Well, Peach seems to be doing better. It’s likely that she either has a bit of pneumonia, or is backed up in her intestines. She’s still a bit weak in her hind legs. However, x-rays showed a possible mass near her heart, so she’s gonna get an ultrasound today to see if there’s anything there. Hoping it’s nothing.
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Ok, so it looks like Peach is gonna be ok. The issue wasn’t her heart, it was inflammation of her lungs, almost like she had pneumonia or was about to have pneumonia, but it didn’t completely progress to that and just left the inflammation behind. She’s gonna be on a regimen of antibiotics for a couple weeks and she should be ok by then. 
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My dog (Max) tore his ACL (or whatever the dog equivalent is) so he’s been limping around. Most likely he’ll need surgery to correct it since he refuses to settle down and stop chasing stuff or jumping.
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Hope he’s able to recover quickly. Dogs are miserable if they can’t move around.
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Luckily I work at home so I can be with him most of the time. As long as he’s near my desk he’s more or less content to sit and stay still but any time I get up to get more coffee, use the restroom, or grab a sandwich it’s time to leap into action again.
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You can maybe get him something prescribed that will sedate him, like Gabapentin which will help with the pain and also make him lethargic. That’s for nerves/pain, but you could also potentially give him something “for anxiety” that’ll just have the effect of mellowing him out and preventing him from wanting to zoom. Another idea is to put a cone on him, which makes getting around inconvenient and also bums them out, so they’re ever so slightly less inclined to jump all over the place at any opportunity.
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We’ve found that CBD oil has helped a bit too, along with dog benadryl (which he takes for allergies when he goes to work with my wife). Both keep him fairly mellow most of the time.
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Yeah, good calls. I tried CBD for both myself and my pup, but dropped off within a year because that stuff’s not cheap and there are so many out on the market making all sorts of claims, it was an unregulated wild west of “I guess I feel somethings?”, and I was never really sure of the effectiveness of the product nor of which brand to trust.
Benadryl, now yes, that’s a drug that’ll knock you out. I’m 185lbs and occasionally take 25mg at bedtime; in the morning I’m super groggy and fully waking up takes a while. The doggo was 125lbs and the vet’s recommended dose was 100mg. I know humans and animals require different dosages but dayum.
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I think I will be out of the forum for a bit.
It’s not playful anymore.
I have an earnest but deeply unreasonable wishlist post ready to go before for the fun of it.
But after I think I will leave to the next roadmap release.
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For my fellow forum members who live in the USA, we’ll be able to order up to 4 free at-home Covid-19 test kits per household by the end of the month. If that’s a thing you like to keep tabs on, you’ll be able to order them at Covidtest.gov.
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My school PCs have Windows 11 and I haven’t been able to figure out what’s so bad about it, what are the issues with it? I thought adding tabs to file explorer was pretty cool!!
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I’ve recently been going on a nostalgia trip. One of my favorite games to play on the Wii for a long time was Mini Ninjas, a game IO Interactive developed. Recently I saw it was on Steam for $10. Only negative was due to age the audio was bugged and there were constant lag spikes or freezing. But after spending a night and morning downloading stuff to patch the game it now works smoothly with no problems. I’ve been enjoying going through the game again after so many years. 
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First, the TPM requirement will make a huge number of PCs with older CPUs (I think for Intel CPUs it’s everything bellow gen 8) “obsolete” even though if you install W11 with bypassing the requirement, it can run just fine. Sadly this was patched just recently. So those old PCs are stuck with W10 until the end of 2025, throw it away into the landfills or use Linux.
Other than that, there’s not much to W11 to make everyone make the change to it. It uses more resources than W10, it’s more bloated (it has TikTok and Netflix pre-installed for crying out loud) and performance in many games is worse compared to W10 and even Linux Nobara.
There is also the issue of Microsoft betting it all on AI which not everyone is keen on and there was the Recall fiasco where it would take screenshots of your desktop without the option to disable it and that really made people uncomfortable. Seems that Microsoft scrapped that idea after the outcry.
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Your name is Linux tho not Windows, that’s the issue.
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Currently my bank account looks like buying my new PC (in parts) will happen soon, so this whole WIndows stuff will be a thing of the past. 
Let’s see how Linux gaming is. Seems like it matured enough.
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Okay, I just pre-emptively installed Jedi Survivor onto my PS5…
HOW is this thing 151GB??!
This thing is bigger than Baldur’s Gate 3 (120GB), a game known for being much longer, having a branching narrative and an extremely impressive amount of actions that interact with each other, while also being incredibly replayable with different races, classes, etc…
Poor optimization/compression for files? 
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Ah, it’s just Windows 10 with crap Start button centrified and support for Android apps (should’ve been at least).
I had no choice but leave it on my new laptop, but customised it to be my W10 style which in its turn was a customised version of W7.
Foremost I mean no crapshitty Start menu for me. Always W7 style
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Today I received my first salary ever. It ain’t much but it feels good.
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uuuuuuuh boy do I remember my first salary. feels wonderful doesn’t it. here’s a tip I wish someone had told me. save at least 20% of it each month.
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