TimewornTraveler @ TimewornTraveler @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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adhd life hack: do weird shit so you can trust you'll remember it and become free to forget things

well 90% of the fentanyl that crosses the border is brought by a US citizen

this makes me even more excited for my plans to switch to linux. I'm gonna have to go find a good backup method soon!

I dont know. maybe to help them get ready or look like he's doing so?

Great question. I used both concurrently. The reason for the disposable: accessibility.

The old school vapes are just getting harder and harder to find. I had to order parts online. The juice companies were getting shut down. I didn't want to give up my addiction, and I felt so much better on vapes than i had on cigarettes, so I figured it was fine. (Nicotine alone is a bitch to your heart, though...)

I started trying out the disposables because they were readily available. I could pick one up anywhere, I didn't have to bring juice around with me, no giant batteries or kits to maintain on the go... and in exchange a much harsher hit.

this also led to me doubling my nicotine strength. I had been using 3mg juice for ovet a year by then, but all the disposables measure out to 6mg. Nothing weaker was available. had to switch to stronger stuff on the box mod.

it pisses me off how much they enshittified vaping. it was a really cool and helpful tool that got me off of tobacco. but they started targeting it at minors. instead of rich savory flavors you get all this fruity menthol crap that middle schoolers like. you get tiny vapes with flashy blinking light and fixed high potency. you get bans on it, and regulations/fees so strict that indie vape companies that started this shit for people like me now have to shut down.

oh well. it was all a facade anyway. nicotine itself is the problem. it pushes your systems into overdrive and then wears you out on seconds, until you cant even be at homeostasis without nicotine in your system. the joy of smoking is just the temporary relief of withdrawal. it's like wearing a pair of tight shoes just so you can enjoy taking them off for 5 minutes. I'm done living my life in withdrawals. so happy to be free! (and it was honestly fucking easy, you all can do it too)

NRT is a scam and your addiction is the scammer. You're trying to stop poisoning yourself and you think you need a substitute for the poison! This isn't benzos we're talking about here, Nicotine has a half life of max two hours. The withdrawal is not that bad at all, it's over within four days! I just reached 87 hrs nicotine free and it was a breeze, no titration or NRT or antidepressants or anything.

JUST DO IT!!

PLEASE stop using disposable vapes.

I quit cigarettes 10 yrs ago and had been exclusively using the old school refillable box mods. The kinds with big clouds, not the nic salts like disposables. I was doing fine, great even, for the last ten.

But this past year, after picking up those disposables, I kept having breathing problems. I would stop using them for like two weeks before I picked them up again. The cycle finally led to me going into atrial fibrillation, a cardiac emergency. Had to have my heart shocked. in my 30s!

I ended up quitting nicotine entirely now. it was surprisingly easy to quit! once you wanna do it, it's already done. as long as you don't mope about it and celebrate it instead. it's easier than the whiners would have you believe!

it's full of pollution from china. it's a seasonal pattern whereby dry sandy desert air from the gobi mixes with industrial emissions feom beijing and blows over to the korean peninsula, coating everything with a yellow-orange dust every spring

lol it's been a bit overwhelming on the inbox. I expected to get told off

Mark Twain, hundreds of times

you say PKM as if it's a specific thing beyond a notepad and an insane dude's scrawlings. I am intrigued. what does your PKM look like?

cool. yea nvidia will be a problem. guess that narrows my choices!

I saw some cinnamon stuff and i still dont get what that means!

whatcha gonna use for gaming?

I'm gonna have to figure out how to install another SSD I guess... hope my motherboard is compatible with whatever is on the Market. I bought it all in asia and apparently the motherboard is an issue

it sounds like debían is better then?

I see! if it can take a while, I see why old machines would be friendlier to linux. more time for drivers to get updates.

thank you for that tip. I currently run all my games and docs from external HDs. (my pc itself only has a small amount of SSD storage used only for booting etc, and i dont know how to install a new hard drive yet...) I would have definitely tried to just plug in my HD and tried to run it through steam lol

I'm not sure what you mean by flew under my radar but I don't really even know what steamdeck is. some kind of handheld console? how's it relevant here?

lmao 🤣 wouldn't that be nice?

Honestly that's kind of the dream (I already have raspi theater plans).

It's sad how much technology has changed since what we thought it was gonna be in the 80s. we HAVE the capacity to do all those things, but we get locked out of modifying our own devices!