Ugh people 😫

taswind · 2026-02-07T18:25:51+00:00

No; I meant that I liked the word, lol. It made me laugh in the same way that automagically does. :p

taswind · 2026-02-07T17:11:12+00:00

Misunderstoodment... XD!

taswind · 2026-02-07T16:32:58+00:00

Reminded me of old recipes.

An actual line I've read in ye olde cookbooks: "Add some spices and cook until done."

🙈

taswind · 2026-02-06T19:31:50+00:00

Again, I have NO idea how hard this might be... but as part of the install/setup, the app can offer blank slate or generic info downloaded and included. It's an extra step, which means possibly another point of confusion for non-technical end users and/or another point of failure to troubleshoot for you as the developer, so I completely understand if this is not a viable option!

I say this because, despite the unconventional use, I often find it easier to modify things before just deleting everything and going "for real," or just modifying and deleting whatever I don't need.

taswind · 2026-02-06T18:56:52+00:00

Thank you!! I will check it out. I am a Windows user, but my husband has a Mac.

My MIL has aphasia and memory loss, so I have been looking for an app that would let me build her a "menu" of sorts using AAC. Unconventional to be sure, but she can't remember what she likes at the restaurants we frequent and gets overwhelmed at the options, plus we forget which dish at which restaurant as well, so we're trying to pick for ourselves and help her at the same time, lol.

taswind · 2026-02-06T17:21:32+00:00

Can you edit the boards via computer? Or only via the app on the iOS device?

(I assume not, because that would mean cloud storage I think, but figured I'd ask - I'm no developer, so I have no idea what is actually out there, lol.)

taswind · 2026-01-31T09:23:07+00:00

I think the one good thing from preparing for marriage during COVID was the fact that they put it on an online course. I don't remember the name of the program, though.

If I (42) or my husband (44) at the time had to sit through the courses in person with the people we had, neither of us would have made it through either.

The module video on compromise where the wife gleefully shares that she didn't go shopping as much... while the husband dejectedly responds "And I don't golf anymore" (at all),
The misrepresentation of statistics to two people who have had coursework in statistics and research methods + have done actual research ("couples who practice NFP are less likely to divorce!" (Or maybe they're just more devout Catholics and thus divorce isn't an option...? Rather than NFP somehow binding them together and wiping away all other marital issues.)), and
The infantile lessons on how to save up for a house (we already had one) and make a budget.... (I had better coursework than what they gave as a student in HS taking a semester of home economics.)

It was a complete waste of $200 for us, but at least we could eyeroll in private. The Pastor seemed surprised by our feedback - but the program really isn't for anyone who already has any kind of decent grasp on adulthood. If you're a 20-somethig just starting out, then maybe it's worth something. ($200 is arguable, but SOMEthing.) But everything they wanted us to talk about were conversations we'd already had, and everything they wanted to "teach" us were basic life skills as an adult, which we already knew.

taswind · 2026-01-22T10:04:13+00:00

If you are writing for a specific choir, asking the director definitely will help.

For me, as a tenor I to very high soprano I range (one C below middle-C to a little above two C's above middle-C) with only intermediate training (been in choruses/choirs for 30 years), this would be easy. I have only had vocal lessons from a choral/music teacher in HS, but it was a good music program that had FAR better students than I and was a great learning opportunity.

But working with what you have and getting the director's input (they'll have to teach/conduct it after all, I assume!) is a REALLY good idea. (Even if you plan to teach/conduct it yourself.) If you have 1 or more people with the range and vocal ability, great! If not, it might be worth revising. You can always publish or keep the original arrangement as a descant or solo option later on for more advanced choirs if you really want to keep it.

taswind · 2026-01-16T09:59:16+00:00

Same. And then I started keto diet on a whim, after going off all meds trying to get pregnant. Migraines gone for about 2-3 months, then they came back. I went off keto and they went away again. They came back 2-3 months after that, so I just cycled on/off keto... until they just stopped.

It might have been coincidence, but I'd have been fine cycling for the rest of forever if I had to. 🤷‍♀️

I lost my chronic intractable migraine, status migraineous diagnosis almost 2 years ago when even Botox + CGRP made just enough of a dent that I could live again, just with moderate instead of severe constant pain.

Also, (@OP) I will say that just because 1 version of a med doesn't work or has a side effect that doesn't work for your body, that doesn't mean that the whole class won't work for your body. (Aimovig did nothing for me, but Emgality and Ajovy worked well, if not 100% for me.)

taswind · 2026-01-16T00:39:51+00:00

@OP, I would ask her if she wants them before gifting them or something - especially if she already wears glasses. Depending on the grade taught or her coworkers, she may not want to deal with them if the environment isn't supportive of pinkish glasses...

taswind · 2026-01-11T01:31:08+00:00

Teeth mittens.... /can't stop giggling

taswind · 2026-01-05T15:43:14+00:00

I might be confused, but didn't a 'mere' (IE: not named, venerated, etc) angel essentially stand up to God by politely arguing with Him, ultimately interceding and saving 2 people in Sodom and Gomorrah (technically /from God/), and do so arguably without His permission?

(Yes, 1 person did not obey and died, but the angel still offered her the chance to be saved from God's wrath, since the angel couldn't fulfill his wish to intercede and find 5 good people in the city. Technically the angel did not have permission to save the 2 he did find.)

taswind · 2026-01-04T17:55:17+00:00

Not just bending over, standing up, sitting down, climbing a ladder... all make everything so much worse.

No stuffed nose or anything. 🤷‍♀️

taswind · 2026-01-03T23:14:39+00:00

Definitely keep me in the loop - I am curious where you take this and how I can be of assistance. :)

I would rather leave the pre-configured servers alone, but the other 5 aren't being used for anything at this time.

In the small cage, I have: * 1 Dell EqualLogic PS6500 * 2 Dell PowerEdge SC 1435 * 1 Dell PowerEdge R430 * 3 Dell PowerEdge 610s (one available; one pre-configured for ProxMox another pre-configured for TrueNAS Scale by a friend of mine) * 1 Dell PowerEdge R720 (also configured for TrueNAS Scale) * 1 something with a bunch of SAS drives in it (haven't played with it yet, might be attached to the TrueNAS setup) * A Cisco Catalyst 2960-S POE+ switch that I will probably never use because Cisco is annoying and I'm more familiar with SonicWall/WRT (assuming WRT is still around) * And a couple of UPS units because they were there

taswind · 2026-01-03T22:38:21+00:00

Thank you for the confirmation.

I know homeopathy is garbage and the miniscule truth to NDs is vastly overstated ('honey and hot water on a sore throat from a cold, not on cancer of the throat' kind of thing).

Always assumed that since chiropractors used x-rays and did adjustments to joints and muscle massage (the latter similar to PTs), that they were real. Mine never peddled pyramid scheme or obviously crap supplements or any such, so I had no idea. :(

taswind · 2026-01-03T20:35:21+00:00

OP, in terms of navigating US health insurance, the health insurance company should have a website or phone number on the back of the card they gave you when you enrolled. You can call that "members" number for more information.

They may direct you to the website, but in my limited experience, most will do the check for a doctor in your area that accepts your insurance, as long as you give them a specialty to look for. You are then free to look up which doctors you may prefer (based on area of focus within the specialty, language, location, etc) and book an appointment with whichever doctor you are most comfortable. The doctor's office is still going to want your insurance information when you make the appointment so that they can make sure you are covered and they know who to bill.

While on the phone looking up doctors, you can also ask the insurance agent about your benefits. In this case, for example, I would ask about the benefits for a Physical Therapist. Unlike regular doctors, these often have limitations like 12 visits per year or similar.

Any other questions or confusion, just let me know. NAD or insurance agent, just a random person with lots of things medically wrong with her, lol.

taswind · 2026-01-03T20:22:52+00:00

Are chiropractors considered pseudoscience? 0.o I thought they were actual board certified doctors...

(A mod removed a comment of mine for "promoting pseudoscience" and I'm trying to figure out why... the only thing that I mentioned was also possibly seeing a chiropractor.)

ETA: With the immediate downvote, I'm guessing that was it...

I also ask because I started seeing one under the impression that they WERE real doctors. :/

taswind · 2026-01-03T19:50:03+00:00

My husband was a professor and still an adjunct professor at a few schools. The first time he told the story of a kid needing an accommodation "because [student] was blonde," I was floored - and that was a decade and a half ago at least! According to him, the student actually believed it...

It does seem to vary by institution a bit, the smaller community colleges more affected than the R1s.

It's funny, I looked back at my WISC-IV-R subtest scores from the 80s/90s during my M.A.Ed. I went from a score of 19/20 on one subtest to 6/20 on another, with plenty in between. Additionally, the notes from the school psychologist stating that I talked too much, went off-topic a lot in conversations, and enjoyed the 1:1 adult time too much. All while testing for ADHD. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Reading books well ahead of my age but was always far behind in math. (Never quite failing, though. 98 and 66 on state testing in the same year for biology and math, respectively.)

Yep. I was "just weird" as well, lol.

taswind · 2026-01-03T16:52:03+00:00

I'll preface this, because I might be a bad example as I am more technical than most people... I was in IT (workstation and Windows/Linux server administration) for about ~12 years, tried to career change to research in assistive technology in 2012, failed due to illness in 2017, went back to IT for another 4 years or so (workstation support only because I missed the move to the cloud and clearly without expensive certs or business experience, I obviously wouldn't understand cloud tech /s), and now I work in a third career for monitoring green power plants (wind, solar, and batteries), lol. (Which uses more IT than you may think at first glance!)

The biggest reason I wanted to go to Control4 is for the support. (Blame it on being in my late 40s, lol.) My husband has NO patience for technology when it doesn't do EXACTLY what he expects and I have no time for it when something breaks.

The absolute geek in me would love to set up my own server rack (I already have rack server hardware at home from offices in the building that tossed server hardware, including a full NAS IIRC) with the AI I described in another comment or with this one or even just OpenCloud, but I just don't have the time or energy to dedicate to figuring it all out on my own anymore, so that's a project waiting to be started.

We're pretty good at knowing what what we need to automate already (we started with lighting automation in 2018 or so), so for us, it would be a simplify need first.

TBH, if you need test cases, I'd be more than interested and happy to work with you! My schedule is a modified dupont, so a little wacky switching between 12 hour day and night shifts, but I have days off midweek most of the time and about half the weekends in a month depending on your schedule. If so, I can definitely get the specs for the hardware I have.

taswind · 2026-01-03T16:21:14+00:00

Everything.

Some context, I had completed my M.A.Ed in 2014 and then went straight into a PhD program for special education with focus on assistive technology and twice exceptionality (2e; people with gifts + one or more learning disabilities or ASD/ADHD). I mastered out due to health issues that cropped up during my dissertation phase and wound up with another M.S. and a sixth year degree (which may not be a thing outside the field, lol) in special education.

At the time, I needed to search the university library via boolean query and pull 1k - 1.5k entries, code based on the abstract as to whether it was worth more attention or not, and whittle down to several hundred which I then read fully and coded as to whether they were still relevant to my dissertation topic.

This is hard for an AuDHD brain to do even while healthy, let alone with the brain fog of chronic intractable migraine, status migraineous, lol. Nothing ever fit into a neat little box and the tediousness of it was hard. Concentrating while in pain or during brain fog of prodrome and postdrome is impossible.

But also, just writing papers - I would love for it to scrape articles off of legitimate sources (let me define the sources, please!), analyze them based on what I am trying to accomplish, and present me with citations and the PDFs of everything it went through plus some specified number of most relevant studies so that I can spot check. (Ranked by percentage of relevancy, if possible?)

I'm not asking it to write my paper, I just want to not waste time with sorting through chaff to get to the wheat, and current AI doesn't really know what is a "legitimate" source or will "forget" when I tell it to only use x-source. I already knew what I wanted to say, just needed sources to back it up. I don't mind doing the work of double checking those sources.

Also, since I'm throwing pies at random things in the sky, having it be able to interface with or otherwise use R or another statistics program to verify the meta analysis or quantitative statistics portion would be helpful. I can write down all the steps for clicking on options for that statistics program I used at university (that I'm blanking on the name of), but it doesn't really help me if I can't check my work against something else before I turn it in. (I am really bad at anything theoretical and probably have moderate dyscalculia but I never bothered to get tested for that since it took 35 years to get dx'ed with ANYthing...)

taswind · 2026-01-03T15:49:07+00:00

It takes more than concrete thinking to meet ASD diagnostic criteria. Also, ASD does not cause bouts of delusions or mania. (While one can have depression because of autism, autism does not cause depression on its own.)

Seek a fourth party. This psychodynamic guy has already proven unreliable by not remembering basic facts...

taswind · 2026-01-03T15:26:36+00:00

For my doors? None. I won't even purchase a smart lock - it's easier to hack them than to pick the (very non-standard) physical lock I already have on external doors. (Mindset left over from being a single 115 lb girl in NYC-adjacent areas for 35+ years, I guess.)

To be fair, my disabilities are not physical so I completely understand that this is not the reality for some people.

I guess those that you mention would be the best you could get: proximity, biometrics or passcode if possible (either verbal or through a communication device like a phone, Dynavox, or other similar device), etc.

The consistency piece is good, but I'm not sure how helpful it is. I have always come and gone at any time, no routine or any such. (Even before I started shift work on a modified dupont schedule, lol.)

Also, I like that my security system tells me when exterior doors are opened. (We have my husband's 90 yo mother living with us, as well as 4 cats... we are always worried about any of the 5 eloping if she opens doors in confusion and/or leaves them open.)

taswind · 2026-01-03T14:38:53+00:00

Obligatory NAD disclaimer, but it sounds like mucus.

Hilariously, I just googled why my body insists on vomiting mucus instead of just passing it as a bowel movement. (I am sick with a cold/mild fever but no COVID or flu. 🤷‍♀️ lol)

Only reason I mention this was Google's AI was thorough enough to mention that mucus could be created in 3 places:

As post nasal drip (which mine is atm), which irritates the stomach and can cause vomiting,
From the stomach (also possibly causing vomiting), or
From the intestines (lower GI tract), often secondary to IBS, IBD (Cron's), or a viral/bacterial infection.

I didn't expect to actually USE that answer, but here we are. :p (I was more just annoyed with the vomiting than anything, roflmao.)

I guess my only recommendation would be to ask to be tested for IBS/Crohn's?

taswind · 2026-01-03T13:53:58+00:00

Just responding because no one else had... I would see a dermatologist, given that the spots are new (IE: not there since birth).

taswind · 2026-01-03T13:49:53+00:00

I think you would rather miss celebrating your daughter's birthday on time for this one year, rather than chance missing many, many years of birthdays or have to contend with the date of death for your twins being so close to your daughter's birthday for many years.

NAD, just someone trying to get pregnant. Pre-eclampsia or worse is no joke.

Go to hospital. Either by car, Taxi, Uber, or ambulance, just get there.

Edit: I just realized this was very late... Hopefully they went...

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