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Can the risks of vaping cannabis be reduced by sucking into the cheek and only indirectly "inhaling"

This might sound really stupid (be gentle) but I wonder if some of the risks of directly and forcefully inhaling cannabis vapour can be attenuated by kind of sucking into one’s cheek rather than directly unmediated the normal way and then indirectly sort of vaguely breathing it indirectly....

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Your hot steam is a good point - does this include saunas? The steam from hot tubs?

Now, getting any particulate matter in your lungs isn’t healthy in general. Inhaling smoke from a fire, or from a candle, or from cigarettes or pot or vaping – in the case of the last two, it’s just best to go with edibles.

OTOH, our bodies are remarkably resilient in youth and remarkably susceptable to old age. By the time vaping kills you, odds are you’ll be ready for it anyway.

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I totally get the oral fixation need! Plus, vapes are cool little gadgets. We were talking about the health aspects, though.

I can’t do cannabis - I get a paradoxical effect of severe nausea. But couldn’t you just cut the edibles in half if they’re too strong? Or just buy a lower dose product.

Edit: spelling

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I’ve only seen edibles at dispensaries, at leaat, not since I was young and it was illegal everywhere… but then, I don’t know many people that I know consume cannabis. It doesn’t seem to be a culture/identity thing in my generation, anymore.

iPod management software for linux?

Is there any decent iPod management software for linux available? I have a 6th generation iPod that I use only for music and it’s really the last thing that I keep my windows partition around for. The more I use linux, the more unintuitive iTunes feels. I had tried GTKPod in the past and one other, but they didn’t support...

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You know, I want something like this for my (Android) phone. I use SyncThing, but managing individual songa or albums through it is a pain. I want a tool where I can easily select which music gets synced to my phone, and which automatically syncs back all music I put on my phone.

I don’t need the 13 hours of Christmas music on my phone, but I often acquire new music from my phone.

I’d love to hear of a good tool for music management; iTunes did a really good job of this.

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I used to do this! I mostly self-host stuff now, and do have a streaming music server. Streaming doesn’t work in many situations - backpacking, airplanes, etc., and it’s nice to have music on my device without needing internet.

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That almost makes me want to try KDE again.

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I’ve been using Linux for decades, and absolutely know better. I bought an ASUS about a year ago when my old router crapped out. I just wanted something fast, and cheap, from Amazon; my main priority was getting access to the internet in the house. Don’t feel bad. Dicking around with OpenWRT isn’t a priority for a lot of people.

That said, I don’t think GL-iNET was around, or I didn’t know they ran OpenWRT at the time.

If you have ethernet between the two points, you could do what I did and use it as a WiFi signal extender. I’m not using the COAX (cable) in the house, so I got one of these and ran ethernet upstairs without having to get into the walls. I put the (year) old ASUS upstairs and routed it (via that ethernet adapter) through the OpenWRT router, which VPNs all traffic. I considered putting the ASUS in repeater mode, but I read that it cuts the WiFi speed in half; so instead I did the ethernet thing, gave it the same SSID and password, and devices just connect to whichever signal is strongest.

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This is the way. Exim is far easier to config than Postfix, which is what I’m using now. I’d run Exim before for years, but thought I’d try Postfix since it’s the popular kid. It was a mistake, but everything is running and stable, and… well, sunk costs is keeping me from reconfiguring my set-up.

It’s a bit of effort to get everything configured correctly in any case, because of the number of moving parts. SPF and DMARC on the DNS entries, dovecot, Postfix or Exim, and a spam manager. Spam management consumes a huge amount of resources.

It really is the only way, though.

Instant Messengers Analysis and Comparison (privacy.awiki.org)

The table is quite big (190+ lines of hand-written HTML) and it doesn’t fit on mobile phone screens unless you zoom out. It should be fine on desktop. It also specifies the criteria followed and has analysis of some of the IMs in the table (not close to all of them, I hope to add more analysis in the future)....

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I want to like SimpleX, but (a) notifications on Android are iffy, and (b) there’s no multi-device support. (A) I could live with, but (b) makes it a non-starter. I did try “make a group and add every device as a different user,” but it’s hard, confusing, and I simply can not ask my friends and family go through that shit just to IM. There’s a ticket for multi-device sync and a comment that it’s on the roadmap, but low priority. If that gets implemented, I’m on board. Until then, it isn’t feasible to ask a bunch of non-tech people top switch.

As a side note, who only ever uses one device? How can multiple device sync not be a core feature of every chat design? I find this baffling.

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Syncing between clients is still possible, although it may not be implemented. There’s no reason why a P2P client that’s part of a conversation can’t request past messages from any other client that’s part of that conversation. All P2P does is move the data handling to the edge.

This is what I was implying: if a chat design doesn’t account for this, it’s IMHO not a good useful design - especially in the case that the design also leaks some metadata, and so isn’t 100% targetted at dissidents.

P.s. I’m going to write my own chat application, with blackjack, and hookers.

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Jesus. They keep adding more that default to “on,” and bury the settings deeper each time. It’s absurd.

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I didn’t. I only found out about it through this post.

I also had to dig down two menus deep past the config search results. Looks pretty hidden to me.

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I’ve been using btrfs for years, and I’d swear I’ve had fewer problems with it than ext4. I’ve never experienced any sort of data loss as a result of the fs.

I’m really interested to play with bcachefs; evolution and competition is a great thing, and it’d be nice to have a reliable RAID5 built in. While I normally prefer Unix-philosophy tooling, needing layers of different tools to get an FS working is an exception that has caused me trouble in the past, so I’m all for a batteries-included solution.

The proof in the pudding, for me, will be how easy or hard it is to administer. Messing with the fs tooling is something I do only rarely, so ease-of-use has a lot of value to me. This is why I don’t prefer ZFS; the btrfs tooling seems more intuitive.

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I just read through the documentation, and didn’t see any mention (in particular, on the mount options page) of wear leveling. btrfs makes an effort to use SSDs well; how does bcachefs fare in this respect?

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Thank you for finding that!

[Question] Am I the only dummy who likes Seafile?

Its stupid fast, reliable, and rarely has any conflicts. If it does it seems to work them out without intervention. I’ve tried Nextcloud including the AIO image and its just so clunky and slow. I was getting sync errors just on the simple Notes apps. Repeatedly. I mean I get why people like it, it can do way more than Seafile....

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For Seafile, or in general?

I couldn’t say why they prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL for Seafile, but it may be just because they know PostgreSQL administration, and don’t want to have to learn and remember two different sets of tools. I personally hate administering SQL DBs, and I prefer PSQL in most places because I’m most familiar with it, and even one is too much.

PostgreSQL tends to lead MySQL in feature set: they had geoqueries first, and they added a NoSQL interface a while back. OTOH, many people probably consider this sort of thing to be bloat, and may prefer MySQL/MariaDB for being more lean.

Me, I’m a SQLite guy: no server, no connection strings, no user or permission management, one file to back up.

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Wow! Do you remember where you read that? That’s pretty cool.

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Lost in the mists of time. I get that myself a lot, only these days the mists-of-time start yesterday.

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Interesting. Not surprising, but that’s one I didn’t think about.

Still, that’s one use that’s not making anything worse, right? I mean, that counter is going to be used for decades, and when it does go to the landfill, the glitter in it is hardly going to make a difference.

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There’s also kmonad, which is cross-platform. I think there’s one more floating around out there.

It got so that I had to use one of these, because I used an ErgoDox at my desktop. Once the muscle memory takes hold, it’s hard to do without, so I run kmonad on my laptop, even though I don’t really need it.

Edit: map2 is the other one I was thinking of.

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That’s just garden-variety intelligence, nothing artificial about it.

Another pick me a distro

Hello, fellow internet users. I am currently using Debian but would like a distro to try the new Gnome on. I have been using Debian for a while and I love the stability, but would like newer packages. I also, for no rational reason, would like to be able to use the default package manager exclusively. I used Fedora before and...

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EndeavourOS is so nice. It puts paid to the whole “BTW, I run Arch” meme, because it’s silly easy.

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Ugly as sin, for sure.

I don’t have the fingerprint version - you say it works ok?

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Neat! Good to know. Like many people, we enter mostly through the garage; I use our’s for the pet sitter, so the code is entirely sufficient. If I used it more, coughing up the extra $50 for the fingerprint reader would totally have been worth it.

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Wallpanel is really cool! And the author is pretty active, too. I only have to figure out the hardware.

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