Chicken.

iirc - I learned the whole thing from Analog Resurgence’ video on the subject - he recommended something for practice… I can’t remember if it was, the ends of rolls, or, like, already developed strips (seems kinda dangerous so probably not) … or … maybe it was in the bulk loader video he had the suggestion and I adapted it to practice the development rolling process too or something …

I feel like I can remember sitting on the couch with my hands under a blanket or something (I’m sure it wasn’t real film so no concerns about spoiling) and just doing it over and over without being able to see …

I really wish I could remember, but it was a couple years ago now. I guess the long and the short of it though was that practice did indeed make, well, ‘better’, lol. Honestly not sure how much luck I’d have if I tried today as it has been so long, but at the time I was banging out at least 1-2 rolls per week for a good 3-5 months and got pretty ok at it.

Helped of course doing the bulk rolls, because I could literally just spool up a 12 shot roll or whatever, go for a five minute walk and shoot the whole thing with no remorse of waste (as I may have with 24 or 36 shots) and then do my thing!

Oh FFS.

I’m not sure if they’re thick, but I’ve done a couple flavours of Ilford, and a LOT of Flic Film UltraPan 400 as I bought a HUGE bulk reel and loader to make my own rolls. Neither seemed abnormally difficult? Just the roughly expected amount of difficult at first, as I had never done any of this before! Once I got the hang of it though it was pretty smooth sailing.

I’ve got the robot vacuum of Theseus here… early, 2nd or 3rd gen Roomba I guess it is, I’ve probably had since 2009 or so I think. I’ve replaced damn near all of it, and I’m ALWAYS shocked when something new breaks, I check online, and I can get a part and replace it! And often times the replacement ends up being an upgrade too. I think it must have come from the Twilight Zone or something, I don’t know.

What is the Opera version of this? 🤔

Lengthy convo about it in response to another comment, that may have some helpful tips!

https://lemmy.ml/post/39901569/22602665

This. I know ‘nicotine’ is already here, but it’s not the same.

Confused the hell out of me when I was trying to switch to vaping that I’d keep going back to cigarettes - “I’M GETTING THE NICOTINE, WHAT THE HELL?!”, and it wasn’t just habit, it was overwhelming need to smoke.

I finally figured some of those other 2999 or whatever chemicals in there must be addictive too, or something, I don’t know.

I’ve quit drinking, when I was a daily drinker at risk of a seizure because my body had grown so chemically dependent on it. I’ve quit countless other ‘behavioral’ addictions.

NOTHING, was as hard as trying to quit smoking. Until, thank the powers that be, I met vaping, and after a couple months of back and forth, was able to transition to it entirely. Haven’t had a cigarette since, and it’s been at least 10-11 years.

Eventually lowered my nicotine to 0 mg, then gave up the vaping. Haven’t done either since. That was, probably 8-9 years ago now.

I still get the odd craving to vape. Zero cravings to smoke up until last year, first trip in my life to Vegas (and two more since). The casino environment with everyone smoking, I don’t know what it is. Got me looking at it with the rose coloured glasses occasionally while there - but then I quickly remember how hard it was to shake, and how happy I am without it.

I did it my whole life (~mid forties now).

I met and was talking to a guy about 10-15 years ago, and it came up - he said “oh yeah, I used to do that, I just stopped.”

Now, consider that, we’re both addicts and met at a 12-step meeting.

I’m like “You can’t just stop guy, lawl, wtf?”

But he insisted - “No, really, I just stopped.”

So I tried … and was absolutely, completely fucking stunned - it worked - I just stopped.

You’ve got to taper. I’ve had hangovers after multi-week benders that didn’t hurt as bad as trying to drop caffeine cold turkey. I know tapering is counter intuitive and counter productive for a lot of addictions, but for caffeine it’s a must.

It does not appear so, no :-(

Yep, drama or not, completely true or not (as is being claimed in this thread), they do incredible work, and if you benefit from it, let this serve simply as a reminder that they deserve some support if you don’t want to wade into all the details.

Super happy to see they take Interac e-Transfers in Canada too.

Yeah, but, it’s not like there weren’t multiple ceasefire motions and other relevant items over the last ~3+ years that were also vetoed. It lost legitimacy and proper functioning a long time ago in my eyes.

Similar to the above, I started with this guide that got me going (in case it adds anything additional!)

But the very latest one has them on the outside again 🙃

That’s a 0 according to the scale provided if I’m not mistaken.

Asked too many questions.

pulls out pen and paper

As opposed to the other kinds of market manipulation he and other execs are fine with …

🙄

Vaping is an INCREDIBLE tool, for existing smokers.

I know more smokers than I can count, myself included, who successfully quit smoking with vaping, and then quit vaping with ease.

I smoked for over 20 years and had well over 15 failed quitting attempts under my belt before a very smooth transition to vaping, and then eventually dropping it too.

Everyone needs to stop painting it as entirely bad.

But just like any quit smoking aid - should a non-smoker start the patch? No. Should a non-smoker start pouches? NO. Should a non-smoker start vaping? Absolutely not.

Should we paint it as entirely evil and blanket discourage EVERYONE from doing it though?? No. It can help get us to a world with less smoking over all, and less cancer and other associated illness, suffering, expenses and deaths.

Oh, wait, this isn’t shitty ask lemmy …

quietly backs out of the room