ITGuyLevi

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[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I've been trying to quit for 18 years now. I've tried gum, patches, toothpicks, welbutron (or something like that), but this time it's going a bit better. We switched to cheap disposable vapes (Kadobar was what was near the house) which is totally not 'quitting' but when picking a flavor, Pick a bad one. I've found I don't like it, it's way too sweet and that keeps me from wanting to smoke it too much at a time, but when that need arises (bad meeting, car trouble, bad anxiety) it does deliver nicotine which keeps me from buying a pack.

As a side effect, I went from spending around $400-450/month on cigarettes, to around $~~160~~80/month (my wife went with one she likes, but she's quit before and I think she could do it anytime).

Edit: I'm bad a math

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

This totally isn't what you're asking for, but I absolutely love the 8bitdo adapter 2 thing (https://www.8bitdo.com/usb-wireless-adapter-2/) pair your DS4 controller to it and then just plug in the dongle. I haven't found anything it doesn't work on, but mainly I pop it between a pi3, pi400, and my LMDE desktop.

So handy.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow, that's pretty awesome (not the debilitating neural damage part), I was always under the impression that by the first symptom it was a death sentence.

I still never want anything to do with it, but at least it isn't as bleak as I had been lead to believe.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Just have to chime in and say 100% fatal once symptomatic. I really hope someone corrects me but I'm pretty sure there has never been a confirmed case with a recovery; we have a treatment that works, but has to be given relatively soon after exposure.

Edit: lol, was the downvote for me hoping I was wrong, or being wrong?

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Much like good old MySQL, it's named for its creator and the last name My is pronounced 'me'. At least that's what I remember hearing or reading somewhere... I'm sadly too uncultured to know for sure (never made it that far around the globe).

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