People who this is targeted at and don’t get it when you explain it.
Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?
It also causes your digestive track to process at a normal speed and so the absorption of the medicine is more spread out.
Important with something like an extended release medicine like Adderall XR which will build up and then stay somewhat steady and then taper off. And essential for a non-XR since it’s already going to be alot hitting you and then tapering down over time.
I enjoy puzzles a lot, so Simon Tatham’s Puzzles. You get 40 puzzles at the price of 9 MB, including some classics like Sudoku, Minesweeper and Picross.
I have been through a drawer full of old drives of mine and a different drawer full of other people’s old drives that need tested/securely erased/parted out this summer so my instructions might be a little more “foolproof” or seem to have extra steps but here’s how you do what you wanna do:
Plug up the drive
Run “lsblk “ to show all the drives and their file systems. Use the information shown to both recognize your target drive and determine what partitions and file systems are on the drive. Once you recognize your drive, take note of its device name in the format /dev/sdx.
Run “ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ |grep sdx”, but replace sdx with your drives device name. This will list the drives in the system named for their model and serial numbers and show what devices in your operating system they correspond to. Piping the output through the grep command with “sdx” will only return the one that is your target drive. Take a picture of this with your phone or something. It’s probably too long to remember.
Now do the same thing but in /dev/disk/by-uuid, so “ls -l /dev/disk/bu-uuid | grep sdx”. This will show you the uuid of the file systems on the partitions of your target disk. Uuids are unique identifiers for file systems and will be important later.
Now you need to figure out what the different file systems on your target drive are. This part’s easy, just make a directory in your home folder, it doesn’t matter what it’s called. “mkdir nostromo”. Then make a set of directories in it corresponding to the different file systems you saw in the output of the uuid command. “Cd nostromo” “Mkdir sdx1 sdx2 sdx3 etc”. Do a quick “ls” just to make sure you made the right directories. Refer back to your picture of the uuid output to be sure you made directories for em all.
Now you’re just about to go into the file systems of the drive and confirm what they are and make a plan to extract the payload, but first take a minute to make some assessments about what you have without actually getting your hands dirty: look at the output from lsblk. You can run it again no problem. How many partitions are there on the drive? How big are they? When a partition shows about 100MB in lsblk it’s probably a boot partition. If it shows about 1KB it’s probably a container for other partitions and you don’t need to worry about it. If it’s about the size of your ram or smaller then it’s probably a swap partition (although I think Ubuntu doesn’t use these by default).
Now let’s go in and see what each one is. Start at the lowest numbered one and “mount /dev/sdxN nostromo/sdxN”. You might have to use sudo to do that. Then “ls nostromo/sdxN/“
If you see stuff like “initrd “ or “kernel” it’s probably the Ubuntu boot partition and you won’t have anything to worry about in there. If you see “/root” and “/home” and “/bin” then that’s the Ubuntu root partition and thats pretty promising!
Lather, rinse, repeat till you know what all the file systems of your drive are. Some advice: don’t worry about the 1k container partitions. They’re just there to get past the four primary partition limit. If you mount your old systems swap partition, you won’t be able to browse it with “ls”. Just confirm its swap by running “cat /proc/swaps” and looking for the one you just mounted. Unmount it with “umount /dev/sdxN” just like you mounted it.
Once you have an idea of where your files are, unmount the file systems you’re not worried about with “umount /dev/sdxN” and get ready to find your files on the partition(s) they’re in.
Go into the nostromo/sdxN folders that correspond to the file systems with files you wanna get with “cd nostromo/sdxN” Make a folder called “old” with “mkdir old”. Make sure you’re in the nostromo/sdxN folder you wanna be in with the “pwd” command. If it returns the one you expect then you’re good. Move everything in there into the “old” folder with “mv * old/“. That will error out when it tries to move the “old” folder into itself but now the contents of that drive are in the old folder.
From here you can use terminal or gui tools to move files from the directories in the “old” folder to however you want it organized in the root of the file system. Maybe you want a folder called “recovered” with unsorted swaths of information inside it. Maybe you wanna painstakingly sort things out by media type. The file system is your oyster. When using gui tools sometimes you’ll be asked if you wanna move or copy the files. Move is what you want.
Lather rinse repeat for all the file systems you think have stuff you care about.
Once you found and moved your files, look again tomorrow. You might find more!
After you’re absolutely sure you got em all, delete the old folder with “rm -r old/“.
Once you’ve done that for all the old file systems with files you want on em, see if you can’t consolidate them together in one file system. If you can then delete the file systems and partitions you don’t need and expand the one you plan on using.
Once you’re ready, use the saved partition as a data drive by adding it to your /etc/fstab using the uuid from earlier. A perfectly acceptable mount point is /mnt/data. That will make sure your operating system knows how to find it and mount it every time the computer boots up.
Might not be popular but you dont want to restrict that type of stuff in tech, because people very quickly and easily find ways around it, usually by using new similar words that call back to the prohibited ones.
This is an area where moderation is key, and I think people might need to reconsider who they allow to send them direct messages. Especially I expect there to be a better way to vet someone who is trying to directly reach a stranger.
If you are literally going to open your door to the whole world some bad stuff will fall in, but you dont have to let them into your private areas just because they made it in the front door.
Trust networks are another idea, essentially verifying new people through acquaintances.
The same way that we deal with every other thing that social media platforms restrict. You make it against the rules and then enforce them. If you’re feeling fancy you could program some heuristics to determine the likelihood of a message containing deadnames - for example, maintain a list of common targets, look for people tagging them or related hashtags in tweets containing their dead name, and use sentiment analysis, to determine whether those messages should be subject to moderator approval before appearing publicly.
I’ll add one observation: the more petty the censorship, the bigger the backlash. People in general loathe that kind of behavior, and internet geeks with a vivid collective memory of being bullied by people like this? Oh, you reap the whirlwind in such cases.
Usually just a small amount of food is enough, but your pharmacist should talk to you the first time you fill the prescription and tell you if more is necessary
I’m not a doctor, so don’t take my word for it, but I’ve heard the same as robolemmy. To be a bit less abstract, my understanding is you eat enough so that your stomach will digest normally instead of just handling the medicine as a tiny bit of something caustic. A granola bar should be fine, but you might do better with a slice of bread or something a tad easier to digest. Then again, I don’t think it matters all that much.
Nah, that’s all about getting the dog to actually swallow the pill.
For us, it is about buffering the concentration. Even aspirin can upset your stomach (well, SOME people’s stomachs) such that making “Bufferin” was once a big deal. It was just aspirin with a buffering agent, but having a buffer really mattered for some people.
The pharmacist did say that it was to reduce the queasiness since both the antibiotic and the steroid I was prescribed are apparently quite rough on the stomach, so I have to take the pills with food, which I inferred to mean as a meal. Which was fine when I took them with lunch and dinner yesterday since obviously that’s gonna be tons of food to go with it, but then it came to this morning, and I don’t normally eat breakfast. I wasn’t sure if something simple like toast or a granola bar which I would take with the morning dose would be enough food to counteract it, since obviously I didn’t want to spend my morning with a miserable stomach.
Usually just enough to keep your stomach settled. I don’t know if this is the case for all medicines like that, but every time I’ve had to take something with food, it was because it can make you queasy if you don’t have anything in your stomach.
Yes, exactly, it’s about controlling the dosing. If you haven’t eaten for a while, or only had fluids, and then suddenly eat medicine, it’s more likely to be vomited out, so nobody knows how much you had.
If you can’t keep food in, medicine won’t work that way either.
Eating pills on an empty stomach can easily cause acid reflux. Since about a fourth if all people have acid reflux issues, it’s probably a good idea to advise people to down pills alongside other food that’ll stay down.
I agree. It’s also probably person to person thing.
I’ve been told it’s better to take ibuprofen with food as you can get indigestion. But I don’t so I don’t need to. Some people need to. Some people get indigestion so bad they can’t take ibuprofen at all even with food.
Also I went to the doctors and he said “just take some ibuprofen that will help” and I said “oh I’m asthmatic I’m not meant to take that. But I have taken it before and I didn’t realise”
And he said “oh its fine then. Some asthmatics might get any issue with it. That’s why it’s recommend not to take it. BUT seeing as you have and didn’t have any issues, then you are fine to take it.”
There is a huge theoretical improvement in medicine if it can be given individually rather than by demographic.
I am of a certain age and I did use MSN Messenger back then, but I find it unlikely - it’s calling me by a pseudonym that I coined rather recently. (There’s no way I give my actual name to businesses out there, unless I’m planning to buy stuff.)
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