Zikeji

What's your budget?

And yeah, Asus went downhill like half a decade ago. They used to be my goti but now I avoid them. I personally like Lenovo, but that's for their second hand business laptops that end up on eBay, so I can't speak to their consumer gaming brand.

Not me, but my parents, though I discovered it during a visit.

Bats. They had a bat infestation. This was up at the highest point of the house in the loft, they were remodeling and left the walls open - a hole to the outside let one in, and I guess a bunch decided it was a nice place to hang out. There were dozens.

As for dealing with it - bats are endangered, so you can't exterminate them. If I remember correctly the total spend was just over 10 grand. This also included installing multiple permanent one way doors so if any bats manage to get in again, they have multiple ways to get out.

Is there another meaning to "PSA" that isn't "public service announcement"? It confuses me being in the title as this entire post is written as a suggestion / CTA, not a PSA.

"Peoples' aversion to walking is stunningly ridiculous and shouldn't be enabled."

Sounds different if we choose a different activity. Such a blanket statement is offensive and doesn't factor in disability.

There are some things I've grown to like. I feel better represented by my choice of instance. I could self host my own, but don't really want to incur that maintenance. I do like that if my instance were to do something I disagree with, I don't have to leave the community as a whole like I did with Reddit, and should instead find a new home.

I also kind that it's easier to filter out the personalities that bother me, since they tend to flock to specific instances. I still have to contend with them occasionally, but that's no different than Reddit, but less often.

Most of my interactions here have been with reasonable people, even when we disagreed. It does feel a little quiet at times, but that's ok.

I switched at the start of the month, with the uncertainty around the economy I finally did my PC upgrade I'd been procrastinating, and - why get a windows license? Just go Linux.

Somehow not surprised I'm at just over 21K spent. That being said, that was from half a decade ago when I uh... Wasn't as mature. Probably only 1K since then and strictly on games, not micro transactions.

I haven't played the game, but I would recommend checking out ProtonDB for experiences from people who have.

https://www.protondb.com/app/1144200

There are 406 reports, I find it useful to look for reports from people with similar hardware to mine.

Every time I recall those episodes, and the pain, it gets easier to do, emotionally.

And theoretically I could just get it operated on - there have been improvements in the field. But the prospect of going under the knife is scary, especially in an area where one fuckup or miscalculation could lead to partial paralysis for life. Throw in a mix of abusive American healthcare and... Weekly therapy is more preferable.

No. I've considered it though, but I'm a tad worried it won't make a difference considering the options I've seen probably don't result in 200lbs of force being applied.

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In my spine my L5-S1 and L4-L5 are herniated (as of 2017, haven't checked if any more are). Full on herniated, not bulging. It started when I was 20, and my doctor said surgery should be avoided since it could impact my quality of life significantly at my age (not that my QoL wasn't already severely impacted). Epidurals and physical therapy didn't help.

Back then it wasn't miserable 24/7 but it had it's moments. Eventually I had an "episode" where I was bedridden in immense amounts of pain for a solid week. During that desperation I found the IDD option and started that. It was rough back then at the start. But within weeks the constant pain died down and I recovered mobility as well as my sciatica improved.

Through... Losing a job I discovered the effects wear off after 2ish months and I start being susceptible to the episodes and random function loss again, so now I just go weekly to keep things peachy. It isn't full recovery obviously, I still wind up in pain if I do too much with my back, even stuff as little as bending over slightly to do the dishes (because I'm tall), but it beats being disabled in constant pain... Those few episodes I've had haunt me. Being so helpless I couldn't even.