Libra

Yeah, tramadol is weird because it makes you not care about stuff. Which is kinda good because it makes you not care about pain, but also, ya know, the other stuff too. But it was quite easy for me to come off of honestly; I didn't shit for a week and that was more than enough to make me stop taking it regularly. Now I take it maybe once or twice a month at the outside.

That dude was born the year after my dad (who is dead by the way), he deserves props for even considering it.

I've been gaming on a fresh linux install for a couple weeks now and have anecdotally noticed this but hadn't really put any effort into being sure, so it's nice to see data. I also notice other weird shit like Discord loads faster, though that's minor, but the big difference is that it connects in 3-5 seconds once it loads instead of 15-30 on windows. No idea what would even affect that, it's the same internet connection (gigabit fiber.)

3060 user here, nvidia closed works just fine with Wayland too.

<3 alexandrite, I like it a lot better than the default lemmy UI.

Because you're not taking the good pain meds.

I've lived with chronic back pain for 20 years, and I have 3 stages of medication I go through (though mine is alignment-related, so muscle relaxers help): aleve (the only OTC painkiller that touches my back pain), tramadol (moderate-strength opioid, can't take it for long or it causes plumbing problems), and tizanadine (the serious industrial-strength muscle relaxers; knocks me out for 8 hours and usually fixes my back the first time.)

If you're looking for alternatives, THC helps somewhat with my back pain, but I dunno what's legal where you are.

If you're not a monarch or a pope you don't get a roman numeral after your name.

Warm. Tummy full. Sleep now.

TIL Ozzy is still performing. Holy shit.

Car: road trip with breaks, you want to sleep a couple hours at a rest stop but it takes forever to fall asleep because as soon as you stop the car you feel wide awake again.

You got me on office tho, maybe it's for those people who power nap at lunch?

To be clear you don't have to get that technical to read non-Amazon books on your kindle.. I've owned 2 different kindles over the course of about 15 years and literally never bought an ebook from Amazon. Just gotta know where to get them (libgen) and how to use them (calibre.)

A cheap ereader would be nice, but I've kinda had to go the opposite direction; my eyes weren't great to begin with and have only gotten worse with age, so I need a larger screen. I do very little reading (in general, not of books specifically) on my phone because it's too small and I have to zoom in and pan around all the time, etc.