CentipedeFarrier

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Just house a colony of crickets in your living room and it stops being a problem! I did that for a while and it was awesome. Reminded me of rural living. (Fed to chickens, wasn’t just for kicks)

More seriously, there’s a volume reduction treatment available for tinnitus, something I’m actively seeking right now and go in for later this month for tone matching. Might be worth looking into for you as well. It seems the mechanism behind it is just stimulating those frequencies regularly at a volume you don’t consciously register, so the receptors aren’t searching for phantom noise all the time. So if you can tone match your noise (probably professionally), you can mix it into a low volume band on whatever music track to stimulate those hairs. And it’s supposed to make everything quieter so you can tolerate it better. Idk yet if that’s true, when I’ve listened to a tone that’s close it stops being so loud so I have to think it is, but might be worth a lookie loo for you as well :)

That’s super unhealthy to actually do, but what were the hallucinations like, emotionally? They sound like fever dream scary stuff, which most hallucinations are not at all.

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Just throw another blade on the handle and she’s got great form, totally unexpected weapon usage. Element of surprise or smth.

Not wanting to add complexity or anything but have you considered trying a deep water culture (DWC) hydroponic system? That’s all a fancy way to say a dark colored large 5-ish gallon bucket of water with specific hydroponic nutrients dissolved in the water (I use a generic balanced powder and it works nicely) and an air pump to keep the water from going stagnant. As long as you keep the air pump dry, you can do the whole thing outside without issue. I hang mine under a plastic camera guard and it works nicely.

I’m terrible at growing things in dirt because dirt remembers what you did to it (holds salts and nutrient excess unless you flush the soil), but hydroponics is a totally different thing. You can just toss the water and give it new when it starts showing signs of nutrient deficiency/toxicity. The roots end up massive and healthy and everything grows faster since there’s zero resistance in the growth medium. Just sucking up everything they can. Tho since the typical advice is to just completely toss the water at least weekly once it’s grown up (great for outside gardens or houseplants after the tomato buckets), you usually don’t end up with imbalances like that at all.

Proper care of a hydro system makes for a bountiful harvest most years, and if you want, you can very easily keep a tomato clone over winter to keep some smaller amount of production going. Hydro works very well inside because you don’t bring most of the bugs you would with a dirt pot.

Throw like 4 standard screw-in daylight bulbs of 60+watt-equivalent leds and you’ve got a grow space. No fancy expensive nonsense required.

I imagine it’s rather like bird hatchling down, which is very structurally basic, and if so, it’s very brittle, and makes for a lot of dust.

Probably for a similar reason the IRS runs off COBOL.

Allergic to improvements if they require significant overhaul.

This the same FAA that doesn’t have enough air traffic controllers to properly manage current aircraft for all airports and keep them from crashing? Or enough inspectors or whatever to ensure large planes used by hundreds of thousands of people per year are properly maintained and safe?

Spectacular idea to add another several thousand little high-tech high-fail flight pods to the mix!

I have friend dynamics that are the same way. Both sides do the same thing, dropping stuff for a while, weeks or months, and picking back up when energy returns, or there’s something to share. A burst of connection that picks up exactly where we left off, regardless how long it’s been. I wouldn’t be friends with people who aren’t ok with this, because it just wouldn’t last that long. I don’t have anything worth saying a lot of the time, and it feels weird to try to find something to say anyway just to stay in contact, so meh. No thanks.

As with the seasons, there is a natural cycle to such things, and as long as everyone involved is confident the cycle will repeat as it has always done, there’s no need to fear or resent the cold winters. :)

Low-key thought this was talking about tech familiarity until about halfway through when I realized I’m a moron.

I wouldn’t, I keep all of my data separate from my OS drive entirely so I can reformat or install a new OS whenever I feel like… nasty old habit from bootleg windows 7 well beyond its age, when reformatting every 6 months was good hygiene, before I found Linux… but gave me great data management insight.

Sure, if my active drives died after this swap, and I had to restore from the old, now backup, drive, I’d be back at the operational state I was at the time of the backup.

That tracks.

It still doesn’t run anything tho. It’s just a drive. It doesn’t house an os or anything, just files that aren’t restricted in any way.

Sure, nearly everything is on a separate drive from the OS. I don’t put much on the OS drive on any of my computers unless it needs to run there and that’s easy to reinstall. Easy to fix things that way.

What if my backup is just files and there’s nothing to restore?

Like say I take my existing drives, full of totally working media, and duplicate them, use the originals as a backup and the new drives as the active.

Does that count as a backup? No restoration involved.

That’s definitely going on my list :) thanks!

$15/hr still isn’t a living wage in most places, just for the record. It’s better than server wages for sure, but it’s not stable-life-level income.

I’d like a mix of elf and dwarf with a splash of goblin, please.

I want the systems management with a huge complicated story, but also lots of collectibles around the world for no fucking reason other than to give my ADHD something to do when “build more shit and try to find the end of that fucking wire” are not engaging.

So far I’ve got oxygen not included and rimworld, I tried dwarf fortress but it’s really not my bag and I’m not sure why. I haven’t tried factorio or satisfactory because they look a bit too complicated to fully engage me (tho I’ve been watching game it out and honestly, as a result I’m trying to embrace the chaos). I’m sure I’d like them if I gave them a try, maybe. Then again I mod the shit out of my games to add more complexity to them so…

But is there a good mix of elf and dwarf games?

I’ve had the same problem with them. I don’t recommend them either.

Even if they do have a warranty, they aren’t reliable enough to be worth doing the warranty claim on, imho.

I’ve gone back to the old battery style and gotten some rechargeable 9 volt.

Depends if you can stand to wear a wool turtleneck (over another shirt that keeps the wool only touching your neck).

I can’t stand any turtleneck, personally, for exactly the same reason I can’t do tags. It’s there touching me, and it feels wrong but won’t go away, and the wrongness bothers me. Even super fluffy soft fabrics are wrong on my neck.