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- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 2 weeks ago:
There are some decent comments here overall with stuff I bet would help you. But it sounds to me like you have lost the appreciation and rewards from life and the world around you. I would wonder if you have undiagnosed anxiety.
This isn’t going to sound great probably, but the problem isn’t the world around you, it’s just you. The good news, ‘you’ is the only part of this you can fix. The rest, totally outside of your control.
You need to retrain your brain. Slow down to appreciate the smaller things. Even the tiniest things. Read up on the raisin technique. I think raisins are kind of dumb, but apply it to everyday things. Go slow. Examine. Savor. Eat slowly. And with each bite think of the process that got that very thing into your mouth. From growing the ingredients, raising, milking, whatever. The process and storage, maybe inspection, transporting it to the store, you buying it and cooking it. The skill it took to do that and the history of you cooking to get there. It’s an awful lot packed into each bite. Do that with as many bites as you can. Be mindful. Repeat it. You don’t need a different thought every time. Just keep thinking it through. And apply that to more things throughout your day as you’re able to. It’s not an overnight process but it’s much faster than you might think to regain the value, passion for things. Do this people as well. Forgo the NPC thoughts, and delve in. How they got to be who they are. Ask questions over time and build a mental roadmap.
That’s pretty much it. I could have easily written your post word for word a decade ago. With therapy and general learning, fighting anhedonia was a process. And still is. But I do appreciate things and I look forward to things. I often look forward the most to me not being me tomorrow but a slightly better version of me.
- Comment on White House Faith Office 3 weeks ago:
She sounds overqualified for the position.
- Comment on USA Question | How much is a dozen large eggs near you? 5 weeks ago:
$6.50/dozen for the regular eggs. Surprisingly, only $10/dozen for free range 18pack. This is in Idaho at Albertsons (not the cheapest but not a high end grocery store) Image
- Comment on You wouldn't even need to stop going to work! 5 weeks ago:
They “can’t” but they constantly do with no repercussions or backlash.
- Comment on What security purpose a Faraday bag has when it contain a vehicle keyfob 1 month ago:
I have proximity unlock and my car is parked (at home) just close enough to my catch-all tray where I store my keys to constantly lock and unlock. It usually teeters on lock/unlock so closely that a person walking between the two will trigger it. So, to prevent a dead battery or stolen car, I keep my fob in a faraday bag.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve seen it twice. In two people who are prone and had some mental instability issues. I am almost certain a mentally healthy person would never have any kind of an issue.
I’m not a doctor or scientist, but here is what I saw and what I believe happened.
Their mental health decline caused them to increase their intake by a decent amount. I think untreated, they would have had the same outcome in less than a year. But the weed sped things up a great deal. What should have taken months happened in just a couple/few weeks. One of them ended up standing on top of a police SUV downtown after giving away pretty much everything he had to homeless people. Including his wallet with his ID, social security card and debit/credit cards. It was the safest and quickest way to get him help so it ended up being a good thing. I tried everything I could in the days before that. Delusions of grandeur, constant tinfoil hat shit, thought he was being directly targeted by the government alphabet agencies because of what he knew.
They’re both fine now. But I do believe the increased potency in modern weed negates many previous studies on the effects it can have. I’m not against it in the least. But definitely more wary.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 2 months ago:
Timberborn. 4,677 hours. I enjoy my beavers.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 3 months ago:
In the US you have just enough time off to be sick a couple of times a year. (If you’re lucky)
- Comment on This world is cruel… 3 months ago:
It’s going to be boob armor and just leather straps to attach it over a bikini.
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 3 months ago:
If you happen to go the Unraid route (Unraid is fantastic, but not free) Spaceinvader One on YouTube has great tutorials. That’s where I got most of my info initially. It’s definitely worth it and I think a good deal easier. I am not good with code and really like having a visual interface and it helps with that. I am not a master at any of this but I’ve learned a lot and I’m pretty comfortable now. To do a YouTube series myself, I feel like I’d need to know more. But there are definitely resources out there to get you going. If you follow some of this and run into problems, feel free to reach out to me. Or the selfhosted community here has been amazing. But you might start with one of the aforementioned frameworks. I think it’s easier than going straight to docker. Docker isn’t difficult, but managing IPs and networks and ports can cause some frustration and confusion.
This guy has a pretty good install on home assistant operating system (HAOS is important. Not just home assistant, but HAOS). When you have HAOS up and running, you can add the respiratory that Alex Belgium has created. He’s done a great job at getting so many docker containers ready to go in home assistant. Huge, huge props to the guy. And once you have the repository, you can start to install the individual containers and it’s not terrible. I think Spaceinvader One’s videos can get you through much of it. Just skip the installation part and go to setup.
It’s a lot and I can’t go step by step but I will answer and help in someone’s journey as best as I’m able to.
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 3 months ago:
Quality and ease. Torrents don’t always have enough seeders or they disconnect. You can get by on them, but it’s a case of getting what you pay for. I go through a lot of media as do my friends using my server. The cost is negligible and basically means I have no headaches.
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 3 months ago:
Find a spare/cheap computer. Install home assistant/unraid/TrueNAS (bunch of platforms that run docker and have app installers but any of those three are pretty easy to get running). Pay for access to a Usenet backbone provider and one or two Usenet search providers. Black Friday will have some sales on yearly subscriptions. Install Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, Jellyseer, and Bazaar (if you’re huge into subtitles like me). Alternatively, also install and setup Prowlarr. Get your Usenet stuff working in Prowlarr. Point Radarr and Sonarr at Prowlarr. Point Jellyseer at Sonarr and Radarr. Share with friends. I will personally handhold anyone who wants to do this for themselves.
- Comment on What are the next steps for Americans to help prevent the worsening of genocide in Palestine? 3 months ago:
You absolutely can. You can send the US military directly in to finish the job. Or private military contractors. Or stop giving what aid is currently being sent. What doctors are currently there. It can and will get worse with direct involvement.
- Comment on Pee posting? 4 months ago:
They’re load bearing walls.
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 4 months ago:
In the US, you’re lucky if you get paid for the hours you work. And many don’t get all of their hours paid.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 4 months ago:
No but it was competing with Digg and Slashdot until Digg screwed the pooch. It’s been a while, but reddit really owes its size and popularity to Digg 2.0 and the fiasco of bad decisions driven by investors.
- Comment on Why do social workers get upset when you don't want their help? 5 months ago:
Same here.
- Comment on Why do social workers get upset when you don't want their help? 5 months ago:
She was probably a bit overzealous I’m thinking, yeah. But that is a thankless job with low pay and little success. I give social workers a ton of latitude. I’m glad you stayed calm in the face of things.
- Comment on Why do social workers get upset when you don't want their help? 5 months ago:
Oh yeah, I totally get the lifestyle. Done enough overloading to really appreciate the lifestyle. But I’m trying to explain things from their point of view. Even if now, you are in control and everything is going according to your plans, they see trouble in months if not years when those plans abruptly change. They know how most people got from point A to point B and are now sleeping in shelters or dark corners of “civilization”.
- Comment on Why do social workers get upset when you don't want their help? 5 months ago:
Living in an SUV is often the first step to really needing their help. Housing insecurity is a quick road to pretty rough living. If you are in their system, in their eyes, they can actually act quickly and help you when the likely next step happens. Not being in the system is pretty slow to get help in most places.
- Comment on Bravo, Ridley 6 months ago:
Farming? Really? A xenomorph of your talents?
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- Comment on Make it stop. 8 months ago:
I kind of figured it was implied but eh. Some things don’t land.
- Comment on Make it stop. 8 months ago:
You have a point, but when I was a kid we at least made sure the slang came from black people first. I don’t think anything good can come from white kids out there making up words.
- Comment on Right wing shit post 8 months ago:
Do they seriously think an extremely liberal, gay as hell power bottom cannot out-fart almost anyone on the planet?
- Comment on My absolute favorite image ever created 9 months ago:
No wait. It’s got to be your bull.
- Comment on Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho | Half as Interesting (8:36) 9 months ago:
We only want the weed. The border thing is rednecks needing to feel closer to one another. Close enough to caress their fellow man. To the point where the only borders between them are when you sometimes get wrapped up in the sheets and lose skin contact.
- Comment on Spoiled Baby Boomers Described By Expert 9 months ago:
It’s something Shorts seem to do. I think all Youtube shorts do that as far as I’m aware. I avoid them as much as I possibly can.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 9 months ago:
Not when it’s done badly. I believe there was one on the front page of Lemmy just this morning.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 9 months ago:
The trick is waiting for Boomers to die. This is where your nursing skills can really pay off…