u/try4gain_

The vibe here is off the charts banana pants.

I used this sub every day for years, then took a long break, and now when I come back the vibe is totally changed and everyone needs to go to the hospital.

Yall are talking to people who are nervous about alcohol WD and giving them the most doom and gloom advice ever. Some people are posting and not even mentioning WD symptoms and the comments are recommending they go the hospital or detox. This is absurd.

>RandomOP : hey guys i get some anxiety and insomnia from alcohol wd what do

>SeriousCommentGuy : BROTHER PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUS AND GO TO THE ER RIGHT NOW OR DEFINITELY TOMORROW CHECK IN TO A $15,000 DETOX

Stop talking to them like you're some kind of professional and they are presenting with serious WD issues that could be life threatening.

• YES some people do have seizures

• YES some people do die from alcohol withdraw

• BUT it's usually a pretty long road to get there and people arent falling over dead from their 2nd taper attempt

Thousands (millions?) of serious alcoholics go through SERIOUS withdraw symptoms every day and dont die.

I was a crash and burn binge drinker. WD was getting super bad. Had been getting worse over ~3 yrs. Tried and failed to taper several times then accidentally got it and never went back to drinking. I was going to lose my job, apt, etc.

During my years dry I never 'almost relapsed'. Ive been to bars, DJ events, live music many times. No temptation to drink. Its nice being able to leave a dance club 100% sober, no tab, and drive home w/o worrying about getting pulled over. Or if I see a band live the $$ that would have gone to a bar tab, I can use it to buy tshirts, etc.

At first being sober sucks and is boring. But it slowly gets better. Just gotta wait. At first nothing was fun.

Every now and then I romanticize beer. Recently my brain was doing a pretty decent job slow-walking me down the road of 'we can probably just have a few light beers'. But Ive read too many relapse stories and know what will happen next.

When I first quit I was smoking a weed and CBD then decided to quit that and was 100% sober for ~6 yrs.

I've had a trouble with a lot of inconsistent moods from day to day. Lots of agitation, then other days pretty okay or even good. Some of it was due to low iron (which is needed for dopamine production). I feel like the agitation is actually just low dopamine.

I fee like my dopamine receptors are just messed up since abusing alcohol.

Recently started smoking CBD again (zero thc) - like 1 big puff per day. Huge quality of life increase. I feel like it 'turns on' my dopamine for the day. For 8+ hrs I'm having a great day. The quality of life change for me is night and day. CBD is very mild compared to full on weed.

One of the great things about being sober is I got into lifting weights at home. Best shape of my life. All my buddies who drink are in worse shape than me, despite having a long term athletic lifestyle.

77077 zip code. We've had Xfinity for ~2 yrs and it's been very solid. Then ~1 week ago there was some outage. Every since then we get several intermittent problems every day.

- All devices lose internet access.
- Router light stays white.
- Tried power cycling several times.

For example just had a ~30sec drop at 1:50pm and then another at 2:05pm. Confirmed on 2x devices. It was never like this until the outage ~1 week ago.

Leaving this here for future travelers.

Aspire 14 AI
Model N24Q14

Problem : When I try to go into BIOS or boot from USB drive it just hangs at the Acer logo and the keyboard light stays on.

I tried a number of tricks from Google / AI chat but it didnt help.

I was stuck with an OS that wouldnt boot, and also couldnt boot from USB - not good.

Solution : I opened up the laptop and removed the NVME drive (one screw) then turned on the laptop and was able to boot into BIOS first try. From there I turned on "F12 boot menu" option. Put the NVME drive back in, then was able to boot from USB okay.