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Cake day: January 19th, 2025
  • tomenzgg@midwest.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•I'm gonna try itEnglish
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    18 days ago

    The reason both of these work is because they shift your senses to focusing on something, thereby rerooting your brain in being conscious of the fact that you’re materially in the world (there’s probably a more normal way to phrase that but hopefully it makes sense).

    Your brain’s trying to focus on the panic so these things give it something else to focus on, thereby interrupting your brain, if that makes more sense.

    That’s why another common recommendation is popping in a Warhead; the extreme sour has the same effects as the lemon.

    Another common recommendation is rubbing your hands on a textured surface so that you can focus on the texture (bit of sandpaper might work (so long as you mind how roughly you’re rubbing); bit of corduroy, maybe). That one’s doing the same thing that unknownuserunknownlocation is doing because it’s providing a texture or sensation for you to focus on.

    Unfortunately, panic attacks can mimic heart attack symptoms (such as numbness or struggling to breath) but I usually focus on intaking breath. I figure, – if I can reasonably take in a full lungful of air and release it – then things can’t be as bad as my brain is trying to tell me. Deep and slow breathing, in general, is also a common recommendation.

  • tomenzgg@midwest.socialtomemes@lemmy.world•It used to be funEnglish
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    20 days ago

    https://halium.org/ (not me insinuating you should’ve just searched for it; I just like to be thorough and give all possible information, even if unneeded)

    The very simplified explanation (as far as I understand things) is that it uses an Android kernel to run Linux on so that hardware issues are minimized (the biggest difficulty that Purism and the Pinephones have had and why they’ve been harangued in terms of what they can do is they’re trying to provide open hardware that can work with the pure Linux kernel).

    So the plus side is that things work with Android hardware – because you’re, ultimately, using the Android kernel – and you can (theoretically) open up the number of devices you can run on exceedingly.

    Downside is (I believe) you get Google/Android closed bits running and you’re tied to the development of whomever made that modified kernel. All the complaints about not getting kernel upgrades after a while (because you’re using a modified kernel, you can’t just pull the latest and greatest from upstream and use it) that people have with Android will still apply.

    Given the moves Google’s making, it’s not a deal breaker, for me, but I know it can be for some people so just wanted to give people the heads up.