I can’t give you any TX specific advice, but for the ADHD related depression and anxiety I can definitely give some advice.

First, CBD oil may be a suitable option. Some is pure enough to not show on a THC test as positive, so that may help. CBD is the part of weed that gives most of the mellow and chill, so it may be enough for him.

Second, depending on his ADHD presentation he may benefit from hard exercise. I find that 5x5 weight lifting is really good, along with some sort of cardio if possible. Lifting heavy things takes a lot of the hyperactive energy away and leaves me clearer.

Third, non stimulant meds. Some people find benefit from things like modafinil and if he could get on that it may provide enough support to quit the weed for long enough to get onto a stimulant.

That said, the USA has really intense laws about stimulant meds as well as a bunch of strange stuff about testing that seems punative. I have meds here in Australia and I have not taken a single test. I know there are online clinics that do ADHD treatment and also there are less than legal methods of getting stimulant meds. I know a couple of people who tried stimulants before getting them prescribed. Maybe that would work for his situation.

As for efficacy, I tried a whole bunch of anti depressant meds, anti anxiety meds, all sorts of stuff, and honestly nothing worked. My k10 was absolutely abysmal and I couldn’t really work. Stimulant meds mean I can work, support my partner, engage in things I enjoy, and live life quite well.

I had to come off my meds for a couple of months while going through a heart valve replacement (unrelated to the meds) and wow, I had forgotten how bad it was without them. They are great, getting the dose and specific stimulant right is important, but yeah, worth every bit of effort. Absolutely life changing.

The fact that you live here in Australia means I actually have relevant information for once, yay!

I work in individual support through the NDIS. That is the National Disability Insurance Scheme. It has been praised internationally as a wonderful tool for meeting the needs of people without telling them exactly what they have to do. This means it is very flexible and able to meet needs you may not consider, like helping you connect your internet and electricity after moving.

For example, I work with a young autistic person who mostly gets help with dishes, vacuuming, shopping, and dealing with awkward and difficult social issues like returning things to a store for a warranty replacement.

Another people I have worked with just didn’t have the skills to manage dealing with learning to drive. We spent a few weeks of 2 hours twice a week on driving. He got his license and is driving now.

Obviously your needs are unique and honestly there are almost definitely things that you don’t know are needs because it simply has not come up yet, everyone has those. Getting into a situation that is a bit of a stretch for you, something you find challenging but not dire and awful, can be very useful for increasing your skills. If nothing else the challenge of living alone would help you learn about yourself and figure out what you like, what you dislike, what is easy, what is hard, and how to recruit help.

If you have a diagnosis of autism regardless of level you should be able to get some support. If it is level 2 you will get lots and lots of support. The NDIS is absolutely awesome and you can really get tailored support in ways I would not have considered a couple of years ago. Good luck!

Nice, good to hear it worked out mostly. As for the black menu issue, consider looking at using various different libraries. For example, some games need the actual Windows .DLL files depending in exactly how they use them. The substitutes in WINE are just that, substitutes, so they have very slightly different behaviour in some cases. For GUI libraries if you get something wrong it is easy to have problems like a black menu box from something loading out of order, returning too fast or slow, or just being formatted differently. The native libraries can be used and that can sometimes solve the issue.

Yes, this can be done through WINE.

Depending on your method of install for WINE you will use different specific buttons and so on, but the idea is the same. Take the patch .exe file and run it inside the same WINE prefix as the game is installed in. This can usually be done by opening Lutris and selecting the game, then clicking not in Run but on the WINE icon near it. That allows you to select the .exe file and run it in the same WINE prefix as your existing game install. From there the patch should be able to find the game at C:\Path\to\game and make the required changes.

Hope that works out for you

I can recommend trying shitty ones. I bought a couple of pairs of Temu and the clicky buttons are cheaper than capacitive touch, so I have two pairs that are easily pressed with gloved or in my case my shoulder when cooking or cleaning. They make a loudish click in my ear when I press the button, but it is not that bad.

A second and possibly worse option is to get wrap around earbuds, the kind that go behind the head. They tend to have buttons on the ear or just behind but still tend to be physical buttons most of the time.

Sex is indeed a spectrum. Intersex presentation makes up a meaningful though small percentage, somewhere around the 0.05% range. If it were a binary there would be two options, mutually exclusive. This is a bimodal distribution, with two very strong peaks for XX or XY karyotype and a bunch of variation around either different karyotypes, XXY etc, or differing activation or expression of those karyotypes, eg androgen insensitivity etc.

On top of that, what would you say sex is exactly? Which gamete is larger? In seahorses the males have the smaller gametes but the females use something very similar to a penis to deposit the egg into the male who then raises it and performs all the roles we associate with females in humans.

Is it based on which chroonosomes? In some animals it is a WZ or W karyotypes, so that can’t be it. In others it is just a presence or absence of a sex chromosome. In some plants they have more than two sets of everything, like strawberries with 7 copies of each chromosome. In others they have one, two, or four in some parts of the life cycle, but sometimes the thing we see is the higher number, sometimes it is the lower number. Some have a mix of male and female parts, having sperm and egg producers on the same plant but separated, some have both right next to each other in groupings. Some animals can undergo sex changing due to environmental factors.

Nothing in biology is as simple as the models we use to represent them. Sex is complex and while it sometimes seems simple that is the less common state. Genes are not often all the way on or all the way off, they are usually moderated and running at different levels across the organism cell by cell, and changing with time. The same goes for traits.

I would recommend learning more about ut biology if you really do believe sex is a simple binary. The world of biology is far more complex and varied than that idea can capture and honestly it is fascinating, I find it extremely exciting to find the examples of my own ignorance, they are usually super cool. Good luck!

Indeed, just as gender is a spectrum so is sex. I love when someone says “Its basic biology” because the best response is “and this is intermediate biology”.

none of these transphobic losers who use autism to attack trans people even gives a flip about people

Ftfy

True, but privacy conscious people tend to also be wary of concentrations of power in a platform, such as Reddit or Twitter. If you are aware of the issues with a closed system you tend to also be aware of privacy issues, security issues, state censorship, and so on, so the user base is more aware in the fediverse and if they are leaving for Reddit that really does say something. I won’t be using their service, I feel very lucky to have found out about this before shifting as I was in the process of finding a stable email host and blending with the VPN seemed financially reasonable, guess I will stay with Mullvad and get a separate email provider.

Yeah, getting closer with fibre allows better speeds. Copper is susceptible to so many issues like corrosion, interference, water inundation, and signal degradation. Lasers down a fibre are way more stable, have far less drop off, are way more resistant to water ingress, and have the benefit of future proofing. We currently use the best lasers we can but laser technology is really early in it’s development. Lasers from 50 years in the future should be able to use the same fibre without issue and pack many more bits per second with different frequencies of light, overlapping signals, better processing, more coherent light with less deviation, and so on.

I think it is like rail, you spend a fair bit putting in rail and you can run trains on it for 100s of years. Roads are fragile, rails are sturdy and solid, and while trains have changed a lot over the years moving from coal to diesel to electric, but the rail system itself is something you can use with all those trains to move more and more stuff more efficiently over time. Good infrastructure leads to good outcomes.

I left at the same time. As a science minded person the phrase “Feminism ruins everything” is just such a low effort and absolutist statement that even if it were somewhat accurate it would betray a lack of serious consideration. On top of that, it isn’t true. He makes all sorts of claims that are just not true and has no understanding of feminism beyond his echo chamber. He knows some stuff about chemistry, has done legit research such as on how the sodium water explosion happens, and yeah, in that area he knows his shit, but like many people he steps past his actual area of expertise without the humility required to learn about a new field without jumping to conclusions.

The world of feminism is deep and full of confronting ideas like how the low availability of emotional expression on boys leads to low emotional regulation in men, but Thunderf00t just goes with the lowest effort “Men are victims” line rather than seeing feminists agree with harms happening to men and want to fix those too.

Australia, but regional, so not exactly near a capital city. People out here still use g wireless, though most are n or later, and plenty are using ac or ax. That said, we are in one of the few places that got full fibre to the home rather than fibre to the node so our internet speeds can be fairly OK, though you pay through the nose to get anything much better than adsl2 speeds. Honestly our government has been embarrassing over the last 15 years and they have done a lot of work to make us poorer and with less access to the internet.

We were going to have fibre to the home for all houses but our conservative government got in and ruined it, doing all sorts of cheaping out that made it way more expensive and less effective. We could have ditched copper lines entirely and had something future proof for at least 20 years but no, something something money, something something unlimited power.

I would love to see a turn towards future focussed governance but it seems to be unlikely right now. I mean in Germany they just voted nearly 20% for AfD and in the US they have the orange fascist and musk, so no hope there.

Lol, yes, I have one down the street right now. Some people just don’t ever update things that work.

Yep, mostly my focus is not in state backed actors but script kiddies with limited understanding. If someone sees a WEP network down the road and my network with up to date encryption, no SSID broadcast, MAC white listing, and various other options to prevent external connections it makes the WEP network easier and a much better option.

If we are running from a bear I don’t need to be faster than a bear, just faster than other people with me, lol.

Mine runs Wireguard for the whole network along with being a basic media/file server. One USB port with a 2tb drive does a lot.

Also, for the password consider using a password manager so you can autofill, and also consider using a MAC address whitelist so you can be sure only intended devices can connect.

I would recommend looking for sources that scratch that learning itch independently of your doctors and other staff. Podcasts are a great option and can really deepen and broaden your knowledge without requiring lucky exposure to patients with a given issue.

One podcast family is the microbe.tv group, shows like This Week in Virology, Immune, and This Week in Paracitism.

I would also recommend This Podcast Will Kill You, this one is really fun and has very good deep dives into awesome medical topics.

Once you have your own educational material you can make your decision with no specific tie to your workplace for getting your education.

How did you go? Any luck?

This is heavily medicalised but yes, this is better than basically anyone from a conservative background could hope for. There is a lot of misinformation out there and it is easy to find an echo chamber that would support rejecting you, so keeping in line with his current sources is a good idea.

NTFS does not have the permissions structures Linux native filesystems have. All sorts of problems come from using NTFS for executable files. That said, exfat seems better in a bunch of ways, maybe try that?

Wikipedia has your back

So yes, they are still possible to train and use, are in active use (for example in photography for rafting), and there are RFC standards relating to internet over carrier pigeon. Also, they are actually favourable compared with ADSL so yeah, a legitimate possible option for some cases.