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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • Concerta works for me, I know others that it does not work for.

    Some that I know who have had issues with concerta either switch to Vyvanse or Adderall, usually they can find one of the three that works for them.

    I’m sure your doctor can better inform you as to what options you have, and by no means would I suggest or imply that I know what you need. I am not a doctor. With that said, you don’t know what you don’t know, so if you can at least be aware that alternatives exist, and the names on a few of them, it can start the ball rolling.

    I sincerely hope you find something that’s effective for you. It can truly be life changing if/when you do. I’m hoping you get there.

    All the best.



  • I’m fine. I live in Canada, and I’m not a fascist, Nazi, (colour) supremacist, or anything.

    I just lean to the left and appreciate public/social services; which is slightly “communist” but not “authoritarian Nazi” Communist. No no, you should be free to live how you want, work in whatever field you want, eat the food you like, love who you wanna love, and live how and where you want to live. I’m just in favor of things like, not bankrupting someone because they got pneumonia and had to go to the hospital for a day; also fire departments, schools, employment insurance (social/government), streets and roads, parks, sidewalks, community centers… You know, stuff that everyone owns, but nobody “owns”? Stuff we all can use without having to pay for it.

    I’m also in favor of UBI, but I realize that UBI may not happen anytime soon, maybe not in my lifetime. I hope it happens eventually (or at do away with fiat currency), for the good of the people, but I recognize the fight is difficult to win.







  • Well, a YouTube account with the shooters name posted a video today titled “truth” which was basically saying that there were videos scheduled to be made public in the near future (presumably on the same account), which would speak to his motivations and mind set or something of the sort.

    Instead of telling you about it, I would prefer to just link the video, but according to YouTube, the account associated with the YouTube channel has been removed, so you can believe me or not on this. the video was only up for about 4 hours and when I saw it, maybe 30 minutes before it was removed from YouTube, it had 10’s of thousands of views. I know those counters aren’t exactly real time, so it’s not unreasonable to think that upwards of 100k people saw it, maybe more, and unless one of them saved it, it’s likely that nobody else will see it.




  • Accounting for that, the hostel guy seems to have a rucksack or similar. They’re quite distinct and notable bags. If it’s not actually a rucksack, it’s something with similar design elements, maybe a knockoff, since rucksacks tend to be rather expensive.

    Rucksacks are popular with people who hike/move around a lot, the kind of people who would stop at a hostel for a night before moving on to another area/location/city/country, usually by non-typical means (hiking, walking, hitch hiking, etc).

    That’s just the personality type for one such person who would use such a combination of products, and by no means should describe, or imply a description, of the individual illustrated in the image. My entire point to saying any of this is that it’s a very district design.

    The shooter has a very simple backpack that lacks most of the notable features that I can see from the backpack/rucksack that the hostel person is using.

    They’re both backpacks, but one is notably different than the other.

    While it’s feasible they just switched backpacks, IMO it’s far more likely that they’re simply different people.

    To me, this kind of naming and shaming attitude of a person of interest in an ongoing investigation by the press is disgusting.

    If the images here depict two different people as I suspect they do, then the individual in the hostel images is likely to suffer consequences as a result of the brash and hasty release of their images by the press. It will likely affect them for years to come.

    It makes for enticing headlines, that’s for sure, but it’s abysmal journalism. They don’t seem to have any standards left regarding the truth, only whatever will attract the most views/clicks/reads/whatever.


  • IMO, even if it’s “banned”/“prohibited” or whatever, kids will do whatever they have to do to enable them to do what they want to do. If they want to use social media, then they’ll lie, cheat or otherwise manipulate the system into getting access.

    With all that being said, maybe regulate social media for kids so that adults don’t have enough access to prey on them. Beyond that, as long as they’re not posting gore, or nudes or something equally inappropriate, let them do what they want.

    Patents would be so familiar with this conundrum. Eventually you need to let your kids learn their own lessons and do as they wish. Your choice is whether you want to support your kid in what they want to do, or if you’re going to try to impose rules on them, which has a nontrivial chance of alienating them, and they tell you nothing about their decisions, and won’t come to you for help or guidance when things get rough.

    As a son who was repeatedly alienated and is now estranged, I lived on the other side of such a situation. My story is my own, and I won’t assume anyone else’s situation.

    If you’re facing this decision as a parent, please be understanding and accepting of what your child decides, then stand by in case things go sideways. If your child in that scenario, I’m so very sorry for what’s happening, and how these things inevitably end. Take care of yourself.


  • I’m in Canada, fiber is fairly rare right now. Some big cities are getting it pushed into neighborhoods, and new condos generally only have fiber, but any home or residence that’s over 5 years old probably still has CATV/coax and an analog telephone hookup.

    So with few exceptions, the majority of Canadians have the option of DSL, usually from Bell, which is still mostly dominating Canada for ownership of the PSTN wireline services (though some provinces are other companies, like Telus on the west coast, and SaskTel… In Saskatchewan). Even if you buy from another DSL ISP, the last mile is still Bell owned connections.

    Cable is a bit more diversified from area to area from what I’ve seen, one of the bigger providers is Rogers. Different areas can be other providers, Cogeco is pretty prevalent in the Niagara region near me; but the story is unchanged. If you go with another ISP for cable service at your residence, the local cable provider is delivering the last mile connection.

    In my area, there’s a regional fiber provider, we have overhead lines, and I contacted that provider about getting service, and my home is not serviced by them. Interestingly, the addressees across the damn street (where the utility poles are located) are serviced by the local fiber provider.

    The local cable ISP, who I ended up getting service from, was able to quite easily run a cable over the road from the utility post to my residence without issue. Why the fiber provider can’t, is beyond me.

    I’m lucky that there’s even active fiber on my street that I could tap into if the company would run it over the road. Many places I’ve lived have either cable or DSL as the only options.

    I know many others are in a similar spot.


  • Bluntly: If you’re fortunate, you’ll have two options for internet. DSL and cable. Sometimes there’s other “options” like a WISP or starlink, or even a dual up provider, but the speed comparison is not even close, so I usually discard most of those as viable either on ping time or bandwidth.

    It’s extremely likely that only one provider services your residence with DSL, and one provider does cable. Two providers. All other options are basically a wholesale or resale of these two providers, meaning you still get service from one of those two.

    If you’re extremely lucky, you’ll also have the option of fiber. And IMO, that is the only time you really get three options.

    If you go with a third party ISP, the last mile is still one of the two that actually come into your residence.

    So the only real options you have are: do you want to buy internet direct from the ISP that owns the line to your house, or do you want to buy internet from someone who will contact that company to give you internet? If you don’t like the DSL provider, and you don’t like the cable provider, you’re completely fucked. Gg everyone.



  • I have an MX master 2, and I use a G703 Lightspeed with a power play mat.

    It’s incredible to me that their dongles don’t come in USB-C by default, I’m pretty sure that they don’t offer either a Lightspeed or unifying dongle in USB-C, which is even more baffling.

    I haven’t looked at the product lines in a while, but even when I did, it was obvious USB-C was the way to go, and nothing was offered.

    I also have a couple of their webcams, and they’re all USB-A as well. Just wild.


  • I miss actual dock connectors. Cramming everything into a single USB-C connection has always been problematic for me. I have a lot of stuff.

    My work laptop has a USB-C dock where I have Ethernet (1000mbps), three display port displays, mouse, keyboard, wireless headset dongle, and a dual head USB to displayport adapter.

    That’s a lot of bandwidth.

    I frequently have little problems keeping everything working correctly.

    Luckily, I don’t push high bandwidth video though any display for work, so generally I don’t see many bandwidth problems.