Party Vibe

I do not think either can cause permanent brain damage, although excessive use does cause mental health problems such as impulsive (and even aggressive) behaviour especially on comedowns and/or when drugs are short in supply due to arrests/busts of dealers. This causes a vicious circle as crime goes up and more folk get arrested, which even legalisation/tolerance can’t immediately solve as the mental health problems could still remain and they affect others than the patient.

When I was taking all those more regularly and much more besides around 2002; me and a mate had to build a router / firewall for a shared house out of a old PC, as the cable company just gave you a modem and putting the raw internet into a network is about as wise as drinking a great glass from the WC bowl.

We had to use parts we that had been tatted/hoarded since late 1990s, it ran on Linux which was only just invented and it was based around a particularly complex distro (not like todays easy Debian or Centos etc). I had last used Unix in 1992, when I had also been doing a lot of MDMA; and had stopped learning about it after being put out of University for hacking; yet just about remembered how to make it work.

Unfortunately my friend later ended his life by accident because of a bad decision he made when on drugs (for his families sake I won’t explain this further as doing so will make it easy to identify him) and the way I behaved then I was lucky not to end up in prison at least once, I came close enough on occasions.

the usage patterns john420 recommends are about right; especially if any of you have anglo-saxon society (in UK or USA) to contend with.

@Requiem 598551 wrote:

Must be going back to the days when Linus wrote the kernel for GNU no?

only a few years after, although this software could actually have been a BSD-based kernel (which looks like Linux and works similarly but is different licensing) or even a bizzare combination of bits of both which had been hand picked and coded in C. it was written in some other small North European country [possibly Denmark or Norway, with the Germans contributing to it] where they also had the same cable network and a more developed culture of young people living in shared/communal houses and/or visiting them.

The base motherboard was something like a 486 that would otherwise gone into a drawer of ”junk components” as no one wanted such an ancient machine for running GUI operating systems (better components were used for 3 other communal PCs in that downstairs room, and a cable and switch put upstairs for the long term residents)

the house became well known as a good place to get defective computers fixed; and was the base for organising a lot of warehouse parties, it was also right in the middle of the town where Microsoft, Oracle and many other smaller tech companies were based, so their younger employees would often divert various bits of equipment to contribute to the network – a bit like the mainland European ”hackerspace”. At that time neither myself nor my friend could then get legitimate jobs using any of our knowledge as we didn’t have university degrees (even many of the people in the tech compaines were in the same situation, being put on to call centre work) which was some factor in us doing yet more drugs and getting into more trouble.