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- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 1 week ago:
I’m glad your cat was fine and just being a goober, and not anything more serious. I’m also glad to hear that you’re doing any amount of better. Progress is very rarely a straight line, and almost always includes ups and downs.
How was your experience during inpatient care? Did it align or differ from the experiences discussed in this thread so far?
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 1 week ago:
I hope you’re doing better now. What were the circumstances that led to police involvement and what happened afterwards (if you don’t mind me asking)?
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 1 week ago:
Yeah pretty much. I would also write out nerdy things like the ASCII table, or do the math to figure out how many seconds I had been at the facility, and stuff like that. Of course using paper they provided and those damn bendy pens.
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 1 week ago:
Ah yes, the phone that is out in the open so everyone gets to hear your side of the conversation.
I’m glad to hear that you’ve been doing better since then, and I hope your sister is doing well. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to work in a place like that.
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 1 week ago:
I can’t say for sure if anyone saw it as a positive experience overall, but while we were in there, the common feeling expressed was how much we all wanted to get out of there.
I fully agree that it’s not a good place to recover from many mental health problems, but that’s unfortunately the system that we have. The staff were trying their best, but both facilities were clearly underfunded and working with what they had.
It was even worse when the court was involved, because I had to speak with a lawyer regularly and attend court hearings over the phone. That only added to the stress of the situation.
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 1 week ago:
Yeah group activities were one of the better ways of dealing with boredom and passing the time. I feel like the coping skills provided were overly generic, but that’s to be expected when dealing with such a wide variety of people and issues.
The staff were absolutely always trying to do their best, there just weren’t enough of them. At both facilities I went to, the ratio was around 1:10 or worse (as in 10+ patients for every staff member).
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 1 week ago:
Yeah this basically aligns with my experience as well.
In my experience, there was no difference between getting talked down and surviving an attempt. I’m curious what differences you saw or experienced between the two, if you don’t mind me asking.
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what you’re implying, but this has not been my experience in the US. Which country are you referring to?
After I was released, there were no follow ups or anything like that. It wasn’t exactly easy to get back on my feet, but I’ve been living a normal and independent life for years.
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 1 week ago:
I unfortunately have firsthand experience with this in the US.
First I was sent to the ER where I was placed under constant monitoring. I was interviewed by the medical staff as well as a case worker from the state, and given the option to voluntarily commit myself to a mental care facility, or take my chances with the court.
The first time this happened, I chose to take my chances. The court determined that I needed to be committed, and I was sent to a mental health facility anyway. The second (and last) time it happened, I volunteered.
In both cases, the facilities were basically a mix between a hospital and a jail. Multiple layers of locking doors, no doors on the rooms, visibility into the bathrooms, heavily weighted or bolted down furniture, but also medical equipment, nurses, and the overall asthetic of a hospital.
They were also both basically a one-size-fits-all for any kind of issue that didn’t qualify for prison. There were homeless people that were stuck in the system waiting for housing to become available, drug addicts going through remission, people with multiple personalities, two different Jesus Christ’s, one at each facility, and people that would be mostly normal most of the time, but would suddenly snap, become violent, and need to be detained while everyone was sent to their rooms. There were also people that were struggling with depression or bipolar disorder, and in one case a kid (18 or 19) who had jaywalked across a normally busy street and a cop decided to harass him and have him committed (because that was supposedly not a mentally sound action).
I could go on, but I’ve already written a short novel so I think I’ll leave it there. Please feel free to ask any follow up questions and I’ll try to to answer to the best of my ability.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more cowbell.
- Comment on Drugs are candy for adults, and comedy entertainment marketed towards adults is the equivalent of making funny faces/sounds/peekaboos at a baby. 4 weeks ago:
Maybe, but I think the lack of object permanence also greatly contributes to why the punchline is so unexpected and funny.
- Comment on Drugs are candy for adults, and comedy entertainment marketed towards adults is the equivalent of making funny faces/sounds/peekaboos at a baby. 4 weeks ago:
I fully agree with your first point, but I do actually see some merit to the connection between adult comedy and peekaboo. Not only do both make the audience laugh, but they do so because of something unexpected and novel to the audience. Often a silly performance can be hilarious (see comedians like Robin Williams or Jim Carrey) in a similar way to funny faces and sounds to babies.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 1 month ago:
Thank you very much for the detailed response! Very informative and interesting.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 1 month ago:
I’ve seen many of his videos and haven’t noticed any obvious errors. Could you please link to the specific video(s) that you are referencing in regards to errors he has made, especially those related to the distributive law and what your reference to “1917,” as well as any explanation as to what is incorrect/misleading/lying?
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 1 month ago:
Haha no worries, enjoy your coffee!
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 1 month ago:
16 is absolutely not turn based, I’m not sure where you got that idea.
- Comment on First time setting up a NAS 2 months ago:
I recently set up something similar to this. I can’t comment on your specific hardware, but I was very frustrated with the limitations of TrueNAS and ended up using Debian and Cockpit with BTRFS for the drives.
I started with two 18TB drives with no RAID, and have since added two 26TB drives with everything’s using RAID1 and ~45TB of usable storage. Converting and adding drives was very simple, but also time consuming of course.
- Comment on Many people instantly know what THIS is. Others don't have a clue 2 months ago:
That’s awesome, you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000.
It supposedly had something to do with calculus and the ratio between the diameter of the inner most groove to the diameter of the outermost groove being optimal at that size, but I’m not sure how much of that is genuine or just marketing. I’ve also heard that the larger hole is better for the mechanisms in jukeboxes.
- Comment on Many people instantly know what THIS is. Others don't have a clue 2 months ago:
The adapter does not affect the speed of the turntable, and you would still need to flip the switch on the record player to 45 RPM. These physically smaller (7") records were commonly referred to as singles because they would hold a single song per side.
The larger (12") 33 1/3 RPM records had a smaller spindle than 45s, which meant you would need to use an adapter like the one pictured to play a 45, as demonstrated in the video shared by @thermal_shock@lemmy.world.
Since 33s were physically larger and played at a slower speed, you could fit much more music on each side of the disc. That’s why those discs would be used for entire albums, and were also commonly referred to as LPs (Long Plays).
- Comment on Many people instantly know what THIS is. Others don't have a clue 2 months ago:
Let it rip!
- Comment on Many people instantly know what THIS is. Others don't have a clue 2 months ago:
That’s not really all that special or unique. There are lots of things that many people would instantly recognize that others would have never seen before.
45/33 1/3 RPM records might be well within your wheelhouse, but would you recognize a 78 RPM record, or an Edison wax cylinder at first glance? How about the image below?
- Comment on Does Super Metroid get any better? 2 months ago:
As others have said, there isn’t much story for most of the game outside of subtle, environmental story that can only be inferred. The biggest story beats happen at the very beginning and very end of the game.
Those callbacks that are annoying rehashes for you are intended to be nostalgic for players of the first game. Keep in mind that there was an 8 year gap between console metroid games.
If you aren’t having fun playing the game, then it’s failing at its primary goal. Feel free to skip the rest of the game, but please be sure to at least watch an online video of the ending, before, during, and after the final boss. The opening of Fusion and other future games in the series reference that ending, and it’s absolutely an iconic piece of gaming history.
- Comment on ProtoPwn - All PS2s Console's now hackable via MemoryCard 2 months ago:
How does this differ from something like FreeMcBoot?
I get that this is better than the old titles.db + specific PS1 disc method, but FreeMcBoot memory cards already made that approach obsolete years ago. Is it just that it supports more models than the older exploits?
- Comment on A bit of my selfhost journey [that no one asked about] 2 months ago:
Happy to help!
You can find a bit more information at the URL below, and feel free to message me if you run into any issues getting it set up.
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/#dns-01-challenge
- Comment on A bit of my selfhost journey [that no one asked about] 2 months ago:
Cheers to your journey so far, and to your continued success!
You can absolutely do free SSL certs with Let’s Encrypt without exposing your infrastructure to the internet. Just use DNS based validation instead of HTTP, copy the required TXT records to your domain as instructed, wait for any cache/TTL of any old records to expire (generally 1-2 hours by default), and finally complete the validation.
You’ll need to renew the certs every 3 months, which could be annoying if done manually. If your Registrar has a decent API, writing a script could be a fun automation project. Alternatively I can also send you scripts that I used to use for that purpose.
- Comment on Pangolin 2 months ago:
As a sanity check, I just completed the same setup that you described (Ubuntu Server 24.04 running in a Proxmox VM, Domain name pointing to a CNAME that points to the Dynamic IP, using the installer script, enabled CrowdSec, etc.), and everything worked out of the box. A couple of things I noticed that would also be worth checking now that I’m more familiar with this specific setup are:
- In the config/config.yml file, verify that the dashboard_url is set to the FQDN of the full URL (e.g. pangolin.mydomain.com), and that the base_domain is set to the root/apex domain (e.g. mydomain.com).
- Double check those DNS records. As the haiku goes: it’s not DNS, it couldn’t be DNS, it was DNS.
dig pangolin.mydomain.comordig @1.1.1.1 pangolin.mydomain.comshould show the CNAME that points to the A record. - A 404 page not found error is normal when connecting to the IP address directly rather than using the domain name. I was successfully able to access the dashboard using the FQDN from a local and external network. Depending on your network, you might want to set up a local DNS record that points to the internal IP address as well (though this should be optional in most cases to my knowledge).
I hope that helps!
- Comment on Pangolin 2 months ago:
The script should take care of that config, but it’s something to check just in case there was a typo or anything else like that.
Did you check to make sure the DNS records are resolving properly?
- Comment on Pangolin 2 months ago:
According to the docs, you should be using UDP port 51820 (unless you changed the port in the docker compose file).
You should also check the dynamic config file to be sure that it’s using the correct domain name. See this page: https://docs.fossorial.io/Getting%20Started/Manual%20Install%20Guides/docker-compose
If you’re still having issues, make sure the containers are running with
docker compose statsand check the logs withdocker compose logs -f. It might also be worth checking the domain name to be sure that it’s resolving to the correct IP address, both locally and externally. - Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 2 months ago:
Hey, this is Presh Talwalkar.
discussion of a brief history of this viral math problem, followed by explanations of common incorrect answers. Finally followed by brief discussion on the order of operations, concluding in a final example that ultimately equals 11
And that’s the answer. Thank you so much for making us one of the best communities on YouTube, where we solve the world’s problems, one video at at time.
- Comment on Where's your towel? 2 months ago:
