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PM me 😉.

I've been in the wrong place my entire life. I was born in the wrong place. I don't feel like I've ever belonged here. And then I see people in other more stable countries and see how they function on a day to day basis and I realize more and more that I'm just not cut out to live where I currently live. Here, you gotta have strings in every single government agency, ministry, whatever, in order to survive... cuz everyone tries to fuck you over a million different ways, so you gotta watch your back all the time. I'm just not designed like that. It's like someone did a lobotomy on my brain when I was born an threw that EQ part of it in some dumpster. I'm socially friendly and I love hanging out with people, but when it comes to seing red flags or signs that something bad might happen, I'm just... a complete dummy. Years of hanging out with all sorts of people have corrected this side of me, up to a point, but it's still not good enough. I really feel like I was just born without that gift, unfortunatelly, a gift that so many people rely on (at least around here, street smart is the way to go here, otherwise you're fucked). And I'm just tired... just tired of endlessly lagging behind everyone esle around here. I'm not stupid, I know I'm not, but being smart has nothing to do with being street smart... unfortunatelly.

That being said, I beat myself over for years why sometimes so simple social concepts or warnings escape me, but are so blaintly obvious to everyone else. But, I stopped doing that. I just set different goals for myself. I am obviously born in the wrong place and my brain is just not wired to think like people do around here. I have tried, I really have, but I feel like I'm always miles away behind everyone else. I currently can't leave this place, my wife doesn't want to leave, and we have a son, so it's not an option right now. But as soon as the kid is a bit grown, I am definitely out of here.

And the fucking heat... can't fucking stand the heat 😭... every fucking summer, every god damn summer, it's the same story, over and over, 45C on a good day 😭. We didn't even have snow this winter, it barely went below 10C.

I may be on the spectrum, who knows... that's not a field that is that well developed where I live, so practically, short of dumping a lot of money and flying over to a western country to get myself checked, there's very little anyone can tell me here. Hell, ADHD is news here, lol, people still don't know how to diagnose it, so they go abroad 🤷.

Maybe, who knows...

My mom gave me this advice. None of the advices she has ever given me have ever panned out right.

If they can buy the .ml domain, everything can work as it was. The question is, are they even for sale right now.

Oh, thanks 👍.

Older models start, no prob there. Newer ones, that don't have detachable batteries, yes, they can be a problem (sometimes, depends on make and model... usually brands like Dell or Lenovo can make a fuss over it). Even in those cases, there are BIOS mods that remove this limitation.

Of course, that general advice is good and should be followed. But some batteries will die even if you follow these advices. There were some laptops back in the day that had a recharge cycle counter inside the charge/discharge controller in the battery. They would just die, out of the blue, after, let's say, 1000 charges. People that were used to having their laptops plugged in all the time, regardless if they needed that or not, spent the recharge cycles a lot faster than people that just plugged in the laptop whenever it was low on battery. This happened because the charging circuit sometimes falsely reports the battery as a little drained (99%), so it will recharge it just a tad. Still, this "just a tad" added 1 recharge cycle to the count. Over the course of a day, this may happen, 10, 15 times, which ammounts to 10, 15 charges accourding to the counter. So, their batteries basically went dead right after their warranty expired. There are ways to reset the counter or completely jump that piece of code, but it's just not worth it. Too much RCE work for very little gain.

It's a shame though... those batteries were still OK. It was just a shitty move from the manufacturers to try and squeze more money from their clients for batteries.

Doesn't really matter, those chargers can take in from about 90V to about 250, 260V. Forget what the sticker says about 110~230, they're designed for unstable voltage operation (not actually designed for that, but they don't wanna make different ones for EU and UK/US voltages coz it costs more, plus people bitch about not being able to use them abroad, so they just make the same ones and ship with different plugs). Trust me, they can handle voltage swings pretty darn good. They're SMPS power supplies, they're designed to output the same voltage in a very wide range of input voltages.

If you really think that a battery will help (it might help... in some cases... depending on how it's built), just leave the battery on even if it's dead. It might work as voltage dumper in some cases, but as I said, it depends on the design.

Why do you think I spend my time here, lol 😂.

Hell, having the IPs is sufficient enough, no need for the hosts hack.

It should be the last resort plan. Cuz if the domain name changes, that's a new instance as far as Lemmy is concerned. Sure, the instance will hold all your posts and media, but I don't think new posts made from that account will be associated with posts before the domain name change.

There is this GUI app called lasim. Download it, run it, export the data to json. But, the instance has to be online in order to do this.

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https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim