agree with what everyone else has said here. worry less about “should” and go find your tribe wherever it may be.

as i once said to a friend who contemplated the same kind of move years ago, if it doesn’t work out you can always move back. not like it’s a one way street.

thank you all very much - we’ll check out the resources and recommit to doing this!

another one for the trying to learn japanese - my problem is i start and then stop. rinse & repeat so i never get very far 🤣

looks yummy! what’s in the little bowl?

i had a recipe for one which used caramel bananas, honemade toffee sauce and creme fraiche which cut through the sweetness beautifully. i need to go find that recipe - thank you

our new baby has growing pains. annoying but a good sign it’s alive ❤️

it’s faint but distinct. my brother in law also feels the same about their scent

really beautiful plant but am i the only one who finds their scent completely off putting?

former redditor who belonged to many sfw “porn” inage forums but never one like this. beautiful way to populate my feed - thank you all for your contributions and fine conversation ❤️

and if you like the sandwiches this is a terrific video https://youtu.be/eatQ9-79zGU

these are from a place in bellevue wa that specializes in them.

and feiw have been all over europe & asia but japan is hands down my favorite place to visit ever.

tokyo is a monster of a great city … foreign as you can get but amazingly easy to navigate.

very nice people, terrific food city with a really old beautiful culture.

all i can offer for advice is to not over think it. find a flight and hotel in your budget and just do it. guarantee you won’t be disappointed ❤️

wish i could argue with you but i cannot. despite being a nutrition dumpster fire, it was still delicious.

never thought i’d say this pre-covid: i sure missed business travel 🤣

💯i was in strong anger last week.

it’s a real restaurant - chinese place that apparently does legit korean chicken. great discovery after a long day of travel.

https://sotastyusa.com/

i also struggled with the idea of paying for this but tbh after using it for over a year now, i don’t have a problem.

we live in a place with micro climates where there temps can swing widely at night from day to day & the auto pilot does small fine tuning based on a number of things. this for me at least is worth $10 a month.

compare & contrast with the oura ring which requires a $5/mo sub to get any useful insight out of it - without the subscription you only get how long you slept witha proprietary sleep score that has no insight behind it. after spending a few hundred dollars for the ring this really started to piss me off.

at least with the 8 sleep bed the device is actually performing / working for me vs just giving me data.

the 8 bed also gives you much of the same data oura does so the subscription just hits differently for me.

finally if you’re thinking about this - definitely consider the cover vs the full mattress. same tech and they way they’ve designed it makes it fit beautifully on your existing setup at ~ $1k less than the mattress combo 😊

my sleep 8 heading/cooling bed last year. was tired of sleeping crappy, had tried just about everything from supplements to saunas, exhausted all other ideas … out of desperation decided to throw down for it.

seriously life changing. no matter what temp the room is at the bed is always perfect. takes a while for the auto pilot to learn your likes but when it does … oh man.

much love for my smart mattress ❤️

awesome- very exciting and thank you 😊

funny but admit that even with less users and less content here my dopamine hit actually happens faster in lemmy.

thank you all for great content ❤️

shower thoughts… and still on my first cup of coffee to more just musing than anything …

if storage is the concern wonder if the lemmy roadmap might one day include an option to use cloud based storage?

azure storage at .06/gb per month is likely cheaper and more redundant than local storage - even if you factor in calls to the blob which could be lowered via caching.

cloud storage potentially might one day lead to a option for smaller self hosters to opt into a shared blob instance where the and cost is shared.

in this scenario security to ensure the cloud blob couldn’t be deleted would need to be thought through (maybe splitting the password among multiple admins with each having one part of the whole?) but might be one way to better encourage more self hosting for them compute side of things.