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Before current standards Cortison was much more common, often with theophylline. That would have been the recipe in the 80/90 in a lot of countries, with the first beta2 sympathomimetics coming up(Fenoterol). Before that (60-70ies)theophylline and Ephedrine were often given solo, sometimes with a barbiturate to counter the simulant, also prednisone started to gain traction.

Before that my sources didn't offer much,but Datura stramonium (Thornapple) was often used for ages - mostly smoked.

Nice article here,but it contains some errors: https://www.news-medical.net/health/Asthma-History.aspx

Air pollution was far worse everywhere besides the extremely rural areas since the middle ages in terms of the Asthma relevant particles and noxes. Combine that with a far worse indoor climate due to mold, animals, humidity, sooth, materials and that leads to a far higher prevalence for Asthma and respiratory illnesses. Which we basically know both from contemporary literature as well as bodies found.

Unless you worked mostly outside in a very very rural area your lungs were worse off 200 years ago than they are now.

Bitwarden is absolutely solid,yes.

Local server wise: If OP uses it in a local only setup behind a proper VPN implementation from my point of view the risk is acceptable. It's not that hard to secure a home server in a way that Vaultwarden is not at risk - and when you're so compromised that it is, then the attacker can easily use other vectors to gain the same data (RAt,keyloggers, etc.)

mam?

I would love to see a replacement that supports Anna's Archive.

What a nice ad title.

You could simply go to Austria and do that. Palatschinken is acceptable for any meal and delicious.

Sweden is progressive in some areas and lacking behind in others.

As all nations are.

Nope, no issues so far, but it's new enough to already have received the new units directly.

The small Renault's are actually more than decent EVs and can be compared to the Hyundai Inster.(With the later being the closest to a "high quality EV for everyone" I have seen. Fantastic car, small, comparable cheap, secure. They need to get a bit cheaper still,but we are getting closer)

If you are filthy rich the Porsches are decent, same goes for some of the BMW. The Nissan Arya is also okayish, so are Mercedes.

But yeah, Korea has the absolute king of the hill atm. I drive an EV6 (pre facelift). And honestly? It's the most "fun" and "comfortable" car I ever had - and I used to have lots of expensive company cars in the past (Audi A4,A5,A6, BMW 5, Volvo), often with "lights and sirens " installed and drove Seat,Skoda,Hyundai, Volvo privately.

None of them were as fun. None of fhem were as versatile and comfortable. And funny enough I safe enormous amounts of money.

And all the downsides people worry about? So far I didn't have any.

Charging? Absolutely no issue - beside the fact that my sparky is shit and I still don't have a home box (but a 200 bucks mobile box off Amazon helps). Even with long distances it's no issue - even in remote locations I had a chance to charge,often easier to find than petrol. And on regular trips it takes as much time to go to the toilet and get me a coffee. Which I would also do with petrol... So in fact I save a few minutes. Even under these circumstances I pay half compared to what I payed for petrol.

Battery issues? The car is used. So far: Zero degradation. We had it assessed by a professional company recently.

The only two issues it has: Preconditioning is somewhat random (which has been solved with the facelift) and the fact that the drivers profile is not based on the key sucks.

Yeah, the wireless charging is a no-go for me as well. I understand that it costs licensing and wastes energy. But the environmental impact of all the useless/lost cables is also a point,especially when you get your energy fully renewable/self produced. And in a lot of areas (airline lounges,etc.) it has become widely adopted/the norm.

They could easily have offered a "swap" battery that has a little less capacity but includes wireless charging - give people a fucking choice.

Yeah,but can we please leave Venice intact doing that? Without the tourists it's a nice little city to be honest, and its inhabitants have suffered enough.

Maybe Marghera?

You are right,but there might be a scenario that is somewhat "in between". Russia/China might either let NK provide (or do so themselves) a single nuke and might make sure they use it immediately - for a underground test. This would lead to the world being "unsure" if they have more, they could make Trump and Bibi look pathetic, while the regime would be even more dependent on them, because they could call their bluff any day.

About three weeks. But I was in an area where water was scarce and unsafe (Some central African nations)so there were other priorities. Baby wipes and an occasional wash cloth with water we boiled beforehand had to be enough.

But I must have looked and smelled funny when I finally made it back to civilization and walzed into the lobby of a very very posh hotel. That shower was pure heaven, though

Yeah, I fully agree. Sadly currently printer reviews tend to enshitify themselves everywhere, at least from my perspective. It's really hard to find reviews that are actually more or less objective and don't just try to give you a few "alibi downsides".

Which is bad, both for the community but also for the whole market,because it pushes people into the hands of the few brands that actually at least deliver a product that is working mostly - Bambu is the best example Their support is shit, their company policy is shit,but a buyer can at least hope they "do the trick". So they knowingly or unknowingly buy into the walled garden.

Not a good perspective for the future.

I have a long list of really bad hotels,but some weren't responsible for their own badness (if you are in an "almost warzone" area priorities shift), some were known to be bad (and didn't try to look like they weren't - and were at least priced like that...so I am okay with that).

The worst one therefore would be one with a formerly fairly posh German chain that is now mostly run down. First they didn't have my room ready. Then when it was ready, the carpet (ugh,I hate old 80ies carpet) felt squishy...and smelled...turns out the toilet leaked into the carpet. Which housekeeping surely would have noticed if they had cleaned the toilet....which still had the shit stains of whoever was in it before me. So I've got another room. It wasn't much cleaner and had twin beds. Not what I ordered but I didn't care at this point.. extra points: There was a hole in the wall behind the closet which woul allow someone to look into the bathroom of another room. Again I didn't care,especially as the other room seemed not to be occupied. And I was dead tired. (And yes,i always look behind closets, not for holes, but for bugs and cameras...had encounters with both)

Later the same night a hooker knocked on the door. Which is kind of strange as the elevators required key cards and the stairs were "alarm locked". So she likely worked with someone on the inside. Which is kind of a security problem.

Now, at around 3 o'clock in the morning the door swings open and a very drunk lady walks in with her baggage. She screams I scream, she needs to puke before I can explain. At least she makes it to the toilet. So here I am, holding the hair of a total stranger puking her soul out. (Hey, as an original Oktoberfest trainer paramedic I am a professional at that!) It later turns out they simply gave her the shit stained room an hour after me, when she complained they promised to give her another room by the time she would come back from her stag night. I really would like to tell you know how this was a big love story, but it's not. After she had a few more bodily functions and I was sure she would be okay I packed my stuff, screamed at the night desk staff a bit after they accused me of bilking the bill and went to the other side of the street into another (big EU chain) hotel. .... whose night staffmember looked at me, asked me if I was also a "refugee from that other hotel" and laughed. Told me I was already the fourth one the same night.

Funny enough they really had the audacity to charge my company for the whole stay, even for things they wouldn't be able to charge if I left after a full day. (Taxes, breakfast,etc., parking) The company lawyer had their fun with them.

I just looked them up and while the chain still operates the hotel has been closed long ago. And funny enough I even found a newspaper article of the staff complaining that "no other hotel would employ them because they knew we were above their level". Yeah,no.

Which hype? Matrix as a protocol is used for a decade now, especially by various big governments (French, Luxembourg and German governmental messenger, various German states, German and Polish armed forces, German healthcare messenger, various smaller projects in Latin America), is bridgeable (I currently have it bridged to Whatsapp and Signal amongst others) but I really don't see a hype - on the contrary I only see people predicting me the immediate apocalypse of Matrix for 5 years now, currently due to matrix.org (one of a hundred instances) introducing a premium account model for the most cost intensive (heavily media sharing)users. (See below for that).

Overdramatic blog post,sorry. I can't stand the whole "fremmium" crybabies that then literally recommend the next freemium or "non transparent funding model" service.... And don't understand the fundamental difference between the Protocol and one of its implementations.

Matrix as a protocol is solid and is used far beyond the Matrix messenger. (e.g. the French and German governmental messenger, the German healthcare messenger,various armies,etc.) With a lot of commits coming from there - but not enough funding,that is definitely an issue.

The current issue with Freemium is solely limited to the matrix.org instance. There are hundreds of federated instances out there that aren't Freemium and won't have the need to go that way as they are funded differently.(e.g. the Lemmy Instance I am currently writing from, feddit - we are financed through other means) As they are federated it doesn't matter - and honestly, I personally tend to see this as a good thing - it will lead users away from matrix.org towards other instances, making the whole network more reliable and decentralized.

There are two other issues that are relevant, though: The way the foundation is run is not ideal, definitely - there are and were issues and I am not happy with some management decisions, but at least they are getting somewhat better recently (government board). The whole protocol does not evolve as fast as it should be and this is an issue,especially as a it also affects bug fixing. As an executive for a (much smaller) company myself I see management issues and infighting due to lack of leadership within the foundation and I am not happy with that. The second issue is Element as a company that does things companies do - focus on making money. This in theory would be a good thing if Element would send enough money AND effort upstream to seriously bring the whole project forward. For a long time this seemed to be the case,but licensing issues and the "stale" development off Element X(Matrix 2.0) has me questioning that as well - but recent changes show us hope in that regard. We also need to carefully reconsider if element is keeping too much"closed" source code for monetized features and what influence VC really has. In conclusion: We need better leadership for Matrix,more transparency and more funding.

The good news is: It doesn't mattter too much - if the current foundation fucks up and goes belly up it is not the end of Matrix - the protocol is decentralized enough and the licencing of the core components permissive enough for another (better?) foundation to start over. There are dozends of clients available and we have alternative servers available by now.

The funding part nevertheless is my major pet peeve here. All around Europe governments try to get rid of US tech - and use Matrix protocol based products. But they hardly if ever fund that. If Germany, France, Poland and Luxembourg (the big users) would give 5€ per year for each client they implement all issues with funding would be gone, Matrix 2.0 would be available in a few months, VC could be pushed out of elements AND they could mandate more transparency.

The issue with funding is relevant for all NGOs and especially in tech. Running servers costs a fuckton of money.

Signal has a respectable amount of backers but is a centralized protocol and when Trump does something shady moneywise their infrastructure,money and possibly even people will be gone within 24 hours.

Threema has a more sustainable business model but Switzerland is,well, difficult, in terms of privacy and intelligence services overreach, especially towards traffic pointing to foreign servers or hosts.

Revolt is a centralized service with no federation,limited selfhosting capabilities,with unclear funding(we are waiting for a financial transparency report for ages now).

Polyproto is still not quite there feature wise and funding, etc. is unclear.

Delta Chat is indeed an option but has massive technical limitations.

That leaves XMPP as the sole big competition if you want non-centralised, non-US based, privacy friendly, messaging.

And Switzerlands records in terms of privacy sadly is far worse than most people think - even with the last attack being repelled.

Matrix (preferably on a non-matrix.org instance) currently is the preferable non US and privacy friendly way.

That surely was a nice ad.