Sterile_Technique

Thinking along the lines of Freeman's Mind, Neeb's Subnautica, Red vs Blue (their channel is locked behind some kind of 'join' thing... wtf...)

Anyway, nursing student here! ...it's melting my brain. I don't trust my time-management skills to actually fire up any games right now - the addiction is real, and I'll fuck up my grade; but the 'itch' is also real, so I'm trying to find something to give that gaming fix, but in little short bursts so I don't one-more-level my way out of the program.

Study up, give my brain a nice 10-20 min break, then get back to it.

Not really picky on the game or genre, just looking for something in-character. YouTube is absolutely STUFFED with videos of people just playing games, but hardly any focused on delivering an actual story. Or rather, I'm sure it's there, it's just lost in a sea of low quality slop.

Any recommendations on picking out the gems?

Nursing student here, nearing the end of the program (WOOOOOO!). Most of my textbooks are digital, cuz those were cheaper than the physical versions, but when I log into my 'eLibrary' now, there's a little notification flag that pops up saying access to it ends soon (a month or so after I graduate).

Um... what the fuck?! I'm still going to need access to that material through my nursing career or if I decide to go for a higher degree type.

Most of my textbooks are published by Elsevier, and hosted in an 'eLibrary' at https://pageburstls.elsevier.com/ - once the book it open, it's obnoxiously locked down: copying via ctrl+C does nothing, printing a page or print-to-PDF results in just the sidebar text and page header, but the actual 'book' is blank; and trying to save a copy with the Firefox extension "Single File" also results in a blank page. There is a copy feature built in, where you highlight text and a little window pops up with "Copy" and a few other options, but doing this fails to capture images, and makes an absolute mess of tables, which both make up a lot of the material. And I'm sure my usage of the 'copy' feature is logged, so if I did that to an entire textbook I'd probably get my account flagged or disabled.

I'm probably the least tech-savvy person on Lemmy, so I definitely don't trust myself to torrent this shit without attracting a small army of lawers hell-bent on ruining my life... but I do at least want to keep the material I fucking paid for. I know there are places like LibGen, so textbook piracy is very much a thing: whatever tools are used at the start of that process to rip content hosted on a webpage and get it converted to a PDF or word doc or something sound like the things I should be using.

We have a summer break coming up soon, and backing all my shit up might be my summer project... what tools should I use to accomplish this?

As Youtube becomes filled with more and more shit, I'm increasingly interested in block/hide type features. Even for videos that aren't shit, I'm seeing the same ones appear constantly in the recommendations, even if I've already watched them.

Or in the 'videos' page of a channel, being able to zap-out-of-existence ones I know I don't want to or have already seen: basically the channel should appear completely blank eventually if I've had enough time to pick through it, giving me an at-a-glance gauge of whether there's new content in future visits.

Figured there'd likely be an extension that does this, but I'm not seeing one...

Using Firefox. I do have uBlock Origin, and my first thought was to use the block-element feature to accomplish this, but that's doing things like hiding all the thumbnails vs the content specific to the video I targeted with it.

Any tips?

Edit - y'all are awesome! I'm gonna check out all of these - thank you!!

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A family member is moving out of country and convinced the best way to keep in touch is with WhatsApp. I really don't want to install any Meta shit on my phone.

Any recommendation for a FOSS or other alternative from a company that's less of an ethical dumpster fire?

Been on an Avenged Sevenfold kick lately, with a strong emphasis on songs like The Stage and Wicked End and most of their respective albums. I think it's technically progressive or symphonic metal, but it's got a pretty unique sound even within that category. Idk if 'theatric' makes sense, but I'm struggling to put to words what's setting their music apart in my head.

Anywho, I'm looking for more music that has a similar vibe, but running into the familiar problem of streaming services being trash when it comes to categorizing metal. Any recommendations?

I hit a critical milestone on the way home from school today.

I'm guessing the legal fuzziness is causing a reluctance to report from providers, but I'm having a hell of a time finding much of anything post RvW.

Specifically, I'm wanting to compare rates of IUFDs/stillbirths, speed and effectiveness of care following IUFDs/stillbirths, and maternal complications/deaths - all in states (or countries) that offer access to abortion care vs locations where that's restricted.

Hypothesis is that if someone needs an abortion and can't get one, they're more likely to have a IUFD/stillbirth, and since poor abortion access correlates with poor women's health in general, that they're more susceptible to sepsis or death as a result of delayed or insufficient care following the IUFD/stillbirth.

This is for a presentation that's ready to go as is, but with an election happening RIGHT NOW I'd really like to drive these points home.

Any pointers for sources of info on things like this would be much appreciated - thank you, all!

Nursing student here. I record lectures so review them at high playback speeds, and to share with classmates who aren't able to make it to class.

I've been using the small clip-on battery powered mics made for doing interviews, but last semester revealed a few weaknesses: The profs don't like to actually wear them, so I just clip them onto the lecture podium - works fine while they're standing at it, but they don't have good range, and most of the profs move around a lot as they lecture, so the volume of the recording is all over the place or completely silent if they stray too far away. Also 99% of the time a student asks a question, the mic doesn't capture it at all, so I just get a few seconds of silence followed by some random info with no context. The battery is also only enough to get through about 2/3 of a class period - fine if I remember to swap them out during a break, but not ideal.

Going forward, I'm hoping to find an option I can just plug into my laptop, sit near the front, and record. A normal desktop conferencing style mic stands out as a decent option, but thinking of the range issue I'm having with the portable mics, I suspect a conferencing type product will have the same issue since it's made to record sound coming from like two feet away from the mic.

I've seen like giant fuzzy mics used on movie sets - should I look for something like that?

And are there specific product recommendations you'd make that are on the less expensive end of the spectrum?

Thanks all!

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Thanks for all the feedback folks! Time to dig through reviews.

Made this for a comment reply to another thread; thought y'all would enjoy it too! ^_^