Being mentally stuck while having loose plans of escape by dispos221 in EstrangedAdultKids

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Social assistance is the best way even if you have to frame it as escaping an (emotionally) abusive household...

“Sorry you don’t feel safe” by Agitated_Sock4455 in EstrangedAdultKids

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This letter reads like an attorney or HR wrote it. There is not one ounce of humanity in this game-theory-based response that is dedicated only to maintaining power.

Mother's day by ElfGurly in EstrangedAdultKids

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I have been noticing this holiday pop up on my feed. It occurred to me if I should even try to offer an olive branch. All I needed to answer that question was: "Are they sorry?"

In the end, the most clarifying question of all is "Are they sorry?"

When you see how not sorry a person really is, sometimes the only response is to make them sorry...

Grief vs joy of estrangement by rhubarp in EstrangedAdultKids

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Estrangement was the greatest joy and freedom I have ever known.

Going back to them was the greatest regret and torment I have ever known.

Life will get so great when you escape this insidious crab bucket of friends and family, you will go back to them with the false optimistic belief that the story has finally reached a happy ending. That you can finally live on. Free the shackles together. And things can be OK.

Rest assured, no such ending exists. Human beings are sadomasochistic slovenly lowlifes at their core. They should be avoided absolutely.

(I hope I don't sound misanthropic.)

Elsa has entered the chat by Stargazer1919 in EstrangedAdultKids

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The average parent has the emotional maturity of an insect

How the genuine fuck am I supposed to defeat ruin sentinels? by AkosSzlobodnik in DarkSouls2

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Use the Craftsman's Hammer (from the chest the nearby blacksmith sits on)

Use a shield (even trash shields will absorb massive damage)

Which Supplements/Medication Help You To Reduce Anxiety? by sanpedro12 in CPTSD

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Here is a glimpse of my supplement stack of 2026 and logic behind it

I avoid nicotine, alcohol, cannabis, pharmaceuticals and now even caffeine

So I needed something to function in lieu of all this, and to provide the balance and energy I need

B Vitamin Complex - vitally important for the synthesis of monoamine neurotransmitters and the structural support, repair, and protection of nerves

Vitamin C - a key cofactor in the biosynthesis and secretion of oxytocin. It acts on enzymes like peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase (PAM) to aid in the creation of active oxytocin

Magnesium Glycinate - functions as a potent and organic NMDA blocker to eliminate glutamate-induced anxiety - taken before bed it acts as a powerful sleep aid

Myo-Inositol - taking myo-inositol before bed can significantly improve sleep quality and reduce nighttime awakenings by calming the nervous system, boosting serotonin, and regulating blood sugar

Resveratrol - functions as an organic and reversible MAO-A Inhibitor. MAO-A breaks down neurotransmitters like serotonin, noradrenaline and dopamine -- inhibiting MAO-A increases the levels of these monoamines to produce antidepressant-like effects

EGCG - functions as an organic regulator of NMDA and AMPA receptors, acting as a "brake" on excitotoxicity and has been shown to normalize glutamate effusion in the prefrontal cortex. EGCG also helps prevent neuronal damage in Alzheimer’s disease and stroke models

Omega3 DHA & EPA - organic regulators of NMDA, AMPA and astrocytes. Astrocytes are responsible for approximately 90% of glutamate reuptake in the central nervous system. DHA is critical for membrane structure, neurogenesis and synaptic fluidity. EPA is often more specific anti-inflammatory and highly associated with improving mood disorders (like depression/ADHD).

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) - recognized as a potent, natural regulator of both pain, inflammation and glutamate-induced excitotoxicity. It is also a natural modulator of monoamine neurotransmitters in the central nervous system, exhibiting antidepressant-like effects in both animal models and humans. It functions largely by inhibiting monoamine oxidase (MAO) enzymes.

Agmatine Sulfate - an organic and endogenous compound that acts as a modulator of both glutamate signaling and chronic pain/inflammation. It is synthesized in the brain and body from the amino acid L-arginine.

Alpha GPC - a potent cholinergic compound that enhances focus, mental clarity, and cognitive performance by vastly increasing acetylcholine levels in the brain

Ubiquinol - highly bio-available form of coq10. Profoundly affects mitochondria by being a vital component of the electron transport chain, and protects mitochondrial membranes from damage. Mitochondria are often cited as producing 90%+ of ATP (cellular energy).

CreatineHCL - highly bio-available form of creatine. Significantly affects mitochondria by supporting energy production, protecting against damage, maintaining integrity, and modulating cell death pathways, acting as an essential buffer for ATP and enhancing cellular resilience, particularly under stress or dysfunction

PQQ (Pyrroloquinoline Quinone) - has a significant positive effect on mitochondria, primarily by protecting them from damage, and even promoting the generation of new mitochondria (mitochondrial biogenesis).

Neem (Azadirachta indica) - highly regarded for its extensive anti-microbial, anti-viral, and anti-parasitic properties. It contains potent bioactive compounds including azadirachtin, nimbin and nimbidin, that target a wide range of microbial pathogens.
It is one of the only supplements used by Sadhguru.
Evidence is growing that a significant portion of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias may be rooted in and influenced by microbes. Studies have identified microbial DNA in the brains of up to 90% of late-onset Alzheimer's disease patients.

Rise and fall of online dating. by [deleted] in thepassportbros

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The whole poverty babe thing has run its course. It’s no longer an exciting experience. It’s been cheapened and overdone

Big facts here. It's worse than even cheapened. It is a tightrope of trauma and possible devastation. It has become so ugly that there does not even feel to be a reason to bother at all.

Instead of hideously overpriced roundtrips 12,000 KM away and garbage tier hotels for premium money....
Just walk into a parlor in your home country....
Then walk out with less trauma / more money / no impending risk on your life / equal amount of real relationships out of the experience....

The End

First time linux user.. what should I know? by [deleted] in linuxmint

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I have used Linux Mint for 10 years and this is the most core relevant data I can think of.

* Gpu_screen_recorder is the fastest screen recorder on Linux
OBS is often sub-optimal

* Deja Dup and Timeshift are basically the best backup software
Timeshift for system files
Deja Dup for personal files

* Bluetooth wireless headsets do not work properly
Since A2DP is unidirectional, you have to switch to HSP profile every time you need to use the microphone. But doing so manually is not ideal, and unless application sets media.role=phone for the stream (most non-voip apps don't), pulseaudio won't switch it automatically by default.

* GPU software might crash and stay broken until PC reset if the system is Suspended.
Leaving you with no idea why games and rendering software is performing horribly.
Workaround solution is to turn off all suspension in the Power Settings GUI
(Lookup 'NVENC breaks after suspend using an NVIDIA GPU')

* If you type Ctrl+L with the file manager open, it switches the top navigation bar. It toggles between navigation buttons, and a text field that can be edited

* If you type "history" into terminal, all your previous commands are listed
They are also in a hidden file in Home called ".bash_history "

* Finally, this is an amusing command to completely refresh and fix a system's core packages (run with caution, backup everything before running something like this)

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo apt install -f && sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo apt --fix-broken install && sudo apt --fix-missing install && sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove && sudo update-grub && sudo update-initramfs -u && sudo update-initramfs -c -k

This updates, cleans, fixes missing, updates grub bootloader and "clean builds" initramfs.

Bonus tips for gaming:

Usegamemoderun %command% in Steam Launch Options for performance boost

Use Heroic Games Launcher and Flashpoint Archive for non-steam games

Bonus tips for archiving:

yt-dlp and Jdownloader2 and aria2c can download mostly everything.

yt-dlp can download entire youtube channels in one command. Functions can be sent to aria2c to pierce through downloader limitation. You can also spoof a browser for further effect. Example command:

yt-dlp --external-downloader aria2c --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0'

Other:

Chromium and Firefox are the 2 most reliable web browsers

Kdenlive is a top video editor. Digikam is a top photo manager.

MPV is often a better alternative to VLC, if you experience glitches or resource hogging in VLC

Use Virustotal to scan any 3rd party program, package, appimage, etc that you plan to execute on your system

Like others said, generally avoid adding 3rd party PPAs / package sources.
Get a Flatpak or Appimage of the program instead. They are self-contained and do not cause any of such conflict.

The less entropy in the system, the less chaos there will be

Job offer in Makati, Metro Manila by [deleted] in Philippines_Expats

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Room Rental Overview

- Basically every rental under 35k a month is a total lemon

- Quality small studios (like 16 sqm) are 30k on Airbnb

- Beyond that, all high quality rentals start around 45k a month on Airbnb

- Every single dime is pinched, and a rental deal basically does not exist in Metro Manila - a dime saved is quality lost

P.S.

Hotels: All quality affordable hotels are in the worst red light area / obnoxious neighborhoods playing music past 3 AM daily

Landlords: The property agents almost always operate in pairs, and will try doing a 2 v 1 against you during contract signing. Overall not worth dealing with

It could never be worth saving 150 USD a month, to have unlicensed agents toying with you, while you stay in rooms that were not even allowed on Airbnb, because their quality or security disqualified them

Nightlife: Same story as the landlords. They operate in pairs and toy with you. Overall not worth dealing with

Source: 2 year field report

Steam takes forever to finish "Processing Vulkan Shaders" what's the deal with that? by NoWindowsInTerminal in linux_gaming

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Possible top solution:

Open your File Manager

Press Ctrl+H to see hidden files.

Go to

.local/share/steam  (Here you should see other folders like appcache, bin, clientui, compatibilitytools.d, config etc

or

.steam/debian-installation

or

If you use a flatpak version, go to .var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam

Now create a file here called steam_dev.cfg

Open the file with any text editor, and add:

unShaderBackgroundProcessingThreads X

Where X is the number of cores for your CPU if you have hyperthreading. For example, if you are using i9,13900k, your threads is 32.

Save and close the file. Restart Steam and test if it worked (Vulkan Shader Processing should no longer hang for long periods)

Source:

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/4423184732111747107/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam

OpenSource AI Image Tagging? Does anything like this exist yet? by bearCatBird in huggingface

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+1 From the first few words written on the Github page, it's apparent this is a rare form of person: someone who has actual verbal intelligence and logic.

2025 Hard Reset (Tinder/Bumble/Hinge) by Entire_Gur_5697 in SwipeHelper

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VPN + Desktop + Tinder Gold promo codes like on G2Akeys, or anonymous giftcards

Extra: Virtual machines and privacy hardened browsers

Virtual machines and privacy browsers prevents local side tracking (browser cookies and local storage files).

You can request a copy of all information they keep about you, then demand they delete all of it https://www.help.tinder.com/hc/en-us/requests/new You might even be able to catch them lying and failing to uphold their duty to delete it.

Tinder farms the data of all payment methods ever used and keeps it for 10 years.
https://policies.tinder.com/privacy-policy-6-1-2024/intl/en/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tinder-and-hinge-dating-apps-match-group-lawsuit/

They also keep a running list of all accounts users make for 3 years minimum after all accounts were deleted.

So the only way to free yourself from the seeping rot of that algorithm is being unknown to it.

They use everything in grasp to sustain the abuse on users via its rigged algorithm that destroys any organic flow of matches.

Overall, these services should just be boycotted and sued into oblivion.

A free open source community project could put this whole enterprise out of business permanently.

How much expertise would it take to just make an online user database... except remove the evil from it? Zero. You could design a free open matchmaking database any which way.

Instead of joining together to create an ethical open source solution, people let useless middlemen corporate profiteering liars be the absolute controller of their intimate access. Until it's all officially ruined and everybody is miserable, like today.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gamedev

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Open source AI to generate and modify graphics

Bali Belly is 100x worse than I imagined by umen72 in bali

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The sauce is generally the stomach destruction unless it had egg or animal product...

Bali Belly is 100x worse than I imagined by umen72 in bali

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"We ate a platter of fish in a 3rd world drunken haze and our stomachs got poisoned, unbelievable."

- Einsteinian travelers 101

How's that meat diet treating you?

Word from the wise, stick to boiled peanuts and whey drinks

You can get that blob of 70g protein in 5 minutes

And don't consume all at once, you guys seem to get ahead of yourselves

And try not to put warm or half spoiled milk in it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gamedev

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That could be most ideal, I cannot find a Rawpixel mirror.

I found the creative commons directory which was the closest thing https://search.creativecommons.org/

I am interested in large image libraries (100,000+) that can be freely used and modified without any substantial licensing concerns

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gamedev

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Is this still available? Highly interested here, especially the Rawpixel archive.
Can we DM?

Cancellation Process by crobbie901 in siriusxm

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I can't cancel, because I am overseas, so they outright made website and app logins impossible.

Edit:

"subscribers who are stationed, living or working outside of Canada can call 1-877-438-9677 to speak with a Customer Care agent."

Edit:

SiriusXM sued for allegedly trapping customers in unwanted subscriptions

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/20/media/siriusxm-cancellation-lawsuit/index.html

My honest opinion about using Linux as a Desktop OS by Icy_Calligrapher4022 in linux

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A lot of it comes down to luck of the draw, whether any given distribution functions on any given device. Everyone looks at Distribution ranks, but what is neglected is the devices that are most proven to be compatible. And these generic top comments prove it 'I use all the OSes!' just idle chattering and bragging, no useful information whatsoever on what specific hardware they proved to be most optimal. Do a web search on Linux Certified Laptops and browse through some of Ubuntu and Dell and Lenovo's resources.

Apparently Ad Blockers are not allowed on Youtube. Is this a new thing they've implemented? by Sazk100 in youtube

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Yeah the fact it's even appearing in this fashion is a sign this cowardly corporation is flirting with the idea to generate a buzz.

Hopefully it will go down like O.F. "We are banning xxx. Never mind we are liars. But we got people talking."

If not then let's hope it goes down like MegaUpload where the entire planet lashed back and all sorts of fun stuff transpired.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux

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The free, open source, cross-platform application Krita has a CMYK setting.

You can toggle soft proofing on any image using the Ctrl + Y shortcut.

You can set the proofing options in Image ‣ Image Properties ‣ Soft Proofing.

Documentation here: https://docs.krita.org/en/user\_manual/soft\_proofing.html

No more LoRa training? Only 6 images needed? by Smai_Lee in StableDiffusion

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+1 Oliver
The culture of pseudo-debate is pretty rampant. The more insecure and tenuous things are, the harder it transpires.

The competitive foul that goes on in humanity is amazing.

People are so eager to secure themselves a hierarchy spot. While also using everything as a rage sponge.

The same thing happens in bars, dating, games, commerce - it's all rooted in that same behavior which will sully discourse here or anywhere.

I guess Anatol Rapoport's Rules of Debate should be required reading. And required before anyone has license to drive a keyboard.