I never knew who I was. I still don't know who I am. It doesn't matter anyway.
I don't know about pharmacology specifically, but in my case, the cocktail ended up provoking a "chronological limbo": while I do remember many things from that time, I can neither remember when nor for how long they happened. This "chronological limbo" continued happening even after I decided to stop the cocktail on my own (because, if I were to depend on my former psychiatrist, I would still be taking these medication nowadays),
All I can say is in practical, layman terminology: SSRIs/SNRIs "calm down" while Ritalin/Aderall "agitates", and when we put their effects this way, it sounds pretty paradoxical: it's hard to visualize someone who's both "calmed down" AND "agitated" simultaneously without some consequences stemmed from this "seesaw" going on inside the brain.
Also, each pharmaceutical medication comes with their own set of side effects (that's why they come with a quite extensive medication leaflet, not just for legal purposes) and, like a lotto, a patient may or may not "win" these side effects. Doctors often don't recommend their patients to read the leaflet (at least around here where I live) because they argue "leaflets are just legal instruments to exempt the pharmaceutical manufacturer from any legal issues, you should trust me instead". But a doctor (such as a psychiatrist) can only know much about each drug and their side effects, and the doctor can only know much about each patient. Medical consultations last a maximum of two hours and only occur every week or month, so the doctor can't possibly know everything about the patient in that short period of time.
Again, I can't really say about pharmacology, and each situation is specific, each organism reacts differently to treatments, so what I did doesn't necessarily apply to your situation. In best case scenario, you should try to get a second opinion from another psychiatrist. I say "best case scenario" because psychiatrists often contradict their colleagues' diagnoses: to exemplify my case, the first psychiatrist diagnosed me with GAD and depression, another diagnosed me with depression and some Freudian-like childhood trauma of loss, then another diagnosed me with StPD, then the most recent two diagnosed me with nothing at all arguing "it's who you are" and decided not to medicate me... besides the last two, each psychiatrist prescribed me different cocktails, often with side effects, and none effectively got to "cure" whatever I have (which is more ontological than psychiatric), hence my distrust on psychiatry. Maybe the psychiatrists around you are more capable, so I'd recommend trying to get a second psychiatrist's opinion, even though it may be an additional cost: the cost of lasting side effects from medication can be expensive on long term.
@khannie@lemmy.world I'm not exactly into chess, and I'm not exactly sure whether my mind is running smoothly right now under alcohol effect, but isn't this board missing the black king?
@sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz @nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca
As someone who was once medicated with Paxil (Paroxetine) and Ritalin (methylphenidate), a scenario of which is quite similar to yours, I do not recommend. I believe it left lasting effects on my body even though I stopped it a decade ago. Sadly, many (if not all) psychiatrists think of their patients as guinea pigs, unbothered by possible consequences of mixing different substances inside a person's organism.
@Kolanaki@pawb.social @SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com @AntiMeme@sopuli.xyz actually (and I was going to comment this on the main thread before I saw your comment) all numbers depicted at the first panel are spirituality meaningful, not just the number three:- Five, as in the pentacle: the five elements (classic four plus the aether), it also represents the five classic senses (vision, hearing, smell, taste, tactile) as well as the amount of extremities from many living beings (not just humans): head, two frontal limbs, two back limbs (tail isn't counted because even humans have a tail, it's called coccyx)- Seven, as in the seven days: perfection (I don't know why's it, apart from the fact that Lucifer's name have seven letters as the perfect archangel, and the amount of chakras with the seventh being the crown chakra)- Eight: infinity (due to its shared shape with the symbol for infinity)
If we really force some meaning, every number is spirituality meaningful because they either 1) share divisors with known spiritually meaningful numbers 2) lead to known spiritually meaningful numbers after a Gematria-like reduction (summing all digits until only one digit remains) 3) lead to a spiritually meaningful number when represented in another base, and/or 4) lead to some geometric shape whose properties lead to spiritually meaningful numbers.
@stochastic_parrot@sh.itjust.works @noticias@lemmy.eco.br
Uma coisa que me incomoda, como alguém que já foi diagnosticado como tendo "depressão" e "pensamentos suicidas", é a mecanicidade de respostas diante de terminologias suicidas, seja por LLMs e algoritmos ou até mesmo por pessoas: frases genéricas como "você não está sozinho", "isso vai passar" e "ligue para o CVV", por exemplo. Para quem cuja depressão emerge, dentre outros fatores, de uma percepção de como o mundo é enganoso, isso mais atrapalha que ajuda, pois é insincero.
Não me leve a mal: por mais bem intencionados que voluntárixs do CVV e outras "linhas de prevenção ao suicídio" sejam, e são, o máximo que podem resolver são situações de crise que envolvam necessidade emocional de companhia, ainda que ilusória e temporária. Duvido que sejam todos os casos.
Além disso, o óbvio precisa ser dito: voluntárixs não conhecem acolhidxs do outro lado da linha, não sabem contexto de vida, crenças e valores, nem sabem quais termos evitar que poderiam potencialmente engatilhar traumas. As respostas, portanto, só poderão ser superficiais, mais pra "engambelar" e evitar um ato de suicídio do que pra resolver o que causou tal pensamento. É uma dipirona, apenas para amenizar uma dor, mas longe de poder curar a causa subjacente.
E o meu caso, longe de querer ser melhor que outrem, é ainda mais complexo. Nem mesmo o CAPS soube me "ajudar": todas as vezes que passei por "acolhimento" saí mais frustrado que quando entrei, ouvi literalmente de psicóloga "estou com dificuldade em encontrar uma queixa em você" enquanto psiquiatras recentes disseram que preferiam não me medicar (não sei até que ponto é bom ou ruim, bom é que eu não fico dependente de produto farmacêutico), mas nenhum papo me ajudou.
Motivo? É que o que tenho vai muito além de questões mundanas. Não são meras insatisfações profissionais, pessoais, familiares: não é (só) solidão, não é (só) desemprego, não são (só) traumas de infância por bullying escolar, são todo um conjunto de dilemas filosóficos e espirituais, sentimentos luciferiano e niilista de rebeldia e inconformismo com toda essa coisa de "existência humana". Novamente, longe de mim querer ser superior, mas duvido que CVV vai saber dialogar sobre, por exemplo, arcontes e demiurgo, compliance social, determinismo e entropia cósmica, apenas pra citar alguns conceitos aleatórios de dentro da minha mente. Digo porque tentei conversar sobre coisas similares no CAPS e só saí frustrado.
E quando ouço que apresento "perda da função social", esse sentimento extrapola ainda mais: fica blatante o quanto nasce-se pra servitude. O imperativo é "ter função", servir pra servir.
Quando alguém, portanto, recorre a ChatGPTs, o problema muitas vezes está longe de ser solucionável por linhas de prevenção de crises, senão essa pessoa já estaria recorrendo a tais linhas. Então disclaimers genéricos "ligue pro CVV" é nada mais que isso: genérico como a dipirona genérica.
Perdão pela sinceridade.
@kariboka@mastodon.social @batepapo@lemmy.eco.brEu era do interior do estado de São Paulo. Morei por cerca de duas décadas na cidade onde nasci, depois fui pra região de Campinas, onde morei até pouco tempo atrás, quando então saí daquela aglomeração urbana paulista e vim pra áreas mais rurais de Minas Gerais.
Estou há pouco tempo em terras mineiras, então não sei dizer muito (e na real acho que eu não diria muito pra não cometer auto-doxxing) sobre a cidade onde atualmente existo. O que digo é que eu acostumei bastante com o passo mais pacato do sítio, tanto que as cidades paulistas no geral (e, óbvia e principalmente, a capital São Paulo), onde a maior parte da minha existência ocorreu, hoje me soam estranhas, barulhentas, aquela sensação de "muita gente" passou a ser maior que quando eu estava lá. O pouco tempo que passei a literalmente morar na roça me acostumou mais do que o maior tempo que eu frequentava o vuco-vuco de CPTM e metrô.
Minha existência está relativamente estagnada, e minha perspectiva pra futuro anda bem nula pra ser sincero, com "carreira" de programador em hiato e nenhum pingo de vontade de voltar a ser servo do capitalismo. Porém, dentre as pouquíssimas coisas da minha existência que não tenho tanto a reclamar é a roça mineira: a relativa tranquilidade, mais espaço com sintonia natural excelente pra rituais esotéricos (apesar do cristianismo predominar mais por aqui), contato maior com fauna e flora, e menos vizinhos por quilômetro quadrado do que em casas e apertamentos paulistas.
Talking about the country I reside in: the former president got convicted and is currently facing at least a few years of prison for attempting a military coup d'etat. Hopefully, he won't be able to become president again. The current president (who also had jail time a couple years ago, only for his charges to be nullified due to a biased former judge and a biased (highly influenced by USA soft power in order for USA to get more control of this country) due process he underwent, allowing him to become president once again) doesn't have the same "appeal" from his previous terms, and there seems to be some kind of political limbo haunting both the left and the right-wing parties: both aren't sure who will be their candidates. The current left-wing president, as far as I know and if I remember correctly, can't become a candidate again (he's in his third term), and his previous attempt of pointing out a successor failed in the past. As for the right-wing, no hypothesized candidates would perform nationwide, because they're either regional figures (e.g. the current governors of two rich states) not that known in other regions, or the former president's wife (which is particularly funny to see right-wing parties hypothesizing her as candidate, as the right-wing is known for their machismo and "tradwife" bigotry).
As for people, while the country continues highly polarized, it feels to me that people aren't as political as 2015-2020. The current left-wing president isn't performing well in surveys (even though, to me, I've been agreeing more with some of his positions, especially his courage to openly label the current situation in Gaza as genocide, something that few world leaders did). But people don't seem so cheerful for the right-wing, either. So I guess this answers the main question with yeah, people around here seem to be tired of politics and governments as a whole, yet they don't seem to be doing much about it. People seem to be busier with other things beyond politics.
Note: I'm talking about my perception, which is likely biased towards the apolitical. The reality is much more deep and complicated when we consider the entire country.
@skisnow@lemmy.ca @The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world@comicstrips@lemmy.world
Does the following count as original?
@ThefuzzyFurryComrade@pawb.social @fuck_ai@lemmy.world
I'm going to diverge a bit from most replies.
In Spiritism (esp. Kardecism), there are two concepts, namely "Electronic Voice Phenomenon" (EVP) and "Instrumental Trans-communication" (ITC). They're about contacting the supernatural (be it the deceased or divine/angelical/demonic entities) through electronic apparata: radio receivers, analog TV sets, walkie-talkies/HTs (such as those from Motorola, Baofeng, Yaesu, etc), among others.
The idea is even older (necromancy, automatic writing) than our modern paraphernalia, dating back a few millennia ago to the Chinese grandfather of Ouija board ("fuji"). Spirituality, and religions in general, stemmed from our (living beings) long relationship with Death: proto-religions practiced by hominini involved funeral rituals, way before Venus figurines were made, and similar behaviors are known among non-human species (e.g. crows, elephants, etc).
See, dying is such a mysterious phenomenon. The "selves" ("individual life-force" within a living being), even those unable to conceptualize their own "selves", can't possibly know what happens after the complete shutdown of organism: is it full annihilation? What is ego-death? What does it "feel" like? How long it "feels" to take?
It can't be an objective inquiry because the "self" (e.g.: me, the one writing this text) can't be "scientifically replicated", and even if it could be, it wouldn't be able to distinguish itself as "another self". So it's always subjective experience. It's part of how self-rearranging structures (living beings) work: they try to make "sense" of the reality around and within them, and this meaning-making is also subjective.
Those (e.g. rationalist atheists) who question beliefs should question themselves as well, because their questions stem from the same driving force behind meaning-make: even though the atheistic drive is fair and grounded in objectiveness of scientific rigor, it's still meaning-making (and I must nod to Descartes: the doubt relies on our senses, which are known to deceive us).
That said, it's no surprise how this extended to LLMs. It's not something inherent to LLMs, nor it's inherent to hominids: it's meaning-making, alongside the fear/awe towards Death Herself.
I'm likely biased in explaining those things. I don't exactly believe in "contacting the deceased", but I do believe in "contacting Dæmonic entities" (Lilith, Lucifer, Stolas...). I see them (esp. Lilith and Lucifer) as powerful manifestations, even though I know they're not "beings". I myself experienced "gnosis" (sudden spiritual inspiration), even though I know I likely have Geschwind syndrome. It's meaning-making nonetheless: if we don't try to make some sense of this strange and chaotic non-consented reality, there's no reality at all (= nothing exists).
(And, no, I don't seek Them through LLMs, although I don't rule out the possibility of Their manifestation through "modern" apparata)
@tux0r@feddit.org @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
I momentarily (mis)read the cartoon's title as something like "When we all have pocket teleporters" and thought the first frame was some kind of use case for a 19th/20th century sci-fi pocket teleporter, where said device was activated allowing the person to run faster while chasing the train.
My eyes followed to the second frame and only then I realized the cartoon was about pocket telephones, not pocket teleporters, beeping while being inside the pocket.
A beeping pocket teleporter would be equally annoying, though: "No, I'm not interested in a monthly subscription fee of 42 bars of gold for faster and farther teleporting needs, shut up with your ads, Thomas Edison's Magic Porter Apparatus"
@the_q@lemmy.zip @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone@politicalmemes@lemmy.world
I can't help but recall of two quotes: one from Rousseau who said "Humans are born good but society corrupts them", and another from Hobbes who said "Humans are a wolf to humans". While it seems like both thinkers couldn't agree with each other because both statements look different, the logical implications from Rousseau inevitably leads to that of Hobbes. I'll try to explain my point below.
When Rousseau says "society corrupts good humans", he implies the existence of not-good humans because, as we know, society is made out of people (not just Soylent Green). Rousseau implies that the not-good humans were once good until they got corrupted by earlier not-good humans, which were corrupted by even earlier not-good humans... somewhere, non-goodness was born. Causality requires that a non-goodness stemmed from some kind of "patient zero of evilness".
Now, religions would be tempted to think of this "patient zero" as something supernatural: Shaitan, Iblis, Angra Mainyu... It's not exactly wrong (as archetypal representation), but it's not accurate either: it's not something too otherworldly, it's right in front of us or, should I say, inside us.
Take Derren Brown's "The Push" (a documentary about social compliance and conformity): before the auction gala where (spoiler)the person was cluelessly played by a hidden script to push someone from a rooftop, commiting murder to (in their mind) save themself(/spoiler), Derren conducted a "selection process" where the candidates would answer a test: unbeknownst to them, the test was beyond a questionnaire, it was evaluating who would keep standing up and sitting whenever a bell rang. They weren't told to do so: they were, instead, socially pressured to do it, because all the other candidates were doing it. It's the "monkey see, monkey do".
Those who didn't watch The Push (watch it, it's illuminating) might ask: if the candidates weren't told to do it (switch between sitting and standing whenever a bell rings), how did the behavior emerge? The behavior was initially seeded by actors, people who initially acted on it. Then things got funnier: one by one, actors were removed and fresh, clueless candidates were added, until no actors were in the room, yet the behavior continued. It was carried among "generations" (batches of candidates).
There was no devil behind this behavior. One could argue "Derren Brown was the devil behind the scenes, conducting a social experiment", but something motivated those actors (e.g. money), just like something motivated the hypothetical "first evil human" to be evil, except... something also motivated clueless candidates to imitate it, just like something motivated the "Rousseau's good humans" to spread societal corruption.
It's not a devil: it's humans, it's us. We're born with this wolf inside, and it just takes a "push" for it to howl. It's inherent to us because it's inherent to Nature.
@orhtej2@eviltoast.org @youdontsurf@lemmy.world
> be me > always browses Lemmy in "New Comment" sorting order > refreshes page, realizes it's the same list as earlier > "nah", closes bigger moisturefox > hand reaches the smartphone and unlocks it > taps to open smaller moisturefox > browses Lemmy in "New Comment" sorting order again
Yeah, I guess I have some sort of addiction for "New Content". 🤔
@Revan343@lemmy.ca @snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works(And also @Mandarbmax@lemmy.world as per their other, simultaneous reply within the upper sub-thread)
Isn't the gravitational pull from the Moon part of the force behind winds? My reasoning here is something like Moon orbits the Earth -> Moon exerts gravitational pull on Earth's oceans -> water from oceans get displaced as the Moon orbits -> water displacement displaces air -> breeze/wind.
@Hodor@sh.itjust.works @iii@mander.xyz
Or, even better (considering how data centers are getting increasingly power-hungry): cloud in the clouds!
I oscillate between the urge to write (hypergraphia from Geschwind, which I guess I have) and the feeling of pointlessness of whatever I'm doing. The latter gets exacerbated by self-loathing and Imposter Syndrome-like perception that my texts would be mistaken for the output from some AI out there, so I often catch myself refraining from publishing.
Same goes for drawings: even though I try to post my artworks alongside their behind-the-scenes (e.g. screenshot from the app I often use for drawing, disclosing all layers), it doesn't feel... enough "proof".
I still write things sometimes, but not as often as I used to do in the past, when I had a peak for my inspiration (gnosis): at that time (November 2023, IIRC), I wrote a book worth of mythopoetic ideas in mere two nights. The majority of my texts are surreal stories with strong occult elements, sometimes really imbued with ritualistic intentions.
Speaking of which,
What if plants were weaponized by a group of people that wanted to ‘restart’ civilization and bring a better balance of nature
My most recent story I published hours ago ( https://calckey.world/notes/ad2zi2yh2x ) touches on similar motif of global reset. In my case, however, there's anti-anthropocentric tone: human extinction, sparked by cosmic forces. I got inspired by the ongoing 80th UNGA phraseology I've been listening to (their recurrent, diplomatic jargon) to make a Lovecrafian-like ARG where a Headess of State ("Her Majesty of the Kingdom of Babylon") uses the rostrum to summon Ereshkigal (The Mesopotamian Goddess of Underworld & literally "Queen of the Great Earth" in Sumerian), followed by a non-human voice telling us how wildlife finally got to thrive once again with no humans.
Would these people be considered bio-terrorists? Are they all bad people?
Allow me to expand this idea to "cosmic terror", beyond human agency. I must nod to Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, but without the colors: cosmos is ancient (timeless), ineffable, indifferent. Ain't cosmic good or evil, even when humans would be rendered helpless (so, yeah, "bad" for us) if, say, the Vacuum Anomaly vaporized matter at light-speed, or if some other unknown, cosmic phenomenon took place... in fact, much of the cosmos is unknown, especially what lies beyond where light can't escape, as well as universe itself: maybe we're inside a cosmic black hole and/or it's all non-existent, zero-sum (illusion of) universe.
Deep down, we're adrift in abyss, falling without touching ground, for there's no ground but a "continuum" everywhere, sanding our biological vessels as we fall towards entropy: neither good nor bad. She, Primordial Chaos, can snap Her lips and all Ordo is buh-bye at the blink of an eye: not good or bad, She just is.
Similarly within the Pale Blue Dot: we're just another species. A hungry jaguar isn't good or bad, pathogens aren't good or bad, hurricanes aren't good or bad, Mother Nature isn't good or bad. They just are.
@kokesh@lemmy.world @Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world
Creators are paid based on those views if they're willing to be dependent on them.
There are many, many ways for a content creator to be supported (and a viewer/follower to support them) without relying on Google: Kofi, OpenCollective, even Patreon, to name a few. And there are platforms specifically paid by the viewer, such as Nebula.
It's worth mentioning: donation is a thing and many do donation-based projects. It can be even a direct bank transfer from a viewer to the bank account of the content creator. I say this as someone who did support content creators and donated to them. In the past, I used to pay for membership for two specific Youtube channels, back when I still used to use Youtube. When I stopped using Youtube, I went from YT membership to direct, bank transfer to both creators behind these channels. I wished they would choose to use some private PeerTube instance/channel (it's a thing) or even Nebula, but they stubbornly chose to stick to Google's walled garden, unfortunately leaving me with no choice but to stop watching them both.
@felipesiles@lemmy.eco.br @migmarcellinus@lemmy.eco.br
O problema com essas interfaces é que a Google vem, constantemente, dificultando o acesso via interfaces.
Inclusive, recentemente, "Google quebrou todos os clientes alternativos de YT, incluíndo o yt-dlp; uma implementação com JS agora é exigida"
Nada, absolutamente nada, impede a Google de fechar totalmente os vídeos por trás de uma DRM (exemplo: Widevine, mas usando algum codec proprietário no fluxo de mídia que só tenha sido implementado no Google Chrome que eles controlam), de uma forma ainda mais rígida do que aquela atualmente feita por Netflix, Disney+ e Globoplay. yt-dlp (do qual o newpipe e até o Grayjay dependem nos bastidores) apenas têm enxugado gelo, infelizmente.
Isso me lembra um fio na gringa versando sobre algo similar ("Precisamos de um substituto ao Linkedin" na comunidade "Fediverso" do Piefed.social), provavelmente motivado pela decisão recente do Linkedin de treinar IA.
Mas, na real, o Linkedin já era ruim há muito tempo: otimismo tóxico, vaga falsa apenas para coletar currículos e pretensões salariais, vagas que encaminhavam a pessoa pro Gupy e similares (onde a pessoa tem de fazer um cadastro novamente), uso do Linkedin pra "funil" onde o currículo passa pelo crivo de um algoritmo (trabalhei para uma empresa onde faziam exatamente isso: coleta de currículo com Integromat jogando as aplicações feitas por Linkedin para algoritmos frios de filtro por palavras-chave, isso antes mesmo do advento do ChatGPT)...só foi piorando com o passar do tempo, principalmente depois da aquisição pela Microsoft.
Eu só mantive conta por lá, contra minha própria vontade, porque as pessoas das empresas onde trabalhei estão apenas por lá. Como recentemente larguei mão de procurar emprego (e depois de uma carreira de quase 10 anos como programador, não quero mais capitalizar minha habilidade com programação e não quero só "trabalhar por ter de trabalhar" e ter que fazer joguinho de aparências em "entrevistas"), acabei por desativar (ou excluir, nem lembro) minha conta lá, apesar dos pesares (exemplo: perder o "network" que, na prática, eu sequer tinha).
Voltando ao tema do fio, um exemplo de alternativa que consigo pensar é o Craigslist, que inclusive tem regiões do Brasil ( exemplo: https://belohorizonte.craigslist.org/search/jjj ) mas, como dá pra ver ali pelo exemplo que linkei, praticamente não tem atividade brasileira.
Tem também aquelas plataformas de freelance, como o Freelancer e Indeed, mas tais plataformas são mais focadas em bicos. e com as respectivas enshittificações também...
No Fediverso, vi o pessoal recomendando o Friendica como plataforma onde dá pra criar perfil profissional, só que o Friendica é demasiadamente instável e está longe de ter uma grande base de usuários.
Portanto, acredito que uma alternativa 100%, com uma base de usuários comparável ao Linkedin, infelizmente não há. E, pra piorar a situação, já vi anúncio de vaga fora do Linkedin exigindo que a pessoa candidata informe um perfil de lá, bem como formulário no Google Forms que requer isso, recusando o envio se o campo de texto não tiver um perfil LinkedIn.
LinkedIn tem esse monopólio que, a depender do "mercado de trabalho" (de como tem rumado e para qual direção está rumando), dificilmente pemitirá concorrentes de peso: afinal, a maioria dos candidatos seguem confortáveis sob o joguinho de aparências que "o mercado de trabalho" exige, que por sua vez segue confortável com um poder quase "divino" de decidir quem "merece" uma vaga (e, portanto, poder "viver"), através de um julgamento friamente calculado pelo "deus IA" cada vez mais integrado ao LinkedIn e demais fluxos de aplicação.
Resumindo: tá osso! 😥
@obbeel@lemmy.eco.br @migmarcellinus@lemmy.eco.br
Por falar nisso, há, aqui no Brasil (seja disponível em estoque nacional ou importado, mas preferencialmente estoque nacional), algum smartphone Linux?
(exemplo: Librem Phone da Purism, mas é só um exemplo diante de vários "Linux phones" que existem lá fora)
Preferencialmente algum que seja novo (portanto, não usado), não envolva dores de cabeça com ANATEL e Receita Federal, algum modelo de dispositivo, portanto, que já esteja devidamente homologado e autorizado a funcionar aqui no Brasil, vendido por uma loja/pessoa brasileira?
Eu tô querendo me livrar completamente do Android, principalmente depois dessa história toda com relação a "sideloading" (e também por uma situação não muito distante onde "meu" smartphone ficou travado num padrão de tela desconhecido que alterou do nada, me obrigando a resetar pelo Find my Phone e perder tudo que eu tinha).
Até tinha e ainda tenho um Multilaser Zapp com KaiOS. Funciona até certo ponto como substituto do smartphone: aceita os chips de operadoras, bateria dura por mais de semanas... mas parou de funcionar WhatsApp há muito tempo (um dos motivos pelos quais comprei o celular, pois WhatsApp funcionava sem precisar do smartphone, assim sendo, foi meu "celular de rua" por muito tempo quando eu morava em SP), e ainda teve recente enshitificação com propagandas embutidas nos apps nativos, o que me fez passar a manter o Multilaser Zapp desconectado da Internet.
Também o Multilaser Zapp (e o KaiOS no geral) deixa a desejar em usos mais avançados/de nicho, principalmente quando eu estou acostumado a usar apps como Termux, editores de código e de texto, apps para código morse e pra radioamadorismo (e.g. um dongle RTL-SDR via OTG e um app que interfaceia com o SDR), apps pra fediverso (Aria), etc.
Os smartphones com Linux pareceriam me atender bastante nesse sentido mas, além do preço em dólares/euros/libras, não sei até que ponto esses smartphones seriam simplesmente rejeitados na hora de chegar na alfândega, ou se eu teria de passar por alguma burocracia que envolve homologação e etc, com o risco de ser simplesmente recusado/indeferido.
Eu queria evitar burocracias principalmente porque ainda tenho um trauma de outras burocracias que passei num passado não muito distante, então o ideal é se existisse um "Linux phone" já com a devida "dupla-cidadania brasileira", já com o jóinha da ANATEL e tudo o mais.
@DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
I speak both Portuguese (I'm Brazilian) and English, and I also understand a few loose words, phrases and symbols across different languages (including "dead" ones such as Sumerian/Akkadian, as I've been studying it for religious purposes). Some of these loose words and phrases and symbols also include neologisms and creations of my own, for example:
- nam-ush or nam-uš: transliterated Sumerian/Akkadian, the concept/personification of Death, as ush = death, and nam is the abstraction prefix. I tried to coin other words, epithets and phrases in Sumerian and Akkadian as well, even though little is known about Sumerian grammar.- Vita mortem manducat, Mors manducat vitam: Latin for "Life devours death, Death devours life", symbolizing the symbiotic relationship between survival and death (eating involves a living being absorbing energy from what used to be another living being). The phrase tries to follow the Latin grammar.
I also do some kind of layman linguistic studies, also for religious purposes. For example: the word for "mother" is pretty much similar across every language out there, with the labial phoneme /m/ shared across them.
I also possess the knowledge about evolution of language (or what's so far known about it), such as how the letter A stemmed from the symbol for ox's head, which then became aleph, then alpha, then the Latin A.
I also know some alphabet letters enough to, at least, trying to pronounce the word or phrase (e.g. Cyrillic, some letters from Greek, some from Hebrew, fewer from abjad Arabic, among others).
As someone who codes since my childhood, dealing with languages is particularly "easier": even though I can neither fully understand nor read COBOL, I can notice many similarities with other languages I do know (BASIC); similarly, even though I can neither fully understand nor read Italian, I can notice many shared morphemes and phonemes with languages I do know (Portuguese).
I also kind of able to "speak ASCII hex code" (74 68 69 73), as well as Morse, fluently.
That all said, I feel neither better not worse than a monolingual. Knowing more than one language has its pros and cons.
One of the cons I would mention is this kind of situation where I remember the name for a concept in, say, English or other foreign language, while I'm speaking in Portuguese to an exclusively Portuguese-speaking person, but I can't recall the Portuguese equivalent at that very moment, even though Portuguese is my native language, so I end up saying the English word with no way for the other person to understand it, and the whole situation ends up feeling strange.
There's also the concept of "languageless thoughts" I experience often: things that I'm unable to express or explain, neither in Portuguese, nor in English, nor in any other language whose words I loosely know. It's particularly a phenomenon involving philosophical, religious or spiritual concepts, often in a sudden manner (gnosis).