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Lmaoo my coworker always talks about the baby smell too. I find it funny because I have never sniffed a baby hahaha

Thank you very much for sharing your story! I'm sorry to hear about your friend, btw. But I'm glad you got to share your life with them for so long. I'm lucky that I have a really good friend right now too at least! They have a family of their own so it's not as if we can mutually prioritize each other to the same extent, but that's ok.

Omg I had the same experience during puberty lol. Even into my late teens and early twenties, my mom would kind of bug me about it. When I still wasn't taking anyone home, she used to drop hints that it would be ok if I was a lesbian and had a girlfriend lol! Thankfully at this point, people stop bringing it up haha.

Yeah I'm definitely working on trying to get rid of the FOMO at this point in time. I have a lot of great people in my life tbh and I'm trying to branch out and be a bit more social with things that scare me. But even if I do, I'll never really have the "standard" human experience. Gotta figure out how to eventually be ok with that.

I'm not a spiritual or religious person, myself. I briefly looked into Taoism, but it seems that the westernized idealized version of it isn't what Taoism necessarily is in reality.

Thanks for your offer to chat! Hope you don't mind if I'm just giving a long winded response here lol.

I found out about asexuality in my teens. Even today, whenever I approach asexual communities, I find that most of them are filled with very young coming of age people who are so extremely "terminally online" to the point where it makes me a bit uncomfortable. And I'm saying this as someone who is terminally online myself. It's difficult to explain what I mean and I hope I am not offending other asexuals out there. But it's refreshing to hear from your perspective, as an asexual in the "real world", with thoughts, feelings, and experiences based more in reality as opposed to in an online hypersensitive safety zone.

Hope the best for you!

I saw in a patient's chart recently that they were unable to perform a breast biopsy because her breasts were too small. I was like goddamn.

I don't think I've ever really spoken to an older asexual on the internet before. I know it's a tangent from the main OP, but do you think you could expand on some things for me?

1. When did you realize that you were asexual? And how did you deal with it considering it's a relatively new term that wouldn't have really been spoken of when you were growing up.
2. Do you find your life fulfilling? I have a social need, but not a sexual need, so it makes it frustrating knowing that I need people, but that a relationship with 99% of the population doesn't make sense. (Yes, you can find other asexuals out there, but we are exceedingly rare and there are not going to be many, if at all, in your same city.)

I'm younger than you, but not so young that my life as a whole is still being figured out or anything. I'm in my 30s and now secure in my career, but still struggle with social things and figuring out what I need for my life to be fulfilling. I've likely been a lifelong asexual. I've also never had a partner.

Anyway, sorry if that is too much to ask lol, but I was just curious!

Sleep deprivation is literally a torture technique. I am thankful that people do choose to try to raise children with this in mind, but it just sounds like literal torture to me. Even with people who tell me how much they supposedly love raising kids, I see the immense pain and suffering that they go through literally all the time.

My guess is that some powerful hormones must be released or something after having a child to make people think that they are enjoying their life even though an outside observer can view their immense suffering.

Oh yes, duh. Sorry I don't know why my brain was thinking I needed to remove the CPU itself lol. I see where it unscrews on the board. I'll see if I can replace the thermal paste. Why would it have been like this when it was new, though?

I replaced the battery today anyway as I have been wanting to do so.

I am able to manually trigger a crash in Linux Mint when I do NOT have the CPU throttled. I was monitoring the temps and it looks like they stay 5-10C cooler when it is throttled. However, the crash occurred most recently when the temp was supposedly "only" 75C, which I would think wouldn't cause a crash in a laptop.

I don't think so, but I guess I can't be totally sure. I am able to manually trigger a crash in Linux Mint when I do not have the CPU manually throttled. If I open up a bunch of tabs of YouTube videos, the system hangs. I was monitoring the temps as I was doing so. It looks like I could push the CPU temps into the 80s and briefly into the 90s while doing this. However, when the system crashed, the temp was reading at 75C. My understanding is that this temp shouldn't trigger a system hang. However, it could be that there was a large spike in temp and the monitoring program (PSensor) wasn't able to catch up on time before the freeze.

However, I do notice that throttling the CPU seems to make it run 5-10C cooler, so you are probably onto something.

I feel like I can pull out of the parking space quicker and easier if the nose of my car is facing towards the street.

Also, and this sounds silly so please don't judge too hard lol...

I got a new car recently. My old car had front parking sensors that would beep in increasing frequency the closer you are to an item. My new car does not have front parking sensors. My new car has both a backup cam and rear parking sensors. So it is sometimes easier to back into a space.

However, I mostly only back in at my home parking space and in this one parking garage I go to with very narrow spaces. I get nervous in public when someone is waiting for me to back in so I don't do it super often in public.

Ohhh I remember Wubi! No need to boot from an install media and you can install it entirely under Windows. That method of installing a dual boot never seemed to get super popular and I guess based on the OSes listed in that article, it seems pretty dated and not updated. I'm kind of curious to know whether or not it still works tbh.

I'm assuming since you're older now, you're out of that environment, yeah? It's one silver lining in things I guess. If your teddy bear were sentient I'm sure it would have hugged you back and told you everything was gonna be ok.

Honestly, for me it's a bit weird. I've actually forgotten a lot of the specifics of my childhood. I know my dad would do it, but I don't really remember any specific moments in time or what my responses were. Memory is a weird thing like that. I guess because it was so long ago or something. Dunno.

Aww I'm sorry that both of your parents were like that. Luckily my mom is a very sweet person.

And hey! I'm a fellow computer dork too! I'm nowhere near the level of knowledge of many Lemmy users, but I've always been a casual tech/gadget fan since I was a kid. But somehow I never fully built my own PC until just the other day. Was actually a pretty simple process and things today are so much better at plug and play as opposed to long ago. Hope you're still enjoying being a tech nerd haha!

I get that having problems is not unique and everyone has their own. Some people have worse or more numerous ones. Some people have fewer or less severe ones. Some people may share some of the same problems as you. Some people may not.

But one thing that is sometimes frustrating for me is that my particular set of problems makes it more difficult to connect with others and can be a bit more isolating than other kinds of problems. When your problems are social and/or sexual in nature, they affect your ability to have relationships (both platonic and romantic), which can be more isolating than other types of problems can be.

I am lucky to have a small, but fairly stable set of a handful of friends right now, but that hasn't always been the case. Growing up, I struggled a lot more than my peers to socialize and ended up as the loner kid at school who hardly said much and ate alone at lunch. Nowadays, I'm a lot happier, but things like romantic relationships are completely off the table.

Humans are messed up in general so it's probably common enough tbh. My childhood was a bit different though. The arguing was never mutual. It was always my dad screaming at my mom while she sits there and takes it. I remember realizing that was abnormal by watching media growing up... realizing that couples are supposed to love each other and that fights are generally a mutual experience, not just one person belittling the other.

Anyway sorry that was oversharing lol

As a socially anxious person, I absolutely love self checkout. Unless I have like a zillion items, then I use regular checkout.

Memtest passes!

Is it even possible to remove and reset the CPU on a laptop? I'm kind of ignorant in doing that.

Essentially any laptop I have had has had a tendency to overheat (shitty design or just a limitation of laptops I guess), but I need to get some better temp monitoring software.

I exclusively use wall power, but I use the battery for a backup. It runs on the original battery.

Again, these issues have been present since the thing was brand new, so it's not simply that the battery is old. But you might be on to something with the voltage being wonky. On some occasions maybe only less than a year into its life, the computer would give me a pre-OS error about the battery when I booted the laptop without the AC adapter. It would boot and charge normally so I just ignored it and the errors were infrequent...I never actually connected the two. It hasn't shown me that error in years at this point now. You think that this is related?

Thank you. This is a handy list to parse through.

I have the opposite problem. My dyer has the fucking loudest, longest, incessant cycle done noise I've ever heard from a dryer.

It buzzes at defcon 1 levels for I swear at LEAST 5 whole seconds (you count out 5 whole "Mississippis" of a fire alarm level noise and realize how long that is). And the kicker is that it does it not once, not twice, but at least three separate times. First, it repeatedly wars you that the cycle will end soon. Then it does one final triumphant wail when the cycle ends...as if you don't take the laundry out instantaneously that a bomb is going to go off or something.

I absolutely cannot fucking stand this. I don't even understand why it does this either. To me, washers should have end of cycle signals, not dryers. I've accidentally left wet clothes in the washer overnight and woken up to a horrible smell and had to rewash them. But when I leave clean clothes in the dryer? Literally zero issues occurs.

One day I'm going to figure out how to open up the damn thing and smash the buzzer.

Plus like...does this person never get sick in 8 years? I think if I ran while I had COVID or a stomach bug I would literally just die.

Huge disclaimer: I'm at work so I can't actually watch the video and so I can't know the answer to this.

What the fuck even is this? Does anyone have a source because I am horrified and entertained