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Man those are some great name drops, thank you. I literally have an outlined plan to write my own Mealie equivalent because I couldn’t find anything that fit without selling me some bs service

By the way, where do you go to find these types of things anymore? Web search has been completely fubar for years

I’ll look into nextcloud. What kind of hardware are you running it on? Any type of off-site backups?

Yes. It’s called learning, and you can use just about any app to do it. Note taking apps, lecture/course apps, flash card apps, you name it.

But an app that arbitrarily claims to “improve your brain” with little addicting games? That’s the opposite thing. Good luck

okay but what would the motive to write this even be?

Responding to himself with some scam hustle, hoping that people similar to the OP take the bait?

So are you rolling your own cloud storage?

Can’t imagine it’s a rate limit in my case, it happens the very first time I try to load a video with the in-app browser

Apex ran fine too until they blocked it with the anticheat

Another deprecated feature for old.reddit and third party client holdouts. Pretty soon the whole site will be fully unusable

I’m getting it constantly in my old reddit app with vpn off. Seems if it doesn’t recognize your browser fingerprint it will call you a bot.

You’ve twisted what I’ve said yet again.

You’re starting from the assumption that they’re an addict, because that is your moral judgement of them. Not mine.

Basically the money you accumulate from asking for money will get you alcohol/drugs faster than it will get you shelter.

And that’s fine. A severe drug dependence is a need, not a bad habit. You can’t expect someone to stop a drug they have a physiological dependance on overnight, because you don’t want to ‘enable’ them. Yes, that includes alcohol. Severe alcohol withdrawal can kill someone.

A drug addict chasing a fix without the means becomes a violent threat to society, and themselves. This is not the ‘harm reduction’ you are claiming.

Where have I inserted my morals here? I do not think people don’t deserve help because they are addicts. I merely acknowledge that they need a different kind of assistance than my pocket change will provide.

I’m sorry to inform you, but in a capitalist society, a lack of money is how someone ends up on the street, and it’s how they stay on the street. I can agree that in a perfect world there would be better solutions. The fact that people are still homeless in a society only proves that the solutions we have are currently inadequate, and those who slip through the cracks of our systems wont be helped by those systems as they are.

You can choose to help them in this reality they are in, or you can wax philosophical about what their reality should be. That’s up to you, of course

What a tangent dude. Everything I offer is always based on what they request. I do not ever give them anything they didn’t ask for. If they got something that’s a burden to them, it’s because they asked for it. I’m not shoving food down their throat or forcing socks on their feet.

Great. Good for you. The whole start of this conversation was simply to point out that offering exclusively food is not always the most useful way to help. I’m emphasizing this point for anyone who comes along to this thread with that viewpoint.

Show me the story of the homeless person who accumulated enough fivers to afford rent.

So this is another disengenous oversimplification. You will take the position that a homeless person can sustain a hard drug addiction from panhandling, yet they would not be able to afford a motel room for the night, or an extended stay, and begin their climb back into society. This is purely a moral judgement on your part.

I wont bother trying to convince you, there is plenty of homeless reporting available online that shows these struggles, you’ve just made up your mind and refuse to look.

They likely can’t buy shelter with a fiver or whatever you decide to give them either. The truth is that charities, food banks, and churches are much better equipped to supply the homeless with what they need because it isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution, which is why I donate to those organizations instead of trying to hand out money.

What world do you live in that a fiver can buy someone a substantive quantity of hard, addictive drugs? You’re being completely disengenious here and asserting more moral policing. The absolute worst case scenario is that they use my fiver to get just enough of a hit to stave off withdrawal symptoms, and even if that’s the only relief I give them, it’s still better than offering more food to someone who isn’t hungry.

The solutions you are suggesting are turning away the addicts, the ones who need help the most. I’ll happily put it directly in their hands over giving it to a church with an ulterior motive to push their religious views onto the most vulnerable class of people, thanks.

Offering food is fine, if they are hungry and they want it. But if they decline food when that is not the type of help they need is not some admission of guilt, as it is so often portrayed to be. Often, they’re rightly skeptical of food from a stranger. Some will accept it to be polite but throw it out for their own safety. It only takes me and ~9 or so other people offering them that fiver to pay for a night’s stay in a cheap motel. Offering supplies if they refuse your food is also great to help them with urban camping, but too many supplies is also a liability where they now need to be concerned about theft. Packing light is just as much a survival tactic.

So yes, let’s be real here and help people with what they need not what you think they need. If that’s relief from withdrawal for a night, so be it. If it’s saving for a motel, even better. But services contingent on passing drug tests is not helping any drug addicts, it’s just putting them back onto the street.

Nobody has ever gotten a home from food and supplies, but they sure as hell do with money.

Worth pointing out that most people who help will offer food, but you can only eat so many times a day. Food is plentiful in developed nations. Most restaurants/grocery stores are throwing away and donating tons of food a day, these people will know where to get it.

You can’t buy shelter with food. Supplies are great, but they also wont help someone off of the street.

It’s not an easy problem to solve, but when I’m helping someone I don’t think it’s my place to be the morality police. In a perfect world, we would have systems in place to help these people overcome, or prevent it in the first place . But we don’t live in a perfect world.

ELI5?