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I've had cocaine a few times now and while everyone is saying it's euphoric, I keep saying it's the most normal I've ever felt. Not "euphoric", I've done other stuff that felt suuuuper good (in an actual euphoria sense) so I believe can compare.

But normal. The cloud of thoughts gone, I am able to make myself do anything with one thought, I have energy, the aches are gone, the tinnitus is gone, I don't second guess, I don't overthink. I just am and I do. It's amazing. This is what people like Bezos and Musk must be like lol

Amphetamine probably feels like this, too, although many say it's actually quite distinct. The price, (un)availability, very short duration and the comedown are big negatives, sadly.

But yeah, comparing it to caffeine... nah. Can't comment on IV, but I can compare it to insufflated caffeine. It has some similarities, but the important parts are missing. Or maybe I'm just desensitized to caffeine. At least I'm a good fake coke detector lol

Mask wear becoming a normal thing is one of the few good things to come out of the response to Covid.

I like them, they provide privacy from people and cameras, while also increasing protection from many viruses and bacteria (provided you don't take it off to scratch your nose).

Common cold and the flu has gotten way less common since 2020. Freaking amazing, since the symptoms can literally incapacitate me for a week or two. I hate the cold and flu.

Under $500, you can update your current bike to an e-bike.

In fact, that's the best way to do it. Get a good bike and modify it into an electric. You get much better customization and quality for the price.

But that's not for everyone. Perhaps someone with access to funding can start a chain of conversion shops... but honestly, Swapfiets is cheaper.

QX9300 Core 2 Quad (socketed CPU!!

Yes, socketed CPU on a laptop! The HP equivalent to the M4400, Elitebook 8530w, even had a slotted GPU (MXM slot), which you could upgrade, wow! I loved doing that kind of upgrade with older workstations.

Sadly, Haswell is the last chip that was socketed on laptops. Anything newer and you get a pre-soldered chip that you can't upgrade.

They can be overclocked substantially, partly thanks to FIVR (VRMs on-die, Haswell exclusive, very hot - literally), often outperforming Skylake and even newer chips lol

Only solution nowadays if you want a laptop is to get one of the rare ones using a desktop CPU. They're surprisingly not as huge as you'd imagine, about the same as the article's Elitebook. Still, a pain in the ass.

Yeah, you could also work somewhere not as developed. It's dysfunctional alright, and the pay can be shit. But if the company seriously considers your ideas, you'll be seen as some sort of prophet. Many ideas and systems that you take for granted simply don't exist in developing countries. And they really need them.

And as streaming becomes more fragmented, it steadily goes up :D

If these people don't apply for these jobs, they might as well not exist.

Amazon warehouses are staffed with immigrants in Europe. And they would simply not be able to do anything IT related.

It might seem easy for us, but it's not. We're talking about people who can't reinstall Windows. They won't be doing manual unit testing anytime soon, or ever, nevermind anything more complicated.

German companies love keeping it local. Things like manual app testing are advertised as Minijobs, but very few are applying. And of course, they complain about a lack of workers. So outsourcing can make sense beyond saving every penny.

When you're at zero, anything happening is a "boom".

I should know, I'm from a country where IT is "booming"... Most of it is tedious boring work that was outsourced by western companies because no one there wants to do it, plus it's cheaper than even creating some automated processes.

Still, that's a pessimistic way to look at it. It's a good thing, and it can grow into something better.

Speaking of which, when is 10Gbit Ethernet coming to laptops? Most have even lost the port ffs.

I've got a PIXMA 925 SOHO MFP. It literally eats ink just cleaning printheads on power up, power down and just regularly if left on.

I printed about 50 graphs+text pages on new cartridges, now one's low the rest are about half.

WTF.

Yeah, they're way too expensive. So is honey, by the way. I get great fresh honey from local beekeepers for like 5 times less than local store price.

I've got around 10kg of them from a couple of trees in my garden. I've done zero maintenance, they're just there to keep other shit from growing (walnut trees poison the soil, most weeds stop growing, also because of the shade). All "high quality", the same stuff you get in stores.

Walnut trees are used on roadsides, they're perfect for it, zero maintenance, keeps the soil from moving/sliding and kills weeds. Random people just harvest them if they want to.

The store prices on them make no sense. Just like bananas :D

They're really good at ripening on the go? I have no idea, they cost about the same in Europe from Ireland to Romania, which is rather insane.

On that note, walnuts are so expensive, meanwhile they grow literally everywhere around here with no special care or anything.

Only because governments don't give a flying fuck about it... Yet.

They'll catch up eventually. See how some politicians are already starting to call on mining bans.

They can easily fully ban it and enforce it. Let's say, put mining on the same level as growing weed or making heroin.

Your super first kind of decentralized money is now fucked.

They didn't verify the phone number when he signed up (with a simple OTP)? Wow

I have not been able to get ketamine, however I did find my cure for anxiety and depression (mostly).

No SSRIs worked, I'm simply immune to that shit. It makes me feel worse, even more suicidal than usual, even if taken long term. And withdrawals ain't pretty.

So, enter gabapentin and pregabalin. Which no doctors would prescribe as they're for those with epilepsy or something and I'm just a fucking idiot in their eyes.

No matter, I can buy it freely right now.

Both of them work on voltage gated calcium channels, something I do not fully understand.

But I do understand they work, and they work well. As long as I take either, I'm chill, content and even creative.

Doesn't help with attention/focus, but at least it works for the anxiety and depression.

Apparently they're prescription only because a small percentage of people reported euphoric feelings. Damn narcs lol.

Yes, when initially taken in high enough dosages, both gabapentin and pregabalin gave me very euphoric feelings, insane waves of energy, somewhat between alcohol and cannabis, really nice.

However that subsided after several months and now it's only the quiet chill feeling.

Withdrawal is fast, if you taper down over a week there are no effects. If you quit cold turkey, it's a few nights of nightmares or insomnia. Overall, really not bad compared to anything else.

So yeah, they work, they work well and I wish doctors actually put their brains to use and made them more readily available.

Just make them OTC because few people can put up with the regular begging they have to do for life changing medication.

Christ, I still have a welder that I made myself. It uses a round ferromagnetic core I found in a scrapyard.

I forgot how many windings it has, I think around 300 on the input side and 40 on the output.

Wiring it was a major pain in the ass, as the core is round, a closed circle.

And it draws too much current when idle, which means I have not used enough wire on the input side or the core is too small, fuck knows, I was 14 when I made it.

It does weld well, especially on DC through 4 huge diodes I also found in some scrap.

Sorry for my English, I'm drunk and tired.

Magic Lantern is a firmware mod for Canon cameras and it gives you more features and control over your hardware. I love this kind of low level mods.

https://magiclantern.fm/features.html

Where are these high resolution displays from?

I'd imagine Facebook or any other big company would've been able to get their hands on them.

Or are they waiting for the next generation of headsets to use them?

By specs, those seem great. Resolution is one of the most important things in VR goggles.

Delay your responses to situations long enough to come up with a good and controlled long-term plan * Pattern-match past situations onto the present situation to guide your current response * Mentally tell yourself what to do and have it stick * Manage your emotions towards your long-term interests * Imagine and evaluate multiple possible future outcomes

God fucking damn, every time I think about it I want to die. In fact, I want to die any time.

You know how much this shit ruined my life? No, you don't.

And no one will help. "Doctors". Useless garbage.

Yeah, seeing how the poorest fare is the best way to judge the development level of a country.

Indeed, if you're wealthy, you're gonna be living great anywhere.

But look at the poorest people, are they homeless? Do they struggle to afford food and electricity? Do they have the means to get to work and back? Health care? That's the true measure of a society imo.

I'll also add that in this case the buildings may be old and look straight out of a post apocalyptic movie, but they can be quite liveable inside.

And there's more space and green stuff around, compared to the newer (car centric I'd say) blocks.

The 5Ghz is actually handled by a daughterboard using a mini PCIe slot (not sure about what the actual interface is tbh).

And yes, it overheats, especially in sustained transfer.

Slap a heatsink on all the chips and call it a day :D

Ironically, TP-Link is often the best choice for OpenWRT.

Cheap, good hardware and most importantly, a supported chipset.

I still remember a GeForce MX440 I bought once. It was stuttering as hell in games. Overclocked it for better performance. Still stuttering.

Looked at it and two of the plastic clips (yeap, no screws back then lol) holding the heatsink+fan were snapped so the heatsink wasn't even touching the die... WTF!

That was pretty hilarious. It worked fine for years after I fixed it, long enough for caps to blow and be replaced.

Basically, they're fucking sturdy.

It has become an extension of my memory.

Their quality going down the drain is often quite literally painful.

Gonna need to adapt. Well, already did with my own notes and garbage dumps like Reddit, but it's not enough.

Speaking of food, dried corn snacks are practically non existent even though they're great with beer (also dried bread snacks).

Not dried unprocessed corn, I'm talking corn flour baked/fried into a chips-like snack, like we do potatoes. Bet you never heard of it.

Also, in the UK, they don't have dried fish/octopus snacks in pubs! A fucking island nation! It's the same old peanuts everywhere, come on!

Actually, that's most of Europe. Dried fish with beer is quite popular in Asia and even Russia.

Quite literally a multimillion dollar market right there.

On the ocean food issue: They've been in terminal decline for a while now. The future of seafood is farming. Today, half of the fish for human consumption is already farmed. Shame about the less farmable species.

Google's OCR (as found in Lens, Docs and whatever) is insanely good. At least that was my impression based on my own notes (my writing is horrible and I often add very small side notes).

Oh yeah, camera quality makes a big difference.

I could have just bought the device with a remote at Auto Zone for 1/4 of the price

But you didn't? I hope your realize at least half of the responsibility is on you as a consumer. You pay for and enable these idiotic ideas.

Still can't unlock the bootloader on Snapdragon/NA models though lol

Use a virtual card for everything, block it if you don't like something.