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I found a backdoor into my bed

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Post by genewitch »

ddalex wrote: post #255
jimt1234 wrote: post #223

> For someone who suffers from insomnia this seemed worth a shot. I can relate, having suffered the same for most of my life. One thing that really helped me was a simple white noise machine, typically used to help babies sleep. Good: I sleep great with it. Also, it's not connected to the internet and doesn't require an app. Bad: I basically can't sleep without it. I have to travel with it (camping!). I even purchase…

Have you tried taking magnesium before bed time?

It's specifically Magnesium Glycinate. There are like 4 dozen different supplemental magnesiums and some of them are laxatives.

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Post by genewitch »

specialist wrote: post #347
jimt1234 wrote: post #223

> For someone who suffers from insomnia this seemed worth a shot. I can relate, having suffered the same for most of my life. One thing that really helped me was a simple white noise machine, typically used to help babies sleep. Good: I sleep great with it. Also, it's not connected to the internet and doesn't require an app. Bad: I basically can't sleep without it. I have to travel with it (camping!). I even purchase…

Me too. Tried all the things. No improvement. Turns out most of my anxiety, insomnia, etc sensations were caused by pinched spinal nerves. I say sensation because I believe, but cannot prove, that my physical sensation led to my mental state. Most diagnosis assume the reverse; that mental state leads to physical symptoms (restlessness, clinching, pit-in-stomach, whatever). I have not yet read anything or met anyone (…

is osteo something that isn't detectable with an xray? I ask because if i go to the doctor for back pain et al and they can't find anything wrong, i'd expect the next referral to be to imaging so they can see if it's skeletal.

I have a slight curve in my spine, but not enough to be a clinical diagnosis of scoliosis. So i will just have "back pain" of all sorts my entire life and that's great, super. But if i get a different sort of back pain i'd expect an xray at some point, right?

Re: I found a backdoor into my bed

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Post by genewitch »

idiotsecant wrote: post #284
jimt1234 wrote: post #223

> For someone who suffers from insomnia this seemed worth a shot. I can relate, having suffered the same for most of my life. One thing that really helped me was a simple white noise machine, typically used to help babies sleep. Good: I sleep great with it. Also, it's not connected to the internet and doesn't require an app. Bad: I basically can't sleep without it. I have to travel with it (camping!). I even purchase…

For the price of a white noise machine you can buy a 10A squirrel cage blower, some mdf to make a box out of, a contactor, and a smart plug and have a white noise machine that filters your air, turns on and off from your phone, and also makes white noise. It can also act as a table to put your phone on and a charge point. I had the two problems of poor sleep without white noise and a dog allergy and now I have neithe…

box fans are usually 20-24" squares and so are furnace filters. you can get real high MERV filters, it doesn't matter how slowly the air flows if you're mostly using it for noise, the filter stops your fan from constantly just blowing dust around. If you don't wanna do 120VAC you can do 12V engine room fans in 1sqft boxes[1] with carbon cloth as the filter material. It really depends on the timbre or tone you want the noise to have. 12V vent fans are higher pitched, box fans a little lower, "squirrel-cage" blower fans are lower yet - if they're the HVAC type - if they're the carpet drying type it's higher pitched because there's a grille over input and output that perturbs the air.

I got tired of replacing $60 sets of HEPA filters after moving in to a forest. I actually bought K&N 20" furnace filters because they're washable. i wash them every 3 months or if they're very obviously grey approaching black, or, during pine mating season, if they're yellow approaching black. I use mean green or simple green, whichever i have handy, and the hot tap in the shower to just wash them off with soap and water.

I have to replace the ~$20 box fans every 3-5 years. They just wear out, probably by design. They break in the startup, if you can get them spinning it'll keep spinning.

[1] shot with on-board mic but you can see the idea. The metal inside is one of those "hold your kitchen utensils" metal baskets, it keeps the form of the carbon filters inside, and stops stuff from getting sucked through. The airflow is in to the hole in the box, through the filter, out the fan. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zmzs9H4NUCQ?feature=share

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Post by treesknees »

genewitch wrote: post #379
jimt1234 wrote: post #223

> For someone who suffers from insomnia this seemed worth a shot. I can relate, having suffered the same for most of my life. One thing that really helped me was a simple white noise machine, typically used to help babies sleep. Good: I sleep great with it. Also, it's not connected to the internet and doesn't require an app. Bad: I basically can't sleep without it. I have to travel with it (camping!). I even purchase…

i did some research, not much, before buying a noise generator for my kid. Basically long term exposure to any level of "noise" may be "harmful". I don't recall the mechanics of how, though. I think something like Believe me, sometimes tinnitus means i don't care if i damage it more, i just need outside to be slightly louder than inside my head.

Surely there is some level of noise for children (and adults) that is both safe and helpful. You're never going to have complete silence in the real world.

I use the Snooz white noise machine and their companion bluetooth app actually comes with a sound level display in dB that helps you make sure you're not setting it too loud in settings like a baby's nursery.

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Post by genewitch »

treesknees wrote: post #384
genewitch wrote: post #379

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i did some research, not much, before buying a noise generator for my kid. Basically long term exposure to any level of "noise" may be "harmful". I don't recall the mechanics of how, though. I think something like Believe me, sometimes tinnitus means i don't care if i damage it more, i just need outside to be slightly louder than inside my head.

Surely there is some level of noise for children (and adults) that is both safe and helpful. You're never going to have complete silence in the real world. I use the Snooz white noise machine and their companion bluetooth app actually comes with a sound level display in dB that helps you make sure you're not setting it too loud in settings like a baby's nursery.

my master bathroom is somewhere ~7dB according to my cellphones, one of which i think i calibrated correctly. The second hand of the clock sounds like a movie revolver hammer cock.

There is a difference between like HVAC and the "noise floor" of a house, and pumping additional noise in. I'm just saying that a "noise machine" may not be a silver bullet. And i even said that me and the wife use it because tinnitus already sucks.

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Post by WalterBright »

rgovostes wrote: post #314
WalterBright wrote: post #34

I've bought several internet radio streaming devices over the years, and they all eventually brick when the server goes out of business.

Do you still have any? I've always wanted to acquire a Kerbango ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerbango ) for my collection. I helped dismantle the backend server that continued running in iTunes data centers, powering the Internet radio feature, long after the hardware was dead.

My latest one is a Galaxy Audio streamer, that now can only play the stations I had put on preset buttons. My previous ones mostly went to the electronics recycler. Amazon has stopped selling streamer stereo components, sigh.

I am unfamiliar with Kerbango.

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Post by Anamon »

optymizer wrote: post #152
WalterBright wrote: post #34

I've bought several internet radio streaming devices over the years, and they all eventually brick when the server goes out of business.

Offtopic: I grew up in a tiny post-soviet third world country. Aside from the usual daily struggles, one lesser known aspect of that life is that we did not have access to primary sources of information or the people who invented the things we were using. We only had a book in my native language on Pascal. I had heard of C from a magazine that had a CD with a C compiler on it, and I walked into a library wanting to l…

I don't mind the offtopic if it's a nice story like that.

I really hope we'll find a way to give the Internet back at least a part of this magic. It makes me sad to see that young people today only know the net as the nightmarish distortion of what it was once promised to be.

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Post by Epa095 »

genewitch wrote: post #378
Epa095 wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI there is https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo which acts as a replacement of the cloud service. I'd you buy one of the supported devices you root it to point to the Valetudo server (which you run yourselves). You can then put the robot on its own WiFi without Internet access if you want to be even more secure.

no need to root it if you have a decent "router" stack. fortigates can re-route even hard-coded IPs to internal services ;-) i am sure others can too, i just know we had to use the fortigate to fix a hard-coded IP that was breaking something. i think it was a fog device, even.

Do you know if this works with any vacuums? I would assume they used https and would notice that man-in-the-middle attack.

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Post by yeshellohi »

KPGv2 wrote: post #168
hinkley wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m still fairly upset that ambient devices never really took off. Nanoleaf at least made a remote like this. It’s a dodecahedron with an accelerometer, so you can program each face with a different setting. The simplest being to program opposing faces for two different light levels. You want to take a nap, turn the controller upside down.

There was a cool device I saw once, used for timing your work. You'd program the faces for different tasks (bug fixes, new features, etc.) and whatever you worked on, you'd have that face up, and when you changed tasks, you'd turn it to something else, and it would track how you spent your time.

You’re probably thinking about Timeular? A neat device but like the 8Sleep also tied to a monthly subscription which is why I stopped using it :’)
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