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  • limonfiesta@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlAlternatives to VirtualBox?
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    13 days ago

    Virtual Box is a Type 2 hypervisor, which means it’s running on top of the OS, and not directly on the hardware.

    KVM is a Type 1, which runs directly on the hardware itself.

    There are pros and cons to each, and VBOX is a great piece of software, but it is more resource intensive than other options available.


  • limonfiesta@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux is fucking awesome
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    There’s plenty of good reasons to keep a windows device updated and available for use.

    Honestly, I prefer that to spinning up a windows VM, especially if your needs include Windows software that interfaces directly with external hardware.

    I realize that’s not an option for everyone, but for those who have an extra device available, or can afford a used laptop to keep in a closet, it’s well worth it IMO.



  • limonfiesta@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    24 days ago

    I didn’t say there was no cocaine use. There’s always some level of drug use, what I call bullshit on is the idea that cocaine replaced Adderall en masse.

    Workers who need stimulants already have much better, and exponentially cheaper, drugs to use for that purpose.

    Like I said, if the article was talking about work-life balance driving more recreational drug use as a coping mechanism, I would believe that.

    I don’t believe that shift workers are replacing cheap and long lasting stimulants with the most expensive stimulant available.


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    I can understand executives, or people in finance, being able to not just justify their use of cocaine on the job, but more importantly, be able to afford it.

    Unless cocaine prices have come down exponentially in the last decade, I can’t imagine being a shift worker and relying on cocaine to get through the day.

    I’m going to call bullshit on this reporting. I would have believed that if they just said cocaine use has gone up, or that recreational use outside of work has risen.

    If cocaine was dirt cheap, meth wasn’t cheap, or if it was hard to get an amphetamine prescription, I would be more willing to accept this reporting.

    But as it stands, cocaine isn’t cheap, meth is, and prescription amphetamines are more common then ever.












  • limonfiesta@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.worldJapan to criminalise cannabis use
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    5 months ago

    If alcohol consumption fixed declining birth rates, Japan wouldn’t have an aging population and Russia wouldn’t have been facing a demographic collapse even before the Ukraine invasion.

    This isn’t about boosting sex, it’s about being a conservative policy counterweight to opening the door to legalizing medicines derived from cannabis.

    My guess is that it’s a result of an internal NJP compromise between center right and hard right factions: only agreeing to allow liberalized medical cannabis policy, if the law also increased the scope of, and penalties for, recreational uses.

    But that’s just my assumption based on my limited understanding of Japan’s post-war uniparty government.



  • This isn’t some new development. Anyone who’s had regular drug testing in the last 20 years is aware of this. Clearly, you haven’t had a regular drug testing requirement for a job, parole, or any other reason.

    If you had, you would know that modern tests moved the threshold of detection up because of these issues on early era drug tests, which is why this idea persists.

    I won’t call it a myth, because it’s always possible a batch of food grade poppy seeds wasn’t properly processed, and that batch has unusually high alkaline contents, or that someone consumed a disgustingly large amount of poppy seed muffins, or salad dressing, a day before their test, but that would be the exception, not the rule.

    Also, have you never had the poppy seed salad from costco? The dressing is in a small plastic ramekin with at most, a tablespoon of poppy seeds, but probably less.


  • No, it’s not easy to pop hot just from eating a dish with poppy seeds and it hasn’t been for a long time. The trace amounts aren’t nearly enough to reach the minimum threshold.

    I would be 100% willing to believe hospital used substandard or defective tests, that she was on another legally prescribed medication that causes false positives, or even that the hospital administered opiates themselves, and through negligence and incompetece, forgot to put it in her chart.

    But whenever someone says they ate a poppy seed muffin or salad, and that’s the only explanation they have, I’m immediately leaning towards actual opiates being the culprit.

    Not saying it’s impossible these days, I’m saying it’s the least likely possible answer between those two options.

    That said, this is the American healthcare system, so my money is on hospital error of some kind.