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I'm slowly de-Googling and I'm looking for an alternative to Gboard. I don't mind paid options especially if they provide an apk as I'm toying with switching to Graphene (P8P).

Rhetoric has a price.

We had a security incident at my shul tonight. Everyone is ok aside from a relatively minor injury when the attacker struck an older woman and she suffered a cut during her fall. Our security quickly subdued the attacker.

Our light will not be dimmed.

Am Yisrael Chai.

A picture of our shul's Shabbat silver candlesticks on a wooden table, lit for Shabbat. In the background is red carpet and ornate wall decorations.

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Formerly the Lyric Diner. I didn't even know I was coming here, just looking for a highly rated diner near Irving Plaza where I'm seeing a show tonight.

How delightful.

Explicitly religious music aside, what is music you hear G-d in? I've been listening to The Dear Hunter's latest album, Sunya, and the last line in this chorus got me in particular. (This is from the title track.)

When there's no deity to greet you

You'll stop searching for design

Losing shape, and out of time

There's still meaning meant to reach you

But your past has made you blind

Let go of the devout and feel divine from within you

Anyone else struggle with grip, and/or remembering to hold onto something? Over the last number of years I seem to be having a bit of an increasing issue with holding onto things, particularly glasses of water and such. I've noticed it happens most when I get distracted when doing like a "crane" pickup of a glass like at a restaurant and someone distracts me, I'll just release enough tension to let it flop down.

I've had this with other items too, like my phone or carrying a pen or a tool and just whoopsie forgot I should hold onto that. A cup is just the most memorable because fixing it takes a little longer, lol.

So I see that the Radxa works with the Hacker Gadgets adapter board, and with the prices being insane for a RPi right now, I don't see a lot of alternatives.

Trouble is that it seems like there's no wifi and bluetooth on the Radxa, so things like the AIO board don't work. I know I could at least get that working with a USB adapter, but I'd prefer not to if possible.

Are there any other alternatives that cost less than the RPi, or is there an option to make the Radxa work better for our needs?

I'm only on 5mg IR to start, but Adderall gives me perpetual subtle jitteriness/pins and a needles kind of feeling, but otherwise it works pretty well for me. Tried 10mg but my jaw felt like it was wired shut and I had a complete tightness in my throat the whole day and part of the next from it, so there's no real road for improvement for me on Adderall.

I'm being switched to Ritalin right now to see if that does me any favors, but one thing I already don't love is that it supposedly isn't quite as long lasting as even Adderall IR.

Does anyone else have experience being on these two and have any experiences they can talk about with similar side effects?

Like, if I had zero other choice I'd absolutely put up with the Adderall, it works well enough that I can actually get stuff done now and the side effects aren't horrendous, just a low static on the ol' CNS. I'd just prefer something without those side effects that lets me still get stuff done (maybe with a touch more motivation), and ideally focus a little deeper than I can even on this dose of Adderall. (Still can't really focus on dry reading topics.)

I'm aiming to get to trying something like Vyvanse because I've heard they're a lot less hellish in this kind of way, though now I'm also worried about others' experiences with things like the super slow start others report in the morning.

(And yes, I know so much of this is personal and just wait and see, but I'm just trying to prepare myself for possibilities and options! Thanks!)

My meltdowns look like intense frustration or sudden anger. I'm only just diagnosed in my early 40s and literally JUST starting meds - my PNP delayed them citing "worried about it'll make you angrier," when I literally just told her I don't get this from other stimulants (e.g. cold meds). Sure enough, I'm calm and frustration washes over me now in a more normal way instead of building like it used to.

Still, what the heck can I do with that? I know there will be times when my stimulants have worn off, I've forgotten a dose, or heaven forbid I can't get some due to shortages, so what do I do then?

Somehow I don't know if I'd ever heard this version, and it's definitely a lot more pure and raw than the album version. I always loved Bobby Jean, but it took on a whole different meaning for me when my best friend died young and suddenly 15 years ago.

I'm looking for some alternatives to my old tried and true Oakleys. I feel like a long time ago they used to be a lot more scratch resistant, and despite being relatively careful with them, the ones made more recently scratch so easily. The thing is, I like the fit/coverage of Oakleys and the good peripheral vision of their ones without lower frames (I'm a vampire so I prefer glasses that offer full coverage).

Anyone have any recommendations that won't completely break the bank, but offer better scratch protection and similar field of vision/coverage? I'm not super picky on the style per se, though I'd like to also look less like a cop fetishist if that's an option.

Thanks!

Anyone seen any options for forcing Nordpass to recognize Waterfox as a browser on Android? I checked the settings, and I also checked to see if there was an extension which there was not. Oddly, it also doesn't see my Firefox install even though they're supposedly compatible.

Thanks much!

Kindly, if you don't have something constructive to say, please skip this post.

My baby half sister who isn't Jewish is in the wind, and last I knew, was deep into meth and is very probably dead. It's been many years since anyone's heard from her, and I think I held out hope for a long time that she'd somehow find her way back, but I feel like when I ask myself honestly, I know that the truth is that won't happen.

How can we mourn when we can't know, and when there is no yahrzeit we'll ever know?

Hey all,

So I'm moving to my next phase - I've discussed it with my rabbis and a few other trusted people and I'm looking to go to rabbinical school next. I have time to study because I happen to need to finish my bachelor's degree, but this works out in the scheme of things.

I'm debating whether or not to go for learning Hebrew first (I know how to read phonetically and know a handful of words), or to go for chanting lessons?

It's most important that I know chanting sooner so I can begin doing that for lay leadership credit, so my guess is that, but I'd love to know if I'm missing any reasons I'd need Hebrew first.

FTR, my school wants modern Hebrew for my entrance tests, so actually knowing what I'm reading is secondary considering it's not all a 1:1 translation.

Thanks for your thoughts!

Hey all,

We are rolling out WHfB and one of the things that's different so far is that Windows locks immediately after screen timeout now, and that timeout seems to be around 2 minutes. Our screen lock time is set universally for 5 minutes, so I'm unsure where the different setting is.

Any ideas of what settings I could look at to try to sort this?

Thanks!

I am swapping a chain for my first time and it seems like my chain might now be slightly too long (KMC 9 spd chain vs Shimano original). It seems like the RD is much too close to the cassette now, so although it runs ok forward, it hangs up and goes dangly and slack when backpedaling.

The other day I was riding and for the first time, I'm not sure what I hit but it was hard - I got a nasty shock coming up the bike which then went straight up into my wrist. Something's definitely off with it, so I have a splint on it for now, and I'm not planning to ride for a little bit. Putting normal riding pressure on it doesn't feel very good at all.

The bike is a 2007 Trek 1500 (Aluminum frame), so I'm very restricted on tire size - currently on 25s, and 28s sometimes fit, though it seems to be debated how well they actually do, so I'm not sure tires are much of an option here.

I'm curious about what else I can do going forward to help reduce some of the risk of that happening again, and absorb more of the impact in the future. I already have Fizzik Tempo 3mm bar tape which is in good shape if a little old (not a lot of riding since I rewrapped so it's not worn). I'm looking at the gel underpads Fizzik and others sell as an additional layer, too. If anyone has any opinions on these I'd appreciate it. I'm also open to new bar tape since I'd likely need it anyway if there's something measurably better than the current stuff.

Besides tires, bar tape and underpadding, different gloves, or a flat out new bike, what else can I do?

I'm open to some carbon bars as well, but considering the combined prices for the upgrade, I'm getting into the territory of just getting a good quality used bike that already has carbon bars. Thanks for the thoughts!

I posted here a few days ago asking about a waxed chain and folks were worried about my chain being too old and having worn out the drivetrain. Well, I got lucky, my LBS must've been doing chain changes because I'm well under the .75 marker. Not sure exactly what it is, I decided I'll get a proper pin style one so I can do more close monitoring, but feeling good.

To make things a little bit better still, I managed to re-true my wheels after a small slide on a metal plate into a border rock after the rain last week.

I have an older Trek 1500 from 2007, and I've always used traditional lubes of varying types, but it leaves such a mess so I want to switch to wax. (Yes, I know it'll flake like hell the first ride.) I'm not sure if my chain has ever been chained and I figure I have somewhere around 6-10,000 miles on her (best educated guess only), so I figured I'd pick up a new chain and go with that.

I have an ultrasonic cleaner and Muc-off cleaner concentrate, plus a spray chain cleaner I plan to use for a quick initial blast - is that good enough for an initial clean? Any other advice besides cleaning out the rest of the groupset and taking the time to do some basic maintenance on the parts? Groupset is 105 components with an Ultegra RD (this bike came that way).

Edit: I did take it regularly for maintenance at my LBS, so it's very possible the chain was changed without me knowing, I'm just assuming because I don't recall getting charged for a new chain. I haven't ridden much in years bc I had some jerk try to run me over and I got scared off the bike for a while because I didn't have any good trail options locally. That said, the last year of riding I did get a lot more miles on it than usual - around 3k based on quick math, so it's definitely due if anything.