You shouldn’t be scared of something that doesn’t exist.

That is probably some good theory crafting, but I have no idea as that is a level of psychology that is beyond me. (That sentence looks a little smart-ass, but it absolutely isn’t, btw. 100% curious.)

Personally, I can say is that I tend avoid foods that cause pain and may even subconsciously steer away from them too. I don’t actively seek out things like tomato sauce, but wouldn’t likely turn down a free spaghetti meal either.

I do also tend to prefer cereal and milk, generally heavy fiber types. Antacids are great, but sometimes, just giving my stomach something harder to break down works fine too.

Just stay away from nearly anything that uses “healing ions” in its marketing material. If it’s not a straight-up fake product, it’ll likely kill you in due time. (Ozone generators are an exception unless you get a beefy one like mine, and then it can actually kill you.)

Edit: lol! I have seen that video and made my comment about ions before I clicked it. Good video, btw. 5 stars.

For anyone else reading, baking soda can save you hundreds of dollars on regular antacids. One you get past the taste and train your body it brings relief, it’ll be tasting like champagne soon enough.

LPT: Baking soda and water can burn your mouth and lips after a time as well, so keep it fairly dilute. More is sometimes needed, but not always better.

Second LPT: Get a second small box of baking soda for heartburn use and keep it sealed in a Ziploc or something. It will absorb all kinds of stuff out of the air and end up tasting really bad. (Name-brand baking sodas tend to taste a little less fishy as well, but not by much.)

Sorry, I know more about baking soda now than I care to admit. It’s really a super interesting chemical, even in its simplicity.

Thanks. Thankfully, mine isn’t that bad yet but it’s been getting worse over the years. Hopefully, the meds help push the curve of stomach decline past my time on this planet. It’s morbid to think about that way, but I am kind of a realist about that kind of thing.

(I can handle not being a drunk anymore, but I am not giving up my morning coffee. It’s worth any additional suffering.)

I was hoping that my heartburn would go away after I quit drinking a couple of years ago, but instead, it got worse. Honestly, that it’s probably because I started to form an actual diet and my stomach didn’t know what the fuck to do.

Sigh. I am hoping this current mega-cycle of proton-pump inhibitors helps. It’s been a fairly high dose for about quadruple the normal length of time, so it might actually stick this time.

You can actually find small bottles of water on Amazon marketed as a miracle cure.

Yeah. The peddlers of homeopathic crap are the first ones that need to burn.

Kale has a naturally high pH, so it’s basically just an antacid. If it works consistently for you, keep it up. No point in taking industrial strength meds for something simple, after all.

The class of drugs for my kind of heartburn are proton-pump inhibitors and help limit acid production across the board. It’s good these are over the counter now as I am on a 2x dose, but have been as high as 4x before.

I switched from standard antacids to just water and baking soda my stomach was so bad. Kale wouldn’t have put a dent in my stomach acid, TBH. I drink a ton of water these days, and even if the pH of the water was off by a hair, it would be a bad time.

I probably might be able to cut my dosage back or even stop soon hopefully. It’s one of the few drugs that are actually supposed to provide a long term solution.

Future chips not affected by THIS cpu bug yet.

Yeah. Modern phones are awesome if you need to use every feature to its fullest. I love that I have the opinions to access my accelerometer or GPS independently. Since I do a bit of CAD work, having a high quality camera is awesome for photogrammetry. But see, there is a caveat: It’s the right tool for me and worth my $1K to have an up-to-date device that has a reasonable bit of compute.

Otherwise, nah. I just got a resin 3D printer that only has a USB connector. No cloud, no wifi, no bullshit. It does its one job well and that is all I care about.

It sucks that most people are basically trained from birth that “more is better” or “brand new is better”. It took me years to de-program myself from that shit.

It’s just the first example I could think of that involved a wearhouse, lots of machines that need to be tinkered with that use some kind of centralized management.

Essentially, it’s tablet that fits in your back pocket. It would be useful to just tuck away quickly in a pocket to quickly fix a bit of filament or something.

Folding phones are still a status symbol of some kind and the actual utility of a large phone screen is lost on most owners. Once most of the R&D cost is paid off and the tech starts to plateau, it might get cheaper?

I see foldable screens as a work device. Sure, a portable movie theater would be a good perk, but it would absolutely rock as a commercial all-in-one console for a 3D printer farm or something. If there is enough commercial value in a device like that, $2k could be a bargain.

it’s an ad

Yay! Marketing!

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Same. I support AI completely as a tool to solve specific problems and that is about it. What is really cool is that AI libraries and such got a massive boost of needed development so plebs like me can code simple ANN apps in Python with little skill. Documentation has improved 100x and hardware support is fairly good.

LinkedIn seems to be an interesting indicator of where tech is in its hype cycle. I guess LinkedIn went from 100% AI-awesome-everything about 2 months ago to almost zero posts and ads about it. I suppose most of the vaporware AI products are imploding now…

Of course, algorithmic feeds are a thing, so your experience might be different.

Just an addendum for clarification. If you don’t want clarification, then yes: A slower connection may cause more battery drain.

A slower connection means you would need to be on your device longer which would result in a larger than normal perceived battery drain with normal use.

An unstable connection with lots of packet losses would cause chaos with the network stack on your phone leading to more memory consumption, unneeded encryption/decryption and possibly hung TCP sessions. That would be a battery suck. In the worst cases on older devices, could even cause your phone to get a little warmer. That gets worse if you VPN client has to constantly reconnect, which is another problem.

FYI, you can download your photos in bulk with Google Takeout, but you need to have enough space in Google Drive to do it. (Takeout zips up all your photos and will drop 10GB chunks in Drive.)

I was doing something similar to you recently. I downloaded all my photos and de-duped by generating MD5 hashes for all the pictures that were downloaded. (I was moving all of my photos to a local NAS, so it wasn’t quite what you are doing.)

If your dups have consistent MD5 hashes, that might work for you but it’s hard to say.

I am going to need your 50 point summary of those obvious points in the longest form possible by this afternoon so I can be completely convinced that I have already made up my mind in the correct way. Thanks.

It was on old 3.5" drives a long time ago, before anything fancy was ever built into the drives. It was in a seriously rough working environment anyway, so we saw a lot of failed drives. If strange experiments didn’t work to get the things working, mainly for lulz, the next option was to see if a sledge hammer would fix the problem. Funny thing… that never worked either.

I used to take failed drives while they were powered on and kinda snap them really with a fast twisting motion in an attempt to get the arm to move or get the platters spinning.

It never worked.