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It is, everyone here has one to many blåhaj, with the amount depending on how many were at ikea at the time

It’s been 14 years since Danny DeVito was slathered in oil and then crawled out of a couch, it does suck we don’t have newer photos :(

COVID is definitely still a thing and is differentiable from other viruses. COVID mutates so rapidly that at least 4 new major strains emerge a year, which means that at the worst you can get COVID 4 times a year since each new major strain avoids total immunity from a previous infection. Prepare for an infodump.

The US CDC just a few days ago stated that COVID is a constant threat and recommended 2 boosters a year for COVID. This is a return to reality from their previous cope that COVID is like the flu (influenza) with its single wave in the winter (or that the COVID pandemic is over). As stated, COVID mutates so rapidly that per-quarter boosters would be a better fit against the current major strain, but 2 boosters is better than 1.

COVID’s danger is that it attacks the entire body via systemic inflammation and is not just a respiratory illness. The clues were there at the beginning; the loss of smell is brain damage. Most organ damage is not fully recoverable from (it’s bad).

COVID found in people’s intestines 2 years (and could be longer) after infection: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adk3295

COVID found in people’s bones post-infection (and post death): https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/8/24-0145_article

COVID damaged the vascular system in young people in the weeks following COVID infections: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/pdf/10.1152/ajpheart.00897.2020

Long COVID is either organ damage or continued systemic inflammation (ME/CFS). The organ damage is that COVID’s initial infection damages something in your body. The continued systemic inflammation is either COVID continuing to exist embedded in tissue or organs causing continued inflammation or your immune system being damaged and then incorrectly causing systemic inflammation to yourself.

What makes COVID extremely dangerous is that the chance of getting long COVID is cumulative with each COVID infection.

Long COVID chance is cumulative at 15% per infection: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2023001/article/00015-eng.htm

US CDC study found 20% of people that had COVID got long COVID, and 7.5% of the US adult population has long COVID as of June 2022: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220622.htm

Combination of papers on cumulative long COVID chance: https://nitter.privacydev.net/antiviral_mktng/status/1803935316086071526

It is clear that 15% cumulatively chance per COVID infection is unfortunately a safe bet.

That 15% cumulative chance means that by the 7th COVID infection you will have some form of long COVID symptoms. With the previously mentioned 4 major new strains a year, some unlucky person already has reached 7 COVID infections in 2023 and very likely has long COVID. At a lower rate of 2 COVID infections per year (following the summer and winter peaks COVID kind of follows now), that person will get long COVID by 2025. At 1 COVID infection per year, someone has until 2028 until they are guaranteed to have long COVID symptoms. That’s bad.

Long COVID can range from annoying chronic symptoms, systemic weakening of your body, inability to think intensely, or even total debilitation (ME/CFS). It’s very bad that almost everyone will have something in that range by 2028, and most people will have something in that range by 2025.

COVID’s relatively high death rate initially effected old and vulnerable people (obligatory check your privilege), but it is clear that it has the teeth to come for us all in time - it will just wear us down by trying brand new attack vectors at least 4 times a year.

So what can you do now? Most of this depends on privilege (healthcare access, health insurance access, work flexibility).

**Get your boosters. **

mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna in the US) are better as single-shots but can have intense symptoms (the more intense the symptoms from the vaccine, the better it protects you, at least) while non-mRNA vaccines (Novavax in the US) need to be taken in a two shot set (they will only happily give you the 1st shot, you need to pay for the 2nd yourself) but they won’t have intense symptoms.

**Wear a mask if you can. **

Wear a well-fitting N95 mask in crowded situations where you do not need to eat or drink. It’s even better if you avoid indoor restaurants, they’re a major COVID spread vector (rip to waiters/waitresses out there). The 3M VFlex works well for larger faces and the 3M Aura works well for medium-to-small faces. You can reuse masks until they lose most of their stiffness. The 3M Aura rubber bands fray after several uses, get the version without rubber bands. The 3M VFlex rubber bands do not seem to fail like the 3M Aura’s rubber bands do. Basically, something that goes around your head and does not hold onto your ears. You cannot get an amazing seal with around-the-ear masks without ripping your ears off.

If you need one that goes over your ears, get a KF94 like the LG Airwasher (big face) or Bluna (medium face) from Korea. Surgical masks and cloth masks are abs shit for breathing and you will suck them into your mouth if you do anything vaguely intense and they’ll greatly hinder your breathing. Ones that hold their shape (VFlex/Aura/KF94s) are essential to being able to breath in a mask. Surface area is important as well, the KF94 style (Aura/KF94s) and the VFlex (most surface area) have enough.

**If you feel sick, identify if it is COVID. **

Get your doctor to get you a PCR test (your doctor may resist as COVID-downplaying-propaganda is rampant) or get an at-home PCR test (like LUCIRA). If you are in the EU, take 2 rapid tests the day you notice symptoms and 2 rapid tests 2 days later; this approach is not economical in the US where rapid tests are $10 each. PCR tests can detect COVID before you’re infectious, but rapid tests have a 75% chance of working (that’s why you take 2 in a row) and really only work if you are infectious with COVID (hence 2 days later, it tries the test again when you are likely to be more infectious later in the disease cycle). PCR is the faster way, but can be harder to get. Swab throat then nose, COVID can start in your throat.

If it’s COVID, get Paxlovid.

Get Paxlovid, you may be able to get it from a pharmacy with a pharmacist-provided prescription or you may be able to get it prescribed from your doctor or telehealth with news of your positive test. Paxlovid is the only COVID antiviral that works somewhat, and it lowers the viral load which reduces how much damage it can do to you.

After Paxlovid you can have a “rebound” of COVID - this is just that Paxlovid is for 5 days and it usually takes 7 days of Paxlovid to fully defeat COVID. The prescribed amount ends too early, so COVID rebounds. Your body has had time to learn this variant of COVID while it is diminished, so you’re better off. If you can, get 2 rounds of Paxlovid - but that is only really viable if you have a sympathetic doctor who understands Paxlovid’s 5 day regimen is too short (more privilege).

Take it easy for as long as you can.

If you have the privilege post-COVID-infection try not to do extreme exertion for a month or two to let your vascular system recover so you do not induce farther vascular damage (like a heart attack at the worst). Same goes for other damaged organs.

What does the future hold? We have a “deadline” in 2028 for almost all people having some form of long COVID and all.

HIV-like drugs to remove long COVID due to continued, deep infection. China does this already by using actual HIV drugs.

COVID vaccines that are nearly 100% effective at preventing infection to prevent organ damage. This or something that somehow prevents COVID from damaging organs (prevent systemic inflammation).

Something to stop systemic inflammation due to a haywire immune system.

The burden of knowledge is heavy, but it is important to know the most immediate danger to humankind to be able to be an effective member of society.

That’s a big iron on his hip, glad he was able to get through all of Texas Red’s one and 19 more bandana collection so quickly. (Such a cute couple)

Outdoors it reached an AQI of 300 post-fireworks (around midnight) in the suburban city I live in, bros fuggin cooked it

I did not know about this, and I love it

Good to know Proxmox’s bad updates are more pervasive than the latest bad update.

I have been able to install Docker in the LXC containers and pull images in with the normal commands. I do that container-in-container to get effectively rootless docker containers for stuff that I couldn’t figure out how to run rootless. So you don’t even lose out on docker if you’re determined! And as you said incus goes on any OS, you can docker just fine on the base OS of your choice and use incus for specific things!

Try a diff email if you do want one, a friend recently got one via email signup and wait a few weeks. But I do abs agree it fuckin sucks you have to do any of this effort to get one, it is just enabling scalpers

I do use it to hold internet-exposed things in LXC containers to sidestep having to figure out how to not run things as Docker root.

You do not need it for everything, but since it’s not an OS that makes it your everything, that’s ok! Run Docker containers as you need, put internet-exposed ones in an LXC container, put home assistant in a VM because it’s special.

Ah, I was wondering which one you updated and it made your containers inaccessible!

You have to sign up for the in stock notifications, annoying but it works in a delayed fashion. Sad it does enable scalpers.

Incus or Proxmox (e.g., should I shift to Incus LTS or something?)

You are clearly mistaken. When the cat 5 titties started heaving they caught your attention, by design. Akin to Frank Lloyd Wright-esque compression and release, the show up to now was staffed by thin and tall women and her breasts were bound (compression) and then they slammed her into lower cut dresses that strained to hold them in (release). Booba is a major plot point, and boy do they heave. Praise shondaland

then you hear her Irish accent and it’s over

Incus is way easier to work with than Proxmox, and it sits on your OS of choice instead of being the OS you must use. For home use it’s way easier to use with the web ui, it even has clustering if you want to go hard.

So you can install Incus when you want a VM/LXC container and not have to commit to a VM/LXC container OS from the start.

Also Proxmox free just had a bad update that björked some stuff if you updated when it was live. Proxmox free is rolling and apparently lacks basic sanity checks for updates.

Your budget is really near a https://store.ui.com/us/en/collections/unifi-dream-router/products/udr Unifi dream router. Your family is gonna be way happier with you (0 downtime) and it’ll give you extender options if you ever need it. Unifi is good enough and they update regularly, just disable cloud access stuff and you’re good.

Otherwise you want Opnsense instead of Openwrt. The upgrade process for Openwrt is not automatic, while Opnsense is. Worth it not to have to dote on your router.

And you should get an access point (Unifi something or Tplink Omsomething), wifi is problematic with openwrt and I’m not sure if opensense even lets you do it (haven’t tried).

And you’ll need a switch, dumb or managed, up to you if you want VLANs. The Opnsense box will have just one LAN port, so it requires a switch if you want to plug more than one thing into it. A switch with PoE+ can power the access point directly.

Opnsense needs x64 arch (Intel or AMD CPUs), get a small thin client like a Dell Wyse 5070 extended or HP T730 or that mentioned Fujitsu Futro S720 (its CPU is old tho, you can do better). There may be newer thinclients, you just want a mini PCIe slot to install some Intel gigabit card from eBay with 2 ports. Google power efficient gigabit mini PCIe card - there’s an older model that sucks power and a newer one that doesn’t suck; if you go more than gigabit skip 2.5 on Intel unless you google hard and expect extra power draw. Very limited point to 4 port cards, just go higher gigabit speeds don’t think about multiplexing ports or whatever it is called; and switches switch better than the router can and remove CPU overhead for more actual routing work - 2 port card is the way.

Slap Incus (superior but newer, less guides, LXD is previous name if googling stuff) or Proxmox (good enough, more guides for this) on it, make a VM and pass through the 2 ports of the PCIe cards, slap Opnsense in the VM. Make an LXC container and slap Debian on it and spin up the Unifi controller for your AP. Another container for adguard home or pi hole and you’ve got a box that does the basic nets all in one. The built-in port on the thin client is how you will access the underlying OS, it gets plugged into the switch you’ll have to get. If you got something with 2 gigs of RAM and an AMD Geode/GX or aged Intel Atom CPU I’d just only do Opnsense no hypervisor stuff.

Sorry for the info dump but there’s a lot of angles!

But really, the Unifi dream router is much easier and solves it all-in-one. You need 3 pieces (router, wifi access point, Ethernet switch) for a good experience otherwise.

Tumble gonna tumble

It is called an eyebot, I promise :) just drop the “mommy dommy”. I didn’t interpret the me-me as being ED-E because ED-E doesn’t talk afaik but other eyebots do spout fascist propaganda (at least in later games…)