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Hello. I was wondering, what's the most private and secure cloud storage option right now.

My use case is, I'm overweight and on the journey of losing weight. I want to keep track of my body and save every kind of information about my body in a safe, secured place. Which includes captured photo of my body, medical reports and everything in between.

I don't need paid plans of 100 GB storage and more. I'm keeping track for 1 year, and I think that'll mostly hold up within 10 GB.

This is my unified reply to all of you guys giving enlightening advices.

This post, or my decision on starting a 4 hour sleep routine is still just a strong decision. I haven't acted upon it yet.. Hence this post to get what the elderly and experienced people have to say who did maintain this kinda routine when they were in my age.

It isn't that I don't understand the underlying biological damage that would have caused on me if I really were to stick on this routine for long.

I was angrily gritting my teeth( imaginatively ) against the people( my parents ) who ( kind of ) made me to push myself to this negative extreme. That's why I suppose, was taken back by my ego or something like that and decided to make this self-damaging routine to follow.

I had other plans in this routine that'd suffice in the psychological way( meaning, to avoid burnout, crashing out, snappy temper etc ).

But, after reading your comments, who are experienced and lived through this kinda phase, I realized that for my mental health, maintaining other sorts of psychological assistance while avoiding enough sleep is like, feeding my stomach with side dish like salad dressing instead of eating actual salad.

From where I am, now it's night time. Tomorrow is a big day for me. And after reading all of your comments, I've decided to fully drown myself in sleep without setting an alarm. I'll let myself be.

Probably I'll wake up with a clear head, and with a reason not to keep myself deprived of sleep that much.

I'll give an update. Thank you everyone.

[-] Potential_Pinata@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm kinda in a situation of "The world can go fuck itself but I need to grind." Not physically, but mentally.

I had a dispute with my parents 2 days ago. They're the typical parents who doesn't even know the existence of mental health and don't know that it is an actual concern, plus they bring down trauma of their parents by picking on their children( me ).

They have been doing this for years and only yesterday, I decided that I won't tolerate their behavior.

That's when I edited my current routine and changed it into the one I wrote in the post.

I decided that I need to get a stable grade first, no matter what. Then I need to increase my financial income.

Only then, I'm hoping that they MIGHT stop picking on me and then I can focus on myself, for myself.

Anyway, increasing the sleeping hours isn't impossible. It's just that, after getting put under their demeaning spotlight, I don't find it worthy to have a good sleep for myself anymore and probably there's not much of a convincing method that'll shift my mindset to think otherwise. Probably....

Perhaps I'll change my decision after 1 week....

I'm still at a "whim of the moment" position. I'm determined enough to stick to a 4 hour sleep routine, but not sure enough if that is an ideal decision for me. Also I don't have enough willpower to atomically divide down and re-edit my schedule to increase it in a 7-8 hours sleep schedule. At least, not for now.

I might give an update after 5-6 days.

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Research VS Reality.....? (sh.itjust.works)

Hello. 23M here. Upon considering my routine, I found out that If I need to do well in my studies and overall life, I can allocate myself only 4 hours of sleep at most. And I need to continue this for at least 4 years.

Though I had been skipping sleep for all sorts of loser-oriented reasons, from my high-school days. Binge watching a series or gaming all night etc. But never too strongly on a regular basis that can be considered as insomnia or anything.

Scientists, upon researching individuals with sleep found out various life-concerning symptoms and outcomes when they weren't getting "Enough" sleep on a regular basis. Even though symptoms weren't reflecting that quickly, but some brought devastating outcomes later on life. These results are found in journals and research papers.

But I want opinions and advices from people who weren't a part of the research. Just regular guys who chose to focus on life too seriously by less prioritizing sleep.

My question is specifically towards the elderly people. Those who used to sleep less, around 4-5 hours daily for some years in their teenage, post-teenage years like me.

Did any of you guys face concerning health complications later in life that were then diagnosed as a lack of sleep in your teenage era?

Additionally, I have a slight memorization problem. I can't remember more than 90% of what happened to me back in my high-school era( 2016-2021 ). I used to vaguely remember until 2023 when I started to forget.

So I don't want to have any more cognitive complications by sleeping less hours in my thriving time.

Considering that I only need to continue this for at most 4 years and not more, How severe of a health complication I might face in future?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Potential_Pinata@sh.itjust.works to c/buildapc@lemmy.world

[ Off topic ]

Couldn't find a laptop-specific community to ask this question.

I'm thinking to buy a 2nd hand/refurbished laptop.

For study purposes, browsing the internet, tinkering with a few note-taking apps like Obsidian, Capacities, Logseq etc. I'll persue coding in future.

Will definitely use linux. Probably Zorin OS or Fedora.

My last laptop broke back in 2023 and I've never touched a pc/laptop since. This is probably why, I lack the understanding of computing power of laptop grade processors in today's standard.

I just want to know that the things I'm hoping to do with my yet-to-buy laptop within a linux environment, will a i5 chipset be enough?

Here's what specs I'm hoping to get alongside the chipset:

16 GB of DDR4 RAM ( Non-soldered ) ( At least )512 GB SSD ( any variant will do )

I'll eventually upgrade the RAMs and SSD in future. Maybe when I'll start coding. But for my study purposes, 16 gigs is more than enough.

Will i7 be a perfect balance with the 512 + 16 GB combination or i5 will be efficient enough?

[ Picture is collected from another Lemmy post. Excuse the picture ]

[-] Potential_Pinata@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wow. I didn't know about the term "prophantasia" until now. Probably because I think that visualizing things in our 3d world is a normally developed imagination power of the people who don't have Aphantasia.

Prophantasia seems like biologically evolved Augmented Reality. Where instead of wearing a piece of AR glass, We're naturally born with this trait.

I can pull out my palm in front of me and visualize a small cat jumping around. Not for too long because I cannot imagine the random movement a cat does. But, as a still object, visualizing an apple is easy.

I am more curious to wonder if someone can manually develop Spatial Intelligence without being born with it priorly.

[-] Potential_Pinata@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 months ago

Isn't 5 is called Aphantasia ? To be unable to visualize something in the mind?

[-] Potential_Pinata@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

Mesmerized Astronaut: Wait, It's all water?!

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