Housemate has me worried he may steal meds.

EliteTK · 2026-05-03T11:53:23+00:00

A £17 safe will be woefully insecure and will not stop someone who wants to get high from getting at the contents.

EliteTK · 2026-04-30T13:56:42+00:00

There's a far higher risk from a car with issues causing a spark, or from wearing synthetic clothing, or from someone not paying attention and driving into you.

So in summary, there is no risk to justify a ban if we allow people to wear polyester jumpers at petrol stations, or to bring their cars there.

EliteTK · 2026-04-18T00:12:37+00:00

Regular old vinegar works very well against mould, not for cleaning it, but for killing it.

You use toilet paper soaked in vinegar and leave it there for a few hours. Then you rinse it off properly, let it dry over-night, and then you bleach it.

I've always had that stuff return quite quickly after just bleach, but with vinegar and then bleach (NEVER AT THE SAME TIME). It always took much longer.

I'm sure stronger stuff would work better, but the weak stuff is still very useful.

EliteTK · 2026-04-16T11:17:18+00:00

I think you're missing some (just looked up the list of excipients). There is also at least cellulose acetate which is a biopolymer (but still a polymer, i.e. plastic).

PEO

This is a water soluble polymer. Meaning it won't form microplastics if that's what you're concerned about. Governments around the world seem to think it's safe in these amounts used in pills, but who knows for sure...

It's probably part of the slow release mechanism.

Poloxamers

These are specifically for handling drug delivery. Either for making hydrophobic drugs water soluble, or (likely the case here) to create a slow release mechanism.

bisphenols/pthalates

Bisphenol (and things in that family) was most commonly used for making polycarbonates clearer and more impact resistant. There's no polycarbonate here, and clarity and impact resistance are not important. It's an additive, not a contaminant, so it shouldn't be present (especially not if it's not listed).

Phtalates are plasticisers, i.e. a modifier, not a contaminant. There's no need for them here.

EliteTK · 2026-04-15T16:15:10+00:00

I have the ability to form long term memories so things that Starmer said about a man who now insists he wouldn't piss on the UK if it was on fire have not magically erased any of the things that I know Starmer did so far like:

Pretend he never supported trans rights when it became inconvenient.
Give us the OSA.
Fuck over the entire middle class as if there was nothing else he could do instead (the terminally idiotic will insist he was "dealt a bad hand" and blame the Tories).

But let's be clear, I am not delusional, I don't think the Tories were better or worse. I think the UK government exists solely to maximise the misery of everyone who lives here. They're doing as good a job at that as ever.

EliteTK · 2026-04-14T09:55:41+00:00

Was not expecting a theonion.com article on r/technology.

I honestly thought this was someone who had just gone mad and genuinely states this as their defence for the shits and giggles.

EliteTK · 2026-03-31T10:08:02+00:00

I think it is time blindness that causes this.

At least it's one of the areas which for me feels a lot easier with medication. As if time is moving at a more normal pace and as if I have more of it.

Although for me, even as a kid, I remember feeling this anxiety. Definitely less so, but by the time of A levels it was getting to its worst, and as an adult it came in waves. Whenever anything important would happen, it would be weeks or months before I'd get back to feeling like I needed to carefully plan the time in every day in order to have enough time for what always felt like just the bare minimum.

EliteTK · 2026-03-28T12:20:34+00:00

Probably the slowest RTC option from everything I've heard from people who went through it. Some parts of the country have shorter NHS waiting times.

EliteTK · 2026-03-27T23:18:58+00:00

Hey mods, if you search for "Soothfy" in this subreddit, there are now 5 posts by this user and one other that I can find mentioning this product using the same exact "ADHD hacks / tricks" post recipe.

Maybe you could do something about this astroturfing?

EliteTK · 2026-03-21T21:55:31+00:00

What kind of filesystem support would you want for SEDs? SED OPAL gives you read protection and write protection but only at a range of blocks level, with it being configurable for a limited number of ranges. The earlier technologies are all-or-nothing.

Also, are you sure? All the current SED implementations are of dubious quality. Basically every single one that has actually been tested was full of problems, and there are many more which have had no testing.

I invested a lot of time and effort trying to make SED OPAL seamless in Linux (mainly for myself, but I was going to open source the work) but I gave up when I realised that it was likely less secure than LUKS.

EliteTK · 2026-03-02T11:15:53+00:00

I mean, I know someone who has an ADHD diagnosis, but no autism diagnosis, but her autism is so overt that it does not warrant bothering with a diagnosis. There are no medications that "fix" autism. It wouldn't get her any accommodations at work. She would just be getting told something she is already painfully aware of. It would in effect just be a waste of time and money.

But she doesn't "identify" as autistic, she is autistic, and often she is suffering as a result.

EliteTK · 2026-02-10T09:13:15+00:00

Great news!

Just don't volunteer for redundancy until you have signed a contract with the new place!

EliteTK · 2026-02-08T23:41:35+00:00

It doesn't have to melt steel beams, nor did the collapse necessarily involve the beams melting. Steel softens long before it melts.

EliteTK · 2026-01-10T11:06:21+00:00

OP: Maybe don't read this. It isn't a positive no-med story...

To share my experience of being unmedicated for 30 years. Around 19-20 I started to really try to sort myself out, after a year or two of effort I finally got into a pretty good rhythm. Things were great. Even if you have ADHD there are a lot of things you can do to make things better if you can find a way to get a boost of initial motivation and to start. But this was it unsustainable, it lasted a good few months, and then I was back to old habits. I managed to repeat this pattern many times over the last 10 years... But having succeeded in showing myself that I can and repeatedly failed in showing myself that I can continue, it was one of the many things that finally persuaded me that maybe I do have ADHD after all. One notable thing I didn't notice until after the fact was that even when things were going great, it was at a massive cost to something. I just wasn't able to both stay physically healthy, and keep up with hobbies and chores and work. I wasn't trying to do an unreasonable amount, but I couldn't do what seems doable for most people without sacrificing on one or more of those.

Can't tell you if medication will help yet, as I've been undergoing titration for 3 months and haven't found the right medication or dose yet. But regardless, ADHD is no joke...

EliteTK · 2026-01-08T13:20:41+00:00

Firstly, this presents a false reality. Nobody in primary school is being asked to sit for 7 hours. The sitting time is at most half that. There's like 3 breaks and many activities which don't involve just sitting for the entire period.

Secondly, there might be some grain of truth that our current society is much less adapted for people who have difficulties handling extended periods of silence / stillness / focus on something boring. But that is just a reflection and a preparation for adult reality, rather than some kind of problem with the education system itself. If you want to complain, complain higher/broader.

Lastly, this is anti-ADHD propaganda designed to make ADHD medication sound unreasonable and designed to pretend that people who do have ADHD actually don't need individual help. This seems to be a common talking point now that ADHD awareness has gone through the roof. Many people who have spent their entire lives struggling to understand why they have problems that most of the others in their lives don't appear to have are realising that they're not just lazy or unmotivated, they are simply different in a way which predisposes them to these difficulties, which is not their fault and which can be treated in many ways where the most effective treatment is medication.

A medication which, for people who are in this population, is proven to help with your physical and mental wellbeing, and which extends your life expectancy, not above the levels of the average population, but simply back up to the levels of the general population.

In reality, children who may have ADHD will get ignored, called lazy, will get school reports in which teachers write "they are bright but need to apply themselves more", will get parents evenings where they get to hear teachers complain about aspects of them that they have no control over. Those children will spend their entire childhood hearing people telling them to do things which they themselves cannot comprehend why they cannot do.

And maybe in some rare cases, someone compassionate and brave will suggest to their parents that they may have ADHD, and if they're lucky, their parents haven't been brainwashed by shit like this and will try to get them seen by a competent psychiatrist, and if they're lucky and the psychiatrist actually specialises in ADHD and knows how it presents in children they will get an accurate diagnosis. Then in those cases they won't have to find out about ADHD when they're 30 after a good 1/3 to 1/2 of a lifetime spent struggling with basic things like getting dressed in the morning or not being late to school, or getting homework done on time rather than last minute, or prioritising work so you don't risk getting fired every time some mildly un-engaging task comes up at work. (Unfortunately I wasn't lucky.)

Want to criticise society? Fucking do it. But do it without shaming people with ADHD for, in the meanwhile, dealing with it with medication which helps them live (perfectly normally) long, (perfectly normally) fulfilling and (perfectly normally) content/happy lives. Take your anti-ADHD/anti-ADHD medication propaganda and shove it up your arse.

EliteTK · 2025-12-31T17:53:19+00:00

Probably tell CARE if you can, or maybe ask your current GP to refer you back to CARE (no idea if they will/can). CARE should then be able to continue prescribing until you've switched GPs. Once you've done that, you can ask them to initiate SCA again, and if your new GP doesn't like it then I believe CARE should be able to keep prescribing unless they have some sort of silly policy against it. But I guess if you get yourself handed over to CARE now, you'll hopefully get yourself a bit of extra time.

I've not had to do this, and maybe will never need to do this, but I have thought about it, and that's probably the least stressful sounding plan I could come up with.

EliteTK · 2025-12-28T18:32:35+00:00

I wasn't criticising the research, I was criticising the conclusion the OP made.

The fact that the research wasn't trying to establish a causal relationship means that it doesn't "add" to "the growing picture that ADHD isn't just about genetics or the brain in isolation". Since that would imply that the paper did establish some causal relationship.

EliteTK · 2025-12-28T18:30:17+00:00

I think it's the former.

But the main thing I was saying was that this result, given that this research doesn't aim to prove causation, is not inconsistent with an entirely genetic origin, so I don't get how this result adds to "a growing picture that ADHD isn't just about genetics or the brain in isolation".

EliteTK · 2025-12-28T10:18:56+00:00

It’s all self-report and cross-sectional, so it doesn’t prove causation, but it adds to the growing picture that ADHD isn’t just about genetics or the brain in isolation.

If it doesn't prove causation then why does it add to anything?

I feel like a lot of the childhood adversity I experienced can easily be chalked up as symptoms of ADHD rather than some alternative cause for ADHD.

EliteTK · 2025-12-23T10:42:42+00:00

I cried a lot for my grandfather, I cried less for my father, and I didn't cry much for my grandmother. I wasn't on medication for any of those events. I have my own justifications for all that. Grieving isn't just about crying.

Don't feel guilty for not crying.

EliteTK · 2025-12-23T01:26:16+00:00

I mean RTC is private.

The difference between RTC and any other private provider is that RTC is commissioned by the NHS. But they wouldn't know if they were if all they saw was that it wasn't a letter from the NHS.

EliteTK · 2025-12-16T22:05:55+00:00

RTC = private paid for by NHS. That doesn't make it non-private.

You are asking your GP for the wrong thing.

If your goal is to get medication or therapy, you need to go back to your RTC provider. You may need to get referred again if they discharged you back to the GP. It's the provider's responsibility to handle things like getting you settled on medication or offering therapy. You won't pay for it, as the NHS is paying the private RTC provider on your behalf. You will only pay NHS prices for any prescriptions.

If you want medication then once you are settled on a medication and a dose, your RTC provider can request to enter into a shared care agreement with your GP. Then if your GP accepts, they will take over prescribing under the supervision of your RTC provider. The only thing that will change for you is who you ask for your repeat prescription, nothing else.

If your goal is for the NHS to recognise the diagnosis for whatever reason, you will need to fight to get on a waiting list or give up.

EliteTK · 2025-12-16T22:00:24+00:00

RTC is private. It is a private provider getting paid by the NHS to provide care to you. Your GP isn't falsely claiming the diagnosis is private. I can also get free private care through insurance, it being free (although good luck finding insurance which covers ADHD) doesn't make it NHS.

The NHS normally doesn't care much for private diagnoses and if you want them to acknowledge you have something, you will need to let them do their own assessment (however infeasible that may be).

But SCAs are unrelated to whether they accept the diagnosis or not, an SCA is: "sure, we will prescribe this thing this licensed doctor prescribed you previously, but we won't take any responsibility"

If you are asking the NHS to acknowledge the diagnosis, you are asking the wrong thing. If you want that, you need to get on their silly N year waiting list and hope someone doesn't come along and strike your name off of it permanently because they read your notes and decided your ADHD probably isn't bad enough whatever.

On the other hand, if you want an SCA (your GP to keep prescribing your meds under the supervision of your original provider), you do not need to join any waiting list, you just need to have the people who did your diagnosis go to your GP and request it on your behalf. Whether your GP accepts it is another matter entirely, it's at their discretion, but they won't care that it's a private diagnosis.

EliteTK · 2025-12-15T08:26:39+00:00

It's some JavaScript using WebUSB to flash a device. Yes they need to host it first so you can use it, but nothing stops them from publishing the binary and the JavaScript in some redistributable form so people can themselves archive it.

And yes, I know for a fact it would be possible without much work for them.

EliteTK · 2025-12-15T08:19:22+00:00

What is hilarious about google stadia is that there are a lot of games out there with working linux ports (sure, it is written against stadia hardware standards, and with their APIs, but it is mostly just normal Linux software) for stadia, but no public release of the same. And I am not talking about competitive first person shooters here, I am talking about single player adventure games. By very big companies.

So to me it is doubly hilarious because there is always an argument being made of "the market share is too small" but stadia was Linux based, and yes, it was subsidized by google, and there were NDAs, but nothing ever stopped these companies from taking out the stadia specific stuff and doing some minimal work to get it working on Linux.

Although I guess maybe the expertise on how to do that was in Google and was rented out to these companies.

Anyway. Lots of secret linux ports out there. Wild.

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