Zink
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- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 6 hours ago:
That’s easy to agree with in isolation, but many times on the main roads near me the normal flow of traffic in the slow lane can be 20 over. Driving at or below the speed limit would create a significantly more dangerous situation than cruising along at the same speed as the nearest several cars.
Yeah, you’d be operating in a more legal way, and the faster drivers around you should be able to safely deal with it, but that doesn’t mean the risk isn’t there.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 6 hours ago:
This one made me bust out laughing. Such a perfect combination.
The previous one is great too. Both new to me, at least.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 6 hours ago:
I have some great news for you. Look at what took effect yesterday in my state! Using a mobile device, including at a red light, is now a primary offense (you’ll get pulled over for just that).
This just applies to PA, but it’s a pretty big state with a population between Sweden and the Netherlands, so it’s not nothing!
- Comment on Viewers like you 7 hours ago:
Oh I absolutely do, neurospicy stranger! I have the kind that comes with crushing Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria too.
I’ve tried some non-Ritalin brands of slow release methylphenidate, plus tried some slow release adderall, but right now just taking two immediate-release adderall is doing the trick.
You should SEE the amount of shit I’ve built this summer. I even contribute at work sometimes, lol.
- Comment on Viewers like you 7 hours ago:
Ah ok, thanks! A while back I tried Jornay, which is also time release methylphenidate. Now I am just on instant release adderall. Slow release didn’t work for that either. It’s like it takes too long in my system.
It’s good so far!
I’m in the US with the typical high deductible health insurance you get from an employer in a professional office job. But I’m also in a unique situation where the treatment for a different condition of mine is so expensive that the drug company pays your deductible. So it’s almost like I have really good insurance that covers everything.
- Comment on Viewers like you 14 hours ago:
Wow, that matches my experience exactly.
I’m curious if you’re willing to share what the medication is in your case.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 3 days ago:
Damn, that is well said. This sentence in particular:
We are losing our respect for the profound, our empathy for the other, and our curiosity for the unknown.
is the kind of thing that sounds like an empty platitude when your mind/life is in a bad state, but after a few years of progress and healing I read that line and wish I could adequately express the years of reflection and learning that can be distilled down to such a short statement.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 6 days ago:
Yeah I’ve said this a few times, but honestly anybody who can interact with Lemmy is in the upper tiers of the scale compared with the vast majority of humans who have ever lived.
Obviously that does not mean that individuals cannot have terrible luck and circumstances.
- Comment on No! 1 week ago:
We have a few dogs. One is a yellow lab. He is absolutely the empty skull of the bunch.
This derpy wood knot dog face reminds me of him so much. If I had this piece of wood I’d learn some new skills and buy some new tools just to perfectly preserve it!
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 1 week ago:
You make some good points, and even though the labels man and straight work for me, I have likewise been focusing more and more on the whole “know thyself and live life the way that really works for you” thing and loving it.
But back to my quip: You make some good points. I can foresee how much my dumb angry conservative relatives would hate it! No labels? No categories? Next you’re going to tell me that humans don’t naturally need strict hierarchy in their society to survive!
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 1 week ago:
this is indicative of a much larger problem(distrust amongst coworkers)
The scope of the problem much much larger: the entire fucking culture IMO, assuming you are in the USA because I am and it sure sounds like you’re talking about this place.
I think it goes beyond distrust though. It is a lack of respect for human dignity (which leads to lack of respect for oneself) and for just being decent to one another so we can all enjoy our time on Earth a little bit more.
I have made a couple trips to Sweden of all places, and it’s wild seeing things like real glasses and silverware being available for any schmuck to use in a restaurant/airport/workplace. And then people put them in the dishwasher or return them to the kitchen when done! Little things like that seem so minor until you think about the deep seated issues it is revealing.
- Comment on I'm not okay. 1 week ago:
Just the other day my son was chasing the fireflies in our front yard.
…That front yard I was feeling bad about not mowing because the weeds mixed in with the grass quickly grow tall flowers above the head.
I think I want to keep helping those blinky-bois.
- Comment on Elon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do. 1 week ago:
The Cybertruck and the Starship are some incredible shiny metal pyrotechnic wonders he has given the world!
- Comment on Elon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do. 2 weeks ago:
It’s in line with the one “skill” musk seems to have: find promising teams to “lead” and take the public credit for their work, then when the great teams’ work gets attention, that confirms musk’s idea that HE is the key creative and technical force, then he starts forcing the company to do things HIS way and the products start blowing up even more than usual.
So we should be right about at that enshittification inflection point on Grok.
(I guess it’s not really “enshittification” since it’s done for megalomaniacal reasons and not for profit-driven ones, but I liked the sound of it)
- Comment on PROGRESS 2 weeks ago:
The TIE Defender of the lunch box.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 3 weeks ago:
Sound like a futuristic black-mirror-esque solution to blood donation motivation.
At Blood-B-Kleen, our machine will quickly and safely pull 8 pints of raw dirty blood from your vein and will return 7 pints of your cleaned blood with 99% reduction in plastics and PFAS, plus some hydrating fluids and vitamins. We don’t even charge you for it yet!
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 4 weeks ago:
its only been tested and approved as an anti-parasitic for humans via oral ingestion
Ooh, I get to do an ACKSHUALLY here. They do have it for topical treatments too, like for rosacea.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 4 weeks ago:
Eh, they didn’t exactly paint it in a good light. It’s more like not laughing too much at the ordinary NK citizen’s big brother plight while the rest of us are being monitored constantly and much more real time.
The two situations are not the same, but the parallels show his we all deal with this crap in our own ways.
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I guess I left that part out! It’s funny because like so many things in Linux, you have all the power but you often don’t need to use it because the same problems just aren’t there.
You get to decide when to apply the updates, but they are so quick and unobtrusive that I choose to apply them immediately!
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 5 weeks ago:
Seriously. If you’re used to fiddling with Windows and especially if you have installed Windows recently, go try something like Linux Mint. Just the install process will blow your mind. And then wait until you get a system update and it doesn’t affect what you’re doing!
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 5 weeks ago:
“jellyfin took too many resources scanning my library”
That’s a strange one to me. In my experience Jellyfin scans my libraries in about 1/10 the time Plex used to take on the same machine.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for the suggestion. I will try it!
Is it good with gapless playback? It isn’t as crucial for me as for some people who listen to live recordings etc, but it’s always nice to have and is a good sign for the quality of the player.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 5 weeks ago:
I’ve had a lifetime plex pass for several years. Once I tried Jellyfin a few months ago it was all over. My “I’ll run both just in case” period lasted a week or two.
The downside is that Jellyfin will take more setup on your end, especially if you want to let other people connect securely to your server.
The upside is performance and responsiveness. Once I started using it I decided Plex had to go, even if I have to drive to each family member’s house to fix their shit. It was like moving between Linux and Windows, as far as one being designed to work and the other being designed to satisfy dozens of corporate KPIs.
Fortunately the setup for the end user is just as simple once your server is good to go. They just need URL, login, and password.
And since it’s all open source, there’s some fun diversity in clients. I use Finamp specifically for music, and there are audiobook focused ones.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 1 month ago:
Yeah, unfortunately I think that both corporations and consumers have shown that they prefer the cheap option rather than whatever not-as-cheap options might offer in terms of quality, sustainability, environmental protection, lack of child slavery… you know, luxuries like that.
And that is speaking in general, mass-market terms of course. There are often options for those who care about the things I jokingly referred to as luxuries. But when something like that is niche instead of a widespread basic expectation, it gets priced as a luxury. Ugh.
- Comment on On trees... 1 month ago:
What a nicely packaged little subthread to come across while decompressing after a super busy day, lol!
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 month ago:
and oftentimes they don’t admit why they really have a problem with the game directly
I think in many cases they aren’t even admitting it to themselves. Self-delusion is kind of a recurring theme with them.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 month ago:
The problem is that so many of us INSIDE the US still sleep like that, especially the ones who match homer’s kind of “dopey white middle aged boomer dad who raised a family on a single factory job” demographic.
I match some of those demographics, like the dopey white middle aged USAmerican dad raising a family with his one income. I don’t match him in other areas because I am an over-educated tech worker living in an old cheap blue collar neighborhood to make it happen in current day.
I am extremely unhappy and embarrassed about just about every single thing that has my country is in the news, to say the least. It makes me sad and worried for the entire world. Giving a shit about other people while evil morons are grabbing power will do that to you.
But for people who look like me and don’t follow what’s going on in the world or care about other people? My day to day real life in my local physical environment is comfortable and privileged as hell, and so is a lot of theirs.
Combine that with our culture where a “successful” life is constant stress over the rat race and keeping up with the Joneses, so that you are worried about making the payments on your luxury SUV rather than whether your government is destroying people you don’t know while funneling your resources to people who already have 1000x more than you.
- Comment on Fax machine 1 month ago:
“you’re responsible for your own happiness” can be a true thing even if you are loving and supportive.
I’m in a similar situation now. I am in a pretty good place after having a very shitty handful of years 2019-2024. My wife is having some of the same issues now, and when I recognize the similarities it only makes me show her more grace and understanding. But then I am obligated to be honest about what I learned over the years, even if my solutions and techniques might not end up being hers.
And the fact that happiness, fulfillment, contentment, peace with the universe, and all that stuff originates from somewhere deep within. It’s along the same lines as the saying that money can’t buy happiness.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
Of course AI isn’t the enemy. The enemy is their corporate ownership.
But no doubt AI will be huge in the future, in the sense that “AI” basically means “much better computing capabilities than we have now.”
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 month ago:
I say “doing alright, how about you”l and that usually covers it