How does one stop being boring?

People become boring when they stop listening to their inner voice. So start listening to your inner voice

@Floydian Honestly, it’s pretty hard when most people (and most things they do) aren’t interesting. Life’s got me in a toxic environment right now with no escape. Hard to look up from the pit sometimes.

@Floydian Two things on that:

1.) Unfortunately, I’m in an incredibly stupid city in which nobody really has any tech knowledge. Very hard to work with.

2.) Fortunately, I’ve got one guy who I try to hang out with and stuff, probably one of the 5 tech guys in a city of 60k. It helps a lot. He helps keep me from falling too far.

So yeah. Oh well I guess.

@Floydian Metro Detroit, Michigan, US. I have issues being social with anyone anymore. Can’t tell why.

@Floydian Oh, I’m almost sure of that. I both need social interaction and simultaneously hate it. I understand (most of*) myself better than I get anyone else. Except when it comes to emotions, that shits confusing.

Well, sorry for hijacking this @Trudy, hope you feel better.

I have downloaded the wikipedia app and I read random topics. This just make me boring with a few extra steps

@Rekonnect try going out (forcibly). If you don't already then try starting to watch soccer, get to like it and watch those matches with others in a bar or etc. It will get you to connect easily with other people and once u can debate and express your soccer opinions freely you'll start opening up.

If you already watch soccer, hmm, at least attend some public seminars in an attempt to try n be social. Hope it helps.

Don't stop trying...

I also really think people are intoverts in one place and are a bit more open in others, around other people. If its really bothering you, take a vacation, go somewhere far, see people, cultures and other environments. Might get you to open up bit by bit

As @Floydian mentioned, get interested and you'll become interesting

I used to be introverted too in secondary school. I just decided that it was boring and I started to become an extrovert. It's not that hard, you just have to force social interaction with people and you'll become better at it every time you try.

Travelling, particularly if it's not somewhere everyone and their dog has been.
Getting involved in activities outside tech/that are not normally done solo.

Take the bogpill.

Make a trip, visit a different country, make a meetup with your favourite online community, take a walk to the sightseeing spots of your own town, read books/news, get a car and wait for the problems it brings so you could always complain about it etc.

@Rekonnect from being in Detroit a bit, I can confirm that it is boring.

If you want something to do, there is a group somewhere in the city that is building an infrastructure of antennas to give cheap / free internet to the poor there. They accept voulenteers if I remember correctly

@hubiruchi Sounds interesting, dunno if I would do that bc I hate reading

@Rekonnect yeah, np m8. We have some issues in common

@ewpratten I might be interested, let me know if you recall the company

@kurganon @d4ng3r0u5 I travel an interesting amount, but not to anywhere special... :(

Been to Romania and cross country plenty

@thevariableman one day I shall find it!

@Trudy @ewpratten IIRC, motherboard did a video on it on YT. Watched it a while back. Let me get a link...

https://youtu.be/1B0u6nvcTsI

That’s the vid. Enjoy!

@Floydian One of the issues I have repeatedly come up with is actually getting used to a new community. For devRant, I seem to fit in well, but other places, esp. reddit, I seem insignificant on join. Which is why/how I ended up being lonely and silent.

@Trudy Everyone’s insignificant on Reddit, don’t worry there lol. I mostly just lurk anymore.

Also, my buddy goes to Romania sometimes! He says it’s pretty cool, how do you like it? Just out of curiosity.

@Rekonnect haven't been there in years, but when I did I left my phone at home in the charger, worst decision ever.

Where have you been in Romania?

@Floydian it's me making myself look small. I don't seem important because I wasn't there from the start. It's honestly hard to explain.

@Gerrymandered Oradea, Stircii, Beușnița (nice waterfall there), and some more. I don't know if those are correct spellings tho lol

@Trudy nice!

@Gerrymandered you ever been?

@Trudy yeah, once in 2014, and another when I was about 9mo. old.

I went to austria through hungry and stayed in Romania for a few weeks and reversed that and went back home ;)

@Floydian Control is something I have way too much of, any advice?

@Rekonnect thank you.