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Yep, very lucky I can continue to afford coffee. Though maybe not the coffee I want to have. $65 for 200g is a little too steep for me.

I did read about Coxsackie A6 but it doesn’t seem like my symptoms match.

Ah I didn't read that closely to see if the symptoms were different. That other link I provided of the case study did seem to suggest adult symptoms of hand, foot, and mouth are often atypical though.

If adults getting it are asymptomatic, how do they know they have it? I always wonder how they get the data as asymptomatic people aren’t going to the doctor or getting diagnosed. They wouldn’t even be thinking they’re sick would they?

It might be from formal studies. I'm in a flu study. When someone gets symptoms, they test everyone in the house. Last year I had the flu and never had a symptom, but they know I was infected because they tested me when one of the kids tested positive after getting symptoms. Something like that?

I’ve had hand foot and mouth as a child and chicken pox twice too ☹️. The Mrs thinks my immune system might be weak as I had glandular fever last year as well. Not to mention covid a couple years ago.

I remember reading there are something like 18 viruses that cause hand, foot, and mouth. Getting one doesn't provide protection against the others.

But yeah, to get it this bad, get chicken pox twice (that is normally considered once in a lifetime), other sicknesses. That's either really bad luck, a poor immune system, or might just be that phase where you get sick all the time from your kids bringing stuff home from school/daycare. But if I had your luck I'd be looking at the shingles vaccine, I know people who have had shingles in their 30s (well before the free shingles vaccine you are eligible for at 65). Very unpleasant.

Ok or maybe not, apparently it's $600-$800! 😲

I don’t know why all the online literature states that adult cases of hand foot and mouth disease are usually mild… it’s been hell for the last week. Googling other peoples experiences, most say they also had a terrible time.

From what I can find, it's because adults are likely to be asymptomatic. People with mild or no symptoms aren't going to go complaining about it on the internet, so you've got a sampling bias.

I also found this page, that says that there are several viruses, and lists three common ones. For one it says:

Coxsackievirus A6: People who contract this virus may experience more severe symptoms.

Also I found this case study about an adult with pretty bad symptoms.

I've also previously heard that you generally don't get sick with the same virus twice. So if you've had that specific strain of hand, foot, and mouth before, you may be asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. Many (most?) kids have had it as a pre-schooler so if you have a strain that's common in your area then you might not get too sick from it. If you catch one less common or that you haven't been exposed to before, then I guess you'd get worse symptoms.

Sorry it probably doesn't help, because it doesn't change that you're having a shit time. Hopefully you are feeling better soon.

😅 At least I managed to make another coffee successfully afterwards!

This morning I was making a coffee, I ground some beans into the portafilter and was pushing it with the tamper (in my hands...) and it slipped, tamper pushed down on one side, ground beans shot out the other, and in the chaos everything went flying. I had ground beans spread across most of the kitchen, and I found the portafilter in the fruit bowl next to the bananas. It all took quite some time to clean up.

I swapped the motherboard on my old desktop /now server, and now it does this. Fan lights stay on when it's shut down. It's a server so it's never off except when something went wrong but it's annoying to think it's on when it's not.

Next time I need to shut it off I'll check for this setting, thanks for the tip!

Is this not awesome?

Sounds like she was destined for politics!

The article points out that there are many barriers to people being vaccinated. One includes not qualifying for free vaccinations (we have many people on work visas from the pacific islands, including the Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme that by definition excludes workers from free measles vaccinations).

The article also points out the low rate of vaccination in Samoan children in NZ. Now would be a good time for the government to be contacting churches, community groups, and other targeted places to offer vans of vaccinators that will vaccinate anyone and everyone for free.

I talked about Samoa because you mentioned it, and also because the article mentions the 83 deaths in Samoa in the last outbreak that spread from NZ, but even better would be vans of vaccinators all around Auckland (as the place with the exposure) jabbing people indiscriminately like we did during COVID.

I think it's good! I encouraged it. Mine didn't stay like that though, got more picky as they got older. Though not too bad, they are all willing to try things, though they will often ask what is in it.

I encourage questions, though! In any and all things. So it's not unexpected that they ask about it before trying. I tend to try to help with what to expect, "it tastes a bit like a cross between kiwifruit and a pear", "it's a bit like lasagne with cauliflower", or simply "I think it's something you'll like" (assuming that's true).

Ok thanks, I'll have to be extra careful deploying any changes.

Fairly scathing

Fairly? This article doesn't pull any punches 😂

Kind of like watching a Lean In seminar hosted by the ghost of Margaret Thatcher.

“We support women,” they chorused. Just not enough to pay them fairly.

Turns out you can have it all. So long as you’re prepared to be a c... to the women who birth your kids, school your offspring and wipe the arse of your elderly parents while you stand on their shoulders to earn your six-figure, taxpayer-funded pay packet.

Some of her colleagues call her Brooke GPT. It’s not clear if that’s because of her robotic delivery, or because her answers usually come up short.

It’s a bit rich to describe these claims as fiscally unsustainable when the last Budget found billions in tax relief for landlords, property speculators and high earners. Plenty of cash for capital gains, but not for caregivers.

Saving money by cancelling justice.

And then selling it by claiming they’re doing feminism a favour by lighting it on fire and calling it efficiency. Richardson would be proud.

I think my last computer was the last “toaster” I will get to own until I change platform. Updates were optional and manual, and I owned everything on it outright. I managed to jump through hoops just now to buy a copy of office that isn’t subscription-based or infested with AI, but I feel like a dinosaur watching the asteroids falling.

A few years back I switched to using Linux. I have played with it on and off for 20 years or more, but it has leapt forward in strides recently. For technical people, it's hugely configurable. For non-technical people, I would say we are at the point that it can be used as a daily driver so long as it came pre-installed on your laptop or you know someone who knows how to install an OS. It's the same difficulty as installing Windows, but computers tend to come with Windows installed which puts Linux out of reach of most people.

The only caveat is software - if you specifically need MS Office and the web version won't do, or if you need the Adobe suite etc, then you'll struggle. There are alternatives, but not without their own learning curve. There are also issues if you want to play some online games with certain anticheat software.

But given the average non-technical person uses a laptop only for browsing the internet (in my experience), then I think it's time for technical people to start installing Linux on all their friends' computers 😆

I think we will see sharper bifurcation between the European market and the US/world market, as well.

I think this is a good thing for us. As a small market it can be hard to have much sway, but if Europe starts putting their foot down then companies may start to have these two tier things like they do today where TVs in the US record what you say and take screenshots of what you're watching and send what they learn to advertisers, but the same TV sold in Europe doesn't have this (and I assume not in NZ either). By Europe forcing the companies to provide the more private versions, we can make laws that force them to give us the privacy protecting version. If it was us against the world we might have got told to shove it, but they can't ignore the whole EU.

There are some really crazy overreaches. I notice Adobe is setting its AI to rummage through subscribers’ image folders (which is a legal and privacy nightmare for the companies concerned) and sysadmins are complaining about how they have to contact Adobe and go through a lengthy process to make it turn that off.

Ever since I got a free trial of Photoshop that then charged me $100US to cancel, I have never wanted to touch their stuff (don't worry, I escalated myself through support tiers until they reversed the charge). I got good at GIMP instead 😅

"good" is subjective

Oh all my kids went through a phase like that. Watching me while I cook:

"What's that?" "Cumin" "Can I try some?"

"What's that?" "Minced up garlic" "Can I try some?"

Thanks! I did see there's a docker format and a podman format which I assume is what this difference is about. I'm not against discord but I've never really used it. I'll check it out if I get desperate 🙂

Oh no! I remember all the train trips telling kids not to lick the poles, followed by them vomiting later that evening.

It's weird how hard it can be sometimes to get them to try new foods, but toddlers will lick anything for no reason.

Thanks, I had already played a bit with distrobox and hadn't worked that out either. It seems adding a Z flag to my bind mount to keep SELinux happy is all that was needed.

I seem to have got it working using podman, adding a Z flag to the bind mount to make SELinux happy.

Oh shit I think that's it! I've added that Z flag to each bind mount declaration in compose.yaml, and it seems to be running properly now. Thanks!

Any idea what the implications are of this transferring to an ubuntu based distro?

As far as I can tell, you just run the command with sudo to run as root? But this doesn't help, I have been using sudo.

Edit: I think this is solved, someone else mentioned using the Z flag on the bind mount declaration and it seems to be working!