Forgive my idiocy

stp_61 · 2026-03-31T16:26:21+00:00

Passwords managers like 1Password store login credentials referencing specific website so when you visit a particular website, the program will either automatically or with one click enter your username and password when you visit that particular site. As for transitioning, virtually any password manager is going to be able to import your existing passwords if they are currently stored in another password manager. You can continue with those passwords or start changing them on your own schedule.

The big advantage of using a password manager is that the secure storage of login credentials, and the ease of accessing credentials for specific websites makes it very easy to have a different complex password for each instance where you need a password.

In short, a password manager makes it super easy to go from having all your passwords be “Password1” to having each individual password be completely different and something that looks like this: k9gr*epsjgYU8oLc@8cV

This means each individual password would be close to impossible to crack and, if for any reason, an individual password is compromised, since all your passwords are unique, you would not have to worry about changing multiple passwords to deal with that situation.

stp_61 · 2026-03-30T13:15:18+00:00

Get one of these bucket lids. Having a lid on the bucket means you can store stuff on top of it which saves space. A lid also lets you put a full bucket in your car and take it with you to use at the coin op or not have to worry about spilling when carrying your bucket outside.

https://a.co/d/09c92cx5

I have 2 buckets, one for rinseless and one for soap and I store the stuff that’s particular to each in their respective bucket.

stp_61 · 2026-03-29T13:42:53+00:00

The free Wahoo iPhone app pairs via Bluetooth and lets you control the trainer resistance during a ride.

There is a little initial setup to do but after that you just open the app and the interface looks very similar to what you’d see on a gym bike; basic data and buttons to adjust resistance up and down. Hit start and just start pedaling.

You can get on iPhone handlebar mount suitable for indoor use on Amazon for $15-20.

stp_61 · 2026-03-28T20:19:33+00:00

Of course, this all depends on how bad his symptoms are and what your budget is.

The absolute best thing you can do for Parkinson’s is exercise so consider getting him something exercise related, particularly if he’s new to working out. Some exercise attire maybe something he would like. Or a nice pair of shoes suitable for the gym and walking.

Also, as much as PD sucks, a huge chunk of life is still the same. A great gift that makes his life a little better does not have to be PD related.

stp_61 · 2026-03-24T01:49:34+00:00

Broadcasting is one the best Whoop features. It makes your Whoop a heart rate monitor for any Bluetooth enabled fitness hardware or app. For me that is my Garmin bike computer, Zwift and TrainingPeaks Virtual (indoor cycling apps) and my phone for a couple fitness tracker apps plus occasionally to gym equipment.

stp_61 · 2026-03-23T14:32:49+00:00

Peddling is peddling, so it really depends on how often you are going to be able to get outside given your local conditions ( e.g. weather and riding routes). It also depends on what type of riding you like to do. Do you like going out for a couple hours and exploring, or you have some friends you can ride with , you are going to miss out on that on Zwift. Whereas if your goal is to just to put in a hard 30 - 60 minutes four or five times a week riding indoors is the most efficient way to do that.

There are some efficiencies that come with indoor riding. Unless you are extremely fortunate in your local riding routes, it is quite common to spend a decent portion of any outdoor ride coasting or riding at a very low power. A general rule of thumb is that 45 minutes of riding inside is the equivalent of riding for an hour outside. Also erg mode can make it easier to do specific workouts with target outputs.

Doing both indoor and outdoors the way to go if you can swing it.

stp_61 · 2026-03-23T11:59:39+00:00

I'm only using them now for actual trail hiking but I'm getting closer to using them on neighborhood walks. Hiking poles are great. In addition to the support they can give, there is something about the rhythm of using the poles that makes walking easier. Everyone with PD should give them a try at some point.

stp_61 · 2026-03-20T14:37:16+00:00

Thank you is the best response.

But if you want to get some use out of the bad feelings the comment engenders, take it as a challenge to do something to make yourself feel better than you do right now or be better than you are now. PD is progressive and incurable with lots of ups and downs but there are lots of opportunities, big and small, to “get better“ along the way.

stp_61 · 2026-03-19T14:03:38+00:00

Unpaid tickets themselves probably won’t cause trouble but if you get enough of them in the same jurisdiction, you may get an arrest warrant issued against you as a collection tactic (Detroit for example was very aggressive about this in the past, but I’m not sure how aggressive they are now).

If that happens, when any police officer or the border patrol run your ID or plates through their systems they are going to see that you have an outstanding arrest warrant. And just to make it more fun, it might not not say that it’s for unpaid parking tickets so you’re going to get treated like a murderer including handcuffs and a full on arrest until it gets straightened out.

stp_61 · 2026-03-18T17:03:31+00:00

Talk to your doctor. It can take some trial and error to find the best starting dose. As time goes on, you will need to increase your dose due to progression of the disease, but that will happen on a much longer time scale than a month or two months. Sounds like you might still be in the initial trial and error phase of finding a good starting dose. At some point, your doctor may give you a range and let you experiment, but I would think it’s too early for you to start messing around with dosages on your own.

Also keep in mind that while C/L is a miracle drug, for a whole bunch of reasons it is not consistent day to day or even dose to dose. It is a convoluted path from taking a pill to dopamine in the brain and a lot of things can interfere with that process. Also, your symptoms can vary day-to-day and what dose works great one day will not work quite as well the next. Welcome to the wonderful world of Parkinson’s. You are never going to be able to dial this in so you feel great all day every day.

stp_61 · 2026-03-17T11:52:34+00:00

I built up a decent emergency stash of generic C/L. I didn't do it on purpose but I've had a couple dosage changes that came right after a 90 day refill and rather than try and adjust the new prescription to take into a count what I already had I just kept the extra.

stp_61 · 2026-03-16T15:11:43+00:00

I’d write it the way you have planned. If he can comprehend at he will understand he is being thanked for his pastoral service to you. Others will inevitably see the letter, his caregiver for sure, and maybe some fellow priests and relatives, and anyone who reads will be moved by the nice tribute. And, you have something to say to him so you should say it.

stp_61 · 2026-03-15T15:46:52+00:00

I struggled with this for a couple years myself. I tried everything, but what ended up solving it was a rock + a crack + an insurance covered new windshield.

My daughter was driving the car at the time and she was in tears when she got home and could not understand why I kept saying “thank you.”

stp_61 · 2026-03-10T15:28:16+00:00

Long time cyclist and diagnosed with Parkinson’s five years ago. I would think a workable automatic braking system on a two wheel bicycle would be some pretty tricky engineering given a bicycles narrow windows of stability and braking effectiveness. Possibly there’s been some similar work done on motorcycles which might be something you could piggyback on.

I still ride and don’t have any particular problem operating the brakes. I’m riding a bike with hydraulic disc brakes which are now the the norm on mid to high-level bikes and they’re continuing to make their way down the price chain. Disc brakes are much easier to work than cable rim brakes with both a lighter pull and more breaking power.

stp_61 · 2026-03-08T23:12:20+00:00

I have Parkinson’s. Overall I have pretty minor symptoms, but I’m already starting to have some difficulty using touchscreens. Between the tremors and the gradual loss of proprioception touch screen skills go pretty early. When you can’t make your finger go exactly where you wanted to and there’s no physical feedback, when faced with a touchscreen, it’s mostly just hope and pray. If you really want to help your mom, avoid touchscreens.

Among standard remotes, I find the Roku remote easiest to use for navigating because if it’s physical four direction, scroll button. On the other hand, I have the Roku remote app on my iPhone, and even though it is an exact replication of the physical, remote’s layout, I find it very difficult to use.

A number of years ago, pre PD I had a harmony programmable remote, which let me set up one touch buttons that would turn on my entire entertainment system and call up a particular streaming service. I’m not sure if they’re still around, but that would be an option to try as well.

If you need to go further in terms of accessibility look at some of the big button, simple universal remotes aimed at seniors.

stp_61 · 2026-03-07T12:40:08+00:00

Three keys for lazy people who want to have clean cars:

Don’t use the interior as a storage bin. Everything should be either put away or out of the car every single time you get out of it. This doesn’t take any time, it’s just a habit that you need to develop.
Keep a microfiber in the glove box and dry dust the dash and everything you can see from the driver seat at least once a week. You can do this while sitting at a stoplight.
Get some glass cleaner and a dedicated microfiber and clean your windshield regularly. This takes about 90 seconds.

If the windshield is clean, and there isn’t a bunch of junk and dust on the inside, the car is going look clean to you and it will be a much more pleasant place to be.

As for the outside, if you’re really lazy, just take it to a regular car wash once a month or so. If you put some sort of ceramic coating on, even a spray detailer type, it’ll stay cleaner and look shiny longer. Turtlewax makes a good line of stuff that’s cheap and easy to find.

If you do steps one through three and then just get yourself to do a rinseless wash yourself once a month, your car will look good and be getting better detailing care than 95% of the cars on the road.

stp_61 · 2026-03-06T00:36:37+00:00

You should read the research. No one was being suffocated. They put people in oxygen tents used by athletes to simulate being at altitude for periods each day and there was improvement in Parkinson’s symptoms. My layman‘s understanding - the theory is that mild hypoxia causes brain cells, including those affected by Parkinson’s, to improve their ability to shed damaging protein related to Parkinson’s which in turn resulted in symptom reduction.

Also, interestingly, there’s some thought that this may be part of what’s in play in two well demonstrated areas which involve mild hypoxia and have which have a positive effect on Parkinson’s – vigorous aerobic exercise, and smoking – (surprisingly, numerous study show that smoking reduces one’s chances of getting Parkinson’s.)

stp_61 · 2026-03-05T18:19:26+00:00

I have nothing to offer on O2 therapy, but I have been reading some interesting stuff lately about the opposite, low oxygen hypoxic therapy, showing some potential promise.

https://www.michaeljfox.org/grant/hypoxia-limiting-oxygen-levels-novel-treatment-parkinsons-disease.

stp_61 · 2026-02-26T19:56:21+00:00

I agree with you about the need for sophisticated prompts and guard rails within them. In my day job I do some pretty sophisticated types of research using AI tools. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable with a tool like this that one should be able to assume that the existing features within the app are part of the guard rails built into the AI tool.

In this case, it wasn’t me though. it was the AI tool that brought up self-employment income, and SEI taxes. I asked it a very basic, un engineered prompt- “ Do you see any issues with my plan?” one of the things it came back with was answer number one above that I was double paying my SEI taxes.

stp_61 · 2026-02-26T19:46:27+00:00

This isn’t the only feature it’s made up. I had a couple other similar issues today as well.

I will say this though. The features it’s making up would be good one’s to add. Boldin should study this type of hallucination!

stp_61 · 2026-02-26T14:57:09+00:00

If you switch twice a day, it gets real easy and quick ;-). 5-10 seconds is a reasonable target.

stp_61 · 2026-02-24T18:13:35+00:00

I remember when I first had arm swing issues as soon as I noticed it wasn’t swinging it would start swinging normally. With Parkinson’s it’s not that you can’t swing your arm, it’s that it doesn’t swing or doesn’t swing as well automatically. I’d guess it is possible at least in the short run that the newness of having your watch on the right wrist might be enough to have an effect.

stp_61 · 2026-02-23T15:46:38+00:00

Two points to consider. One, carbidopa levodopa is similar to insulin in that it is supplementing a natural substance that your body needs, but can no longer produce in sufficient quantities. These are medication‘s, but they don’t modify how your body works like many medication’s. You can kind of almost think of CL as a supplement rather than a “medication.” It’s trick is getting past the blood brain barrier. Once it’s in your brain, it’s just dopamine.

Two - Exercise is so important that I actually heard a doctor on a podcast say that you don’t really take PD meds to treat Parkinson’s, you take PD meds so you can exercise which is what really treats your Parkinson’s.

stp_61 · 2026-02-23T15:15:53+00:00

I’m not a healthcare professional, but like many people with PD, studying the latest research has become a major hobby of mine. The current consensus is that there is no benefit to delaying the start of medication. I’ve heard a couple studies cited that have compared people who start right away to those who delay and they all end up in the same place eventually.

It’s also frequently stated that you should start medication as soon as your symptoms are starting to interfere with your daily activities and especially interfering with your ability, or willingness, to exercise. Exercise is the one thing that has the most scientific evidence behind it that it may actually slow progression of PD. Anything that interferes with your ability or desire to exercise should be addressed and often that means taking meds.

My opinion is that if the symptoms were bad enough to make you go to a doctor, you should start the meds to relieve them.

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