I had depression since I was 14 and started to take an upper in the mornings and a downer in the evenings by age 17. I also developed chronic neck pain due to scoliosis and took Tetrazepam as muscle relaxant. Later I switched to Diazepam because the French banned Tetrazepam, and that’s where the addiction started. Got up to around 20mg of Diazepam in addition to two beers or a glass of wine in the evenings, at least 2-3 times a week.

The diabolical nature of Benzos is that they have this cumulative effect due to very high plasma half-life of about 50 hours. So if you take 20mg on Monday, you’ll still have 10mg in your blood on Wednesday. If you add another 20mg, you’ll have 15mg in your blood on Friday. Take another 20 and you are up to 17.5mg on Sunday. This can continue until you’re dead half a year later by slowly overdosing. Couple it with other GABA-ergic substances like alcohol and you have a serious multi-drug addiction within a few weeks.

The withdrawals were hell. I stopped when I started studying in 2015 and noticed a pattern of me becoming more aggressive and harsh against my wife due to my on/off relationship with addiction. One time I could juuuust stop myself from hitting her in an argument, which lead to me breaking down crying my heart out and putting a gun to my head. I had become everything I always despised, and I realised I just started because I wanted to be productive in capitalism. The cold steel against my temple made me snap out of my constant cycle of self-hatred and self-harm.

This was the same time when I became a radical leftist accelerationist. If things are bad, they have to become worse to the point the system breaks down. I confessed my addiction to my wife and she helped me overcome it, with healthy hobbies like hiking and swimming.

I started to pull myself together, switched my field of study and finally got a Bachelor’s in 2021. Now I’m completely drug-free most of the time. Had a few relapses and still have Benzos at home as they’re the only pills which help me sleep when the nerve damage and neck pain gets to me. I only take them in emergencies now and only ever keep 4 tablets at home, the others are in a bank drawer.

Nowadays I’m pretty successful job-wise, I’m 35 and in the top 10% earners in my country. I made lots of friends since 2015 and have no fear of dying alone. I work with kids and teach them programming and project management sometimes. Since 2022 I even go on a long vacation every year.

Life is good now. I feel like I have already been at my lowest point and I’ll never ever go back there again.

Please tell!

Drug addiction. Got me neuropathies. Fuck drugs. I tell all kids I mentor.

An engineer.

I became an electrical engineer 🫣

Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?

but without the command

Yeah, but that’s an easy one to parse, if you really need it.

I’m pretty sure if you use OnCalendar it will still be there after a reboot. Let me check.

EDIT: oh damn!! It doesn’t persist on reboots. Sorry for this oversight.

If you inspect the generated timer you see the same format in the OnCalendar line.

What do you mean by persisted? The service and timer will both be there as long as the timer doesn’t end. Which it won’t in my example.

If you want to copy it for later reference, you can simply copy the files.

windows, yes: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/wsl/systemd

for Mac you should probably use macOS’s launchd services: https://www.launchd.info/

single line

here’s a single line for you which creates a one-shot service+timer in one go, suspending the system in 4 hours:

systemd-run --on-active=4h --unit=suspend-after-4h /usr/bin/systemctl suspend

If you want it to run repeatedly, simply replace --on-active with --on-calendar="*-*-* 04:00:00" for example.

But why does it need a cross platform package when systemd is available everywhere? What UX is better than the already existing cockpit?

Yes but it’s Free software and not run by a company

Yes but… Systemd timers are INI-defined tasks and services with unified history and logs, the alerts can be easily added with any alerting system.

Looks good, but kind of superfluous if you just use systemd timers, lol

Systemd timers are the modern way of doing it which gives you everything you coded this tool for, logs and whatnot, in the journal.

And you can run them in a web UI like cockpit aswell.

This might be interesting in a business setting but lacks ACLs and user management in general.

It’s probably also quite easy to hack the system with it if you can inject some malicious scripts.

Thank you for funding the game 😊

I’ll buy a license when it’s cheap. Without people like you who buy games unseen, those games would not be made.

Same, that’s why I open more than 100 on my phone so the number disappears 😬

That’s inevitable enshittification.

Get better cooling. Wife and kids deserve an AC in these inhumanely hot times.

Downclock the system to have it run cooler for now.

Get a properly monitored backup system which either sends you and wife an email automatically sorted into a separate mail folder via IMAP sieve rules, or has a dashboard with last backup time and diff size which has triggers if the backup is older than 3 days or diff size is larger than 10% of total storage.

I recommend the LGM stack (Loki, Grafana, Mimir).

Document everything and make it as easy to retrieve the plain files as possible in case you die.

I get double what my girlfriend makes, so… I don’t care about taxes, tbh. I just wished they’d tax rich people the same as they tax me. If they did that, we could solve so many issues…

It probably lives in the head of one person who wants to contribute his AI skills while others write code and create assets.

Thank you!