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How do Alcoholic recovery programs work in Muslim countries where alcohol is banned? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Many drugs that cause nicotine cessation also work for other addictive drugs, including alcohol. Off the top of my head...

  • Chantix (and buproprion)
  • NAC
  • Tirzepatide and Semaglutide
  • Buperenorphine
  • Acamprosate
  • Disulfiram (sp?)
  • Psychedelics (if used properly)

While we're on the subject, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W, said the help of LSD was integral to his development of AA.

What is a discreet way of waking myself? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Why? I prefer being seen by less people. I assume companies are less likely to archive bot replies. Curious if there are reasons against it.

What is a discreet way of waking myself? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

My Fitbit Inspire 3 (cheapest fitbit, comes with 6 months Fitbit premium so you can see how your sleep is and address any issues) has alarm vibration options and it is (usually) enough to wake me. Never wakes the wife. If you sleep with her on your arm or something, then this probably won't work. They also have light alarms (goes from dark yellow to bright white over a 30 minute period) and she could wear a sleep mask.

How come running hard (especially when out of shape) makes your lungs feel like they are on fire? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you for the honesty. I'll read over it now.

What does Lemmy do better than Reddit? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Lemmy is heavily astroturfed. There is no way Lemmy instance admins have the time or resources to do the kind of subversion detection reddit did. That's if the astroturfers aren't already running larger Lemmy instances to build them up.

Here is one of many from reddit. Hopefully some OSINT groups start doing research on Lemmy and outing the bot networks that operate here, because it's election season in the US and it's showing.

For example, I don't think the lemmy.world admin has the domain knowledge to detect customized Lemmy docker code that allows a hacking group to hide their accounts from admins/mods and go undetected for a very long time, until it's noticed on accident.

What does Lemmy do better than Reddit? in c/[email protected]
How come running hard (especially when out of shape) makes your lungs feel like they are on fire? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Thanks. I don't have time to read it right now, but you're certain that's a very common thing to happen? I'm overweight and have been jogging and running a lot lately. When I run hard, my nose and lungs burn. I like to sprint in intervals until I can't anymore, after jogging, and then walk for a bit. Repeat. I'm wondering if this is dangerous at all.

How come running hard (especially when out of shape) makes your lungs feel like they are on fire? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

[citation needed]

Do satellites have different levels for direction they are traveling? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Heard of them (UFOs sub, lots of heavy reading, skimming the physics parts) but never knew what they were. That's a great understandable explanation, and fascinating, thanks.

Do satellites have different levels for direction they are traveling? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Not sure why I can't see your reply. I could have worded that better. I didn't think a satellite could stay above a fixed location on Earth, but now it makes sense - it just rotates at the same speed and orbit of Earth.

Do satellites have different levels for direction they are traveling? in c/[email protected]
Sri Lanka ends visas for hundreds of thousands of Russians staying there to avoid war in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Obviously anecdotes

That's the understatement of the cenozoic era.

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Wot The Fsck You Say, Spotify? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Edit: A couple times I've said eBook while I actually meant Audiobook. I've learned that Spotify has a 15 hour limit per month for their free 'included in premium' audiobooks. However these are the two books I listened to for free, and even rounding up to 13 hours it doesn't make sense, unless they count accidental chapter skips which weren't actually listened to. But it's clear now that I know about the 15 hour limit, that they are not counting the time listening to paid audiobooks.

First book I listened to for free:

Second book I listened to for free:

OG post:

I purchased 3 eBooks in the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy series (2 came free) and I'm on the final book. 20 minutes left in the last book and this is what Spotify tells me.

I'm over the edge now. I've been putting it off too long. I have a nice NUC I purchased about a year ago.

I'm tech inclined, 20 years of hobbyism, know the linux command line well. Work in IT consulting. But I'm busy. Very busy, and unmotivated to do things like hours of research and toying with settings getting things to work, if I ever have the time.

But this is the start of my new personal revolution.

I'll read the wiki and have read about Sonarr, etc, and I also want movies and shows, but is there anything specifically for eBooks? Looks like Readarr is my best bet? Stripping the DRM of already purchased (and free with Spotify 'Premium') books to share on a seedbox is also something I'm willing to take requests on. Is there a way to rip from Spotify if you have a premium account? And what's the best Android eBook reader (the last 3-4 I tried sucked with pirated eBooks)?

I know I'm sounding like a noob asking everything to be handed to me right now, but I am willing to put in the research and welcome and highly appreciate anyone with tips to point me in the right directions.

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PSA: There are paid services that use residential/clean (not identified as VPN) IP address VPNs/proxies that allow you to watch Hulu etc in other countries. (lemmy.world)
 

Just a heads up since this doesn't seem to be common knowledge. There are a lot of different services. You can search "residential proxies" or "clean ip address vpn" and similar. Not sure if I'm allowed to name the names of services, but the one I use (not affiliated, just been using it for a few months now) has a US VPN option for $10/mo BUT there's a $20 setup fee. Similar prices for other countries I think. If you use some of the shadier services that use browser plugins and desktop apps to "loan out traffic" then you can probably get them a lot cheaper. Just don't install anything from the shadier ones, use the VPN config files.

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A few months ago someone (journalist?) claimed authorities cracked his 30+ char strong Veracrypt (or TrueCrypt?) passphrase. His computer was turned off when apprehended. I can not locate the story. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Does anyone remember seeing this? I really want to know if there was an update to his case. I thought I saw it on HN but I can NOT for the life of me find it now anywhere. Normally I'm not one to buy into "XYZ scrubbed QWERTY from the internet", but I absolutely can not find this story ANYWHERE now and it seems like it should be easily found with keywords.

If anyone interested has a Twitter account, would you mind searching there for Truecrypt and Veracrypt to see what comes up? That’s the one place I haven’t looked because I don’t have an account.

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Reddit: Don't like us anymore? Pay us $50/year! (lemmy.world)
 

I'm not sure if this is new, but when I clicked on the /r/pics protest post link from the frontpage here, I was redirected to this: https://old.reddit.com/premium

I'm not sure if this is well-known or not that they're pushing it now, but it's the first time I've seen it, especially on old.reddit.

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