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Darkwatch00, in What's it like working night shift?

Some people got it some people don’t. I cant function on nights. I did graveyard shift as hospital security supervisor (like another poster stated), also did 6 weeks rotation from days to nights as a deputy in county jail (living hell!) for a year.

Basically as others said. Black out curtains, melotin or sleep aid, sound machine, blue light filtering sunglasses, and consistent schedule is key. Also be careful of health because you will want to eat and drink coffee out of boredom or fighting sleep off.

good luck op hope it works for you.

Aesthesiaphilia,

I have delayed sleep phase disorder so I'm one of the ones who got it. Nights are amazing, I function so much better and feel so much more energetic.

But it's tough on your career. You will never move up working nights, because the faces the bosses see are there during the day. Sucks but that's how it is.

gektix, in How often do you brush your teeth?

I tend to brush after I eat anything. If I eat 4 times, I’ll brush my teeth 4 times. Sometimes I forget to brush immediately, but after an hour or two I can’t take the way my mouth feels and I’ll stop whatever I’m doing to brush them. It also helps that I like the way my toothpaste tastes :P

ferociousfloof, in What's it like working night shift?

So wondering if you mean 2nd or 3rd shift. And for those wondering 1st shift is the "day" shift. Where your start time is ~8 AM and then you end ~3 PM. Then 2nd shift is where you start at ~3 PM and end at 11 PM. And then finally 3rd shift is where you start at ~11 PM and end at 8 AM.

As you can see there is a BIG difference between 2nd and 3rd shift and what someone might call a "night" shift.

codyofficial,

Thank you for this! I was literally about to google this because I wasn’t sure.

fratermus, in What's it like working night shift?
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What’s it like working night shift?

  • constant fatigue
  • constantly explaining to the same people over and over that you are not available in the daytime because that’s when you sleep

source: worked night shift for many years

hibbfd,

also weight gain. I worked 6pm-6am for almost 2 years straight and gained 40lbs without changing my eating habits.

started drinking every morning after work too. and days (nights) off were a total clusterfuck. wake up, hit the grocery store before they close, start drinking because wtf else am I gonna do at 11pm alone in my camper with no wifi and spotty cell signal. my experience is probably not the norm lol

DBT,
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If you started drinking everyday your eating habits changed. You started taking in more calories.

Gormadt, in What's it like working night shift?
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For some people it’s not too bad, and during the summer it’s not that bad.

During the winter though it’s hell. The days are short that you basically never see the sun.

During the whole affair though you’ll have to supplement your Vitamin D, especially during the winter.

BobQuasit, in What's it like working night shift?

Thirty-nine years ago I worked night shift during college. I'm still trying to straighten out my circadian rhythms.

Wander, in What's the hottest and coldest temperature you've ever been in?
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I suppose you’ve never seen snow then? Definitely try if you get some chance. I wish it snowed more often where I live.

I have no idea what the coolest temp has been for me, but probably around -10C?

LongRedCoat, in What's it like working night shift?

Look up "night shift belly." I did night audit at a hotel for a year and a half. By the end, I could only really stomach eating the kale salad from Whole Foods and not much else.

It also wrecked my social life and when I got sick, I got really sick, so I think my immune system was out of whack in general.

Like others have said, the commute is a dream. The shift itself is quiet with plenty of time to have deep conversations with any coworkers you may have, read, listen to podcasts, etc. It's like living in a different world.

I say give it a try, but listen to your body and find something else soon if your health is affected.

theRealBassist, in What replacement for each major social media do you use

Why are people trying to replace Discord? Just for the sake of federation or…?

reggie,
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For me its because of privacy.

deikoepfiges_dreirad,

Discord being proprietary should be reason enough to try to replace it

Xepher,

I assume people who are looking to try to use all FOSS for social media/chat platforms

hitagi,

Discord has been rolling out terrible features lately instead of improving the already existing ones. Messages still aren’t E2EE and third-party clients are against TOS.

Quill7513,

Discord has some shady shit in its privacy policy, and one of their largest investors is Tencent. Discord is one of my top targets for replacement, but none of my friends are all that interested in trying Matrix

mitexleo,
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Maybe you should try Revolt.

Quill7513,

Hadn’t heard of it before this thread. I’m assessing it. Seems interesting

jackpot,
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convjnce them by saying ‘there is no nitro’

SeeJayEmm,
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Does anyone even care about nitro tho?

urtiscay,

For a non federated option I love guilded

jackpot,
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revolt is foss discord, no nitro there

Kernal64, in What replacement for each major social media do you use

I recently came across pixelfed.org for an Instagram replacement. I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet, but it looks promising. Seems like a federated platform like Lemmy/Mastodon that’s geared towards photo sharing.

Resolved3874, in What replacement for each major social media do you use

I don’t personally use it but pixelfed is an Instagram type of site. It’s part of the fediverse as well.

pixelfed.org

ddtfrog,

Can I use this login for that site or do I need a new account?

8565,

Always a new account with Federation

Quills,
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You’d need to create another account, pixelfed is currently working on a “login with mastodon” feature that will probably be released pretty soon, but even with that you’re still technically creating another account, you’ll just be able to log into it using a mastodon account and copy your bio, profile pic, follows, and things like that if you want.

But yeah, there’s nothing for lemmy

igalmarino,
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They are working on mastodon integration

PupBiru,
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i even found out the other day that pixelfed does stories and live streaming!

though those things are based on reading the configuration settings in documentation, so i have no idea what those features are like….

PupBiru,
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also worth noting that as usually with fediverse platforms, pixelfed data is accessible from other platforms like mastodon

ie you can retoot a pixelfed post afaik, and i believe that at least in kbin that means you can have a threaded conversion about a pixelfed post?

tesla323, in What's it like working night shift?

I did it for seven years. I recommend earplugs and a white noise machine when you sleep. Stick to a strict sleep schedule. Take lots of Vitamin D when you wake up. I was taking 5000 IUs a day when I was on overnights, it helped immensely.

Adderbox76, in What replacement for each major social media do you use

Mastodon (specifically mstdn.ca). Lemmy.ca, pixelated (though I rarely use it like I should) and I’m hoping to soon get a tilvids account to document my progress modelling for X-plane and creating the assets for my own computer board game.

hoodlem, in What replacement for each major social media do you use

YouTube - Peertube

Discord - Matrix? Don’t know a lot about Matrix. It integrates with Discord and a bunch of other stuff

Kolanaki,
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I’ve looked at Matrix and it’s exactly like Discord except it uses encryption on everything.

It also is filled with super shady rooms. You can very easily run into CP if you’re not careful.

Zak8022,
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What is CP?

Kolanaki,
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Child porn.

NixHopper,

Think he meant child predator but unsure

OsrsNeedsF2P,

I’m waiting for the Discord <-> Matrix bridges to get better. Mautrix for instance lets you control your Discord presence straight from Matrix: github.com/mautrix/discord/blob/main/ROADMAP.md

404CameranotFound,

Being careful of CP is a danger you take in most sites, especially the ones that don’t have a lot of users. I’ve stumbled on jailbait instances here… it’s fucking everywhere.

Kolanaki,
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I’ve been on curated internet too long. Randomly stumbling into CP wasn’t something I expected to see outside of the dark web since the main Internet got so tame during the late 2000’s through the 2010’s.

404CameranotFound,

The main internet didn’t get tame, they just got better at hiding it. But that’s the point. There’s more cp on the clear web than dark web because the clear web is much much larger than the dark web, and the dark web is more heavily tracked with a large FBI presence.

Reddit had and still has issues with CP, weird threads with numbers and hash codes? Very likely some kind of downloading ring. There’s still “sink” threads on places like 4chan where a user posts an innocuous image, but upon closer inspection a single image file is way larger than it should be, meaning they injected the file with more files, by exploiting the metadata to turn an image file into essentially a zip folder. Isis used to use that method to recruit new members on twitter, out in the open they’d post a picture of some isis soldiers and if you extracted the files within the image you got recruitment docs and instructions on how to leave your country and fight with isis.

GrouchyLady, in What replacement for each major social media do you use
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What’s the issue with WhatsApp? I thought it was great for privacy.

Jamie,
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It’s owned by Facebook and isn’t open source. There’s no verifiable way to say for sure that Facebook doesn’t have a master key to read everything you send on it. Compare to say, Signal, which is open source and can be verified to be secure.

Kolanaki,
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WhatsApp is owned by Meta.

keen1320,

It’s still E2EE, as far as I know. Meta could always remove that feature but until they do, I’d consider it a safe and private messaging platform.

8565,

It's e2e from your device to server however once on the server Meta can access everything. Same as Apples e2e

Quill7513,

None of the messaging metadata is encrypted. They use that metadata to build profiles of people who aren’t Facebook or Instagram users that interact with Facebook and Instagram users. If you care about profiling for the sake of avoiding social engineering attacks, it’s one of your worst choices. If all you care about is protecting the contents of your messages, yeah, it’s pretty okay

keen1320,

No disagreement there. I could have clarified, my comment was in regard to message content only. I didn’t realize that about metadata and certainly am not defending Meta. I’d prefer Signal over anything else but as others have mentioned, getting friends and family to adopt is painful.

bemenaker,

Lol no it’s not. Meta can and WILL decrypt it. They have decrypted messages for police requests numerous times, and not necessarily under court order, just police asking. I support decryption under court order, but these weren’t court ordered. Thinking anything owned by Meta is secure is ridiculous.

keen1320,

Then this is false advertising and a class-action lawsuit that should have already happened.

This Arstechnica article seems to confirm that they can’t decrypt without user intervention and that they have only ever supplied metadata to law enforcement. I’m no fan of Meta but do you have sources that they have in fact decrypted actual message content at the request of law enforcement?

jackpot,
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or have a backdoor already or add one

WookieMunster,

It’s owned by Facebook

jackpot,
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the only thjng good is the messages and calls are alledgely encrypted, literally every other detail they know. live location? entire contact list? how frequently you text someone? etc etc

ImaginaryFox,

It's still part of the Meta platform so not completely independent.

What information does WhatsApp share with the Meta Companies?

WhatsApp currently shares certain categories of information with Meta Companies. The information we share with the other Meta Companies includes your account registration information (such as your phone number), transaction data (for example, if you use Facebook Pay or Shops in WhatsApp), service-related information, information on how you interact with businesses when using our Services, mobile device information, your IP address, and may include other information identified in the Privacy Policy section entitled ‘Information We Collect’ or obtained upon notice to you or based on your consent.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/1303762270462331

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