Maybe I haven’t explained myself well enough. For many people it’s a choice not between prescription vs illicit. It’s a choice between illicit Adderall vs illicit cannabis, alcohol, nicotine, and anything else they can get their hands on. That’s what happens when people aren’t getting the medication and healthcare that they need. They take their problems to other substances and behaviors.

To be clear this isn’t something I would want to try unless I had no other option. I am lucky that my University does testing for ADHD, and am hoping to get tested one day. I also already have an autism diagnosis, so already get some support, meaning it’s not as high a priority for me as it is for someone completely undiagnosed.

I’ve already tried substances similar to amphetamine like cocaine, and honestly don’t find them that pleasant. I am not in any real hurry to try that again. So I also doubt amphetamines are my thing.

I do find it interesting though that stories like yours happen. I’ve tried some very dangerous and addictive things including xanax, valium, ketamine, amphetamine, nicotine as well as the previously mentioned cocaine and honestly none of them took. I can only conclude that either I have no addictive tendencies or that I haven’t tried the right class of substance yet. It’s almost impossible for me to imagine being in your position. I guess it comes down to genetics or something.

I will note as well that if you can become addicted to the street version then that means you would have become addicted to the doctor prescribed version eventually too given enough time. It’s similar to how pain patients end up addicted to opioids. I am glad you are doing better though.

Yes it’s not an ideal solution. If it’s between self medicating with other drugs versus getting the thing you should be prescribed with through illicit means I would choose the latter. Ideally healthcare would be free everywhere and getting a diagnosis wouldn’t take literal years or even a decade. That’s unfortunately not the world we live in. I have friends that were referred years ago on the NHS and are still waiting.

I am more talking about amphetamine rather than methamphetamine. Chemically it’s the same as Adderall, and you can find actual Adderall from the darknet or dealers as well.

Care to explain this statement?

Having to function in current society with ADHD I presume

Methamphetamine is literally used as a treatment for ADHD. It’s also fairly easy to get a hold of amphetamine on the darknet which is used in things like Adderall. It honestly isn’t that bad of an idea to try amphetamine or even methamphetamine if you actually know the correct dosage range. Recreational users would typically start at a higher dosage than someone looking for medicinal effects. Over time though medical users can end up on a similar dosage to a recreational user due to tolerance.

Again I am not a trans person. I didn’t make this comic or anything like it. What I am doing is pointing out the reality as I see it. This comic is trying to portray that reality in a non-serious way.

Is that actually what you want though? Or do you actually want to hate on trans people while pretending to be impartial? I would love a society where largeley socially constructed concepts like gender norms and race didn’t exist, yet I don’t go around being combative towards minorities like you do. Think about this.

My type? I am a cis man

You still don’t get it. If they actually had equality comics like this wouldn’t need to be made. Are you going to start complaining whenever women mention sexism or black people mention racism?

You seem to have completeley missed the fact that there are real life people who are against trans people, you seem to be one of them which kind of makes me wonder how you missed this fact

You’re the one who came here being combative over things that probably never happened. Someone matched or exceeded you’re level of combativeness and now you’re pissed?! Meanwhile people regularly say trans people aren’t real, or shouldn’t exist, and you completeley ignore that.

Lots of people deny trans and non-binary people even exist. There are also those who want trans people to stop existing. That’s why people go around reminding everybody. How have you not worked this out yet?

I have not seen trans people claiming to be better than cis people. What I have seen is cis people disparaging trans people. I’ve also seen both men and women disparage the opposite gender. I’ve even seen the constant (and somewhat sexist) reinforcement and policing of gender norms that happens within society such as girls are better at cleaning and men are better at repairing things and so on that’s mostly perpetuated by cis people.

I say all of this as a typically presenting cis man in a male dominated field. Despite that I still have to contend with gender norms. For example I am not athletic, and do things like baking that make me stand out to other men who subscribe to traditional gender roles.

So who again doesn’t treat people equally?

Edit: I think you are also confusing feminists and gender abolitionists with trans people. Trans people are not the ones normally arguing that gender doesn’t matter, as it’s understandably quite important to them specifically. Gender abolitionists want to get rid of gender norms and other things associated with a person’s social gender. Feminists need no explanation but surfice to say that the majority of them are cis women.

It varies a lot between different groups of feminists. There are plenty that unironically want a system where some rich women are in charge instead of just rich men. In fact I would say this is the majority of feminists as communists and anarchists aren’t that common plus lots of communists are against identity politics to begin with.

Is this the game Turing Complete?

However “it worked on other distro X, thus is should work on other distro Y” probably isn’t a helpful way of thinking to get things working.

I am talking about the kernel here. It tells me that the device is actually supported. If something works on other distros driver wise, that means the one it doesn’t work on either has an old kernel or is doing something strange.

NixOS ships a very minimal kernel and relies on you to declare what modules you want to load (or sometimes relies on nixos-generate-hardware to find some of those modules), so even if it is really standard hardware that “just works” on other distros, you still may need to dig out some kernel modules and explicitly load them.

That explains it. Still is an odd choice. The whole point of Linux being modular, and knowing how to load stuff automatically, is that shit like this isn’t necessary. I can understand if this was Gentoo and we were talking about manually compiling kernels, but this is a pre compiled generic kernel. The expectation is that it just works.

Do you have a source on where to configure these kernel settings?

It’s clearly not a UEFI problem when it works fine on another Linux distro. Likewise I don’t think it’s a needed kernel parameter, because I didn’t add anything to CachyOS to make it work, though I will double check the current parameters. It’s a fairly standard Intel audio device as well, not anything weird or even that new (tigerlake).

I think this is an issue with how NixOS build their kernel and kernel modules. It’s not like it’s the only problem I have had with NixOS unfortunately.

Error is the same as last time. Turns out even the live Nix image can’t do audio on this machine. Switched to a Linux distro that actually works. Still would be interesting to find out why this happened.

Yeah doing sound.enable = false fixed it for a little bit, but it’s broken again now.