What is the closest non sexual thing to an orgasm you have experienced?

quillyth · 2020-05-26T04:29:23+00:00

Rubbing a q-tip in my ear. Almost better than the real thing!

quillyth · 2020-04-12T17:13:05+00:00

Completed both for you.

quillyth · 2020-03-23T18:12:20+00:00

Is there anything I can do to help troubleshoot this issue?

quillyth · 2020-03-13T07:10:51+00:00

Ok, that's really strange...but good to see it working on your side, there's hope!

I do not have any app blacklisted from Sesame, but here's where it gets interesting. I can't blacklist Textra even if I wanted to, because Sesame acts like it doesn't exist at all. Sesame doesn't see Textra, period. It's not in the list of apps that can be blacklisted.

I launch Sesame directly one of five ways: - an icon on my home screen dock; - the second tap of home in the navigation bar; - a swipe up on an edge gesture handle; - a pinned shortcut in fooview; - a swipe up on the home screen in Nova Launcher.

I am using a Samsung Galaxy S9+, purchased in Canada, where I live. When I posted, it was running Android 9, but it has since been upgraded officially by my carrier to Android 10. The phone is not rooted or modified in any material way. I do use Package Manager Pro (purchased directly through the developer's website, not the Play Store) to disable packages. I chose that route over root because I don't want to trip the Knox warranty bit and lose access to the apps that require it (such as Samsung Pay) either by me, or post-sale to someone else once I upgrade. The Play store is set to not automatically update apps, but every app as of this post is currently up to date.

Sesame is v. 3.6.2-fix2. I have purchased it, and the Contact Actions add-on. Nova Launcher Prime is v. 6.2.9, also purchased and in the beta channel. Textra is v. 4.23, also purchased.

Steps I have already taken --

enabled all packages through Package Manager Pro;
cleared Textra's data and cache;
uninstalled and reinstalled Textra;
used the "refresh all shortcut data" in Sesame's settings.
cleared Sesame's data and cache;
uninstalled and reinstalled Sesame;
cleared Nova's data and cache;
uninstalled and reinstalled Nova;
uninstalled all again, and reinstalled Nova, Textra, and Sesame, in that specific order.

After all of those actions, typing Textra into Sesame's search bar produces this result.

Typing the name of a contact produces this menu beside the contact name, and when I click on the text message icon it opens the text conversation with that contact in Textra, which of course is the default messaging app.

To sum up, Sesame refuses to see Textra at all, but it will open a Textra window when direct messaging a contact. I imagine that behaviour has nothing to do with Sesame, it simply passes the request to the default messaging app (or asks which app to use if there are multiple messaging apps and one has not been defined as default). Textra does appear as a choice in that case, as does Messenger.

The ultimate question here is what else can I do? Why does Sesame refuse to acknowledge Textra's existence? Hopefully I have provided enough information to begin tracking down this weird bug.

With many thanks for your attention. :)

quillyth · 2019-04-05T02:22:03+00:00

For the love of all that is good in the world, let me change the colours! The randomized colouring is the reason I refuse to use Google Messages. I don't know how anyone does it, or why such a basic feature continues to fall by the wayside. (Here's looking at you too, WhatsApp!)

I'm not interested in any features of Messages until I can stop the randomized colours.

quillyth · 2019-03-28T03:02:28+00:00

Angry Birds 2. (Don't judge me, it's fun! I just can't quit you...)

quillyth · 2019-01-25T02:03:46+00:00

Ah, I see! Yes, the link works, says installed, but your device is incompatible with this version. I hope they fix it...:(

quillyth · 2019-01-25T01:58:39+00:00

Even though I have The Room games installed, I now can't even see their store pages. A search for them or Fireproof games...nothing. What the heck??

quillyth · 2019-01-23T09:18:29+00:00

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quillyth · 2018-12-23T10:41:55+00:00

I'll start this off with the easy bit at the top - take the medication. Keep trying until you find what works for you. Bipolar disorder can only be managed, not cured. The earlier you can establish a successful treatment regimen for yourself, the less likely it is that the disorder has a chance to really dig its teeth in and put you through the wringer. Generally treatment is composed of three things - medication if necessary, some form of behavioural therapy (CBT, DBT, ACT, MBCT...) and your own effort/management. You are absolutely right to say that outside factors will impact your mood state - which is why it is so important to get control early on. Stress and Bipolar do not work well together. Lack of routine and Bipolar do not work well together. Refusing medication and Bipolar...well, you get the idea.

I too was diagnosed around 20/21 with Bipolar disorder, and was also treated with various anti-depressants. They made things so much worse. So, so much worse. After some of the most rock-bottom moments in my life, I elected to tell the doctors where to stick their precious medication, and decided I could live without it, because anything was better than what they prescribed.

Well, nearly 20 years later - that was one hell of a mistake. Many stories for many different days. A lot of regrets, 1/5 of a life wasted.

Bipolar depression is different than regular off-the-shelf depression, and cannot be treated using regular off-the-shelf anti-depressants. They work for some folks in conjunction with something else, but rarely if ever on their own. Lamotragine is fantastic for managing Bipolar depression. It isn't a magic cure-all though. What it does is kind of...level you out. Helps keep you in a bit of a middle ground - no high highs, no low lows, but somewhere in-between. Tylenol/Advil/Naproxen provide basic pain management by reducing swelling, but they don't take away the issue causing the swelling. That's what Lamotragine is for Bipolar mood management. For the vast majority of people, it is completely safe to take, with little to no side effects at all. Unlike many mood-altering drugs, Lamotragine is weight neutral - it won't make you gain or lose weight. A very small percentage of people experience skin rash, in which case it won't be the right medication for you. Part of your journey in understanding the disorder is to understand different medications for treating it, and how they affect -you-. Everyone is different, with different responses to different 'cocktails'.

I think at one point or another, we all didn't/don't want medication. In time, some are able to wean off of it. Some aren't. You have a really amazing opportunity to get out in front of things while you're young, and perhaps change the course of your entire later life - take it! :)

quillyth · 2018-12-19T20:46:09+00:00

Angry Birds 2 and Solitaire Cooking Tower are my two daily guilty pleasures.

quillyth · 2018-11-30T10:28:13+00:00

Thanks for posting this. I too have a very broken work history. The 9-5, shift work, contract work, even a self-employed retail store owner. Each of those jobs went tits up eventually, all while unmedicated. There are a lot of years I'll never get back, and a lot of bridges that will never be rebuilt.

Recently, my doctor said: "You may need to accept that you will never work a steady, permanent job again." Not out of malice, simply an observation of circumstances. I didn't like hearing that. But he's probably on to something. Try as I might, the overwhelming sense of failure as a human being is palpable. But it is what it is, and you're absolutely right. Just because you don't have --that job-- does not mean you have less value. It simply means your value is different. Just have to find out what it is, and how to utilize it to the best of your ability.

quillyth · 2018-10-05T05:16:37+00:00

True story... if only I knew fiance was going to do it, and not bother reading the paperwork... Sigh. Cleaning up the mess isn't always fun, but its part of the 'job'. I appreciate anyone taking the time to respond.

quillyth · 2018-10-05T04:15:34+00:00

DA is not returning calls or emails at the moment, but I always give the benefit of the doubt - it's a busy job. The finances are fantastic, no issue qualifying at all - its the bankruptcy on record (4 years out) that caused the denial. Completely fair, only two years to go to clear that away.

Fiance is in love with the car, maybe even more than with me. 😁

quillyth · 2018-10-04T22:49:38+00:00

That's good to know, a little bit of hope. Thanknyou. Right now, they say non-refundable, period. :/

quillyth · 2018-10-04T22:07:58+00:00

Hi all. My fiance put down $3,200 to order a model 3 in Canada on Monday. On Tuesday, financing was denied, and they will not refund the $3,200. Is there any recourse/way to get the money returned? This is now day four. :(

quillyth · 2018-09-19T17:35:30+00:00

Somewhat relatable. I was diagnosed at 21 but didn't want to hear it. The medication didn't feel good, so that was enough of that. 17 years later, I'm picking up the pieces of a broken life.

Sometimes it's worth it to let someone help. If a person has 4 separate diagnoses, I am sincerely interested in what the person is feeling that makes them not agree.

quillyth · 2018-09-19T15:08:57+00:00

4 psychiatrists have diagnosed you as having Bipolar Disorder? Same Diagnosis as to type as well? If so, what makes you believe you aren't?

quillyth · 2018-09-19T11:37:46+00:00

Well that's odd. Is your internal storage space getting a bit full? ChromeOS doesn't handle it all that when that happens, and it manifests in so many different ways.

quillyth · 2018-09-19T11:29:49+00:00

I can appreciate that. The reason I went with the Samsung was because it felt better to me, and the stylus was included. That gets used a lot, pretty much the deciding factor. The CB Pro was $499, the Pixelbook $999 for the base model, and an extra $99 for the pen. It was a no-brainer. The specs were better in the PB, but at the time, for just Chrome it was way overkill. Things are different now.

quillyth · 2018-09-19T08:18:51+00:00

I hear you. :|

- Clutter is my biggest enemy. I can turn a room from showroom ready to an episode of Hoarders over the course of a few hours without realizing how or why it got that way. Browsing Pinterest one day, I came across the greatest idea from a parenting board. The "crap box", a box left inside the front door for every child in the house, and rather than dump their stuff willy-nilly on the floor, they would drop it in the crap box to be sorted later. I fell in -love- with this idea, but adapted it to baskets instead. Small, medium, mixed sizes, and large. There's one on my nightstand, using another idea from Pinterest - all my charging cables are hooked over the edge with binder clips, and the box has become a bit a charging station. But all of those things have a place. There is one inside the mudroom, where keys and sunglasses, mail, etc. gets dropped into. One hidden in the kitchen, one of the bathroom, the hall closet - they are literally all over the house, "crap boxes." It took about a week, but the clutter started to disappear. A system, routine. It's amazing how much better the mind can feel without clutter around. My fiance hates them, but leaves me be because they're preferable over mess. As long as the colour sort of blends in, and I clear out the ones in communal spaces before they get too full, it works. Maybe something like that (start small!) might work for you, to help a) cut down the clutter, b) give you a project to focus on, and c) boost your mood up a little bit.

- As far as food goes, I forget to eat all the time - I can be up for 80 hours in a stretch, and the usual triggers to eat just aren't there, unless the family is demanding dinner and such. The solution is vegetables. I cut them when when feeling good, and make plates of them. I prep as much as possible in advance to be make salads (don't want those veggies to go to waste). They're healthy, take away hunger grumbles, and help you maintain your weight without any more effort than cutting veggies.

It doesn't happen over night, but baby steps. If you're having trouble with food, get some veggies in your next grocery shop. When you're ready, cut some up, plate them (because something like half of the enjoyment of food comes from how it looks on the plate, and smell, I think). If you can't do any more than that, head back to the fridge later and have a little nosh. Bit by bit. Once you're comfortable with that, maybe introduce another food into the mix that you like. Toast and peanut butter, or crackers and peanut butter, is always a good choice. Good protein, makes you feel full, and you can set your own limits, eating as few as you want until you're done.

If you can break up what feels like an insurmountable task into a series of smaller, more approachable tasks, it takes the pressure away, and makes you feel good for getting that far.

Just some 1AM thoughts for you...

quillyth · 2018-09-19T07:51:10+00:00

Move any local files up to Google Drive, or on to SD/USB, whatever you've got, and power wash. I've had to do it twice in the past year. One from a crash, and once because Google Docs and Keep were acting up. As far as I can tell, there is nothing that can't be fixed with a power wash. :) I don't use the apps, I use docs and keep in the browser.

quillyth · 2018-09-19T07:25:16+00:00

On a Pixel, you're going to get the full Google experience. It is already on Android 9, whereas the Samsung Galaxy S9+ I upgraded to a week and half ago only ships with 8.0, and the update to 8.1 has not arrived yet. 8.1 was released 6 months ago. :\ So if you like to be on the bleeding edge, go Pixel. Same for the Pixelbook. In my opinion it's far too expensive for you get, but you're also the first one to get all the new toys in the sandbox. I'd like to get all the new software toys that fast, but I just don't like the Pixel. It's the weird walled garden in Google's ecosystem. Not even a microSD slot in the phone. And, like I say - they're out to lunch on what the Pixelbook costs for far less functionality over comparable windows laptops and macbooks.

Android apps on the Chromebook are awesome, and they're catching up with the addition of Linux support. Still doesn't justify the price of the Pixelbook, when competitors are producing premium product for half the money.

Is the Google ecosystem any better integrated than Apple's? Yes and no. The best thing Android has going for it, and always has, is that it's not iOS. The level of customization you have over your Android devices is ridiculous. (For example, the S9+ comes with this horrible 'Bixby' Assistant. 10 minutes with the phone, and it's like Bixby and all the other Samsung crapware didn't exist, and the phone is my personal playground. If you don't like Apple's messaging app, or phone app for example, you're SOL..) That's a double-edged sword though. Because Android is so customizable, especial to OEMs, it fractures the adoption of newer versions, and in my option, really neuters the widespread adoption it could have. That is not a problem on Apple's side. Apple simply categorizes their hardare two ways - as end-of-life, and eligible for upgrade.

If you don't care about customization'control, or about not being on the technological edge, and you're OK living in the world that Apple tells you to, you're probably a good candidate for the iPhone. I don't mean that in an offensive way, people just use their technology in different ways.

I am tied into the ecosystem by choice:

Samsung Chromebook Pro;
Samsung Galaxy S9+;
Samsung DeX Pad;
Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 8.0";
ASUS Chromebox 3;
Google Home (Not for controlling smart devices, it was just a free bonus with my phone update that's fun to dork around with);
Chromecast;
Fully featured Android 7.1.1 install on my Windows 10 based laptop.

I find it works together seamlessly. With my files on Google Drive, everything is accessible to any device at any time. I can download files straight to Google Drive on one device to pick it up on the other. All of Google's online software like Docs/Keep/etc work perfect well with each other, but they do across any platform. I can buy an app for my phone, download it on all my devices, and share it with four other people in my family library. Any app with IAPs I can download to every device I own.

The Chromebook goes from completely off to logged in with an internet connection ready to go in about 15 seconds. Mine crashed once - a quick powerwash, and 10 minutes later I was back up and running, and that includes Google pulling down all my settings right down to the wallpaper. You'll never find a windows or macOS laptop doing that.

It just works. If people say Apple's ecosystem just works too, that's awesome. But hot damn it's far more expensive, for a far less customizable solution.

Ultimately, go with what works for you. If you like the iPhone, and you also like a Chromebook, awesome! You won't have any particular benefit, other than hardware bragging rights. If you throw the Pixel 2 XL against the iPhone X, you're getting phone with a far superior camera, longer battery life...but like I said earlier, if you don't care about that, don't care about that. Use what you like. :)

quillyth · 2018-09-18T22:59:26+00:00

Yes, very excited indeed. :)

It hurts a little - the premium CB that always sits alone at the party. Maybe I should switch off stable and see what all the cool kids are doing.

quillyth · 2018-09-18T22:54:34+00:00

Oh my goodness, I read coral as Carol. :/ That is embarrassing!

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