squi

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[–] squi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I absolutely see your point, and agree to an extent. However, I was on this exact journey a decade ago and a few free sites (for local charities and orgs) to establish a presence genuinely helped attract paying clients. Obviously I set some firm boundaries that any support would come at a cost and that both established expectations and got a few, admittedly small, income streams going off the bat.

[–] squi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Solo Web dev is very competitive. It’ll take a while before you are able to get paying clients, especially if you’ve not got a portfolio already. Be prepared to do a fair bit of free work first.

[–] squi@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I shill brave on iOS regularly as a way to get past ads on mobile and watch with background playback. But that’s more because of how much I hate ads than any loyalty to brave. I highly doubt they’re paying for the kind of low quality shilling this guy is doing on Amazon. If they are, they can start paying me as well!

[–] squi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, awake. Stood in a giant freezer wearing only shorts, socks and a mask. It’s a way to enhance healing by encouraging white blood cell production via shocking the system through lowering skin temp rapidly. Very good for muscular issues, arthritis, etc. I just did it once for fun, but I could really go for a bulk set sessions… getting old.

[–] squi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I know you said indoor temperatures don’t count, but my low is kinda fun: -110c for three minutes (cryotherapy). Outdoor was 48c (local thermometer said higher) in northern Western Australia.

[–] squi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Also worth installing a decent SEO plugin, like seopress, rank math or AIOSEO. Not yoast. That way you can manually tweak a lot of seo related stuff to ensure metadata is preserved.

[–] squi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have a 1660 from my old machine and it seems to handle transcoding multiple 4K streams easily. Pretty low power draw as well, I doubt there’s much need for anything more powerful unless your files are in av1 or something.