Ear wax has never been an issue for me either, I had a friend who had just had their ear canal rinsed by a doctor. And their explanation kinda fit the bill…
So with a new born, new house that I was renovating, and stubbornness that I can handle everything myself, I managed to convince myself that this was the root cause
Not my proudest moment…
Seeing this post made me physically cringe. I am “The Public.”
In my late 20s, my ear started hurting. I was utterly convinced it was just a stubborn clump of earwax. I went to the pharmacy and bought one of those bulb syringes for rinsing ears. The pharmacist calmly and explicitly instructed me: “Make sure you only use lukewarm water.” I went home, washed my ear canal, and nothing happened. I figured I’d just give it a few days to loosen up.
Over the next couple of days, the pain escalated to an excruciating level. I’m talking find-chair, put-my-head-in-my-lap kinda pain. And as my son had just been born, I was operating on a good mix of extreme pain and severe sleep deprivation.
Eventually, i came to the conclusion that hotter water = more wax melting, and if lukewarm water didn’t work, maybe it just needs more heat. The hotter the water, the better chance it has of melting the wax, right? So, I boiled some water. And with zero hesitation, I injected boiling hot water directly into my ear canal.
It was not earwax.
I ended up at the doctor, where I learned that the initial agony was actually a severe case of otitis media (a middle ear infection). And thanks to my brilliant home remedy, I had managed to add a scorched ear canal and a secondary outer ear infection right on top of it.
So yeah. When that optometrist said, “Look at me. I want you to understand that I mean water that has been boiled and has since cooled down,” he was talking to me. I am the guy.
I’ve gone with Authentik for my homelab, and sure there is some learning to do, but it is fairly simple once it’s setup, and in the end it is not that bad.
If I were to choose over, I’d god with KeyCloak as it seems like that’s almost exclusively what’s used in the marked ~ and thus would be good to know in depth
I truly hope the delays was due to the fact that they “give a fuck about their game”… But, I won’t believe it until I see it…
Just imagine an internet after america, something to look forward to.
An internet without Americans?
Yes please, I’ve been craving this for quite some time by now
This looks so good! Nice job
I’m not justifying it anymore than justifying the increase in price of cheese.
But instead of spending your time being angry or annoyed at individual companies. Spend your time being angry with the system that requires the companies to have an ever increasing profit.
And stop being surprised by it, accept that this is a symptom of the capitalism, and if you want change… well, then… it will not happen by itself, and it will not start in the gaming industry.
And that’s completely fair as well, but there will be compromises… because 100DKK is not worth the same 100DKK as for 10 years ago, so as time goes by - the games you’ll be able to buy for 100DKK, will have reduced effort equally to the reduction in value of your currency
I don’t think I’m shilling for everything… I’ve been sailing the seas for as long as I can remember… I just don’t understand why people keep getting surprised at games increasing in price - have you guys forgotten how capitalism works?
Like do you go to your local grocery store and see that cheese has yet again shrunk in size, and increased in price, and then think “this’ll never happen to my precious videogames”?
If so, then I guess I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news
I fucking hate LinkedIn… and the way peoples post their “achievements” like anybody care. “So proud to announce I was promoted to Assistant Regional Manager of Paper Clips”… and then 500 comments sayin “Congrats!” “So deserved!” “Ur an inspiration!!” STOP LYING!!
The worst is them “influencers” who post fake stories about how they hired a homeless man and now he’s the CEO of 7 companies. Or the “I woked 25 hours every day for 10 years and now I successful, you could to”, I get physically sick of reading that rubbish.
And don’t get me started on the polls!! “Do u think workers should get bathroom breaks? Yes/No/Maybe/LinkedIn Premium™️” WHO IS VOTING MAYBE?? It just engagement bait shit!!
Every morning I open the app and see people I went to school with pretending they Steve Jobs of selling insurance or whatever.
But the company I work for keep saying “we want engagement on our LinkedIn posts, please like them”… and I guess I’m not better that all the other corporate sheep
I mean. Of course vidya games’ gonna get hit with inflation from time to time… just like every other product…
every link in the chain, from producer to consumer needs to have an ever growing increase in profit for capitalism to work
Thanks for sharing your story! It is very important to get these stories as well, someone who has 20 years in tech so close to getting scammed…
You did the correct thing and kept track of the url etc. on an offday you might not have been so vigilant.
I don’t believe you
Wacky books tbh. I don’t remember thinking it was for her to undergo trail they gave it to her, but mostly because that’s all they really knew to do
I am.
My current job situation makes it impossible to work and watch videos at the same time (mostly)…
It’s a way for me to stress down after a hectic day. I don’t really wanna play video games, but for me putting on a video from a creator, who plays video games ~ there is no new knowledge I need to process, there is no “real world” information that I have to adhere to… it just is whatever… and I can turn my mind off, while Pravus talks about something I don’t really care about ~ so yeah
I don’t know, you don’t know, no one knows… at least not for certain. That’s my point. If I wanted to try my luck with being an oracle, I’d play the lottery ;-)
What I’m challenging is to just plainly saying “nope well never need anymore computational power in our device”…
My point was that we cannot predict the future, saying something like;
we are “there” with processing power
Will be as incorrect as
640Kb should be enough for anybody
It’s just impossible to predict, not only how we will utilize our tools, but also what the consumer wants in 10 years or so.
Besides, narrowing the scope of the device down to “just” gaming is a limited viewpoint.
640Kb should be enough for anyone
Thanks for the kind words, I am glad that you are here as well!