"Involutary treatment" for addictions and mental health is incarceration fuckin period. End of sentence. Lets see these assholes take all their wealthy and upper middleclass peers and friends to involuntary treatment for drugs and being neurodivergent.

Damn

*years? Yes. It used to be the bleeding edge of search and now it's just profit driven enshittification like the rest of ai-ridden garbage tech wallstreet bullshit.

You'll find that with any major VPN. The IP addresses they use to proxy your traffic eventually get flagged and blocked by lots of major players. Which is why VPN companies cycle through them quite often. As others have said, you'll either need to switch servers (and thus ips) or figure out another path.

I don't use mull but most have a way to exclude a given url or site from the tunnel if you need it. i.e. the site will work for you but it's coming from your own IP and unencrypted.

I set up Bunsenlabs on both of my elderly parents computers and then basically automated login stuff to the sites they use, pinned those tabs. Blocked all ads and trackers. Set Firefox to auto open on boot. Basically made them a Linux version of a chrome book where everything they need is in the browser and already active, no mudding around.

8 months later zero complaints from either of them.

And too the main dev is really passionate about the project and has done awesome things with it. It feels like he landed in a good place and is getting opportunities for healthy growth out of the deal.

Cheers thank you for that. My main hope is that they don't fuck Standard Notes up somehow, it's a wonderful editor and I've been a paying supporter of it since very early on.

Along the same line of pain management did you know that pretty much all the poppy seed (for ornamental flowers) you can buy at any garden store are opium poppies? You can grow them easily, then macerate the whole plant and extract in off the shelf alcohol and strain it for essentially laudanum which is great for a sleep aide or pain in low to moderate doses. Quite safe as well, obviously if you don't abuse it.

I don't wanna log into Reddit just to ask this but if you're inclined: how's things going with Standard Notes since they bought it? I haven't seen any change or decline in the app experience since Proton bought it so thanks so far (I'm also using Protonmail).

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I'm a lefty but I didn't know which instances leaned which way when I got here. I chose lemm.ee because their defed policy itself was neutral and that appealed to me because I can do my own damn blocking thank you.

Cool they're gonna be able to stream in HD from space.

It's like this everywhere. Rich folks don't want to see poor people and addicts anywhere, ever. They want everyone locked up and out of mind. They don't think much of their own class doing drugs or whatever as long as the person continues to be a functional addict and hides it well.

Twelve Tribes cult have two mansions right across the street from each other in Winnipeg and nobody cares, but oooooh nooooo some recovering addicts? No way!

Yeah I joined this instance not knowing much about any of them and lucked into a very good crew! I did read their defederation policy (not inclined to unless extreme situations) and that is why I signed up here and they've been true to that. I think it's healthy.

Yeah it was, but it was only a few individuals. It wasn't the entire population of the instance. I do sort by All quite a bit and honestly I don't see much of note from any one instance other than weird porn or niche meme communities that I block individually as needed. I just nuke communities and individuals that annoy me.

idk, I've seen all the hype around hexbear users being obnoxious around Lemmy (including our own instance debating blocking the instance, followed by several of their members brigading the thread true to form)... but I've explored the communities on the instance itself and even subscribed to some of them like mutual aid, gaming etc, and those that I'm watching are actually just normal people doing normal things if more left than some other similar groups. In my experience it isn't "all" hexbear users, because that would be a dumb generalization.

There are some assholes on that instance to be sure. Show me one that this isn't true of. I'm glad our instance didn't block them because I now get to decide for myself. I block communities and/or users if they're a problem for me. I think that's a good way.

I started with Oddworld N&T and then Darq and Limbo and Inside. I love the art style and I'm still learning how to look for more similar games!

Do your research. Birth rate declines as cultural stability and wealth increase. Period.

I'm closer to 50 than I want to be and getting a deck almost a year ago has been so much fun. I have a pretty capable desktop and game on Linux sometimes but now I'm actually getting into games in a real way on the deck because it's so easy to pick up and put down at any time. Also finding a renewed love for platformers and other game types that I haven't touched in decades.

I think part of what hits so good is Steam as a company seems to really give a shit about players and it shows. Been using a Steam controller I got off Craigslist for almost 10 years and it still works perfectly. I've never even considered buying a console because it all seems so exhausting and profit driven and locked down in dumb ways. Having this little portable Linux machine opens a whole new thing.

Well, you did use a question mark so technically this is fair play.