A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.
Also used it to save information to the internet for future people to find if they ever need it.
I just recently I had an issue getting an OLED display driver to work on an esp8266 board, and given that it was a cheap board on a popular sale site I recorded the information so that other people when they are looking for the exact same thing I'm looking for will be able to find it from my post.
I have little to no intention of further referencing that post
Also used it to save information to the internet for future people to find if they ever need it.
If more people did that, we'd be cured of the "found a solution in an old post -> solution is deleted" trend which has woefully plagued the web.
The worst part is bookmarks are sorted by post creation date, not date bookmarked.
So if you bookmark something old, it’s gone in the bookmark chasm.
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This has given me an absolute aneurysm. I saved something to show the wife only for it to not be there when I went looking. I found the post the long way and sure enough it was still saved.
Maube it was a glitch....
Unsave and resave. still can't find it. rinse and repeat.
Eventually found out about the saving order quirk and sure enough all the way at the bottom was the saved post in question.
thumbs up this issue! https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3229
On behalf of the less tech savvy lemurs: you all are awesome.
(I know it’s lemming, but I feel like a fraud here not knowing Linux and coding)