Can they even track pirated installs ?
Oof I've had an experience with these meds...
I used to take Humira for 5 years but my country stopped delivering it (I used to live in Venezuela), then I moved ti the US and started Humira again, but it was about 30-50% effective only, I still had a lot of pain
I then went through Cosentyx and Taltz, none worked. Then I tried Enbrel, same effectiveness, got it through a foundation. Healthcare didn't want to cover it and the foundation didn't approve me if I had Healthcare.
Got sick in the US, lost all my money (due to lack of money), so I spent the little I had saved to return to my country, moved to Brazil and I'm about to start Golimumab (Simponi) tomorrow, hopefully it works because I haven't gotten medication in 2 months and the pain feels unbearable.
Having said all this, if there is a speck of a chance that this helps people with AS and other similar conditions, it would make me happy. Having this kind of pain is unbearable.
Sorry for the long comment, I suddenly wanted to rant about this!
Hope it's not a stupid question but would this kind of thing work for ankylosing spondylitis??
I ask because I suffer from AS the doctor's that I've gone to are always arguing whether it's an autoimmune or an autoinflammatory disease, and on the web it says that the underlying mechanism is either of the two as well.
So it's not clear to me whether it's one or the other, or if itimplies the same thing. I've read a huge deal about AS but I'm not really good at biology or medicine to understand a lot.
Honestly the only reason I'm commenting -and asking- here, is because I want to have hope that this actually leads up to something that can help me stop this fucking pain that makes me feel like I want to die (figuratively) but I'm afraid of this being a clickbait article.
Also my English is not the best so sorry for any mistakes and for the long comment.
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Isn't this ok? I'm not saying it's better... just OK?
I don't know if this is just me but why is there always a race to be the "most popular/larger platform"?
Isn't this kind of race to be the most popular the reason why a lot of platforms/companies/jobs/games/etc are suffering today? Growth for the sake of growth and forcing something to be more popular just because it needs to be more popular is just kind of sad.
It's not like "corporate fediverse/lemmy" needs more users... At least this is my opinion.
Ahh, I have one story. It's also kind of my own personal tin-foil-hat conspiracy.
I was living in a place where you could rent, but it was also a hotel. It had a Rent-a-Car inside, and I was working there. It was exceptional because I was 2 floors away from my job, so no need for commuting.
Ultimately, and to make this long story short, I decided to leave the company (it was a small company, just my boss, his wife ane me), because one week I started to get paid less than what I was working, they probably thought I wouldn't notice.
I immediately started looking for another job, and funnily enough, the hotel - where I lived - was hiring. They basically accepted me after the first interview, I told my boss' wife that I was leaving the company for the hotel so I gave my two weeks notice.
Next day, I am driving through the highway with my boss to pick up a customer when he starts SCREAMING at me about going to work for the hotel instead of him. One thing stood out from what he screamed at me:
"I will make sure that you don't get that job, or other jobs in the future, and you will never get this job back either, how are you going to live like that now? You just fucked up" - He said
Now this is the conspiracy/accusation part:
The hotel needed to do a drug test (they did that to everyone). The day of the drug test, I go to the place, do whatever I had to do, and they just told me to wait for an answer.
2 weeks goe by - no response. I call and ask, they say they "lost" my tests. Strange, but ok. I went to do another one.
2 days after the second one, they call me and tell me that the test was positive for weed. Now I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say I've never done weed. I have arthritis, so weed is something I sometimes need to handle tha pain and stress, but at that time I was clean for about 5-6 months.
However, I told them that it's impossible, that I've never done weed, that I didn't even have money to buy weed. They straight up tell me they don't care and hang up.
Exactly 20-30 minutes later, my former (rent a car company) boss -who I hadn't spoken to for more than a month- calls me, he doesn't even ask me how I am or anything, he just goes straight for "where you accepted for the job? How did the drug test go?"
Now, call me crazy but...
- I didn't tell him I was doing a drug test, and if the hotel had told him, they still woul't have known when I did the drug test.
- How did he manage to call me exactly the day I got the results, almost at the same time?
- I called the hotel after that call and they told me that they hadn't even received a call from the drug test place to tell them that it has been positive. That basically I was the one notifying them. However, they said that since it was positive, I couldn't get the job regardless, no exception.
At the end, I figured I was fighting a losing battle and searched for other jobs. 2 weeks later COVID-19 hit and the rent-a-car had to close, so that was good news for me.
Hijacking this comment thread to recommend SearXNG, it's basically a decentralized search engine (if I understand correctly) and you can choose from where you want it to give you the results.
You can choose to index searches from both major (like Google, Bing, DDG, etc) and minor search engines at the same time and it will just give you the most relevant results. Alternatively, you can choose what engines you don't want results from as well.
My experience with it has been great so far, I've just had minor issues when searching for something extremely specific and in those cases I use DDG or others, but most of the time the first 3 results are exactly what I'm looking for.
I use the Disroot instance on SearXNG, but you can choose other instances or host your own. There is a dedicated website for choosing instances.
That's weird, I use Waterfox and I occasionally get to do some kind of "puzzle", but other times I just need to click the reCaptcha and it will confirm itself (with the green check)
Ironically, when I use Vivaldi, the captcha doesn't even load, and when it loads, it says it's wrong regardless of the answer I give it, so I'm always locked and that's quite literally the only reason I stopped using Vivaldi.
On Edge I need to fill in puzzles ALL THE TIME, that's also why I stopped using Edge (apart from the bloatware and the uBlock not working there)
I think this is better tbh, I personally don't like it when piracy forums/sites/whatever piracy related thing goes too mainstream. Maybe it's gatekeeping, I don't know, I just don't want another Z-Library incident.
Either way, they probably aren't even against piracy, they're probably just lazy and don't want to deal with any of the issues they could potentially face down the line.
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Yep, every driver is up to date. In fact I just did a fresh windows install once again, updated all drivers once again, and the problem still persists.
The games however are stored in a secondary ssd, so the next thing I'm gonna do is install them on the main, and some of them on an external one, just in case it's a faulty SSD.
If that's not it then I have no clue.
Yeah I'm about to give up with these games as well and just not play them, I just finished a clean Windows install again and it still didn't work, I feel like I'm going insane here haha
I'll definitely try that tomorrow when I wake up, I just did a fresh install of Windows 11 and it still won't work, thanks for that recommendation, I have an external ssd so maybe it'll work like that.
Definitely something wrong with my OS and I'm currently making yet another clean install, because the weird thing is that I've played all these games before (except BG3) on the same laptop, I was just replaying them for fun.
I just wanted to see if there was someone else with the same issues or something similar.
Specs are fine
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, RTX 3050Ti, and 32GB RAM, it's a Legion 5 (2021)
All games mentioned run 100fps+ on High and I was watching the graphs, temperatures of 60-80C on the CPU and 50-75C on the GPU so those were fine (at least for a laptop)
What you're saying makes a lot of sense, but, the weird thing is that, except for Baldur's Gate 3, I already played all these games in my laptop before. I was just replaying them for fun, I just didn't know if somebody else had the same issues.
I think I'll just make another clean install and see what happens, this situation has me so confused tbh haha
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This is a thing that I think only happens in the US.
I moved to Brazil from the US and my wife found it super weird that I asked her how much would they charged me after she asked me to activate my hotspot.
Nope, I did make it a little bit confusing with the whole pozza thing but it was an inside joke from that game's community so I had to put it
It's actually >!Devil May Cry 3!<
I use Internet Download Manager and it has worked like a charm for me. It's paid, but you can find the pirated version easily!
I tried JDownloader but it didn't work for me, I'm kind of dumb though so it might have been my fault that it didn't work in my browser/computer.
Edit: wanted to add that for torrents I've been using Qbittorrent, imo it's the best
I kind of thought she was a bit distant, but not cheating, but at that time I was dealing with a terrible case of arthritis at that time, so between going to the hospital and spending days, sometimes weeks in bed without being able to move I was not really thinking about it.
That's what I said to her... Hell, it would have been a blessing for me if she was doing things with other people sometimes.
I was feeling horrible for her because I have a terrible case of arthritis and I can't do stuff like a normal person, sometimes I couldn't even move for weeks or spend time at the hospital, so sex was almost impossible. We were doing it once every 4 months, maybe more.
The first thing I told her was "Look, if you're gonna do something with someone else, at least let me know first, I can understand due to the conditions so there's no problem if you really need it, just please tell me first".
First thing she did was not tell me, and that is what messed me up, the stupid lie.
This is probably NSFW so... warning(?)
I was going to reserve dinner at a place for our 7th anniversary of our marriage. My phone ran out of battery, so she told me to use hers.
While I was using it she received a message saying "tomorrow again? 😏". Curiosity killed me, I opened the message because, as far as I knew, she stayed home while I was working the day before.
To my surprise, the guy that texted her sent her a video of her on all fours with 2 men cuming on her. Needless to say, there was no 7th anniversary dinner. This was also years ago so I got over it.
I could have said "she cheated on me" and leave it at that but I feel like the whole story is spicier.
Is this No Man's Sky? Damn this is hard, the baby phone is confusing me.
They can obviously track pirated installs.
They use computational predictions and quantum mathematical calculations through a software called trust me bro.