btw there is already a new years resolutions thread 
JustSo
joined 1 year ago
join clubs and learn from others mistakes too. I'd probably be dead working under an old car by now if I hadn't absorbed the wisdom of others who've come before.
TALK TO PEOPLE
You gotta meet people in the meat world. They will be imperfect, they will be frustrating, but a surprising amount of them will be receptive to you and if you listen more than you talk you can stay learning all the time and build a support network by accident.
Look up DivestOS. Graphene is strictly for pixels and lineageos does not do enough (big respect to the project, divest is a soft fork of it.) There's another one I'll think of later that's halfway between the two. I think DivestOS is completely deblobbed.
*Holds up a real owl in contemplation while it pecks my eyes out and tears strips off my arm.*
Is this,
an NFT?
it's all just tinkering, time, and access to materials
often recycled or street found materials if you're in a city. you can go a long way these days with the shit people don't see value in anymore. I have a wall of dormant computers, I paid for maybe 2 of them in the ~20 years I've been collecting and scavenging them.
that said the newer shit, middle-gen raspberry pi type arm boards etc are fucking fantastic for low power devices. certain types of old android tablets and phones are especially useful for repurposing as control interfaces. when stuff breaks I take it apart and salvage shit. I just launched a street-found nano drone that had been discarded because of its dead battery using a logitech wireless keyboard's lipo into my wall and broke a prop because I was being careless. but it was funny so it was worth it. the personal self defense drone project will continue lol
the real battle is in the mind. do you really want to do something COOL in CURRENT YEAR and not document it, monetize it etc. Obviously yes, but my point is there's a lot of implicit pressure to be visible, to gain recognition, to make money, etc that make the hegemonic platforms attractive and fighting those base impulses is fucking hard when money is a potential (if, tbh, unlikely) outcome of joining the masses in the walled gardens.
placeholder/reminder comment for an inevitable effortpost later.
I have lived like this on and off for large sections of my life.
It is a "goal" of sorts of me and another cypherpunk to lean heavily back into this in the coming year(s,) we're fucking sick of the web but the internet is OUR home turf. these corpos are taking our third spaces and we will have to create new ones.
like the other poster said it's because we chose convenience and slowly (in our cases) ceded ground because other life stuff felt more important. It feels now like I didn't realise the war of attrition I was fighting at the time, so i lost.
sorry for the scrambled and not very useful words. I'll think on this and try to bring some energy and thought to this topic later when my meat is rested and my mind has finished defragging.
diablo 3 was my final straw on that front. day 1. just wanted to play muh offline clicky dungeon game. no bueno.
I was stuck in a snowed in airport on my way to portland chatting to this "cool" seeming old head weed farmer and he warned me about the "dangerous gangs" in portland. I was like, sly with my querying, but once I stripped away the bullshit he was talking about antifa. I just laughed and said "I don't think I have to worry about them."
Then I tried to find that cider bar where the riots were but it'd closed by then. :( :(
Edit: reminds me of the old like, english I think, saying about how you "don't talk about money, politics or religion in polite company" on that good manners shit innit
Hahahaha. Too relatable. I'm on oral pills and I usually break them up with my teeth and try to take them sublingual just to make my budget stretch a little further.
I used to do sublingual pills always but the wait for the coating to dissolve got tedious.
I think generally I'm mostly swallowing the bulk of it too.
Do some research just to make sure I'm not trippin about the grapefruit thing but I'm fairly sure it's an issue for oral dosing so maybe just be patient with your drops tonight xD
on the subject of citrate vs chelate, homegirl had this to say. I trust her, she's got a chemistry brain and half a degree.
i'm not exactly sure my understanding is
oxide - bad, waste of time
citrate- medium style, acceptable
chelated e.g. taurate/l-threonate - best
i think maybe the best approach is just avoid oxide and find a supplement that lists the equivalent magnesium you get out of the weight of whichever salt(s) it has in it so you easily aim for how much you want
So yeah maybe just next time you're re-upping have a little shop around and see if you can find something with the chelated version, if not, well, your own experience would seem to speak for itself. If it's working for you then maybe the cost/benefit wouldn't even be worth it in the end.
I'm slowly realising that unless the oxide is considerably responsible for the digestive system issues I could probably 6x my dose without much worry using the tablets I have. (inb4 liver failure or something lmao)
Hey, I got into magnesium to get high, stayed for how much better it made me feel. You can take it multiple times a day if you're dosing multiple times a day.
Heh! That's cool. I expect it's placebo effect but, I'm really like, not doin great today waiting for some stuff to arrive and trying not to get (further) out of control on bromazolam. The vitamin B x magnesium x [couple other things, but less than my brain was telling me to take.] combo seems to be keeping me pretty relaxed. I was crawling up the walls yesterday with more or less the same minus the mag and b.
Hah and you know what? I've forgotten to have my coffee cuz I was hoping to sleep in late. That likely won't help but the addiction must be obeyed or I'll be in for it later and then sleep will be rekt.
Might really fuck around with the magnesium cuz the stuff I've got is a real cheap bottle with fuck all bioavailability, unless the particular B (6? maybe) they added aids absorption or something. And I don't mind the prospect of accidentally overdoing it just a little bit after finding that article about UDLs being set very conservatively to make it "safe" / easy to sell to everyone.
I can ask my friend if citrate is at least "good enough" that you shouldn't need to go hunting for something different / potentially more expensive.
You doing oral HRT? It definitely fucks with estrogen absorption or whatever the mechanism is.
There's a bunch of medications that do the same thing.
Just did some shallow research and TIL about DXM and its relationship to morphine and interaction with opiate receptors. Kinda reminds me of tramadol or something, in a vague way. That stuff's kind of trippy too for an analgesic. (don't recommend)
wtf I've been on the site within the last two weeks how did I miss this. I know it's one guy's solo project and a huge undertaking but NOOO.