What are you proud of this year? I don’t wanna hear i ran 3 marathons.

I want to hear the crazy awards stuff like…I drove the same road 438 times and exclusively listened to Fleetwood Mac.

Common share your special skill or unique achievement this year.

  • tacosomuch@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 hours ago

    Managed to make two cats tolerate each other - one is keen on chasing, one is shy and coward. They are bad at signalling play - so sometimes they go too rough, but now they coexist mostly in peace.

  • ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    10 hours ago

    I am on a 6834 game win streak in spider solitaire. This wasn’t all this year, but this is where I am now. Out of 9215 games I’ve lost 3 times, twice at the beginning when I didn’t realize you could undo the whole game and start again, and one when my phone glitched. It’s a small easily achievable goal when my life/brain is too much. I don’t think I’ll make 10k games before new years, but that’s ok. Shout out to Digital Smoke for making a solitaire app that doesn’t track you.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    19·
    15 hours ago

    Rescued a whimpering puppy from a metre depth, straight down in a narrow drainpipe.

    When we got the callout for an animal rescue, I had forgot that the cat-in-a-tree type incidents are stereotypical for firefighters.

    Was a unique achievement for me.

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      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 hours ago

        The pup was initially fully stuck, head first in the horizontal pipe at bottom. Coaxed it to turn around head-up, with some gentle words and tapping the top of the pipe.

        It would not bite onto a strap covered in wet catfood. One person with the skinniest arms reached down and grabbed him out.

        We had a pole-and-loop snare en route but didn’t use it.

        Good result.

  • ptc075@lemmy.zip
    9·
    13 hours ago

    Couple years ago, I finally got off my ass & started making time to actually fix the stuff I said I would fix. It’s been transformational. This year, I made time for the ‘good’ car. I replaced the transmission along with a lot of other little bits that had been bothering me. Took close to 5 months in total, but I’m at the point now where both the good car & the beater truck are both reliable runners. It’s a good feeling.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
    8·
    13 hours ago

    Since nobody gives a fuck about my true amazing feats, I’ll brag about something more relatable: I did my laundry a few times this year. Major achievement if you know me.

  • con_fig@programming.dev
    5·
    12 hours ago

    After weeks of debugging and a million things tried, finally fixed a bug that ended up being an off-by-one error. Had to turn < into <=. Debugging embedded devices can be hard…

    edit: the chaos caused by the error was of course completely unrelated to the process, caused a full watchdog timeout

      • Jackie's Fridge@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 hours ago

        A couple years ago I grabbed a 55" LG tv from a curb dump. Owner said the screen would flash briefly, then turn off. Found out that’s typical when one of the backlight LEDs dies (resistance is screwed up). Got all new LED backlight strips for the price of a decent dinner and spent an afternoon switching them out. It’s been our primary TV since and I’m stupid proud about keeping it from the landfill. 100% recommend repairing stuff like this.

  • JakoJakoJako13@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    13 hours ago

    I drove 150 miles at highspeed on a highway at night through a thunderstorm during a nervous breakdown. That was just the return drive home.

  • sireuz@sh.itjust.works
    31·
    19 hours ago

    Bought an apartment with a mortgage with support of the state (they paid the half of a price) for my family. Not the greatest, but the cheapest out there, so there’s many caveats, but we’re finally home 🏠

  • v_krishna@lemmy.mlEnglish
    281·
    20 hours ago

    Won’t necessarily go over well on Lemmy but still want to brag a bit. My company got bought by salesforce, life changing for my kids’ kids (let alone me and my wife). Had a meeting this week with Marx Benioff and he said “I dont care about that i want to hear that v_krishna thinks” and then spent 15 minutes on the spot answering his questions.

    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
      82·
      20 hours ago

      Good for you. IMO, nobody’s allowed to hate on this, if they haven’t declined a life changing buy out offer themself.

      • Magnum, P.I.@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        16·
        20 hours ago

        I got multiple offers from big corpos and the death industry itself. Lockheed Martin wanted to pay me a high triple digit yearly salary, pay for my moving costs etc. I turned them down because I have actual morals.

        • v_krishna@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          I mean, Salesforce is clearly different than Lockheed Martin, even if they do business with all sorts of companies (many of whom I wouldn’t personally want to be in business with).

          I’ve specifically found b2b software at least a bit less creepy and invasive - I’ve done applied ML for many many years and prefer enterprise b2b vs consumer tech because of this.

        • Oaksey@lemmy.world
          5·
          14 hours ago

          Rock solid morals for triple digit, seven figures and people are likely to start to try to justify what they are being asked to do.

        • Today@lemmy.world
          41·
          17 hours ago

          My husband’s company (where he works, not owns) is giving bids for an AI facility. They’ve been told that they can set any price if they can produce on time. As we near retirement the likely bonus from this project would be great but it makes me sad.

  • jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world
    13·
    18 hours ago

    I’ve found a giant chicken of the woods polypore on an oak while hiking with three cats. A week later the oak broke apart and was blocking the street for me on my bike.