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filterfish
·mês passado·discuss
Life expectancy and quality of life are very different things.
filterfish
·há 5 meses·discuss
> Misophonia, interesting, I hadn’t heard (snort!) of that before. There are certain sounds I will inappropriately respond to, I’ll I read up on misophonia, thanks.

The misophonia isn't a bad place to start: https://www.reddit.com/r/misophonia/

I've watched a few episodes of DOAC so I'll watch that. I know my chronotype but that's about all so it'll be interesting so what they say!
filterfish
·há 5 meses·discuss
My ex-partner has tinnitus and saw a psychologist who specialised in tinnitus. The psychologist suggested she buy a machine that generates a sound slightly quieter than her tinnitus which retrains the brain not to hear the tinnitus. So she bought a machine that generated about 15 different sounds and settled on a pink-ish sound and played while she slept. It took a couple of years but it effectively "cured" her tinnitus. It drove me mad for a while but after a while I didn't notice it.

The machine had different sounds because the sound of tinnitus is different for different people: hers sounded like cicadas, a sound I quite like but she hates!

I have misophonia and used to live in a house where a coffee van would start a generator at 0530 so I used a fan to help drown out the sound. I could still hear the generator but I could sleep through. It fundamentally changed the quality of my life.
filterfish
·há 6 meses·discuss
Likewise and if people say, "why don't you google that?" I usually reply (obviously to everyone's annoyance:-) "I don't use Google". The general response is a blank, uncomprehending look.
filterfish
·há 7 meses·discuss
Looking up the binary in the package management system would also provide another source of useful information. Of course this would dramatically increase the complexity but would, I think, be useful.

If you could look it up using APT/dpkg first, that would be lovely :-)
filterfish
·há 7 meses·discuss
Contempt is very different to hate.
filterfish
·há 7 meses·discuss
Thank you. This is what I was looking for.
filterfish
·há 7 meses·discuss
> I am (alas) an entirely carbon-based user of the em dash.

What a lovely sentence.
filterfish
·há 9 meses·discuss
Agreed,Bandcamp is good, very good.