Dem Bosain @ DemBoSain @midwest.social

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I'm going to tell you what I did. Don't take mental health advice from some asshole in the internet.

I had two extra voices in my head. One would wait for me to be alone, and then bring up all the minutia in my life I was embarrassed about. The other would bring up my most depressing moments and just groan in my ear and distract me.

The first one I built a cabin for, and put him in it. Whenever I would think about one of those embarrassing moments, I'd put it in a plastic garbage bag, open the door to the cabin, and throw the bag as hard as I could into his face. Gradually I needed him less and less. Eventually he disappeared, so I just put the garbage bags in a can outside the door. Nobody lives there now, and the cabin has decayed into just a rough mound of dirt. The flowers from the window-box are growing in the mound.

I was more viscous with the other one. Every time he showed up, I imagined grabbing him by the neck and just pummeling his face bruised and bloody. Eventually he disappeared too.

I can remember those embarrassing moments or the causes of my depression without hurt now. They don't have power over me anymore.

Cancer patient.

There have been too many data breaches from cloud-based services to trust another one. I have a Proton account for email and online storage, but I won't use their password service because it's cloud based.

https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/notice-of-recent-security-incident

Lastpass leaked their password database in 2022, and bad actors are still using it to access peoples files, stealing passwords and hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto.

DON'T trust anything important to cloud-based storage or services. Use Keepass. Use Syncthing if you need to keep the database on multiple devices.

(I see other comments using Dropbox. Dropbox = cloud. Don't store anything security related in the cloud.)

I'm in the office right now, and 99% of my meetings are through Teams.

My favorite days to be here are when everyone else is somewhere else.

No. I read the books and watched the TV show.

Just suck up each grain individually with a straw.

Are you using syncthing-fork on android? If I remember, the primary app discontinued android support, so someone else took it over.

I use it routinely for thousands of files. It's easier than digging out a USB cable.

Syncthing/Syncthing-Fork. Simply the best cross-system file synchronization app. Peer-to-peer, no cloud storage.

https://syncthing.net/

Scrcpy (Screen Copy). App that mirrors your Android phone to Windows. When I switched away from a Samsung phone I lost the ability to run an app from my phone on my PC desktop. This restores that.

https://github.com/genymobile/scrcpy/

You need a program to calculate Replaygain and update the tags. Then make sure your player settings use the Replaygain during playback. Replaygain just adds a tag and doesn't change the audio in any way.

I use Foobar (because I've used Foobar forever), but I'm sure there are programs dedicated to Replaygain calculations.

Game of Thrones. I stopped watching when Aquaman raped the blonde.

Then I started reading the books. the rape scene was written slightly different, so...whatever. Then I got to the part where the brother/sister threw the boy out the window. Done. Violence against kids is my line.

If you're in bear country, you want to hang your food high from a tree branch. Not right next to the trunk, bears can climb like squirrels. It's really amazing how fast they can climb a tree.

Also hang toiletries; don't keep toothpaste or anything scented in the tent with you.

I fucking hate Microsoft search. Microsoft controls the OS, they control the file system, why the fuck do they suck so bad at file search?

I've been using a program named Everything for file search, it's everything the built-in search should be.

Exactly. Windham isn't going to do anything until you make it inconvenient for them to ignore you. Do whatever you can think of to be a nuisance with the information they send you.

https://www.trailer-bodybuilders.com/whats-in-print/article/55276565/rarely-at-rest-jbpco-founder-celebrates-40-years

This was in April, you can clearly see bodyguards in one of the pictures.

Not when the lab and the hospital are owned by the same company. Promedica (local hospital) sent my sample to Promedica (lab) and I got a bill from the lab. Because Promedica (lab) didn't have my insurance information.

From what I heard: There was a sequence where the team had to sleep in a haunted mansion (for whatever reason) and Dan Aykroyd insisted on having a ghost come in and blow him. And when they cut the entire scene, he insisted on keeping that part as a dream.

Fun Fact: in the original script, Winston was ex-Army/Marine and an important member of the team. But instead they just made him some unemployed schlub because he was black and it was the 80s.

Karma?

I would argue that one is driving much better than one in self-driving mode, because it can remain on course.

Nothing on Sigourney Weaver? She played Dr. Venkman's girlfriend in Ghostbusters.

Oh shit, I'm doomed. Good thing I'm already here. Right? That's a good thing?