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There are precisely two instruments on this world I would try to learn:

• the bag pipes

Because, to my knowledge, it it the most annoying instrument known to humanity. It's loud, it's screechy, it's haunting, it's everything hateful in a music instrument and yet it is so damn epic sounding.

• the hurdy gurdy

Silly sounding name for an instrument capable of sending shivers down your spine.

It is also ridiculously cumbersome and unless you know what it is, the basic reaction to it is wondering if a piano, an accordion and a jack-in-the-box had a threesome and nature decided to create the musical instrument equivalent of the platypus.

I like this instrument so much I created a character for a story that is a necromancer bard, that conveys spells through the music of the hurdy gurdy.

A top of the line gaming desktop here (Hello from Portugal!) and I do mean top of the line, competitive esports gaming, will cost about €3000.

But when you decompose the machine, a good deal of money goes towards fluff like rgb, rgb components, glass panel box, etc - yes, I'm judging here - that if swapped out for non flashy items can shave off €200 or more off the top.

Plus, a gaming desktop can be assembled incrementally and will usually last longer and components can be used from one machine to the next.

Given you are playing for entertainment and not prpfessionally, a machine can give you years of joy.

Owning a computer, especially if a desktop, makes more sense, in my understanding.

In my country, a gaming laptop is about €2500, while a decent gaming desktop starting on the €800.

Even when factoring in the energy, unless running a 1KW+ machine, 7 days a week, non stop, it still makes sense. You have your data in your machine, in your home.

Tremendously incompatible, if 1/10 of what is portraid on movies is true.

If it somehow worked for you, I'm glad, but we all deserve better, especially when it comes to our minds.

That was good and bad to read at the same time.

Good you got the help you required, bad because you were never properly met by the psychiatrist. That's dehumanizing.

A psychiatrist is a medical professional in my country, while a psichologist is a therapist with no license to recommend or prescribe medication.

A clarification, please?

Where can a psycologist prescribe medication?

Perhaps fetching all of that junk might be a good idea? Perhaps a satellite trash collector satellite.

I worked closely with an energy company for some time and enjoyed talking with the field maintenace personell and soon discovered that fable of sensible electronics on the power is just that.

Most of the power relies on hardware to control, distribute and protect the grid. And I mean old school hardware, not electronics.

The most electronic dependent part of the grid here is essentially on the end of the line, inside consumers homes, to measure and control the energy delivered and consumed.

Wild fires are more of a menace to power lines and energy distribution than thunderstorms or other massive energy discharges.

Someone on Lemmy wrote the modern anti-cheat systems are essentialy rootkits.

And after reading that list, I wholeheartdly agree.

The best way to counter publicity is to simply erase from your mind. Turn it into white noise.

I don't have a clue how I've learned how to do this but I can have multiple publicity spots thrown at me that I won't retain a thing. Sometimes to the point I get a song stuck on loop in my head and I can't figure where I heard it.

Using tools to dodge or simply eliminate ads is also an option, especially online.

You can take back your freedom of choice to take part of an audience for publicity if you are willing to put some effort to regain it.