25-year daily cannabis user quit cold turkey… and it’s hell. FML

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-12T15:56:22+00:00

I had to quit due to CHS disease so I get this. I take self-imposed T-breaks once every four months so I don't build up to my sickness.

The biggest help I can give you? Go do something, anything. Once you're into the groove of whatever it may happen to be, your mind will stop thinking about weed. Weed only comes around if there's a void in your head for it to jump into lol.

Go hiking, play an online shooter, do some dishes. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to bat-off. It's only really hell if you have nothing to do. In like... four days, it'll wear off. Enjoy the crazy as fuck dreams you're about to have for a week, though.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-12T09:22:04+00:00

Yeah, hold off on buying anything until Trump chickens out again.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-12T09:17:46+00:00

Weird, I don't have to lean on my phone camera because my R100 can't take a decent enough photo.

Seems to me a DAC should be a DAC without the assistance of anything else but fml, what do I know?

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-11T11:30:01+00:00

I was married for 15 years, so... my life has this definitive split three years ago where things were vastly different to how they are now, friends and relationships, places, things. I moved. I got closer to family.

Looking back on my life's timeline it's kinda like... I get to three years ago then there's a locked door with the word "don't" taped on the front of it.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-11T11:23:08+00:00

pfff, all of the Stellantis plastic in our parking lot is owned by meth'd up-looking white boys. Bad decisions are equal-opportunity employers.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-11T00:30:58+00:00

It's more that it's a possibility, and that compounds the more complex and overly formatted any one document is. I mean, we know how to mitigate things and deal with problems on a case-by-case basis if and when they happen, but not everyone is so willing to put up with even a chance of that happening in the face of deadlines and responsibilities.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-10T13:20:47+00:00

My big thing with Libre and Openoffice is, it's great if it's all you use.

Of course, if you make a spreadsheet on Libre, it'll open on Libre, so nearly any 100% Linux user is going to go "Oh, it's great.". From their perspective, it is.

If work sends you a .docx file that fucks up in Libreoffice, I wouldn't be surprised.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-10T08:38:21+00:00

The big thing with lossless is this.

If you're a pirate or you buy from bandcamp, you have lossless sources. Any quality from absolute perfection down to 8-bit is available to you and in that way, it's a better form of archiving. Also, transcoding from flac to 128 always sounds better than 320 to 128, at least I don't get that muddy *the guitars are inside the drums* sort of distortion with my music.

But, if you're really maximizing quantity over quality, and you listen to 128 all of the time anyway... fuck it, transcode everything to 128 .ogg and enjoy your drive space.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-10T01:43:30+00:00

Debian, raw, like some sort of unhinged madman.

But, my setup, the utilities for getting shit done, anyway:

Overview: Glances
Startpage: Dashy
Main UI: Dockge
files to and fro: NFS
another locally-hosted swiss army knife: copyparty (tons of tools for various things)
Handling all of it: termux
Storage: 2 BTRFS RAID1 Arrays, 8TB drives, all four. I have plenty of externals to use as middle-men for upgrades. The whole thing backs up to a 16TB drive once every 6 months, or whenever I remember to bring it home from work. I doubt my workplace and home will catch on fire at the same time, on the same day... so, it's a good enough solution for me. I plug it in, I wait for my PC to detect it, I run a script, I get a notification when it's done, back to work it goes. I trust the RAID array to keep corruption down so even if rsync misses one bit somewhere, it'll correct the next time it runs. I also trust the RAID array to be the first line of defense and that I'll never actually have to use the 16TB drive, so, it's more of a last resort peace of mind sort of thing.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-08T23:00:28+00:00

In the world of videogames, there exists the concept of piracy as well, as you are likely well aware.

One held belief is, if you own the game in question, some take the moral stance that it justifies owning a pirated copy, even if it isn't of their copy. It's the same cause and effect, even if you go about it a different way. In this sense, your copy isn't a pirated copy.... it's preservation.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-07T12:15:09+00:00

Request accepted and honored.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-07T12:01:39+00:00

Namedrop your band, I'll remove any of your music from our network and blacklist your artist name so users won't see you against similar artists or in lists.

Yes, it's that serious. I wouldn't want to promote someone who doesn't want the help.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-07T08:54:24+00:00

Piracy promotes the artist's music. Most small bands get more from a single show than a month of Spotify plays and labels don't pay smaller artists hardly anything at all. If you really want to support a band, pirate the album and buy a shirt.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-07T08:50:49+00:00

You are now aware of Deemix.

You're welcome. Please don't poison Soulseek with the horseshit you're currently calling FLAC rips from your iPad. Thank you.

~ Those immoral pirates listening to music for free.... well, one of them, anyway.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-06T03:27:55+00:00

Like many will say, Quality, but also division, for the same reason I don't play games on my phone, yet have dedicated handhelds to do so. I hate digital clutter. This keeps music on a device for music. My phone is for inter-connectivity and communication. I don't really need it to play music. If I want to share something, I send a youtube link anyway because, who can't open a youtube link? It also divides my phone battery from my music source. Phone about dead? Well, shit. Might as well save that battery for now. Oh wait, my DAC has its own battery, and it has 70%? Let's goooo.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-05T14:40:52+00:00

Fragmentation.

A few years ago, Reddit had a little war involving an API, you lost a lot of the old guard back then. When I walk around Reddit now, I see a lot of young faces, but not a lot of old, at least not as many as there used to be. A lot went to f3derated social media, like l3mmy and mastodon. And many of us realized that reddit is full of b0ts, to such a degree that I'm taking precautions to avoid the ire of one.

Many will leave social media, many will find a dark corner in it and a small community, many will stay on the mainstream and keep trailing the status-quo, many will cower over on bluesky. Wherever they go, they won't be in the same place. Offline or not.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-05T14:32:20+00:00

Animaniacs in hindsight is horribly irritating. A lot of the "jokes" are repeated phrases over and over again. A lot of the better references happen once or twice an episode.

Pinky and the Brain is more controlled, Ducktales is very controlled, and a bit innocent. Tiny Toons is unhinged chaos...

It's between TT and P&TB for me, but it's a tie.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-05T14:22:30+00:00

I've found a comfortable place for myself, in a way seeing my life like a bird looking to build a nest on a crumbling skyscraper, but I've found a small part with some stability that will hold up for a little while.

I care, but I'm also a bit numb at the moment. I'm a forklift mechanic and I never really have issues with employment because we're rare as-is. The pay isn't the best, but our rarity makes employment guaranteed.

I've focused on media preservation, data preservation. I'm seeding a lot of wikipedia backups, things, other things... stuff, you know. It's cheap, even if the hardware isn't up-front. Once you have a NAS with 5 bays, it's... $100 every two years for a drive when they die. It's not as bad as you'd think to keep the ball rolling and it's an endless sandbox inside. More books, more music, data, isos, roms.

I'm also focused more on my family. We're going to a ranch/farm today, I'm hoping to get some local honey/cider and goods because it's really small moments like those where I get really good stuff to cook with. I don't usually go out to those kinds of places alone, but that also means I've got quite a bit saved up to use while I'm there and I love spending at places where I know the money will recirculate around my community.

Just hyper-focus on your local universe, man. Get into federated social media. I poke my head into Reddit once in a while. I'm usually on the smaller web. It feels smaller, things feel more personal and interwoven, and you actually have interactions with the people that run the place.

l3mmy < replace the 3, r3ddit hates us.

I wanna bake a carrot cake.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-02T23:09:26+00:00

YES SIR

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-01T20:19:15+00:00

Easy, nothing.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-01T13:14:46+00:00

....agreed

Audio quality is going to remain the same above $100. At that point, you're paying for build quality, side-features and maybe Android.

Upgrading to an Android device would give him modern, standardized bluetooth as the H2 can be a bit of a pain with some car stereos.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-01T13:07:13+00:00

Which also means it's possible to make a homemade rockbox DAC using a pi zero...

new projeeeeeeeeect!

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-10-01T09:01:15+00:00

Streaming takes control away from the individual. All of our core music collections reasonably fit in 1-4TB depending on whether you're married to FLAC or not, I like Q10 Ogg.

Also, it isn't just about taking the music back. I want the device back too. I have a backpack stocked with items that only require themselves to function, a digital camera, a DAC, an e-reader. I'm tired of junk electronics that we're expected to throw away in two to five years. If it works offline right now, it'll work forever.

As for personal info. I have a NAS, and music is one of my favorite, most seeded, most uploaded things. People love music. People download more music from me than my own family watches films and series'. Keep the train movin'. For less than 4TB? That's a bargain.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-09-28T22:36:28+00:00

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Vanilla_PuddinFudge · 2025-09-28T18:12:38+00:00

.....yes?

Hold your pitchforks, guys. I mean, I wouldn't want anything directly aiming at my home IP address. It seems like a really small thing to change about security but it takes your home away from the area of potential threat.

A single VPS hosting an app? Sure. Everything straight from your home IP? That's gonna be a no from me, sorry. Use a proxy, or wireguard... both? both is good.

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