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If you have enough ram, you don’t really need swap at all.

This isn’t really true. Swap is important for things other than acting as a memory reserve. Even if it was only used that way, it can still improve performance by paging out unused memory (such as from application startup that then isn’t used).

There are other benefits too. This link goes into details.

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My wife had to go into a partial hospitalization program but is getting discharged Friday. 7 days a week for 5 weeks, 7am-6pm for most of that. Everything leading up to that was tough and a little traumatic. It’s been tough taking on lots of extra duties and I’m starting to feel a little burned out today. The change was hard for our toddler but I kept everything going and we had to hire help so I could still work part time.

I learned I’m capable of more than I thought and overall have more confidence in myself, especially being on my own with a 3 year old and our then 4 month old for several days and handling it fine. But I’m looking forward to her being home every day again for a variety of reasons. Also worried about things getting bad again so we’ll see if the DBT skills from her program help.

Toddler has mild sleep apnea, I was finally able to take her to the ENT and her adenoids and tonsils are fine. So just staying on a nose spray for now. Baby has had a bit of a cold and is sleeping extra but otherwise is a happy smiley kiddo and almost sitting up on his own.

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Beefless bulgogi is amazing. Japanese fried rice is good too. Frozen falafel.

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For what it’s worth, I’ve used Nvidia cards for at least a decade without any major issues. Mostly on Arch, though I do vaguely recall needing to fiddle with it more on really old Ubuntu releases.

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Mullvad stopped allowing port forwarding so I switched to AirVPN for that.

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This is perfect, I’ve just started reading these to my toddler since someone in the parenting community recommended them

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There’s a short book called “A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science” that I recommend. It’s about learning and studying in general, not just math and science. It’s worth taking the time to read it to develop some strategies for your studying.

I also used to use flash card programs like Anki, not sure if that’s still a popular one or not.

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Huh interesting, I was prescribed clonodine before bed to help with restless sleep from ADHD. Might be interested in naltrexone for the alcohol?

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You can really see how loved he was in those pictures. I’m sure he had 4 good years because of you and I’m sure he knew he was loved. I’m so sorry for your loss and know how hard it is.

I lost my dog of 14 years just a few weeks ago. He apparently had cancer and was hiding it until he couldn’t. It was very sudden and still very painful. I’m trying to find a good picture for his urn but it’s still too hard. I think I’m going to write him a letter to process my feelings, sort of like you’ve done here. My condolences again.

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When my wife gave birth, the delivery room had a sign saying any sexual comments, said jokingly or not, would result in you being immediately kicked out. I couldn’t believe they needed to put up a fucking sign for that at the time so that makes this post a bit less shocking to me.

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