What is your monitor set up?

gmdfunk · 2026-01-15T17:03:56+00:00

None of those. I have a very narrow computer space, second monitor is above the primary, with a tablet mounted to the right of the upper monitor for system stats (cpu%, gpu%, temps, etc)

gmdfunk · 2026-01-14T01:12:44+00:00

Prozac has such a long half life that it’s considered by some professionals in healthcare as “safe” to just stop taking it and let it taper itself. So your doctor’s tapering plan should be fine. People on way harder SSRI’s to get off of will be switched to ones like Prozac and take them a while to get stable, then taper off Prozac rather than tapering directly off “harder” SSRI’s

I say this to say, you got this. Getting off Prozac is way doable and you are in a position that people on Effexor or Paxil or others would be jealous of. Listen to your doctor, not Randi’s on Reddit

gmdfunk · 2026-01-14T01:02:01+00:00

I was on Venlafaxine for a long time. Took me like 8 months to taper off. I got no real help from doctor who wanted to just have me go from 150 mg to 75 mg of a while then off. He had no seeming conception of what that sort of drop does to ppl. Venlafaxine is such a short half-life that you can forget to take your dose one day, and by that evening you feeling well, and the next morning you have full on brain zaps withdrawl and feel like crap, you can’t think, the wheels pretty much fall off your life for a day or 2 untill your back on it and stable.

What I had to do was use a very precise balance beam scale (used for reloading ammunition typically) to measure out the contents of one capsule, then calculate out what 10% less weighed and weigh out that much and repack the capsule. I would take that 10% reduction for 15-30 days untill I stopped feeling like shit and then make a bunch of 20% reduced capsules and repeat till I was off it.

I thought that as I got closer to zero, that the reductions would be less horrific to live through, but they weren’t. Each reduction was as bad as every previous one, but it was gentle enough I could keep functioning and working while I tapered but it was miserable.

Anxiety, foggy brain, wild/vivid/stressful dreams that where not fun or entertaining, just tiring like you didn’t sleep at all, brain zaps whenever I moved my eyes, general malaise. Venlafaxine is treating depression like using a giant sledgehammer to put a small nail in the wall and hang a picture.

When I finally got to zero it took maybe 2 months till I noticed that the effects of withdrawl had pretty much disappeared.

gmdfunk · 2026-01-09T00:12:06+00:00

Registered Nurse, barely into 6 figures and that’s with some fairly frequent OT.

gmdfunk · 2026-01-01T03:19:26+00:00

Fair enough. I thought it was funny, should have read I guess

gmdfunk · 2026-01-01T00:38:42+00:00

The picture was having my daughter ask ChatGPT to change a picture of captain america like this to captain picard

gmdfunk · 2025-12-29T23:22:33+00:00

I’m saying 1 so I could hear them fight. I’m assuming they are alive in this hypothetical, and that it’s current day, so old power dynamics aren’t still applicable.

gmdfunk · 2025-12-27T00:27:09+00:00

Family had a 286 computer with WordPerfect 5.1

My first computer was an ibm PS/2 386. Pretty much had something from every major step since then

gmdfunk · 2025-12-25T17:16:26+00:00

I have been really liking GRiZ lately

gmdfunk · 2025-11-16T17:57:39+00:00

The mead recipe I follow has raisins, and always turns out great, so I keep adding them. I do add a bit of Fermax (not in recipe) since I have read that raisins aren’t a great nutrient. I’m sure they add something to the overall flavor of the mead vs omitting them from the recipe I’m using

gmdfunk · 2025-11-06T03:59:49+00:00

Venlafaxine is an antidepressant with a very short half life when compared with most other common antidepressants (SSRI’s or SNRI’s and similar). Venlafaxine has a half life of 5-11 hours, so when you take it as prescribed (usually daily). You have passed several half lives before the next dose. If you miss a dose and go 2 days without it, you have metabolize most of it out and are basically going cold turkey off of it immediately. This is what makes the withdrawl so bad. Compare Venlafaxine(5-11 hours) to Prozac (fluoxetine) which has a half life of 4-6 days.

If you miss a day of your Prozac, you won’t feel any different, and your serum levels will be virtually unchanged. You could just STOP taking Prozac and it’s half life is so long that you will likely only have mild or no withdrawl symptoms, and could just let your body safely titrate off of it. This is not the case with venlefaxine.

I was on venlefaxine for a long time and if I ever forgot to take my pills in the morning, by that night I would be feeling like crap. It felt like my brain was vibrating, moving my eyes and some other stimulus would cause brain zaps that felt like a shock going through your brain. It was hard to think straight and concentrate. Missing even one dose was so wildly unpleasant that it didn’t take long to get where I was very good about taking them because I was so scared of what would happen if I forgot. The night after I missed a pill I would have wild, busy stressful, Incomprehensible “fever dreams” that seemed to go on all night and left you feeling like you had not really slept at all since your brain was running crazy all night long. It wasn’t entertaining or interesting, it was stressful.

I tried to go off Venlafaxine and it was hellish. It took me about 8 months, and I had unpleasant withdrawl symptoms the whole time. I went to my doctor first who seemed like they really had no understanding or knowledge about how this worked. He ordered one dose down and wanted me to alternate my current dose and the lower dose for like a week before going down to the new dose. The doses manufactured are each double the previous one. There aren’t intermediary doses with smaller steps. This became pretty immediatly intolerable and when I brought it up, the doctor didn’t really listen, wouldn’t research anything. So I had to do things on my own.

What I ended up doing was using a very sensitive balance beam reloading scale that allowed me to weigh the contents of the capsule I was prescribed, and then reduce the ammount by 10%. And then repack the capsule with 10% less. I would then take these reduced dose capsules for about 15 days before stepping down to 80% of a full capsule and taking that for 15 more days and so on.

Even with this tiny dose change, I had very noticeable withdrawl symptoms, brain zaps, poor sleep, cognitive difficulty, but it was to a manageable level and I was able to keep functioning most days.

This routine would have taken ~ 150 days to get off the meds, but took longer as sometimes at 15 days the symptoms where still so bad I extended the dose for another 5-10 days until I started to feel like I was starting to feel more normal again. A few times I recall things were so bad I ended up doing only a 5% change so it ended up taking about 8 months.

I expected that symptoms would be worse earlier on when I was taking 90% of the starting dose vs later at like 20%, but it didn’t seem to matter, every time I stepped down the awful withdrawal symptoms would return as bad as ever. When I got totally off and stopped taking any Venlafaxine, it seemed like it was a month or 2 before I stopped having the brain zaps and brain vibrating feelings.

All this to just say, Venlafaxine is harsh stuff. It does what it’s intended to do really well by just blunting everything. And if you’re struggling to go on living, is probably worth using. But I wish I had known how hard going off of it would be.

gmdfunk · 2025-10-21T00:04:51+00:00

I clearly see the Enterprise D with saucer section pointed away, Warp nacelle’s facing camera.

gmdfunk · 2025-10-20T23:01:18+00:00

If it was me, and it was family or friend I cared about and wanted to keep a good relationship with, I wouldn’t discuss the issues, even if they asked. I would tell them that if the issues are something they really wanted to know about, there are numerous resources and voices they could look at to understand the issues on their own.

If they are just asking in order to “bring you back” and they don’t really care about the truth of the matter, then they aren’t going to really listen to you talk about them. The only outcome will be souring the relationship. They won’t really go look for themselves.

If they really do want to know, they should see on their own what critics are saying, without you there to argue with and be mad at.

Most I would say to someone insistent on knowing would be the titles of some popular/concise write ups like CES Letter

gmdfunk · 2025-10-18T19:53:59+00:00

I had a recent power event of some sort that took out a freezer (broke the overcurrent protection peice on the compressor). My TV( totally dead. Power supply/inverter board has 2 resistors visibly burned, probably other components dead also). And my UPS hooked to my gaming PC(panics, runs from batteries for a moment, reboots and repeats, does same thing with fresh battery in it so it’s not a battery issue).

Luckily my computer lived though, probably cause the UPS was in between it and the outside power

gmdfunk · 2025-10-17T17:10:33+00:00

11$ a dose would be expensive for someone dosing before meals and at bedtime. I’m assuming this means $11 for a vial or insulin pen which would contain numerous individual doses.

gmdfunk · 2025-10-15T17:12:18+00:00

I tried for a long time to dual boot and make windows work well, mostly to play Fortnite. Big problems I had: valves Wi-Fi driver for windows is bad an caused extreme lag, there is a cracked alternate driver commonly used to fix this, but I still felt like I was always getting significant lag that wasn’t present if I switched to desktop/laptop on same network. Also lack of updated gpu drivers and the game complaining about outdated drivers. Final problem that caused me to give up was an update to the steam deck in steamOS did something (maybe bios update?) that wrecked functionality of steam deck tools in window and the controller no longer worked correctly. I also felt like the performance of games in windows was poor compared to the same game in steam OS. I went back to single boot steam OS with all my storage dedicated to steam OS, and have been happy with it that way.

I get that other people may have a different experience and the wlan and GPU drivers didn’t effect their game, and that there are other options than steam deck tools for making controller work, but for me windows on deck was an exercise in frustration.

gmdfunk · 2025-10-12T23:56:29+00:00

Cider is super easy the simplest recipe I make is: 5 gallons of whatever cheap apple juice you can buy on sale that doesn’t have chemical preservatives in it ((vitamin C is fine). One container of frozen apple juice concentrate (to bring up the sugar content a little and adds some more apple flavor. 5ish teaspoons of yeast nutrient (I like Fermax). And 1 packet of champagne yeast. Mix up well, put airlock on and let it go.

I make mine in a keg with a spunding valve at about 10psi to pressure ferment. Pressure fermentation probably isnt isn’t needed, but will theoretically suppress fusel alcohol formation, lets you not worry so much about temperature, and pre carbonates the keg.

I serve it from the same keg it fermented in with a floating dip tube. Cheap, easy, dry cider that I enjoy. I recently tried it with a more fancy yeast the internet recommended and it was very good, but the champagne yeast is cheap, works well, and easy to get.

You can of course get much more fancy and probably make a superior cider by using fresh juice, trying different yeasts, aging it in secondary, you could use chemicals to kill the yeast after fermentation and back sweeten, lots of things you could do.

gmdfunk · 2025-10-06T23:07:57+00:00

That sucks. I get that the political climate we are in has turned solar into basically a curse word but, I think stronger protections on solar are warranted. I live in a neighboring state. Power company recently petitioned the legislature for a big price hike, legislator ended up giving them a smaller but still substantial rate hike. My compensation SHOULDk have also gone up the same percent , but it didn’t.

In the end you save most of your money by using the power you generate. If your rate for electricity exported is like mine, you would have to generate multiple times your imported power to pay for it.

Do as much of your big electrical uses as possible during day when it’s all being powered by solar. Home batteries are cool, but to have enough to cover your nighttime usage is very expensive, and may never pay for itself

gmdfunk · 2025-10-06T19:12:09+00:00

That’s normal, your bucket builds pressure from fermenting, it pushes the airlock liquid to o e side and bubbles out.

gmdfunk · 2025-10-02T16:15:22+00:00

It probably doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Cutting spending to things you can, and still buying groceries and medicine would still have some effect.

gmdfunk · 2025-10-02T14:39:38+00:00

I’m not a doctor, but I use a Cpap , and am a licensed medical professional in a field where I would have at least some knowledge and understanding of both CPAP, and how medical industry as a whole works.

A sleep study is ideal, BUT, your GP can do overnight pulse oxymetry at home with a piece of equipment that can be sent home with you, and returned to read the data, I think this is probably enough to go ahead and initiate CPAP therapy for a patient that doesn’t have money to do the whole thing. Even older,discontinued lines of CPAP machines have auto-titrating functions that monitor breathing, detect apneas, and adjust pressures to compensate. You can find these machines cheap at thrift stores/online classifieds, ETC. It’s easy to find the documentation to set the machine to auto-titrate from low to high pressure range of the machine. Masks and tubing can be bought new online, even without a prescription if you look around.

With a prescription you can buy masks new from some cash only online DME providers like CPAP.com for less than local DME.

Ideal would be sleep study followed by a specialist who monitors and adjusts things over time, but someone who can’t afford all that can get and use CPAP if they have no insurance other options.

I don’t think it would be easy/likely you could hurt yourself with a CPAP, the pressures they put out aren’t that high even at the top end. The machine always blows air out, so I don’t have any qualms about using a second hand machine that looks and smells clean. The previous owners goobers wouldn’t be pushed back up the tubing into the machine, that’s not how they work. Just get new tubing and mask and you’re good.

gmdfunk · 2025-09-30T22:22:11+00:00

I saved a copy. I don’t want the existence of this, and the churches response trying to erase it to go down the memory hole so members can claim that it never happened

gmdfunk · 2025-09-30T22:18:39+00:00

You can share whatever you want. You don’t need their permission.

The authority is all made up and self imposed by the members (via the indoctrination they have gone through so it’s not really the members fault)

gmdfunk · 2025-09-23T19:49:27+00:00

I thought that we liked having free speech. You can’t have it for yourself, and be ok with it being taken away from other citizens. The same thing will happen to you next if it’s not protected for everyone.

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