Emmeryn, engineer of computers @octet33@mastodon.technology

If you're looking for good individual actions, #NoBrandNewTech. #BuyUsed.

- Saves a bunch of CO2 (22kg to make a new smartphone v maybe a few grams for shipping)
- Saves money
- You get pretty much the same device anyways
- It tells companies that you care

Anyone got any ideas for how to get Linux adopted, that aren't just victim-blaming Windows users?

Quick question:

Anyone got advice for testbenching FPGA projects involving serial protocols like SPI and i2c without access to any actual hardware?

Hey game devs!

If your game takes over an hour to install over NVME, it's too big.

(And I know my SSD is the bottleneck, because my system's RAM cache is full.)

Ok, new symptom: mild sore throat.

Still alive, still cute, still wish I could hug someone without infecting them.

Today in the advantages of having had emotionally abusive parents:

My COVID symptoms are just intermittent enough to get me to gaslight myself.

The cough can go away for hours at a time, and I don't get short of breath when at rest (which, I'm mostly at rest atm anyways, since social distancing), and when this happens I sometimes feel unsure that I'm even sick, even though there's no logical basis for questioning that atm.

That rarely lasts more than a few minutes, but it's still frustrating.

OK, so in a massive surprise to absolutely nobody who's paying attention,

Boris Johnson has COVID.

Update:

I'm still fine,

but,

I HATE this virus. Getting winded every time I go to get food from the kitchen is SO. ANNOYING!

TFW you find a catchy song, start singing along, and run out of breath within half a second.

I just realized:

If COVID-19-like illnesses do become seasonal, ibuprofen's history as a decently safe OTC painkiller is over.

Update: it turns out COVID-19 does NOT affect cuteness.

So there's some good news.

OK, so the CDC guidelines for ending self-quarantine are:

- 7 days since symptoms began (so 4-1)
- Symptoms have resolved
- No fever for 3 days (according to the Mayo clinic's guidelines for forehead thermometers, I don't even have one).

Ok, I have about 12 days of estradiol left. I'll probably still be contagious in 12 days. Suggestions?

Update: Ralphs' server is melted so I can't even use their own service.

Soooo Instacart's broken.

Like, completely.

They won't even let me order in advance.

Umm, how am I supposed to keep eating without infecting the entire store?

Ok, update.

No change. Gonna be calling health services when I'm awake.

Yup, lungs are actin' up.

There isn't much shortness of breath at rest, but

- my endurance has fallen off a cliff
- the darn things just feel irritated. There's a slight uncomfortable warmth below my sternum, an eighth-circle out and an inch or so deep.

COVID?