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  1. Comment on Hair loss open discussion in ~talk

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    i started noticing some hairloss at 26 or 28 or something, 2019 i think, at like 30 if that year is correct, i started taking finasteride and it halted and MAYBE THE TINIEST BIT reversed my...

    i started noticing some hairloss at 26 or 28 or something, 2019 i think, at like 30 if that year is correct, i started taking finasteride and it halted and MAYBE THE TINIEST BIT reversed my hairloss

    idk about sideffects cause around that time i started taking anti psychotics as well

    i dont even care about my hair now at 37 really, maybe i should stop taking the fin, my hair is buzzed shorter then a millimeter right now, although i do like that i have shadow all over and not a bald spot in the middle, but i dont even grow my hair out any more like i did when i started taking the fin

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  2. Comment on A case for increasing computer literacy (but also a rant) in ~tech

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    for number four being exahusted from work/school not having time is a thing also, the other day i had an idea to try and set up a dht node for my jami app to use, so i didnt have to use the...

    for number four being exahusted from work/school not having time is a thing also, the other day i had an idea to try and set up a dht node for my jami app to use, so i didnt have to use the default ones offered by saviore-faire linux, or use the phone with jami as one cause it kills the battery, and as someone who never set up a dht node before, it took me like 4 hours or maybe even longer before i got it working right, so like, not everyone can just spend 4 hours yelling into the void which is gnome terminal or w.e. terminal one uses

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  3. Comment on A case for increasing computer literacy (but also a rant) in ~tech

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    yeah i was thinking it was debian, it is mostly yes, but the partitioning gives you choices, the DE gives you choices and theres checkboxes for system tools and ssh gentoo, while i never done it...

    yeah i was thinking it was debian, it is mostly yes, but the partitioning gives you choices, the DE gives you choices and theres checkboxes for system tools and ssh

    gentoo, while i never done it myself, i believe is compiling every single piece from source, or at least just compiling the kernel from source, and arch is an inbetween i think, not as click yes as other distros, but i belive its installer is unpacking tarballs under the hood or something? idk i never used arch either

  4. Comment on A case for increasing computer literacy (but also a rant) in ~tech

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    i would argue the majority of people have never installed an operating system, so it feels like something you dont do, its something the manufacturer does and ive myself never installed windows,...

    i would argue the majority of people have never installed an operating system, so it feels like something you dont do, its something the manufacturer does

    and ive myself never installed windows, but i imagine its mostly clicking yes, is that true? when someone installing linux gets to a screen that says , configure the lvm, configure luks, auto partion on one partition, separate /home and /var partitions, i could see them getting a little overwhelmed, ive myself confused the heck out of myself trying to manually set up partitions cause i wanted a /storage partition on the root

    4 votes
  5. Comment on Do you have your invite request email? Post it and let's find out what drives people to want to be a part of Tildes. in ~tildes

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    nope my comments wernt even making it to automod, i got zero automod replies even

    nope my comments wernt even making it to automod, i got zero automod replies even

    2 votes
  6. Comment on State of the (Jelly)Fin 2026-01-06, free software for streaming media in ~tech

  7. Comment on State of the (Jelly)Fin 2026-01-06, free software for streaming media in ~tech

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    yes that would probably be simpler

    yes that would probably be simpler

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  8. Comment on State of the (Jelly)Fin 2026-01-06, free software for streaming media in ~tech

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    jellyfin is great but the feature i could really use is chromecast integration, i dont know why i can cast from vlc but not jellyfin, i guess vlc uses some nonfree libraries? anyways its a real...

    jellyfin is great but the feature i could really use is chromecast integration, i dont know why i can cast from vlc but not jellyfin, i guess vlc uses some nonfree libraries?

    anyways its a real jerry rigged system i have for watching shows at my friends hosue, the server is sitting in my livingroom at home, so i use tailscale to tunnle to it

    but my friend dosnt have internet so i set up a minicomputer with a data sim to broadcast a hotspot for her

    but the mobile lte dongle isnt as good as my phones wifi even though they are on the same network, and the jelly fin app skips and buffers hard on the lte dongle, but not my phones

    so i set my phone to have the same SSID and password as her hotspot, so when i come over the chrome cast grabs my wifi

    now jellyfin has a cast button, but it dosnt see the chrome cast, just other computers and browsers with jellyfin open

    so i have to use vlc to stream the jellyfin url

    and vlc can cast to the chrome cast

    voila that was way to complicated but yay for shows

    4 votes
  9. Comment on Walmart hits $1 trillion market cap, fueled by growth of e-commerce, new businesses in ~finance

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    walmarts online store is a cesspit, at least the canadian version is, i rather shop on aliexpress lol i found fake silver on there before in maybe 2023, they were selling american eagles, a 2...

    walmarts online store is a cesspit, at least the canadian version is, i rather shop on aliexpress lol

    i found fake silver on there before in maybe 2023, they were selling american eagles, a 2 pack, for the price of 2 real ones at the time, but if you scrolled down to item details the materials were like steel or something, and somewhere else they snuck the word commemorativen i found the post i made on shroomey actually, it was 3 years 5 months ago

    https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/27913445#27913445

    i dont knw if that link will work without a shroomery account some of the forms are hidden

    another time i was ordering walmart delivery, like groceries and such, but they dont spereate what they actually have in store and what arives from fricken china, so i ordered my groceries and a switch blade knife, expecting to get all that at 4pm, well the groceries arrived but no knife, then i got track emails it left china, well i dont hear anything for like ever, till one day i get a love letter from customs for importing something illegal lol walmart sold me something illegal, what a shit hole platform

    12 votes
  10. Comment on Do you have your invite request email? Post it and let's find out what drives people to want to be a part of Tildes. in ~tildes

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    im so confused? are you posting this for someone else? you posted on tildes with a tildes account anyways reddit is getting crazy, i created a new account and they shadowbanned me, all my comments...

    im so confused? are you posting this for someone else? you posted on tildes with a tildes account

    anyways reddit is getting crazy, i created a new account and they shadowbanned me, all my comments are getting 0 views, anywas its full of engagement bait and bot shit

    i feel stupider for posting there, and i cant afford to get any stupider then i already am lol

    EDIT: i got 10 invites

    12 votes
  11. Comment on Why America needs fewer bus stops in ~transport

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    having the A,B,C busses would probably confuse north americans (am canadian and could see some people here being confuse) https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Area_51-A

    having the A,B,C busses would probably confuse north americans (am canadian and could see some people here being confuse) https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Area_51-A

  12. Comment on Looking for a simple lists app in ~tech

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    i just installed silver bullet on my server, i dont really know anything about it but i think it uses markdown, im going to try and figure it out sometime in the next few days, AI recommended it...

    i just installed silver bullet on my server, i dont really know anything about it but i think it uses markdown, im going to try and figure it out sometime in the next few days, AI recommended it when i was looking for a habit tracker with certain features, and while silver bullet isnt a habit tracker its self, i think AI said theres a plugin for a habit tracker made by someone, so thats what im going to start with in silver bullet

  13. Comment on How close should you live to a park? in ~enviro

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    My house is less than a 20 minute walk to a park, and I live sorta on the outskirts, my friend's house where I stay a lot is across the street from a festival field that has a tot lot, and 15...

    My house is less than a 20 minute walk to a park, and I live sorta on the outskirts, my friend's house where I stay a lot is across the street from a festival field that has a tot lot, and 15 minute walk to the biggest park in town

    I can say there is never too many parks though, I'd like to see even more and we have a bunch, I never really used them from like 20-34, before I was 20 it was where we would drink and smoke pot, and I picked up metal detecting at 34 and go to a park or a school or other grassy area multiple times a week now

    6 votes
  14. Comment on South Korea banned dog meat. So what happens to the dogs? in ~food

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    For me it's the amount of love a dog shows for humans that make me think it's more wrong, to me it'd be like eating a toddler lol but yeah where's the line, how about eating coyote or wolf, what's...

    For me it's the amount of love a dog shows for humans that make me think it's more wrong, to me it'd be like eating a toddler lol but yeah where's the line, how about eating coyote or wolf, what's the difference

    4 votes
  15. Comment on How do you decide when to buy a new computer, smartphone, etc.? in ~tech

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    I get a new smart phone as soon as there is no longer security updates for it anymore, precisely because I use it for online banking As for laptops, I'm still running a really old think pad...

    I get a new smart phone as soon as there is no longer security updates for it anymore, precisely because I use it for online banking

    As for laptops, I'm still running a really old think pad running debian, I think it has 4gb ram and a i5, I dunno, I don't do anything that requires more power, if I did then I would update

  16. Comment on Billions of AI users…? in ~tech

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    I absolutely love AI, when I mean to use it, I have chatgpt and pi AI apps on my phone Ive never once used facebooks AI even though they have it on all the posts, and I've seen overviews searching...

    I absolutely love AI, when I mean to use it, I have chatgpt and pi AI apps on my phone

    Ive never once used facebooks AI even though they have it on all the posts, and I've seen overviews searching stuff before but if I could turn it off I would

    I switched my pixels AI from Gemini or w.e. it's called back to assistant, assistant is so much better, the main reason I use assistant is because when I'm coin roll hunting I can say "1973 Canadian dime" and the first thing it gives me is the link for coins and Canada website which I'm looking for, on Gemini it gives me a blurb I don't need and no option to see links

    Plus I like assistants blurbs better than getting geninis blurbs when you ask it a question, I think assistant scrapes it from websites instead of making it up like gemini

    The day they get rid of assistant and force gemeni on me is the day I may look into running graphene OS on my pixel out of protest, I'll just Install Google services on it so I can use play store apps, so I won't be going totally free software

    I use chat gpt and pi ai every day, but I would like for not everything to be ai, that just makes stuff so annoying for me

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  17. Comment on Removed Reddit post: "ChatGPT drove my friends wife into psychosis, tore family apart... now I'm seeing hundreds of people participating in the same activity. " in ~tech

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    I know someone who uses these codex responses which I don't quite understand as entertainment, he calls it the AI game I use AI as a therapist, I tell it I feel unmotivated and adhedronic and it...

    I know someone who uses these codex responses which I don't quite understand as entertainment, he calls it the AI game

    I use AI as a therapist, I tell it I feel unmotivated and adhedronic and it tells me to do small steps like take my recycling out, and change our of my pajamas, and take back the means of production

    Because of AI I am dressed in my metal detecting clothes and I all of a sudden feel like wanting to go out instead of my pajamas scrolling shroomery, I'm a little late compared to the schedule, but at least I will go out when I finish my water

    2 votes
  18. Comment on Gopher's guide to picking a metal detector in ~hobbies

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    Yes I've seen the show before and the movie that wraps it up, it's entertaining, even though I don't know who Simon and garfunkle were

    Yes I've seen the show before and the movie that wraps it up, it's entertaining, even though I don't know who Simon and garfunkle were

    1 vote
  19. Comment on Gopher's guide to picking a metal detector in ~hobbies

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    Yeah okay we had this convo before lol deja Vu, I remember somebody listing the channels they watch and I responded with some I watch, that must have been you

    Yeah okay we had this convo before lol deja Vu, I remember somebody listing the channels they watch and I responded with some I watch, that must have been you

    1 vote
  20. Comment on Gopher's guide to picking a metal detector in ~hobbies

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    I watch Paystreak Superfreak Calabash digger Digging dude Texan detector and coin collector Treasure Outdoors Monterey Magnet Man Walter Lee detecting gopher (me lol) And others not coming to mind

    I watch

    Paystreak Superfreak
    Calabash digger
    Digging dude
    Texan detector and coin collector
    Treasure Outdoors
    Monterey Magnet Man
    Walter Lee detecting
    gopher (me lol)
    And others not coming to mind

    3 votes