuff for us plebes to make the attempt. Sure, we’ll fail as often as we succeed, but even that would save a lot of electronics from the scrapheap.
Absolutely! I’ve had luck with the iFixIt step by step tutorials, but for this specific TV there was a YouTube video where the person walks you through troubleshooting and teardown. I kinda lucked out finding that!
I highly recommend learning how to solder as well as the basic techniques of using a voltmeter to test power and continuity. There are YouTube videos for these and other skills that help demystify troubleshooting and repair.
It also helps to have the mindset of “It’s already broken, so what’s the harm in trying to fix it?”
Go for it. It’s already broke, even if you make the problem worse, it won’t functionally change what you are planning to do with it (throw it away). Do be careful around any capacitors, @Nollij@sopuli.xyz made a very good point about discharging them carefully. I took a hit off a capacitor for the flash in a disposable camera some years ago and was certainly shocking.
I am on a 6834 game win streak in spider solitaire. This wasn’t all this year, but this is where I am now. Out of 9215 games I’ve lost 3 times, twice at the beginning when I didn’t realize you could undo the whole game and start again, and one when my phone glitched. It’s a small easily achievable goal when my life/brain is too much. I don’t think I’ll make 10k games before new years, but that’s ok. Shout out to Digital Smoke for making a solitaire app that doesn’t track you.
Adopted my kitty…
YOU finally got adopted by your kitten.
Don’t forget your place.You’re so right 😭
Couple years ago, I finally got off my ass & started making time to actually fix the stuff I said I would fix. It’s been transformational. This year, I made time for the ‘good’ car. I replaced the transmission along with a lot of other little bits that had been bothering me. Took close to 5 months in total, but I’m at the point now where both the good car & the beater truck are both reliable runners. It’s a good feeling.
Managed to make two cats tolerate each other - one is keen on chasing, one is shy and coward. They are bad at signalling play - so sometimes they go too rough, but now they coexist mostly in peace.
I 5-star mastered every single dualie kit in Splatoon 3
I’ve found a giant chicken of the woods polypore on an oak while hiking with three cats. A week later the oak broke apart and was blocking the street for me on my bike.
How do you hike with three cats? Do they just roam around you?
I live next to a forest and they’re free roamers. When I go for a walk, they often accompany me and stay close by on their own.
I would watch that on yt
Did you eat it? Because they’re delicious.
Not this one in particular. I already had so many and just made a mental note to harvest there next year.
That mushroom was load-bearing!
I’ve kept my streak alive of finishing at least one video game a month (started Nov 23)
Since nobody gives a fuck about my true amazing feats, I’ll brag about something more relatable: I did my laundry a few times this year. Major achievement if you know me.
After many years of trying and failing, I finally convinced my friends to try a TTRPG (Dungeons & Dragons). This is my first time ever playing a TTRPG as it is for most of my friends. We are having an absolute blast. The general consensus is that we should have started doing this years ago (which I always pipe in with a “yeah, that’s why I first brought it up in like 2021”)
