I’ve seen some things, I’ve done some stuff.

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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I use Linux and have for decades. I struggled for years with wine and crossover to run games. I buy from steam, from blizzard, and epic. Heroic made the process of installing easier years ago, but Faugus launcher has become my go to when I install a new distro or change computers.

    I’m a little jealous of how easy things are now to install games from back when I started but I’m so glad to see it’s an option for people who just want plug n play. I’m glad to see big chunks of the struggle are in the past, even if there are minor struggles still. But there’s always progress and the more lazy people who buy from people and companies who produce for Linux, the more likely they’ll continue to improve the experience for everyone .



  • I’ve had tinnitus for a number of decades. The least useful thing is people telling you that it’s only in your head and it’s a phantom noise. Tinnitus has been recorded previously and it does not exist as just a mental issue. It is a real and physical thing.

    I sleep with a humidifier, the small fan makes just enough white noise where it helps to drown out some of the ringing. I also gave up on my standard headphones and primarily used bone conducting headphones now to prevent further problems. Also, unfortunately, I no longer ride with the windows down in my car because the constant pressure changes make my ringing go off the rails. That used to be one of my favorite things to do in the winter.

    With minor adjustments it doesn’t make things go away, but you can help to manage the symptoms. I still have tinnitus, even as I sit down and write about this. However, it comes and goes and not everyday is full of squealing and no day is completely quiet, but hopefully you’ll find some comfort in the middle.










  • True facts about ticks.

    I wish they covered how this vaccine worked a little more closely. Ticks avoid capture by using their saliva to numb the skin where they implant so that they can feed on you. The vaccine just targets the effectiveness of the saliva to make it useless, so the tick still bites you, but you can detect it and pull the tick off before the bacteria that causes Lyme disease takes effect. If you watch the video above, it explains why it takes time for that to happen.

    There are theories that the compound in tick saliva that tricks your body into not feeling the bite or sending white blood cells to attack the area immediately actually mimics the way that cancer hides from the body by hiding from your immune system. Coming up with a vaccine that could render their saliva useless could also help with certain types of cancer including colon cancer. Limiting this vaccine actually could limit long term cancer vaccine research.





  • My sister is a teacher. She explains it as her students don’t need to know the information in their papers, they need to know how to research, cite, and write their papers. She says she feels sorry for the students who just spit out a paper with an LLM and don’t care about the skills they are letting atrophy and will eventually lose. They are losing the ability to think critically and research then take that information and summarize it to convey thoughts and ideas to others.

    What happens when a generation of people lose that capability?


  • My wife was in labor for 39 hours after months of a difficult pregnancy. I love my wife more than any other human on this planet, she is my partner, my best friend, and my ezer. After watching her struggle through labor for so long, she finally gave birth to our daughter. The nurses took my daughter to the corner of the room and I felt so proud of my wife. I was also exhausted, emotionally and physically, and I was so worried about her that I just wanted to be by her side and tell her that I loved her and I was so proud of her. She looked at me and put her hand on my arm and said “I’m ok, go see our daughter.” It hadn’t even been a thought because I was just so relieved my wife was ok.

    I walked across the room with the firm belief that my heart was absolutely full of love for my wife and I didn’t understand at the time how I could ever love anyone as much as I did her. I walked to the warming table and saw my little one laying on a small pad surrounded by nurses. I put my hand on the clear plastic side of the contraption she was in and she reached out with her tiny hand and grabbed the end of my index finger. Something happened. I didn’t love my wife any less, but suddenly it was like a big double door in my heart was thrown open and there was this new giant space to love more than I ever imagined possible.

    The time passed, the doctors left, and the nurses left. Mom fed her and then as she passed out for a well deserved sleep, I sat in the corner with my little one in my arms. I stared at her and she looked back up for just a minute before falling asleep. I sat and held her quietly as she slept and stared out the window with a feeling that nothing would ever be the same in my life from that moment on.