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I just recently started getting mystery pain in my balls, unfortunately for me there doesn't seem to be any physical signs. No inflammation, no infection current or past, no kidney stones. Best the GP can figure is it's nerve related. Kinda felt like someone had my jewels in a vice grip, then occasionally would let go so they could give em a really hard punch. I say felt because the GP put my on nerve pain meds that seem to be working. Takes the edge off anyway. And they are an antidepressant as well, so my nuts hurt, but at least I'm in a good mood.
Haven't had to use them recently, check out the man?
I had a dentist in Canada tell me all my front teeth needed to be removed, implants for the top and dentures for the bottom. I was 27. I'm now 38, still have all of those teeth he'd said needed replacing. The next dentist I saw was absolutely floored when I told her what he'd advised me to do. And if he hadn't been such a condescending asshole, just a little bit more understanding that not everyone can afford consistent dental care.... well....I'd probably have gone and had him do it.
Ugh.... sometimes I forget they did that...and when I'm reminded or remember it cuts just as bad as the first time
fuck you
Well...it is EA...this is the appropriate sentiment.
Now, I get that a lot of people wouldn't know about all the different parts of a crane. But that's the lifting slings that broke. It would have been significantly more catastrophic if it had been the main cable, and the big block of steel, the main hook block, would have been on the ground.
My pet theory is the slings weren't being inspected frequently enough. You can see there's 2 slings, and the hook loops on one end snapped. Seeing as these are structural beams with a fair bit of length, those slings would have been in a choker or vertical hitch. Choker being wrapped around and one end passed through the loop on the other and then attached to the hook. Vertical hitch would require a anchor point on the beams.
Watching the video again, it looks like multiple slings looped together and then used in a tandem double choke. I personally wouldn't have done that, as two slings looped together are no where near as strong as a single longer sling. Whoever rigged that lift f**ked it pretty badly. But at the end of the day blame will most likely be spread around as the equipment wasn't likely being inspected frequently enough, or well enough.
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Well shit. Good for you South Africa. Still got a lot of shit to sort yourself, but at least you got the balls to call Israel on their shit.
I never was arguing against that. Also I'm pretty sure their moral compass was pushed by the feds until he topped himself, so nothing about their bullshit has surprised me since.
Thing is, adults, like properly emotionally mature people, don't attack random people on the street because they're volunteering to raise funds for an absolutely gigantic organisation to help people. I used to work for a Croatian man and his brother in law. They fought in the Bosnian conflict, and both ended up working for a series of mercenary outfits after. The levels of PTSD in these guys was....honestly...kinda fucked. I worked with them for the better part of 10 years. Met as many of their families that survived. They were adult enough to hire a few Bosnian guys as subcontract, we'd go for drinks end of the week. And these Bosnian guys were in some of the same battles as my boss and his BiL, literally trying to kill each other. What the fuck did those UNICEF people do to fucknuts? Exist? Fuck him.
It's already topped out fam...maybe it's the shotgun I'm using...hmm....
Well, their mums never parented enough to tell them to stand up straight or go cut their own switch...and if it's thinner than their mum's thumb they'll get an even worse thrashing. Another obvious reason that children should be beaten.
This is clearly(mostly) sarcasm. Just wanted to point that out. No child should be beaten...regardless of what kind of absolutely monstrous waste of air/detriment to the continuation of the species they turn out to be.
Pffffffffffff...since when is it a good idea to get financial advice from randos on the internet?
So, I have a rpi4b that's currently running a VPN for family abroad. I'm just finishing setting up Ubuntu server 24.04LTS(I have limited number of USB sticks, and the largest is only 8gb, so this choice was one of size, I can go into ones I had considered before) on an old laptop. For my small business I've also bought a domain for a work email, and eventually a website both are/will be hosted externally as I don't want to faff about with securing those aspects on my home network. The VPN though, that is currently pointing to no-ip dns service, and I want to migrate that to both the laptop and my own registered domain. What's best practices here? I do need the VPN to exit through to my network, so that my MiL can watch UK streaming from abroad(TV licence shenanigans).
So I posted a few weeks ago asking for opinions on the Surface Pro 4, trying to decide if I should pick one up and slap Linux on it. Opinions were.....mixed.
I got a decent deal on one, and that's partly why it's taken me so long to post an update. It was cheap because the previous buyer had returned it to the seller claiming that there were power issues. The seller said they hadn't encountered said issues in the hour or so of testing they did, and I call fucking bullshit! Once powered off or restarted it was taking up to 48hrs before it would grace me with booting up. And usable time ranged for 15mins to an hour before system lockup resulting in either a freeze until battery run out, or immediate system shutdown, and another 12-48hrs wait to power it up again. Obviously this is suboptimal.
Part of the issue, possibly unsurprisingly, was windows and the stripped down BIOS. After turning off secure boot, turning off the "battery saver" mode(restricts charging to 50% of total capacity) and scrubbing windows off the drive like a crusty booger...things have improved. I'm still unable to restart the device, restart powers down, but no power up. Wait times to power up again went from probably 36hrs average to 2hrs average, and if I just don't turn it off, the system is stable.
My time with Nobara on the surface has been really enjoyable, everything is just stock, I've not wanted to muck around too much and get attached in case I can't figure out the actual root cause of the power issues. As such, not really much else to report other than Nobara running well, and pretty much everything running as well or better than when windows was installed. Touch functionality works slightly differently in Nobara than Windows, but that's not really a bother for me.
If any of you greybeard wizards has any ideas on what might be happening with the power cycle issues I'd appreciate some suggestions. I think it may be a battery issue, but I'm waiting on a hot air station to be able to open it up and have a proper look at it's guts. Doesn't seem to have anything to do with temps, that was my first thought but that didn't pan out.
Just putting out feelers, anyone here run Linux on a surface pro 4 or 5? What distro did you use, and how did it go?
Edit: I've pulled the trigger on a Surface Pro 4. I'll make a new post in a week with my early impressions, which distro I've gone with, etc etc etc.
I've got OpenVPN running, and the NoIP DUC running, if I setup OpenVPN to use my current IP everything works well, can connect, and more importantly can access the Internet. If I configure it to use my DynDNS through NoIP then it allows my to connect, but I then have no access outside my local network. If I was just trying to access a server that would be fine, but obviously this is supposed to be a VPN.....
What's everyone reading? I'm on book 10 of the Wheel of Time, and Creatures of Light and Darkness by Alan Dean Foster