Ask them what they want to do.

Gaming? Windows. SteamOS is great but there are too many games that require Windows.

Creatives? MacOS. Yeah, you can do all that (and more!) on Windows machines, but the creative space is largely all Mac all the time.

Office Productivity? Anything. Libre Office is cross platform.

Want to complain about how you don’t fit in and it would be a better place if the world would just accommodate you? Linux.

Hey, I survived Spinal Stenosis, Charcot Foot, 2 heart attacks, open heart surgery, congestive heart failure, a stent, 3rd degree full thickness burns and skin grafts, nothing scares me any more… but I am just so very, very, tired. 🙁

I can only speak to my experience, January 2024 had a heart attack and as part of that, my heart stopped for 8 seconds.

No idea it happened, had go be told.

My wife says I’m not allowed to buy her the fun shirts:

so I have to settle:

Maybe not affordable and I wonder to if it’s like an anti-biotic. Once you start, you commit to the entire treatment.

We’ll see what the docs say once, you know, I get gutted like a fish. 😉 I already got cracked open like a lobster for the open heart surgery, what’s one more?

Chemo depends on the results of the surgery. Right now, it’s stage 2 which is resolved with surgery. If it gets into the lymph nodes, that bumps it to stage 3 and requires chemo.

So they pull the entire sigmoid colon and the related lymph nodes and send it all off for biopsy.

Hard to say, recovery is going to be a bitch because, get this… 12 days after my diagnosis, 1 day before the CT Scan and 2 days before meeting the surgeon, my wife felt a numbness and tingling in her legs, tried to stand up and fell to the floor.

An infection she had been fighting in her foot moved to her spine and tried to paralyze her(!) She had emergency surgery on her spine that night, a lower leg amputation a few days later, and has now been in the hospital… (checks math) 14 days.

So there’s a real possibility we’ll both be hospitalized at the same time or, best case, in surgical recovery at the same time. She can’t come home until she completes rehab for the nerve damage and amputation.

0/10 - Cancer surgery in 11 days.

Depends on what standard of living you’re used to. 😉

My mortgage is $2,200 a month, $26,400 a year.

Add to that other bills, living expenses, etc. I could probably get by on $50K or $60K a year.

Now then… lifespan. If you expect to live another 30 years (unlikely for me, but possible), that’s between $1.5M and $1.8M.

So the plan is to completely remove the sigmoid colon and then attach the end of the descending colon to the rectum. They also have to pull all the lymph nodes around the colon because if it gets into them, that’s stage 3 and chemo. We won’t know until we get the results from the surgery.

Fortunately we all have more than enough colon to go around.

March is colon cancer awareness month, wear blue and get checked! If it could happen to me, it could happen to anyone!

Holographic / Crystalline storage.

Michael Pachter is, was, and always will be a complete idiot. Back in the PS2 era he stated that it was no big deal if Sony sold out in North America, they could just move units over from Europe… ignoring the fact that both the video and electricity standards don’t match.

$700 isn’t a “death sentence”, know how we know this?

ROG Xbox Ally X - $1000
PS5 Pro - $750
Xbox Series X - $650
ROG Xbox Ally - $600
PS5 - $550
Steam Deck - $550
Xbox Series S - $450

If Valve REALLY wanted to break people’s brains, they would release a “Supply your own RAM and storage” version for $399.

One of the jewels in my collection:

Xbox One X is still a better choice than the Xbox Series S.

Let me explain:

It has more RAM than the Series S, so Xbox One titles and backwards compatible titles will run with Xbox One X enhancements that the Series S cannot run.

It has a physical disc drive for backwards compatible titles, DVDs, Blu Rays, and 4K UHD movies. The Series S is discless.

The only downside are newer games that are exclusive to Series S/X, but really, how many are there? Cyberpunk 2077 plays on the One X.

The new Forza won’t run, but the older ones should!

Source: Put the Xbox Series X and PS5 in the living room, moved the Xbox One X and PS4 to the bedroom. Still use it!

The Cell - Trailer here:

https://youtu.be/eIpy4p_yMV0

Impress a cat.

Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck… Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that’s the way it’s supposed to be… Refunded it in less than an hour.

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They can, but they also don’t meet the corporate dictate of “Everyone use AI.” 😉

So, a couple of things… Fighting stage 2 colon cancer right now.

6 months ago they found 17 polyps, 2 were an unusual size, 20mm and 30mm.

Rule of thumb is “Anything more than 5 or anything bigger than 5mm.”

But - not cancer. Repeat in January. 6 more polyps including one that’s 20mm and stage 2.

So it went from 0 to stage 2 in 6 months. I’m going to lose my entire sigmoid colon and all the lymph nodes around it for biopsy.

If the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes, that’s stage 3 and I’ll have chemo, but we won’t know until after the surgery.

Don’t sleep on this. My symptoms were anemia and tiredness all the time.

Yes, colonoscopy prep sucks. I had to drink 4 liters of fluid, wait 6 hours, and do it all over again. I lined up 10 glasses and drained one every 12 minutes for 2 hours.

But - you can mix in gatorade powder so long as it’s not red or purple. 😉

March is colon cancer awareness month, wear blue!