Smokeydope

joined 1 year ago
[–] Smokeydope 2 points 14 hours ago

To me bulk is a pound for trim or at least an oz in flower

[–] Smokeydope 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is something like jmp.chat sort of close?

[–] Smokeydope 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unless your spouse or family members happen to be NSA agents or feds of some kind this is baseless paranoia. If you want to be concerned over genuine privacy concerns to feed your fears look into PRISM or nine-eyes, not your own family installing RATS on your system for ... reasons.

Its not impossible there are obviously examples of snooping usually cause of spouses and fear of cheating. In your case though, are the logistics and reasoning there to support the concern?.

The thing about extremely anxious and paranoid people is this: they get so caught up in their what-if nightmare cassarole fantasies that they forget the basic but important questions like "but why? for what reason? Realistically how could they do it without notice, and whats the time investment or monetary cost to keep it up? What are the actual chances if I were to spitball a statistical probability of this event actually playing out, 1/10,000? What useful information could they actually get from this? Am I or my information REALLY that special? Do I think anyone in my personal life really wants to know about my shameful sexual kinks or dirty secrets? Can a person who barely knows how to open a web browser ot read emails really competent enough to comprise my system?" These kinds of reality-check thoughts don't occur to extremely paranoid people while on a fear-spiraling episode.

You felt the need to cover your ass saying you weren't schitzo, so you probably already know these kind of thoughts are indicative of potential serious misfirings in your neural network. Something might not be right in your ape brain. If your fears and paranoia become even worse to the point you think your own family has been replaced by clones or is trying to poison you, please seek help.

Finally, if you truly do have concerns about snooping that come from a place of legitimacy, theres always things you can do to shore up your security. cryptography encryption and physical pass keys for your digital information, black tape over your cameras when not in use, soundproofing foam over microphones if you can't rip them out or physically kill them. Keep your phone in a diy Faraday cage box made layered with aluminum foil. Hell get some bug detectors and sweep the whole place. You aren't helpless. Use your brain and take control of your environment one step at a time.

[–] Smokeydope 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately handing pot to big pharma means adding legitimacy to it as an actual medicine for society as a whole. Your neighborhood pot grower isn't held to safety standards, double blinded peer review test on actual efficacy while minimizing potential biases, or forced to print out lab results showing vauable information like terps and thc level.

As pot smokers we get defensive and circle jerky about our precious plant medicine that can be grown anywhere, and roll our eyes at how its been treated.

Its important to take a step back and realize theres a difference in standards between the neighborhood dealer going "oh yeah its alternative natural herbal medicine that cures any disease and just makes me feel good maaan IDK how it works but I heard if you have bad prostate cancer you can shove rick simpsons oil up your ass as a supplementary and the stage 4 clears right up through the power of Jahs blessing bro."

and " we just released a big peer review study spanning hundreds of participants with riggerous analysis. Pot works for these diseases including helping to suppress pancreatic cancer in many cases, we have done the research and the consistent results back it up. Your national health and safety administrations will receive recommendations to update their guidelines."

Having medical colleges with P.H.D graduates doing extensively studies, writing research papers to be published in journals, really having the science nerds pick at the interaction between chemistry and neuroscience to create valid enough theories and frameworks for effective diagnosis to combat serious medical problems. These are things that aren't happening by just throwing seeds in grounds and having potheads smoke or ea their own flower.

Having doctors confidently be able to prescribe it as a medicine in a pharmacy really helps towards social acceptance for older conservative people taught it was the devils lettuce as dangerous as heroine.

My parents and I had a lot of static during my teenage years because they REALLY hated pot. That started to change when

    1. It started to be legally buyable over the counter
  • 2 they got really old and in constant pain to the point traditional meds like aparin started failing to do the trick. Suddenly they were much more open to the idea of trying CBD and even a minute amount of the devils chemical THC.

Handing it to pharma is a big first step, one its deemed an actual medicine you can talk about recreation and comparing it to alcohol or cigarettes with more bite behind your arguments.

[–] Smokeydope 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is a new boss in the elden ring DLC right?

[–] Smokeydope 5 points 1 week ago

I have the distinct memory of freezing to death as a child. I remember playing in the snow unsupervised, building a tall clyandrical fort, climbing in from above and not being able to get out. I remember clawing until my hands couldn't be felt anymore and crying and screaming for help . Nobody came. Eventually I collapsed from exposure and thats where the memory ends. I want to think its just a bad dream but its unlike any other childhood nightmare with boogeymen or fever dreams. It was just too real for a toddlers imagination.

[–] Smokeydope 17 points 1 week ago

Welcome! I have been using Mint many years now its a gold standard distro you made a solid choice.

[–] Smokeydope 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My home for the past year has been a 13' diameter bell tent, couldn't be happier. Easy to heat, easy to keep clean. Enough space to stand and move around while setting up tables appliances and furniture.

A small space makes you to question what the bare essentials are to make life comfy.

A large home is a lot of empty space waiting to be filled with excess stuff.

[–] Smokeydope 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I would advocate to self host. Buy a 2tb hard drive and stick it in your desktop computer.

There are m.2 data ssds that are basically fancy usb sticks.

There are external hard drives that plug into usb.

[–] Smokeydope 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Its important to consider amperage discharge too. Can the two 18660s put out the same current as the big rectangle one?

Replacing the old halogen with led would be a big difference. Ot would need basically no amperage. At that point you can attach usb male to alligator clips, clip the ends of the lanterns battery pack connectors to supply 5v 2.4a of power directly with a power bank.

I use a 5 volt led bulb that plugs into regular usba slot. It works with small power banks and ast forever on larger 20ah batteries.

[–] Smokeydope 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for sharing your organic geode its beautiful!

[–] Smokeydope 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Its homemade bubble from type 1 thca hemp trim I order in bulk. you could say many different mixed 'strains'. Not fancy hash but it gets the job done and taste okay :) very economical too I get about 1.5-2g dry hash per process and the flower is 10$/oz even cheaper in higher bulk.

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Looks like a geode cluster with all the dense crystals

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I was about to make some bubble today when I looked in the dry bags and saw some dusty fine hash had settled on the bottom bag. I took a spoon and scooped onto a plate.

Then I got an idea. What if theres more hiding somewhere somehow? I started rubbing the bottom of the bag with the palms of my hands flicking and just generally jostling. I estimate over a G of fine dust was able to be extracted. Where the hell was it hiding? In between the seams? In the grain of the bag itself? Idk. This photo was taken after I vaped a few half bowls in a dynavap so its not all that was there.

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Gear Shot (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Smokeydope to c/trees
 

The orb v3 from vgoodiez, Goo-Roo hookah hose, arizer extremeq desktop vape and omega wand from DDave.

Here's a YouTube video of it in action

 

Hello there, I'm currently doing my first ever night of dispersed camping at a local national forest here in USA.

I plan to have this trip go two weeks, though I will be happy enough if I can make it to one without issue. After I'm done here I'll go sightseeing at a big state attraction that my parents always talked about.

The only camping I ever knew about was campgrounds where you pay money for a site or a cabin. I had no idea that dispersed camping was a thing.

In certain public lands you are allowed to just park off the road and camp out for a certain amount of time. Each place has their own rules and exceptions but its generally 2 weeks before you have to move a couple miles.

I'm essentially allowed to live here in nature free of charge for as long as I like. I just need to observe and respect the rules and limits of the state. The idea of doing this makes me feel a sense of freedom that I really needed in my life.

The van is pretty much converted out. Ive got a comfy bed. Ive got enough solar panel power for charging devices, keeping lights on, and coffee in the morning (theoretically). Ive got propane heating. Combine that with food, water, clothes, and cleaning supplies to make for the bare minimum of a comfy existance.

Despite all that, I'm out of my comfort zone. All the preparation in the world couldn't offset this feeling I have right now. The feeling of being in an unfamiliar new place and unsure if I'll be okay. Perhaps a real adventure requires at least a dash of uncertainty.

Its dark and quiet in a way I'm not used to. Stillness is a little unsettling when youre used to noise and commotion. I'm also right off a busy ish road so theres a car passing every now and again which is a little noisy but not unwelcome.

If something does go wrong I'm parked in a way that I can just turn the key and go. I need to clear the way to driver seat a little better currently blocked by food bag. All my windows are covered well so nobody can really peek at me. Not that I think anyone is out here to peek in.

I realize now that my sneakers arent exactly meant for off path forest exploration. I will get some good boots for the next trip. Im an overthinking planner type person so its fustrating to forget things like this. But before I left I told myself that I wasn't going to be able to think of every detail, and to just try my best and learn from the experience. I'm going to make mistakes and learn as I go and thats okay.

If you actually managed to read through this I thank you.

 
 
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Dynavap m7xl Rosium (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by Smokeydope to c/vaporents
 
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Duncan (lemmy.world)
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I wanted to share my current vaporizer setup with you guys.

To start, heres synthetic ruby balls over ceramic heater set to max temp.

Next is a custom herb extraction chamber device made from an omega wand, modified dynavap fat mouthpiece, and diy nectar collector herb chamber.

The extraction device inserts into the EQ forming an air tight seal with glass adapter. The herb chamber sits directly above the ruby heater balls.

Finally some glass is added on top. Arizer solo stems work well.

 

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Mistral Small 22B just dropped today and I am blown away by how good it is. I was already impressed with Mistral NeMo 12B's abilities, so I didn't know how much better a 22B could be. It passes really tough obscure trivia that NeMo couldn't, and its reasoning abilities are even more refined.

With Mistral Small I have finally reached the plateu of what my hardware can handle for my personal usecase. I need my AI to be able to at least generate around my base reading speed. The lowest I can tolerate is 1.5~T/s lower than that is unacceptable. I really doubted that a 22B could even run on my measly Nvidia GTX 1070 8G VRRAM card and 16GB DDR4 RAM. Nemo ran at about 5.5t/s on this system, so how would Small do?

Mistral Small Q4_KM runs at 2.5T/s with 28 layers offloaded onto VRAM. As context increases that number goes to 1.7T/s. It is absolutely usable for real time conversation needs. I would like the token speed to be faster sure, and have considered going with the lowest Q4 recommended to help balance the speed a little. However, I am very happy just to have it running and actually usable in real time. Its crazy to me that such a seemingly advanced model fits on my modest hardware.

Im a little sad now though, since this is as far as I think I can go in the AI self hosting frontier without investing in a beefier card. Do I need a bigger smarter model than Mistral Small 22B? No. Hell, NeMo was serving me just fine. But now I want to know just how smart the biggest models get. I caught the AI Acquisition Syndrome!

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