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Hyacin (He/Him)

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  • NSFW

    What's the hardest addiction you've tried to break or are trying to break?

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  • This. I know 'nicotine' is already here, but it's not the same.

    Confused the hell out of me when I was trying to switch to vaping that I'd keep going back to cigarettes - "I'M GETTING THE NICOTINE, WHAT THE HELL?!", and it wasn't just habit, it was overwhelming need to smoke.

    I finally figured some of those other 2999 or whatever chemicals in there must be addictive too, or something, I don't know.

    I've quit drinking, when I was a daily drinker at risk of a seizure because my body had grown so chemically dependent on it. I've quit countless other 'behavioral' addictions.

    NOTHING, was as hard as trying to quit smoking. Until, thank the powers that be, I met vaping, and after a couple months of back and forth, was able to transition to it entirely. Haven't had a cigarette since, and it's been at least 10-11 years.

    Eventually lowered my nicotine to 0 mg, then gave up the vaping. Haven't done either since. That was, probably 8-9 years ago now.

    I still get the odd craving to vape. Zero cravings to smoke up until last year, first trip in my life to Vegas (and two more since). The casino environment with everyone smoking, I don't know what it is. Got me looking at it with the rose coloured glasses occasionally while there - but then I quickly remember how hard it was to shake, and how happy I am without it.

  • NSFW

    What's the hardest addiction you've tried to break or are trying to break?

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  • I did it my whole life (~mid forties now).

    I met and was talking to a guy about 10-15 years ago, and it came up - he said "oh yeah, I used to do that, I just stopped."

    Now, consider that, we're both addicts and met at a 12-step meeting.

    I'm like "You can't just stop guy, lawl, wtf?"

    But he insisted - "No, really, I just stopped."

    So I tried ... and was absolutely, completely fucking stunned - it worked - I just stopped.

  • NSFW

    What's the hardest addiction you've tried to break or are trying to break?

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  • You've got to taper. I've had hangovers after multi-week benders that didn't hurt as bad as trying to drop caffeine cold turkey. I know tapering is counter intuitive and counter productive for a lot of addictions, but for caffeine it's a must.

  • GrapheneOS being targeted by France

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  • It does not appear so, no :-(

  • GrapheneOS being targeted by France

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  • Yep, drama or not, completely true or not (as is being claimed in this thread), they do incredible work, and if you benefit from it, let this serve simply as a reminder that they deserve some support if you don't want to wade into all the details.

    Super happy to see they take Interac e-Transfers in Canada too.

  • Removed

    UN imperialist council.

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  • Yeah, but, it's not like there weren't multiple ceasefire motions and other relevant items over the last ~3+ years that were also vetoed. It lost legitimacy and proper functioning a long time ago in my eyes.

  • SR-IOV passing of a NIC to a VM

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  • Similar to the above, I started with this guide that got me going (in case it adds anything additional!)

  • Out of ten, how would you rate your ability to empathize with people with opposing viewpoints?

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  • That's a 0 according to the scale provided if I'm not mistaken.

  • Have you ever sworn someone as your enemy? What did they do?

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  • Asked too many questions.

    pulls out pen and paper

  • Palantir stock drops 8% on valuation concerns as CEO Karp rips short seller 'market manipulation'

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  • As opposed to the other kinds of market manipulation he and other execs are fine with ...

    🙄

  • I turn 18 this March, what should I expect?

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  • Oh, wait, this isn't shitty ask lemmy ...

    quietly backs out of the room

  • Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales has entered the Talk page for the Gaza genocide article and says in his opinion calling it genocide is a violation of NPOV (Wikipedia's "neutral point of view" policy)

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  • Wow, with how much the right hated them I just assumed they were good guys. So much for that idea. Will no longer be supporting financially either.

  • Liberal Democracy

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  • Will do! ty!

    (not at all sarcastic, legit want to learn more about all this before my country ends up in the same position the US is currently in and I'm facing down the same dilemmas)

  • Marco Rubio warns Israel not to annex West Bank after Knesset vote in favour

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  • A little boy was walking down a path and he came across a rattlesnake. The rattlesnake was getting old. He asked, "Please little boy, can you take me to the top of the mountain? I hope to see the sunset one last time before I die." The little boy answered "No Mr. Rattlesnake. If I pick you up, you'll bite me, and I'll die." The rattlesnake said, "No, I promise. I won't bite you. Just please take me up to the mountain." The little boy thought about it and finally picked up that rattlesnake and took it close to his chest and carried it up to the top of the mountain.

    They sat there and watched the sunset together. It was so beautiful. Then after sunset the rattlesnake turned to the little boy and asked, "Can I go home now? I am tired, and I am old." The little boy picked up the rattlesnake and again took it to his chest and held it tightly and safely. He came all the way down the mountain holding the snake carefully and took it to his home to give him some food and a place to sleep. The next day the rattlesnake turned to the boy and asked, "Please little boy, will you take me back to my home now? It is time for me to leave this world, and I would like to be at my home now." The little boy felt he had been safe all this time and the snake had kept his word, so he would take it home as asked.

    He carefully picked up the snake, took it close to his chest, and carried him back to the woods, to his home to die. Just before he laid the rattlesnake down, the rattlesnake turned and bit him in the chest. The little boy cried out and threw the snake upon the ground. "Mr. Snake, why did you do that? Now I will surely die!" The rattlesnake looked up at him and grinned, "You knew what I was when you picked me up."

  • Liberal Democracy

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  • Yeah I really don't understand these posts, and there is a LOT of them. It almost seems like propaganda from the right to help them win again.

    "Don't bother voting! Your only solution is full on revolution!" revolution does not happen "Oh shit, he got in again"

    Like fine, if you want to plan a revolution, go plan a revolution - that does not mean you stop participating in this system entirely while you're figuring it out. People NOT voting is how we got into this damn mess (again) to begin with. We don't need to discourage even MORE people from voting.

  • Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck

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  • I feel like they think the same thing about us. Especially the odd time I try to explain something seemingly basic to them (say, 'innocent civilians shouldn't be bombed' for example.)

    And it always falls on deaf ears.

    I'm just cutting more and more of them out of my life at this point because their toxicity is so bad it affects my mental and emotional well being.

  • What would be your distro of choice if you take the security with ease as the top priority

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  • OpenBSD

    ducks

  • how did you make the switch from reddit to lemmy.. i'm trying to myself but struggling to ngl

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  • yep, this, cold turkey ragequit. Have since had to go back for the odd super niche technical question/subject/area, but now I'm thinking I'll keep that readonly and delete my account (after trashing everything on it, ofc, which I did a week ago after a Reddit-typical terrible interaction with a terrible human.)

  • New home server, NixOS vs Proxmox vs Arch

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  • Currently messing around with Talos Linux in a VM.

    Yes!! Now LOVE Talos, after, drumroll, trying it out in my lab on my Proxmox boxes!! Figured it out 'good enough', and then rolled a live cluster with it - also on the same Proxmox hardware!! Labs, production services, loaner 'lab boxes' for people doing certs - with hardware to spare! LOVE Proxmox so much!!!