sgtlion [any]

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Cake day: October 29th, 2021

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  • Far easier said than done, but I'd seriously recommend using another GP and/or making a formal complaint. GP surgeries have a lot of oversight and "GP won't give you prescribed medicine and loudly complains at you when they do" is a pretty fair complaint. You have a right to dignified and discreet healthcare from the NHS. Changing GP is typically easy if there are others around, but otherwise, formally complain to the surgery, then escalate that complaint to the local health authority if they don't resolve it.

    I've had to do it for being deliberately misled about my drugs before, and it was swiftly acted upon. I sent one email, and they publicly logged a change in internal procedure a week later.



  • This is normal. This is a topic with a lot of complexities if you drill down into the details and history, but the tl;dr is certain system processes and other programs will preferably write data to swap because it's so infrequently needed, and avoids massive slowdown if swap is needed, eg RAM filling, hibernation.

    If you're absolutely sure you'll never exceed 32gb of RAM usage, you can turn the swap off. But you're unlikely to notice a performance boost, Linux does (largely) know what it's doing, moreso than you or I.

    The TankieTanuki link is a good place to start to learn more if you really want to tweak it.






  • sgtlion [any]tochapotraphouseThe Writers Strike Ruined my life
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    2 months ago

    The workers did collective bargaining and the bourgeois class found a way to fuck up the industry a new way. That is not the fault of writers, they are fellow proles, however well paid they are or aren't.

    Blame the victims if you like, but the only alternative is bootlicking.


  • Diagnosing networking issues, short bash/python scripts of any and all purposes, gdb debugging, finding and learning how to use appropriate libraries, are most of my use cases. It's not a one-and-done either, I often have to ask it to explain, or fix a broken aspect, or Google the documentation and try again, etc.








  • sgtlion [any]toaskchapoWill the TSA start confiscating pagers?
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    3 months ago

    True, but they're also rigged in about five different ways to specifically not explode. And then about five more ways to breach and off-gas instead of blowing up.

    You'd have to make major adjustments to actually have one violently explode. To the point where you're just making a pipe bomb.