tophneal

joined 2 years ago
[–] tophneal 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

While I appreciate your recognition of our hellish political landscape, I'm choosing to completely disregard your "advice" as it's entirely unhelpful and unproductive. I'm pursuing this specifically bc it's already far beyond a disruption to my life right now. It's a fucking nightmare. Without evaluation I can't get the proper treatment I'd like to help me mitigate the disaster zone that is my mind.

[–] tophneal 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Isn't it just the best? I hope you're able to find a place that can get you in sooner than those 2

[–] tophneal 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

While venting about it to a friend, they gave me the info for where th y go for treatment. I gave them a call, asked and ADHD evaluations are the only evaluations they do. I lucked out hard and was able to get an appointment in mid March, now I just got to make sure I get there on time lol

[–] tophneal 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

They're pretty solid honestly. I chose a shield over one bc at the time I wanted some apps that required side loading, but now that I have an emby server that's moot. The only thing I'm not a fan of is the touch remote, but they still have a remote app so I can just use my phone instead.

[–] tophneal 3 points 1 day ago
[–] tophneal 19 points 1 day ago (16 children)

As an Apple and Linux user, all the people I know that will"throw money" at new apple hardware have enough to not care. They're not power users, they just want something simple and reliable, and apple hardware checks those boxes. The actual apple fans I know are buying refurb, using oclp to keep old machines going longer, or just wait until there's some form of price drop.

I think it's also worth noting to this person that the apple tv hardware costs LESS than a shield tv. But that head is likely so firmly rooted in their own ass that it'd take an auger to remove it.

[–] tophneal 10 points 1 day ago

This is another type of appointment I know I need to make, badly, but fuck if I'm not scared shitless of it. It sure would be nice to at least feel like we can get timely care

[–] tophneal 3 points 1 day ago

I kept running into that too. Every psychologist my psychiatrist referred me to had similar hardly accessible hours. I hope she's got an appointment now and the psychiatrist is a good one

[–] tophneal 7 points 1 day ago

That's insane! I can only imagine how you must have felt.

[–] tophneal 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I do, I've even recently increased my sessions from every other week to once a week, but I can't always afford to call him when the anxiety kicks in and keeps me from being able to do anything but cry. We're definitely going to have a (seemingly)fast session next week.

[–] tophneal 2 points 2 days ago

You got me there! Not sure where I'd put em both, but it would be a damn shame to pass up a PB re/100

[–] tophneal 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Dangit! I should've waited on my mg nightingale buy, I could've gotten the re! Blast you and your seductive selection, hobbytown!

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Me_irl (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by tophneal to c/[email protected]
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22101210

Won't you spare me over til another year?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by tophneal to c/[email protected]
 

Recently got a Sonnet xMac Pro Server case to put my MacPro6,1 into my rack. I'm getting things fitted into the Thunderbolt expansion housing and noticed this board with a socket on it. The board has power wired from the PSU, but there's nothing in the manual/product details (even though it's in the illustrations) that indicate what this connector is or what its intended purpose is. Can anyone enlighten me?

Edit: I just looked up a video of a version of this module with an outer case, for desktop use. Otherwise looks the same inside. It looks like this might provide power to 2 top-rear mounted fans. https://youtu.be/zG4I8q5JbyY?t=285&si=43mA0xhR-7ETQgPd

 

Obviously, I'm unqualified to diagnose myself with EDS, but there's several signs I'm seeing after reading the article posted here, and family members bringing it up as a potential cause/link to another medical condition of mine.

At the end of this month I have a new patient intake appointment with a Primary Care Physician (US healthcare unfortunately.) I'd like to ask them to help me determine if I might have a form of EDS. I've known since I was a child that I have hypermobility, but never knew EDS was even a thing or that it could impact other areas of health and the body, and the more I read into it the more "symptoms" I find that I just thought were odd but part of my funky physiology (scarring, bruising, digestion, foot pain have stood out the most.)

As I'm reading more and more into the forms of EDS and its traditional testing methods, I can't help but wonder if this doctor (or most others) will be hesitant or refuse to test for it. I'm not looking to get much more than knowledge for myself concerning the way my body behaves; I certainly don't expect or want a doctor to diagnose me and start throwing treatments on it.

This leads me to my question(s): Has anyone here that's been diagnosed with a form of EDS felt they were largely dismissed by their doctors, regarding EDS or testing? Also, for those that have been diagnosed, do you feel the diagnosis was ultimately helpful or hurtful to you and/or your treatment during medical care?

TIA

 
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Apparently GB4 goes GRRRR (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by tophneal to c/[email protected]
 

*I am aware they are "B"s, but I keep seeing them as "R"s lol

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by tophneal to c/[email protected]
 

I have a project I'm doing where a small hobby board has connectors for different things, including LEDs. I don't want to use the original LED strip, and would like to make a single LED that plugs into the board instead, but I don't know how to identify/find this connector. Can anyone help?

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by tophneal to c/[email protected]
 

If anyone had any tips/tricks for any of these models, idy love to hear them! I want to do these right by their awesomeness and make them look good!

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Alt OSes for EOL Chromebooks (self.chromebookcommunity)
submitted 7 months ago by tophneal to c/[email protected]
 

I'm curious if anyone has tried alternative OSes on an EOL Chromebook?

Ive read using brunch can keep them receiving updates (without losing Android/Linux containers)

I tried out bliss is from a live usb last night and it was okay. Honestly the 3 launcher options just send to compete with each other.

Anyone tried any others out? If so, which ones, what was your experience like?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by tophneal to c/[email protected]
 

This thing was a simple kit made into a beast with the way I went about layering blacks to get one that was slightly lighter than black-black and kept some of the metallic of the base coat. I'd have done another but it wouldn't go with what I have planned for it without the different head types for the V. Oh well, 2/3 done! This is my take on the Victory coloring for the Rear Shrike Corps from Crossbone Ghost.

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Zaku II C5 for Font Baud (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by tophneal to c/[email protected]
 

HG Zaku II C5 (bc I can't find a C6) for Font Baud in the Crossbone Ghost scene I'm now putting together.

I didn't like the greens used in the kit, so I grabbed some cans of Valejo Goblin Green and Russian Green. The grey's/blacks/browns were painted with Testor's Graphite Grey Metallic. The backpack was painted with Testor's Diamond Dust and given a couple of quick sprays of Ironlak Black Techie, for texture. Bc this is the only suit of the 3 that's "old," I used an acrylic Satin topcoat to give it a fuller look compared to the X0 and V that will accompany it.

Since the Zaku is the only non-combatant in the 4-way fight of Crossbone Ghost, I grabbed a box of Build Hands Round. I was a little surprised when I got them, as all the small, medium, and large options were noticeably different in size from the hands included with the Zaku kit. In the end, I went with the medium, as they were closest (smaller, but still closest.)

Link to some more photos (bc I can't seem to be able to get any Lemmy client to let me upload photos into a posts body): https://imgur.com/a/yieFt17

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MG Nu Gundam Ver.Ka (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by tophneal to c/[email protected]
 

More photos: https://imgur.com/a/qggitCt

What doozy this one is! The build was great! Took me forever but that was on me.

In my now-fashion, I gave it a coat of paint, this time in more places than I usually do. Every piece of the internal frame got painted this time around. I did not paint the yellows bc it's an iconic color to me and I haven't found the right metallic yellow (I don't want gold) yet. I also used a few glitter coats of differing glitter fineness. The finest one was used on the yellows as a light coat to give it some shimmer. I actually really wanted this puppy to shimmer. I used the medium fine to spray on the psycho frame pieces, as well as on the funnel stand segments closest to the flying fins, and the coarser glitter spray on the segments closest to the stand. I was hoping to kind of recreate the summer trail left behind psycho controlled funnels. I also got some of the newer style LED pucks for MG so I decided this guy should have one!

Some things I noticed when building this big boi:

Articulation is awesome!

The few color changing stickers were a very welcome change to the foil stickers of HGs. They were super sticky and pliable. It found it to be no problem using a lil extra thumb force to get a lil stretch on then in areas they didn't quite reach far enough. I also didn't realize they were even part of the kit until opening it, so I ended up painting the light grey ones to match the light silver I used.

These suckers are not built to hold 6 funnels on one shoulder without great care. If 6 fins are on the backpack and it's placed on the stand, it leans lol it's not a snug fit to the back/backpack from the stand.

I did get the P-Bandai double funnel set to go with this (I know I didn't config the Nu for double fins on the backpack, but I like that cool sabre 😎) and the dang fins just don't want to stay shut enough to keep the lil effects in place (as seen in the gallery)

The double fin set also came with 🥁🥁🥁 an exact duplicate of the stand included with the Ver.Ka 🤦‍♂️ SoI guess I have a spare now 🤷‍♂️

Overall a great build! Now it's time to move on to the HG "scene" from Crossbone Ghost I've been planning!

 

I’m having a bit of a hard time with this, but I also acknowledge this is still relatively niche still.

I’d like to make printed recreations of some parts that I currently have. They’re unfortunately a bit complex to quickly recreate manually in a sculpting software. I do have an iPad PRo and a budget for any additional hardware to help. I was hoping I could find a carousel I could connect to the iPad Pro and use and app to control the carousel and scan the parts. I’m not finding anything.

Can anyone recommend a good setup to make 3D scans of these small parts, or an app/hardware combo that could help me accomplish this?

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