Very much that.

Hopefully the “AI” bubble pops soon.

I mean, it’s my day job, so I do get paid fr it, but it’s much more enjoyable as a hobby.

I can see that! Though I’ve not done woodworking since my Scouts days, so I didn’t even think of that comparison.

I follow Keebin it with Kristina on Hack-a-Day but have yet to make the initial dive into custom keyboards. Definitely on my to-do list.

AFAIK, it’s only two outlets on the far end of the house. The only things I have plugged into them are some lamps (with LED bulbs) and phone chargers. The rest of the house was re-wired in ~2013 or so. Not sure why previous owner didn’t do those last few outlets, but at least the rest of the house is up to code.

(Clicks on your avatar)

Not sure what I’m looking at, but can confirm it’s fun!

Nicely done!

My “TV” is a (modern) 36" LCD computer monitor hooked to a 2011 Dell Latitude E6400.

My washing machine is a workhorse from 1997. Can’t say I use it daily but multiple times per week.

Some of the wiring in my house is still original from '55, if that counts.

Props to whoever did the 'shop on Janeway/Peg. Most of my attempts to face-swap and keep Peg’s hair have ended in failure; her hair defies logic and physics.

Relatable.

It makes my username make more sense. Plus, you made this one for me, so there’s that. Plus plus, I’m not here to be “anonymous”.

I also prefer dealing with people who have images. I dunno, it’s just like putting a “face” to the words.

Lol, nice! It hasn’t federated here yet, but I clicked onto your home instance and it shows up. 🤘

Pseudo-anonymous, but from the toxicity on display here, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was 4chan.

Yeah, profile pictures. In the API data, they’re called avatar so that’s the term I tend to use.

They show up in other places. And 21x21 is still enough to visually distinguish based on them in the comments. Depending on app/UI, they’re often larger in the feed and significantly larger in profiles.

You actually have an avatar, lol, so you must not be that lazy haha.

I’m just gonna reply to your edit separately lol

I’ll add that I don’t personally really like the display name functionality, because I need to refer to people in text using “@” syntax

Haven’t used Lemmy-UI in forever, but the user search does work on display names, though the one you mentioned with the custom Unicode characters definitely wouldn’t (well, not typing the letters they represent anyway).

And I think the stream of faceless opinions is part of the idea behind Lemmy

Definitely think “bad thing” considering the trolls and shills we’ve had to deal with here, but that topic is far outside the scope of this “Ask” post lol.

You could just do those autogenerated things instead of a static image if they haven’t set one.

Yeah, it already does that. I’m using the Dicebear adventurer pack for users and the initials pack for communities. Each user gets the same pseudo-random one generated every time.

I’m the opposite of another commenter (the one who said they find profiles with avatars sus). I find the ones who don’t bother to set anything a bit sus myself. Like, it’s as if they don’t care to be here, they don’t plan on sticking around, just here to hit it and quit it, etc. Taking the effort to put something there at least shows they’re trying to be part of something (well, in addition to other factors).