pimeys @ pimeys @lemmy.nauk.io

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That being if you can get yourself some Monero anonymously. I can see valid use cases for that, for example in the drug busines...

Is there an easy way to get this version as a normal citizen? I remember needing Windows 10 in my previous job a few times a year, and we spent quite a while with our office manager to get me a license and get the LTSC version of Windows installed with the key. It worked eventually, but was definitely trickier than a normal Windows installation.

That to be said, my partner still uses that Windows version and it is definitely the right thing to use, if needing Windows.

Nice! And they will probably differentiate from the competition by allowing GPL applications and sideloading, and having a total control for your privacy and no tracking, right?

Right?

Yeah. All of the tools have been there for years. The German health insurance pays for the pumps and sensors, but there hasn't been manufacturers opening up their Bluetooth protocols and allowing to connect with non-authorized devices, except for the past few years. Manufacturers, such as the Korean Dana Diabecare, or the American Dexcom are pretty relaxed with 3rd party apps. If you get the right hardware, you can definitely make your life much easier as a diabetic.

AndroidAPS is an artificial pancreas. They are not legal yet, or there are a few commercial ones with inferior features compared to this software and which are very expensive. The software reads your glucose from your upper arm using a sensor, and either gives you insulin or stops the delivery based on the estimate.

It connects to many different glucose sensors and pumps, provides a common interface and algorithms for them.

It is the research platform for commercial software to come. It is extremely helpful for Type 1 diabetics. Because it does not have approval as a medical software you cannot distribute binaries. You can legally compile it from sources, which is why it is for Android where you can easily sideload apps compared to the competing platforms.

xDrip is a tool that connects many different glucose sensors and gives you real time info about your levels. It enables continuous measurements with systems such as Freestyle Libre, which was only working with NFC officially.

The open source diabetes scene is quite popular in Germany. It has made our lives with T1 much easier.

Android is the only phone OS I can use due to the available diabetes apps (AndroidAPS, xDrip), so I can't really switch to anything else. Pixel phones are really good. I try to avoid YouTube as much as I can, use Fastmail for emails and SearXNG for search. Maybe I'm... mid?

It's interesting to see how Cyberpunk 2077 is actually selling really well still. Looks like it worked out well for CDPR eventually.

I've been in an interview and the hiring manager wanted to have a call in Teams. Didn't take that job.

It comes with the Office subscription. People who choose it are not the ones using it daily.

Not even close :D

There's a pretty vibrant open source diabetes community in Germany. Some tools such as AndroidAPS and xDrip have been existing for a long time and work together with many pump and CGM models available through the health insurance. GPL-3.0 licensed.

At least these were very beneficial for me, A1c went down from 7.5 to 5.5% without many hypos. You have to compile AndroidAPS by yourself due to distributing binaries would not be legal. It requires some knowledge, but for my partner not needing to call an ambulance ever again when I have a nightly hypo, that is a big win.

No nightly hypos for the past five years I've been using these tools...

Yeah, I'm from EU but love to do that when visiting family in US (in midwest...). The best is the ice from Sonic. Combine that with a corn dog, and you can again have hundreds of upvotes with a picture showing something Europeans don't understand.

My diabetes forces me to drink the sugar free options though, drinks with sugar are the worst poison for my body. Dr Pepper Zero was the best when I visited this autumn. And, to be honest, I never drink soft drinks when I'm back in EU...

But, at least you can compensate the amount of sugar you drink by filling the cup with a ton of ice!

You can use at least appimage with NixOS...

I use Plex for music because it is very good there, but Jellyfin for movies/tv which I like more for that kind of content.

Ugh, luckily I've been able to choose my hardware and OS for the past... 16 years at work. I would hate to use somebody else's choice of desktop for programming. Actually once said no to a work offer when they said they'll give only MacBooks for the people.

A great UI to stream your movie files from your TV. A bit like Plex, but open source.

Zinc just when it starts. These candies you let to dissolve in your mouth. One every two hours when the first symptoms start and if lucky, the next day the symptoms are gone.

In US they sell them with the brand name Cold-Eeze, and similar products are available in some EU countries but not in all of them.

Oh, and a lot of tea.

I really liked Silmarillion when I was a teenager. But, I was also an avid reader and read some really serious literature back in the days. It's not like a manual, it's just having so many characters and timelines going on. It's very interesting, if you're interested on the history of the Middle Earth and its characters.

But, not for everybody for sure. Not like Lord of the Rings, which is a real feel good sick day book to read.

Such a good song still. If I would be that engineer who destroyed the original... Damn what a thing to carry.