Well people have frequently mistaken me for a woman most of my life and thats happened to me a few times. Its intrusive and irritating to be told I should look a certain way, especially by a stranger and I would consider it rude to say to anyone unsolicited.

Thats not to say its not worse for women having to deal with the objectification layer, too.

I can see that, personally I was and have been a staunch atheist since well before I touched any psychedelics and it has not changed my mind. To each their own and I think it can absolutely help in finding meaning in life whether or not that comes in the form of a higher power. Tripping alone has been great for me but I admit its always riskier.

I think if anything psychedelics have solidified for me the idea that I’m just meat, but in a very freeing way.

I did, but I did stick with it for years before dropping the vape too. There was a transition period where my smoking dropped in frequency before I was totally done, so it wasn’t immediate for me, but all my friends smoked around that time so that didn’t exactly help. I was nicotine free for a few years after that until recently when I picked up the synthetic pouches under some extra stress. Do with that what you will. Its not a perfect solution, but I do think the vape was very helpful in quitting cigarettes because of the similar sensation that I never got from the gum or patches. Harm reduction tends to be more effective than elimination right off the bat.

Edit: it might be worth noting I do still use a dry herb vape for cannabis and occasionally smoke that, but the noticeable consequences are much less than they were from smoking tobacco or even vaping nicotine/pg/vg. Someday I’ll completely drop the nicotine pouches too, but overall I feel pretty decent about where I’m at.

As soon as the cereal starts to float, I stop pouring milk.

I made a memtest drive and will run it as soon as I need to restart again, which might be soon because I’m starting to see more artifacting again.

Edit: Had a hard freeze and had to restart. The memtest passed with no errors.

I reinstalled the 550 driver and added that line in nvidia.conf. I will restart and see how it goes. I suppose I could set up a temporary dual boot and test it in windows. This all started as soon as I first started trying to get linux working on this pc, though. Prior to that it had been running windows since I got it. The temperature readings all seem fine, too. That being said I think the next thing I try is to replace the thermal paste and if that doesn’t work I’ll dig up my windows installation media and see how that goes. Someone in a previous thread suggested my psu might be going out, which would make sense because its the only original part other than the cd drive at this point, so I think that might be my next try if nothing free works.

Edit: I got a black screen on the first restart, got to log in and then went to a black screen with a working cursor on the second and third restarts, then it seemed to be working fine, until mostly everything went black except some of spotify and keepass and white squares were flashing everywhere for about 30 seconds and then it stopped. Everything is working as normal now for the time being.

Edit 2: Just played Elden ring for a few minutes, the game crashed pretty quickly, but not immediately and nothing else crashed. Still planning to do the memtest at next full crash.

Edit3: had a hard freeze and ran the memtest when I had to restart. It passed.

Its also not true in the US. At least not anywhere I’ve lived or traveled to.

I managed to check the output of that command and switch back to nouveau before it froze this time. The mouse is still operable but you can see the artifacting I’ve been getting. It looks like I am on x11 as my three options at start are Cinnamon (Default), Cinnamon (Software Rendering), and Cinnamon on Wayland (Experimental). I am about to try Wayland just to see.

I haven’t checked the thermal paste, I think I have some lying around. I have periodically been checking the temperature at 2 second intervals in the terminal off to the side and it seems to freeze up regardless of what temp it was at. I will open up and replace it because it couldn’t hurt. I will update if that helps.

I’ll have some time in the morning to mess with it and I will post those results.

I just went in and checked and it looks like it is already off. Out of curiosity, I tried turning on profile one (froze at login, which is what happened after the most recent reboot) and two (froze on black screen before login).

I had some time and updated my bios, then switched over to the 550 driver from the driver manager and upon restart I had the phantom monitor issue which seems to have been fixed by following this post. its only been a few minutes and I haven’t done anything with it yet, so I will update if any more issues come up but I’m feeling hopeful.

Edit: literally the second after posting this reply I got a freeze trying to open steam…

I’ll give that a shot this weekend and see if that ends up fixing the issue! Thanks!

Less sex and love and more politics and drugs.

Somehow 3 is the only one I have. Would definitely trade it for any of the others if I could guarantee I wouldn’t then have none.

Up Top by Busty and the Bass is a great one if you’re looking for some tasty bass.

Captain Hook by Vulfpeck is also a favorite.

Seconded. One hell of a show too.

Animals as Leaders, Thessa, Pomegranate Tiger, Myth of I, and Fractalize are great ones.

Stoort Neer and Vildjharta both have some really good instrumental albums.

Gore., Monolord, '68, and The Damned Things are all a little less heavy than what you might be looking for, but they are all great and have mostly clean vocals.

Polyphia and Chon are also both incredible but probably fall a little closer to something other than Metal.

Country Curious by Lola Kirke

Suffer in Heaven by Chelsea Grin

Hard Groove by The RH Factor

Empress Rising by Monolord

Old RockHounds Never Die by Odetta Hartman

Barefoot Surrender by Barefoot Surrender

Yours Until the War is Over by Amigo the Devil

Science Fiction by Church of the Cosmic Skull

Bilo IV by David Maxim Micic

Quiet World by Native Construct

More Power. More Pain. by Gideon

Here are some of my favorites in no particular order from no particular genre that aren’t generally well known as far as I am aware. I hope you enjoy some of them!