That’s actually a really good idea. I’m not the person you replied to, but I’m taking notes.

Damn, I’m really sorry to hear that. I hope it will improve for you with time. For what it’s worth I understand symbalta can be combined with pregabalin/gabapentin. The combination may help. I’m getting by on gabapentin alone and it’s definitely not 100% with the tingles and pricks, but far better than not taking it. I’m contemplating asking to increase the dose.

Are you taking anything for the neuropathy? Are you experiencing any improvement over time? My neurologist seem to think that while recovery as such is not feasible, that at least modest improvements are possible through long term healing and medication. Granted, this sounds like a particularly bad case, and I’m so sorry to hear you’re going through this.

Mine was found completely randomly - I went in for blood work because I was having stomach issues after returning from a trip and my GP wanted to rule out an infection. I was really surprised to learn it, because I wasn’t overweight nor did I have a family history! But it just happens sometimes, I guess. In retrospect - I was always very thirsty and had to pee much more than a normal human.

It’s been controlled for a while but unfortunately I now have some tingles in the feet, which developed a full year after I started medication and got everything under control. My neurologist believes it’s basically the delayed effects of the previously uncontrolled sugars. Fortunately, it’s been stable for several years since and seems to be every so slowly improving slightly.

I imagine I would have much worse neurological issues had I not discovered it until later.

buy it the same place you buy your radium!

edit: this is a joke, I do not possess radioactive material

Yes - but will it become a permanent crutch? That’s the double edged sword. A necessary risk, of course.

Maybe that’s actually the right approach, counter-intuitively. Though it does make me wonder how many devs actually test against Proton, versus just taking the lazy option and saying it’s Windows only. Officially stating they support Proton would go a long way to help justify the lack of a native port.

My experience so far is that it already is! Most of the titles I play (admittedly not cutting edge), I get 5-10% higher framerates running under Proton-GE on Fedora than I do natively on windows. Pretty wild to think about.

Cool but I wonder if the Linux initiative is almost a victim of Proton’s success, as even previously Linux friendly studios like Paradox have stopped supporting it natively in recent titles.

As an Apple shareholder, I’d just like to thank Microsoft for their outstanding contribution to selling more Macs.

But most users never need to open it because Apple at least tests their OS before yeeting it into prod, unlike this hot mess.

Reading this as a self hoster: god damn it, is there ANOTHER fucking instance I need to defederate?

We generally don’t want to defederate .ml, except when they post anything, or comment on anything, or vote on anything. It’s just those times that we think about it.

If the performance and price is comparable to rolling your own mini-ITX rig then why not?

I think the “friendly” distros like Linux Mint with built-in driver detection/management and pretty broad package repositories (surfaced as an “App Store”) are probably to the point where many normal people could use them, without significantly more technical chops than Windows. Particularly as a gaming rig where you basically just need Firefox, LibreOffice and Steam.

Windows is becoming so trash that a bunch of my not-that-tech-savvy friends have been hitting me up asking about gaming on various Linux distros. (Just a few years ago it was all “Linux? Haha nerd”.) And the non gamers are switching to Mac at a remarkable rate.

And things have progressed so well that even for the non-technical crew, after installing Mint and showing them how to use ProtonPlus to install and select Proton-GE, they’re pretty much off to the races without much further hand holding.

Seconding Kagi, it’s worth every penny.

It’s a currency swap. Basically, we give them dollars and they give us pesos. Eventually, they could theoretically be swapped back.

Holding dollars is good for them because it shows foreign investors’ confidence in their economy, and allows them to shore up the peso if necessary by using dollars to prop it up through central bank buybacks.

Holding pesos is a high risk for us because the inflation rate has historically been extremely high. $1 US was like 300 pesos five years ago, and it’s more like 1500 today. So if we swap them back down the road, we will probably lose money, since we swapped dollars at $1 = 1500 pesos, but may swap back later at $1 = 2000+ pesos.

In a way it’s like we gave them an interest free loan. Or actually: more like we gave them a loan with a negative interest rate. Because we likely lose money the longer they hold it.

Why would we do this? Because Milei says lots of nice things about the orange man on TV.

Yes, on the one hand, this is a chilling precedent that can only lead to long term despair and national ruination. But on the other hand, line go up next quarter. I think we all know which one Tim Apple will choose.

The roll of paper is an interesting idea but where would one actually buy those? Are they a standard thing?