This is terrifically detailed and actually not intimidating at all. I really appreciate your perspective on how to get started (now) and it's helpful to have a reference for brands and quality of needles. I think these are some of the things that have been holding me back, but now I feel like I can take that first step. Thank you for taking the time to write this all up, and thanks everyone for all of your input!
I've thought about learning to sew by hand for just this reason - to make minor repairs and save some money and create less waste. Does anyone have recommendations for a kit or which items to buy to get started?
It's sad that your video was taken down since it looks like someone posted a video about the subliminal message three months later, in December 2008, and it's still up. (I won't post it in case it's you - I don't want to dox you.) Maybe this person posted a follow up crying apology, though.
Well, sure, but SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and ActivityPub are different protocols. It's similar to speaking different languages. It's an imperfect analogy, but if you speak only English and someone came through your door and just started speaking Spanish, you wouldn't know what to do with it and just disregard it (social and personal space issues aside). If you then created a new door for Spanish and staffed it with a Spanish speaker and appropriate signage, the English speakers would come in the English door and the Spanish speakers would go to the Spanish door and each of you would know what to do.
It bears repeating that administering an email service is a pain in the ass.
"No" is the correct answer, but to understand why, you need to learn a bit about how mail and other services work. For email specifically, when you send email to an address (in this case, [email protected]), the sender's mail server does a DNS lookup for the recipient domain (in this case, sh.itjust.works). The MX record indicates the next hop for where to send that email to. The recipient's side needs to have a server configured that knows what to do with that email. So there's no reason that the operator of the domain couldn't also allow email that corresponds with your Fediverse user ID, but at significant expense and effort and no benefit to them. Mail hosting is a big undertaking and is a pain in the ass for a small provider.
You can look up DNS records, including MX records, using a tool such as MX Toolbox.
There's something to that, at least with trauma (and it doesn't really explore Trauma). Still, as a philosophical exercise, I found it really compelling. If you end up reading it or listening to the audiobook, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
Maury intensifies