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@ MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz

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Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

  • Have you ever seen a man with a face like that?

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  • "What is a yoot?"

  • Literally.

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  • If you're only gonna print a few pages a year, why use ink that dries?

    Toner can just... Sit there.

  • Literally.

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  • inkjet*

    A laser can sit for a year and be ready to print like nothing happened.

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  • Any actually active servers?

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  • It seems to be responding normally.

  • Any actually active servers?

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  • What instance are you on?

    Unless it's down, stuff should work.

    I run my own, so if it's down I can fix it myself. I do have some friends on matrix.org that I message with through federation, and some lemmy matrix spaces that are hosted on matrix.org.

    If some other instance is down, like matrix.org, rooms and users hosted there will be unreachable until it returns.

  • Any actually active servers?

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  • Do you mean matrix.org?

    My instance is working fine.

    Matrix is federated, it doesn't really matter which homeserver you use. You can jon and participate in rooms on any homeserver.

  • Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled

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  • Looks at numbers.

    Subtracts money being spent, from money being earned.

    Huh.

    Are you sure?

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  • Switched from GRUB to Limine today

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  • Efistub. It's the fastest, and has the fewest display transitions with plymouth.

    I do still have grub for booting btrfs snashots, available as a separate UEFI entry.

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  • The Native Linux app for NVIDIA GeForce NOW is now in Beta

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  • Ok

  • What a selection!

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  • But potion seller, I am going into battle! I must have your strongest potions!

  • YSK: If you receive a high medical bill, don't pay it immediately. Ask for an itemized bill first.

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  • In my case, the wrist was not possible to set, even with the cast. Some stuff was pulverized and due to the broken ulna, other stuff had slipped out of place. The cast was only to prevent further damage.

    The fentanyl dose I was given upon the arrival of the ambulance wore off as I was waiting for xrays and then to see a hand surgeon to interpret the result, so I asked for more, and was given some.

    After that I spent a little over a week in constant pain while waiting for the surgery. A dislocated wrist hurts like hell.

    I can't imagine spending I single moment during that week without any kind of pain relief.

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  • Maxima is an open-source replacement for the EA Desktop/Origin game launcher, running natively on Linux and Windows

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  • Yup. Hence my speculation. Heroic is a frontend for existing cli-based launchers.

  • Maxima is an open-source replacement for the EA Desktop/Origin game launcher, running natively on Linux and Windows

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  • Neat!

    Could maxima-cli be used to implement EA support in Heroic? Feels odd to not consolidate considering it already does Epic, GOG and Amazon.

    Refactoring Maxima to new architecture allowing multiple frontends to co-exist

    Maybe yes eventually?

  • YSK: If you receive a high medical bill, don't pay it immediately. Ask for an itemized bill first.

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  • People love to shit on our healthcare system here, but in my experience it's been amazing.

    Same.

    But in terms of quality of care, I have no complaints. The opposite. The nurses and doctors I interacted with were wonderful, and I made a point of telling them that. My surgeon in particular fought like hell for a result that would fully restore function in my hand. I was conscious for the surgery, so I got to sit in on the whole process.

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  • Just under 800 euro iirc.

  • YSK: If you receive a high medical bill, don't pay it immediately. Ask for an itemized bill first.

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  • We do have that, too. (Private insurance and healthcare, I mean)

    But most services even as a public patient do cost something here. Small stuff is usually a pittance, and if you say you can't pay, they'll either waive it or put you on an extremely generous payment plan. I know stuff like asking for painkillers in a waiting room is free though. Just the work of keeping track of that type of thing to charge for it, isn't worth it.

    But the more expensive stuff can add up. That's why the maximum exists, but apparently even the extremely complex repair of my wrist, barely dents it.

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  • Completely opposite to the finnish experience.

    When I broke my ulna and dislocated my wrist, I took an ambulance ride to the hospital, got three xrays, a cast, and two doses of fentanyl.

    Told to return the next morning for post-cast xrays of the damage, by the end of that I was scheduled for surgery 8 days later. Sent home with a prescription for some non-opioid painkillers. Picked those up for around 20 euros.

    Received four hours of hand surgery. Over a dozen titanium screws and a titanium plate put in. Given three pills of an opioid based painkiller for sleeping through the worst of the post-surgery pain. And another prescription for more non-opioids.

    Weeks later, removal of the surgery bandages and stitches. Xrays of how the bone was healing, followed by a consultation with a hand surgeon, and then a physical therapist on recovering motion in the wrist and fingers.

    Months later one more round of xrays, and two more consultations with the physical therapist, and some follow-up with a hand surgeon due to the therapist noticing a lack of motion in my thumb, resulting in the discovery of some nerve-damage from the surgery (which I thankfully ended up recovering from).

    By the end, I was sure I would max out the healthcare billing limit. This was the most expensive recovery from an injury I'd ever suffered. Finnish public health care is only allowed to bill you up to a maximum yearly amount, so as to never overload any one individual with debt. But it would still be a lot for me.

    When I finally got an un-itemized bill, I was sure it was only the first of many.

    Nope. It was the total. 87 euros and 40 cents.

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  • Do you have any recommendations for podcasts, that are as well produced and "deep" as video essays?

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  • Ologies.

    Each episode features a guest expert on a subject, talking about their field.

    Think psychologist, dermatologist, neurologist, etc.

    Except it's often fields of study you didn't even know have an "ology" title for the people who study it.

  • Winter lovers

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  • If you say you like the winter but you dislike the cold and the snow, then what would you call that?

    Normal. Again, people can like the same things for different reasons. They don't have to enjoy the weather conditions to find snowy landscapes beatiful, for example.

    You keep arguing as if I am the one who defined what winter is.

    Winter is a time of year. Winter still comes and goes, even if there is no snow, or negative temps. The one constant, is the earths position relative to the sun, and some of the effects that has, such as amount and angle of light in a day.

    I'm arguing like your idea of what winter is, is horseshit. Because it is. You act as if select aspects of it are intrinsic, and that each of them must be enjoyed, for a person to be able to claim they enjoy winter, without you labeling them a hypocrite. But each person can enjoy or dislike whatever aspects they want, and come to whatever conclusions they come to, about how it all balances out and makes them feel about it.

    If you really want to get pedantic, you could reduce all this "oh yeah, I really enjoy when our hemisphere of the planet is tilted away from our sun, it's my favorite orbital phase". And guess what? That would still be a valid reason for someone to honestly like winter! Who are you and me to judge whether their dislike of the cold outweighs their enthusiasm for orbital mechanics?

    But i suppose anything is winter if you do it during the winter.

    Yes! That is how seasons work!

    Was that so hard?

    Enjoying the mere concept of something, is a perfectly valid reason to enjoy a time of year. Regardless of how directly you engage with the actual conditions involved.

    I'm frankly at a loss of what to say other than that you don't understand what words mean.

    I mean exactly what I've said. I don't know what to tell you if you can't read it in sequence, and get something that makes sense.

    If you're going to bring up semantics, you should be pointing out what it is you've noticed, what confuses you, and why.

    If you want me to correct for a difference in our definitions, you'll have to actually point them out, not just blankly ask "what do you think words mean?".

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