DaGeek247 of https://dageek247.com

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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • I had to take prescription antibiotics+dieuretics for two months after an evening got too exciting. Taking them without food had some pretty nasty effects on my stomach, but I had to take the pills more often than I usually eat.

    Also, those stomach problems didn’t really stop afterwards either. Luckily, my symptoms were relatively mild compared to everyone else in this thread.

    For the mild stuff, yogurt also works really well. It can’t be the shitty yoplait, it has to be actual yogurt. I buy the little cup versions and have one most every breakfast, and the symptoms usually don’t follow me even when I skip them now either.

    I’ve found that I can drink one coffee, consequence free, so long as I have a yogurt to go with it.





  • That’s not how hard drives work, and doesn’t take into account that OP might want to download more than one thing at a time.

    Hard drives are fastest when they are moving large single files. SSDs are way better than hard drives at lots of small random reads/writes.Setting qbittorrent up so that all the random writes inherent to downloading a torrent go to a small ssd, and then moving that file over to the big hard drive with a single long writer operation is how you make both devices perform to their best.









  • Probably for the best if downvotes remain less easy to access, at the very least. There’s a myth that people who are suicidal will “find a way even if you take away some of the easier methods”, which is explicitly false. If you take away the easy option, you are directly reducing the harm that easy option might have caused. https://gizmodo.com/why-have-people-stopped-committing-suicide-with-gas-5959303

    If the admins take away the quick and easy option for seeing who downvoted your passionate comment, the mods are directly reducing the number of people who go on rants about downvotes and targeted vitriol.

    It has nothing to do with privacy; this is a public forum that by it’s very nature, requires that all activity be easily available to all the sites you federate with. There is not privacy in that.

    This is about the type of community that forms around the software. Do we want to encourage, and make easily available, the list of people who disagree with you? Or do we want to to put minor barriers around that to help keep the number of people who do that low?





  • Which I totally supported right up until my yard got a flea infestation, and they kept jumping on my legs whenever I walked outside. I’m honestly really grateful they didn’t move into my house from the lawn.

    I still do support having native lawns, but I also believe in informed decision making, so make sure to do a little research before committing to a native lawn. My neighbor keeps a colony of cats and I likely won’t be able to safely have a native yard until they’re gone.