wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on me n the homes not crossing streams cuz were not gay 2 days ago:
It already has the drain topper removed for easier log stomping. How considerate! Make sure to thank your host because that is some grade A hospitality.
- Comment on Day 564 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
At the risk of sending you down a rabbit hole, there are some people who use Reshade on non-online games to do “game photography”. You could go as light as overlaying a grid, or more complicated stuff like simulating lens focal length, removing fog, adjusting colors, adding bloom, bokeh, etc.
It’s meant for overlaying complex graphical effects while you play, but there’s a small dedicated community of people using it to set up the perfect still shots. It’s definitely a deep rabbit hole.
- Comment on How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are: Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants... 5 days ago:
Part of the issue, admittedly, is that there’s a bunch. Many have outdated info as well.
NAACP guide seems written for a more peaceful era, but is a good place to start.
Rescue our Democracy similarly has some oversights when it comes to tech safety, but at least mentions wearing a mask.
I’m not finding the better guides right now.
The big things as far as reducing identification that I’m not seeing is that beyond face coverings and the like to prevent facial recognition, don’t bring your real phone or keep it powered off in a faraday bag.
Phones are still traceable when in airplane mode, and while powered off, through bluetooth low power mode. This is what many countries used for covid exposure tracking. The only defense agaist this tracking is having your phone in a faraday bag that it doesn’t leave until you are out of the protest area, or simply not bringing it.
There are a few ways to get burner phones not tied to your identity. If you wanted to go that route, you’d want to do the opposite. Keep the burner in the faraday bag at home and only use it out at protest locations, alongside the advice from those two guides as far as disabling biometrics, etc.
I’ll try and find some better ones later today.
- Comment on The perfect club! 6 days ago:
Hey, that’s I am a bunny! Didn’t know Nicholas went that hard.
- Comment on How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are: Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants... 6 days ago:
The protest safety guides need to be more widespread.
- Comment on Noooooo 1 week ago:
Texts, teams messages, etc seem to cause people to try and speak in single sentences
Oh my god this. I’ve gotten some well natured teasing from co-workers about taking a while to type multiple sentence teams messages (they’ll see the typing icon in the full team group chat), but when the alternative is a back and forth that doesn’t need to happen, or them having to wait a few minutes from first message until the idea is complete, I think it’s the best approach.
- Comment on We have Mental Healthcare at home 1 week ago:
It’s even better when you can’t do most of the socially acceptable de-stressing vices due to health conditions.
My lungs are fucky with asthma, so no smonking or vaping. Genetically recessive liver issue that I hit the jackpot on means I can’t drink, or have too much sugar, or long term it might just fucking fibros-ify my lungs. Short-term it gives me migraines, nausea, and exhaustion if I try to cheat it.
I’m not going to self harm. Body is enough of a mess without adding extra pain and scarring.
Jacking off and gaming it is then.
- Comment on Spong Berb Adventures #12 1 week ago:
These are but short windows into a rich tapestry of lives. Of course we may find them confusing, lacking the proper context and life experiences that led to this specific moment. Truly, how can any person hope to bridge that chasm and truly understand another?
One thing I can say for certain though, is that a Dennys ought to have ham.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 1 week ago:
ELITE? Really, of all the things to name it?
Well I guess they know who they’re marketing to.
- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! 1 week ago:
Similarly, Jerboa tries to make @indie-ver.se in the post body into a link to a user profile and also stops at the hyphen.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 week ago:
Toss some rooftop park/garden/green spaces up there as well and they’d be pretty damn great, as far as skyscrapers go.
- Comment on Who wants cake? 1 week ago:
Needs a nice thick vein, like a snicker’s bar.
- Comment on i want to believe 1 week ago:
Everyone knows the warnings on paint thinner is because the illuminati doesn’t want us to know how to open our fourth eye.
- Comment on I hate when I see ads 1 week ago:
Sponsorblock does a good job skipping in video sponsored segments.
- Comment on Do we ? 2 weeks ago:
Then you do, in fact, want to be here. So fuck off with the bullshit and accept that you’ve decided you’re here for the ride.
- Comment on Do we ? 2 weeks ago:
Suicidal ideation isn’t a joke, fuckface.
- Comment on Do we ? 2 weeks ago:
Spoken like someone who has never had to deal with those thoughts.
Nice baseless assumption fuckboy.
For those unfamiliar, those are anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds. Mine.
I’ve already spouted my personal psychological issues across other comments. I’m so sorry that I didn’t take the time to qualify my statement with an essay about my personal bullshit here.
I’m truly sorry about what you’re going through. If you feel that way then you aren’t getting the help you need. Notably, you also already have your clear reason not to end it. You should focus on that and work to build more reasons not to instead of getting pissy at an internet stranger for calling people out on glorification of suicide.
To put this as simple as fucking possible, in incredibly vague and simplistic terms (that are still true by personal fucking experience)
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Repeated self talk about how you don’t want to be alive and the like isn’t going to help you or anyone else who is having these feelings. It reinforces those thought patterns that you clearly already understand are not healthy.
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Being able to identify when you are having those disordered thoughts and doing your best to turn away from them helps reinforce against those patterns. It gets easier over time.
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Posting suicidal ideation content into the void of the internet does not ultimately help you or others with handling or moving past those feelings
There is value in knowing you’re not alone in your feelings, and humor reaches farther than other means, sure. But the internet as a whole is clearly far past that point, and I’m getting increasingly more exhausted sitting by and watching this shit be normalized.
I’ve been living with ADHD my whole life (close to 35 years now). Depression (officially) for around 15. Anxiety for around a decade.
There’s at least a five year span of my life that effectively isn’t there. There’s still a small voice in the back of my head afraid I’ll either wake up one morning and be back there, or I’ll come back to my senses and find that the past decade has been all delusion as my car is plummeting off the local bridge or into oncoming traffic lanes from what was a constant battle every day not to just fucking do it.
I have a mental list of various options for how I’d do it if it came to it, backed by actual fucking research. I did back then too, and was fucked up enough to not care anymore about the hurt to those around me or the potential pain to myself from doing it in a dumb as hell way like a traffic accident. Good way to end up still alive but crippled physically and financially for the rest of your life.
Anyway.
One of the hardest things to accept is that there is some logic and soundness to the dumbasses saying “have you just tried not being x?”.
It’s not that simple, true. People who don’t have these issues will never understand, true. It will be some of the most unrewarding, soul draining shit you’ve ever attempted, and there’s no shame if you can’t get there yet or if you can’t do it on your own.
But here’s the worst part: they aren’t entirely wrong.
You build your healthy coping mechanisms and your psychological toolkit to fight against this shit through constant neverending effort to work against the bad internal shit. The more you work against it, the stronger those tools get. Eventually, like repeated practice of martial arts or musical instruments over years, the things that took concious effort will begin to become unconcious. The equivalent of mental muscle memory, for lack of a phrase for it that doesn’t sound silly.
You’ll stumble. You’ll fail. You’ll have to start back over from what feels like (and may actually be) square one. But that work against it is ultimately the core of any way you’re going to be able to keep moving forward.
It will never be as simple as “just don’t be sad, lol”, but some aspect of your journey out of it will have to come from personal effort to not be what you are today.
On top of all that?
This isn’t even an actually funny joke about not wanting to exist anymore. “haha, I don’t want to live anymore even though they do! Rofl lmao.”
Boo! Get some better material.
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- Comment on Do we ? 2 weeks ago:
I think a lot of people doing the funny haha suicidal ideation thing forget that it’s entirely within their power to opt-out of life if they really mean it.
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 2 weeks ago:
I built right as the nVidia 3000 series came out, and when I wasn’t able to get one in the first month or two after release I said fuck it and bought one of the last new 2070 Supers I could find. Hooray for availability alerts.
I’ve been wanting to upgrade parts for like a year now, because it’s just starting to have issues with higher graphics settings on 1440p (had 1080p monitors when I bought it). Glad I went with 64GB RAM (DDR4, as was the standard of the time) and a little above mid range on the CPU. It’s absolutely fucking absurd to me that the parts that are still available (mobo, PSU, and GPU aren’t anymore) have effectively held their price point.
- Comment on MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo 2 weeks ago:
Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog is one of the best things to come out of that writer’s strike.
- Comment on Cloud saving huh? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of computing “standards” seem to happen in waves. Not as directly as fashion, but still. Mainframes with endpoints are now the cloud.
- Comment on Cloud saving huh? 2 weeks ago:
You probably already know, but for the crowd:
Usually thin clients are clients that remotely connect into a central server that runs their VM, and the VM actually handles the compute. Like older mainframe and endpoint setups.
There’s still some minor compute hardware/resources on the thin client itself, but it’ll probably be more lightweight than expected. Maybe equivalent to an early model raspi?
- Comment on Drag 2 weeks ago:
Decent chance it’s not the same specific folks.
- Comment on Opinions 2 weeks ago:
There was this wonderful slice of time around a decade ago where fast food prices had started to rise but local sit-down places hadn’t. If you had the time and around $5-10 extra then it didn’t make sense to get fast food when you could get an actual meal.
Unfortunately inflation has caught up to even the local places now.
- Comment on Opinions 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, you don’t get Taco Bell because you want real Tacos or Mexican food, just like how you don’t go to McDonalds for a good burger.
You get Taco Bell because it’s convenient, because you’re high as fuck and their crazy monstorsities sound like perfect munchies, or because the call of the void today has manifested in a craving for their specific style of shitty junk food.
Yeah, give me a soggy disintegrating taco with a fucking big dorito chip for the hard shell. I’m going to dump like 5 sachets of the hot sauce on it. And I’ll have the taco salad in a flattened wrap with the massive cheez-it in the middle. Oh, and the burrito half filled with rice and cheese that has extra cheese grilled onto the outside and spicy Doritos inside too. I’ll wash it down with a criminal amount of the formerly exclusive overly sweet Mountain Dew flavor.
Just fuck my shit up.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 3 weeks ago:
I’ve not seen womens pants available with larger pockets and non-form fitting. I’m not sure you can say it’s just a choice issue when the choice would be to just buy mens pants instead.
- Comment on Greenland should start utilizing these mfs! 3 weeks ago:
Spill so much blood you’ll need a bucket and a mop
- Comment on Sharing is caring 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t. Now I’m hungry.
- Comment on Warning: Stripe Asks For ID Verification 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on The look really says it all 3 weeks ago:
