Grebgreb [he/him]

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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: July 31st, 2020
  • Grebgreb [he/him]@hexbear.nettochat@hexbear.net•quitting caffeine?English
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    3 days ago

    I’ve gone through multiple periods in the past few years where I would cut out caffeine.

    If you are able to consistently limit yourself to a rough amount my current answer is no, it’s not really worth it. A month or so ago I accidentally missed a cup of coffee in the morning so I decided to just cold turkey it. After the withdrawal symptoms went away there were a few days where I felt a lot more energetic than usual but that went away and I returned to my norm where I pretty much have to take a nap or two to comfortably function. After restarting caffeine it’s pretty much the same thing except I felt more energetic due to taking caffeine with a reset tolerance. Once it starts building up again, I return to the same thing where I need to take a nap.

    I’ve had energy issues my entire life and I limit myself to ~100mg I think in the morning and at noon. I’m also shorter than average and I think my weight just above underweight so I might not need as much.

    I’ve only ever gotten slight anxiety from caffeinated milkshakes sometimes.

  • Grebgreb [he/him]@hexbear.nettoScience@hexbear.net•H5N1 bird flu found in a pig in the U.S. for the first timeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    This is something I’ve been meaning to ask for a while but have refrained because it’s doomer; with the way things are is it pretty much inevitable that practically everyone is going to get covid and probably long covid? Is there anything that can realistically be done now to stop covid?

    It in fact damages your immune system and opens you up to opportunistic infections, on top of vascular damage

    Is it just going to indefinitely harm us and compound to the point that essentially everyone is going to have severe health issues?

    https://hexbear.net/post/3805083?scrollToComments=false

    Additionally its ability to disrupt our immune system effectively increases the lethality of other things like the flu right? Maybe that’s a truncated way of describing it but I think that’s what a lot of knowledgeable people convey.

  • Grebgreb [he/him]@hexbear.nettofediverse@hexbear.net•The TankieTube TinyTanks ProgramEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I have an old computer I may be able to setup for this, however it’s an old prebuilt desktop for web browsing. If it’s too weak would it be a waste of time to try this?

    This seems more like the sort of thing to run on something you can periodically nuke, and maybe put behind an external firewall that only allows communication with the tankietube servers. Maybe some comrades have spare credit on a cloud provider that would be suited for this.

    Also do you know how valid the security concerns are? I did not know ffmpeg had vulnerabilities. Additionally would using the linux equivalent of hosts file + windows firewall be adequate enough or would something more advanced be minimum?

    This is assuming the computer still works and I can get linux running. Also tinytanks is a really cute name

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