user224
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org
17M, I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff.
SDF Unix shell username: user224
My other account (temporary): https://sh.itjust.works/u/testaccount789
- Comment on unjustice 3 days ago:
Wouldn’t that actually be a problem because it absorbs water?
I mean, I don’t know how it works when it’s in food. But psyllium husk is a bit interesting. Diarrhea? It absorbs water. Constipation? It absorbs water, and is something soft.
Now take too much or don’t drink enough water and you’re absolutely screwed.pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6197948/
21-year-old man presented to the Emergency Department complaining of a lower abdominal pain and constipation for 5 days. […] The patient was diagnosed to have a constipation and was discharged home on Psyllium (ispaghula husk) sachets 7 g twice daily as a laxative. […] Repeated abdominal X-ray showed a huge fecal loading filling the whole colon with no gas fluid levels
During his stay in the hospital, the patient admitted that prior to the onset of the constipation he had ingested psyllium husks as herbal medicine for the purpose of weight control and health promotion. He ingested the husks without adequate amount of fluids because he was fasting in Ramadan (during fasting hours, no eating or drinking fluids are allowed). While in the hospital, the patient received repeated enemas. He passed a huge amount of fecal matter and the intestinal obstruction was relieved.
- Comment on Have YOU ever done this? 6 days ago:
Nah, I talk the most when I am alone.
- Comment on yoooo 6 days ago:
Fresh (out the shower).
Problem fixed.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 1 week ago:
Probably the same thing but with different branding.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 1 week ago:
I wanted to get a noise meter for a long time now, but they’re expensive. A lot of daily things just sound… potentially dangerously loud. Public transit, for example.
I want something that can go a least up to 20kHz, most do just up to 8kHz. There’s one supermarket I was at once that had some “repeller” which felt painfully loud. It kept changing frequencies, lowest at 15.5kHz when I checked with my phone. I was considering throwing a rock/brick at it while waiting there, but hiding behind a corner seems fine enough with higher frequencies. - Comment on wow, I just found out that Donald Trump has been awarded inaugural FIFA Peace Prize 1 week ago:
Does he even qualify for that?
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- Comment on India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever used that much mobile data.
I only use mobile data, but…
My record so far is 591GB in a month.
Last month I used 451GB, this month (since Nov. 16th) I am so far at 347GB. - Comment on Is it normal to be really sentimental/upset over a bowl I accidentally smashed? I had it since I was 17 (am 30 now) and my boyfriend was alive back then too. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, but I’d be too. I am even with regular items, honestly, and even with less damages. Like a single small scratch on otherwise pristine surface.
- Comment on How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me) 2 weeks ago:
I wish I could see into the drive when it was clicking to see what exactly was happening, whether it was seek issue, or the head arm was just stuck (and not even entering the disk). It should have been functional before shipping. And also, I let it warm up for an hour, but there was some condensation after bringing it in on it, and I don’t know how it was doing inside, though I think it should have been okay after that much time on table.
Anyway, as for the problematic disk, Iomegaware’s full format manages to take care of it, but it’s far slower than writing the whole disk.
Long Format performs a complete surface verify on the disk as it is formatted. This option should be used for all disks that have developed read/write errors.
It also shows disk and “formatting” life percentage, whatever those actually mean. I couldn’t get Trouble in Paradise to work in either Windows XP or 2000, though I didn’t try on bare metal.
- Comment on How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me) 2 weeks ago:
One I wish I could get is SuperDisk LS-240. It came some time later, so it wasn’t quite popular, but the later LS-240 drives had one very cool trick. They could re-format 1.44MB floppies to FD32MB format as they called it, bringing them to 32MB through the use of SMR. Of course, they couldn’t then be used in regular floppy drives again, but damn, 32MB on a regular 3.5" floppy.
- Comment on How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me) 2 weeks ago:
Well, yeah. That’s the one I fear.
But there seems to be 2 ways it can happen.
- Non catastrophic - misaligned write destroying factory low level formatting
- Ripped off drive heads
And I also found one blog post where it was caused by the 4 plastic prongs getting bent due to a stiff shutter on one of the disks, which was fixable by bending those back: www.siber-sonic.com/mac/Zip250fix.html
- Comment on How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me) 2 weeks ago:
Or I’ll just… more bad financial decisions incoming - buy another one. Though I don’t know how much it’s worth. I got this one with the disks for €22. There’s one more (functional) USB ZIP drive with 3 disks, an older one which also needs external power (and is transparent), but it’s already at €35 and there’s 19 people watching the auction, so… Probably because it’s also with the original box and Iomegaware CDs.
Really, I just wanted a functional ZIP drive just to have one. Honestly, if it was cheap, I’d just bring it with me and use it instead of a flash drive just for fun. That would get some stares. And 100MB is still pretty fine for documents (that are backed up).
- Comment on Best way to keep everyone safe 2 weeks ago:
In that case never mind.
No, no, wrong thinking. They work for competition.
- How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me)files.catbox.moe ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 15 comments
- Comment on Uhhh... It's a work phone 2 weeks ago:
I have 3 phones (that I use) and in total 9 active phone numbers from 4 countries.
Just because I can.
5 of those are on removable eSIM in my main phone. - Comment on Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing 3 weeks ago:
pingfs
Now that’s something I must try.
- Comment on Summoning the Beast of Big Pharma 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
And a hell of a good one. Adults will have already passed through education, so we would save on that part.
- Comment on The less complicated life of a male 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t really seem to be affected by anything much. Prescription corticosteroids made it mostly go away for a while, but it returned larger. Birch tar shampoo helped with the itch, but people around me very clearly didn’t like when I used it. I don’t know if I am the only weird person liking the smell of burnt wood, but yeah, it’s quite strong.
- Comment on The less complicated life of a male 3 weeks ago:
But I don’t even know what that means. Hell, in the past I even used soap bar for the hair.
My father apparently used to get his hair complimented, he used apparently used the fucking laundry detergent.
- Comment on The less complicated life of a male 3 weeks ago:
Well, yeah, mine looks like crap, but I don’t have the time to care, and the long hair hides the large patch of psoriasis on the back of my neck.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, especially since I know I likely wouldn’t play it much.
On the other hand, if it was free (also as in money) and open-source, and I liked it, I could donate. Although I don’t have much money, so probably just smaller amounts, better than the 0 I do right now by not gaming instead.
For example, I absolutely wouldn’t pay $9.60 for Binary Eye (barcode/2D code scanner app) if it cost that much, but as a donation that was fine. - Comment on !@$& Homelab Networking 3 weeks ago:
OK, here’s a somewhat famous case of email that could only be sent within something over 500 miles, but no further: web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
- Comment on !@$& Homelab Networking 3 weeks ago:
Touch it until it works, then never again while it still does.
- Comment on Can I make a Bluetooth button to skip YouTube ads on the computer? 3 weeks ago:
I am sure at one point I had some auto skip extension in Firefox for this, but I don’t remember what it was.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 3 weeks ago:
A nice related bookmark I have saved. There’s also interactive pert with a slider where you can draw a wave and then add more and more sinusoids to get closer and closer. And of course the square wave, with infinite sinusoids (theoretically).
www.jezzamon.com/fourier/ - Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
The problem is bugs being far bigger issue. Imagine a bug/crash causing your throttle to get stuck and brakes not working.
If it happens now, at least it’s the manufacturer who’d be liable, I hope.I want a completely separate emergency shutdown+brake.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
Biggest issue is whatever is going on with mobile devices compared to desktop. I don’t know what you call it here, drivers? But each device is just so closed down, you can’t “just run” another software on it. I imagine if desktops also each required custom images based on model, people would only be using unmodified pre-installed Windows.
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 4 weeks ago:
I’ll just get 3 hackers to my keyboard, just wait.
