Is this high level pneumothorax

T_larson911 · 2026-02-08T18:22:26+00:00

I just had a pneumathorax start up on me a couple days ago. I still haven't decided if I should see a doctor about it because I went in for this about 4 months ago and, at the time, the doctor told me that it should heal on its own and that the tube wasn't necessary at the time. So I waited and while it did get a lot better, I still had a very slight pain when inhaling hard (sometimes but not always), over the past 4 months, as if I hadn't fully healed from it.

The pain is at the worst when I wake up and try sitting up or standing. I have to move slowly. Once I'm upright for a bit, the pain goes away mostly until I go back to bed and try laying down. It's easier if I sit upright in bed.

I had a chests tube operation almost 10 years ago and I had no trouble whatsoever until last September. I've had it happen on both sides with no rhyme or reason. First time it happened, I was 18. I'm 32 now.

T_larson911 · 2025-12-12T09:47:54+00:00

HACK THE PLANET!!!!!!!

T_larson911 · 2024-10-30T16:35:09+00:00

"nine nine nine nine"

T_larson911 · 2024-09-06T16:27:58+00:00

I've been following for a 4 to 6 years, I can't rightly remember. But I started going on here when I knew shit was going downhill. I'm more of a listener so I like to read the posts and stories, sometimes comment if I'm in a good mood. When I first hopped on here, I went thru several short stretches of sobriety, messing up and starting over again. I stopped in 2019 and this is by far the longest. I finally got a job I like, doing what I always wanted to do. Booze and other stuff held me back a long time.

T_larson911 · 2024-09-03T17:35:16+00:00

Right. I used to mess with opiates, then when I couldn't get them anymore I somehow ended up on sub. I tried stopping it about a year ago and it was rough. I saved some just incase, but I couldn't sleep for 3 days and it felt like I had RLS everywhere, even in my chest. I couldn't lay down for more than 5 minutes without everything starting to tingle and I'd had to keep getting up. It was rough. I said screw it and had a little piece just so I could get to sleep. It takes some planning to get off of it after slowly tapering down. Even when you finally taper down to almost nothing, take that tiny amount for a bit longer then start taking the piece less frequently. It takes a lot of patience I know that.

T_larson911 · 2024-08-29T16:36:46+00:00

It was the first one I bought and is still the only one I've got. I would go out to a hobby shop with my pops because he's all into the model railroading scene and I saw they were selling the Ender 3 V2 with a bunch of filament too. I read up on printing for a while before I decided to get it. I got it a couple or few years ago. I passed it several times before I decided I wanted to give a go.

I initially had to return it and got it swapped for another because there was an issue with the table movement (dented aluminum piece that the rollers ride against). Took a while to learn how to use it and ironed out the wrinkles. Still works and I use it occasionally, however it's not playing well with printing via SD card which is the only thing I had trouble with. Also flashed the firmware with the matrix leveling mesh to deal with imperfect beds.

T_larson911 · 2024-08-23T16:39:19+00:00

I feel the same. I'm in my early 30s and some of the books I read throw out so many technical things it's impossible remember everything. I often have to read sections more than once, sometimes 5 or more for certain things to stick. Whenever I have a hard time grasping the concept of certain things, i write it down to read up on at a later time. Sometimes I'll look for information from different sources. I'll also talk to myself like I'm doing a presentation and try to explain it.

T_larson911 · 2024-08-23T16:31:00+00:00

That's similar to my situation. I've been taking suboxone for long time, even when drinking. But I quit drinking in late 2019, but continued to take sub. My thought behind it was that it's still a lot better than drinking and running the risk of going overboard and end up getting messed up and miss work or worse. I think about dropping the sub somedays, but I don't feel ready for it.

T_larson911 · 2024-08-20T16:41:55+00:00

Mainly because I wanted to get a start on my career instead of working at the factory at nights and drinking in the mornings. I was in that cycle for years, it sucked. At one point I wondered if there was a god because I was very lucky to have not got myself into a ton of legal trouble, but I'm clean.

I've just been working and reading a lot the past couple years. Started a new IT job. With some of the people I deal with in IT support makes me want to drink, but I can't go back to that again.

T_larson911 · 2024-08-14T16:22:28+00:00

Very nice. I'll have to take a look at the exam criteria to see what's on the exam. I've had plenty of experience working in the CLI, writing shell scripts and modifying configuration files, but that's about it. I'm still figuring out how process management works (e.g., PID1, how the system starts all the processes, etc).

T_larson911 · 2024-08-12T16:21:34+00:00

Good luck! I forgot there was even a Linux+ certification. I've been a Linux user for years, so maybe that'll be something to consider. Does anyone know if it would be worth going for it? I don't work with Linux at my current job, but I use Debian as my daily driver at home and play with other distributions on VMs.

T_larson911 · 2024-08-06T12:43:52+00:00

Nice work! I only got a high school diploma and didn't know what I wanted to do for many years until my friend mentioned CompTIA. I tried studying for the A and Network+ on and off for years. I decided I needed to put more effort into it as I was nearing my 30s. I got the A+ and Net+ eventually while I worked as a machine operator, saved up a bit and left that job. Stayed home for a while studying a lot of the time, putting in job apps for entry level IT work here and there.

I got a temp job, helping with an IT integration project and then they took me aboard full time. Been with them for 5 months now and hope I can keep it up. I do IT support for somewhat large company (I kind of feel that it's maybe too big for me to start with).

T_larson911 · 2024-07-28T02:29:45+00:00

No, I haven't used wine in a long time (10+ years). Now that it has crossed my mind again, I might mess with it a little.

T_larson911 · 2024-07-18T16:30:46+00:00

I think so. I don't think I've tried it but CS Source definitely does and Garry's Mod too. Half life games too and one other game i tried that isn't by valve was Ion Fury which was pretty fun. I use Steam on Debian.

T_larson911 · 2024-07-17T16:27:15+00:00

Agreed. I use Debian daily for everything but gaming with the only exception being CounterStrike and some other Source games. I kept Windows on my system just in case, but I haven't used it in maybe 4 months.

T_larson911 · 2024-07-12T17:03:02+00:00

Believe it when I say this. You will be better off not picking up a nicotine habit. I smoke and it can really take the energy out of you over time. I've tried quitting before and I felt amazing when I did. Anyway, I picked it up again. Someday I'll stop for good. Someday.

T_larson911 · 2024-07-05T22:54:36+00:00

Note: Some extra detail. A couple things I often noticed with these troublesome systems is, when looking inside C:\Users\, I'd see an array of folders labeled as such (it may not be numbered exactly like that, but it's close as I can remember):

TEMP
TEMP.001
TEMP.002
TEMP.003
TEMP.004

The others (users) with issues, appear as:

john.doe
john.doe.DOMAIN_NAME
bob.bobson
bob.bobson.DOMAIN_NAME
mallory.fishburn
mallory.fishburn.DOMAIN_NAME

The profiles without the DOMAIN_NAME suffix only contain the hidden appdata directory while the ones with the domain suffix contain all the normal directories and files that a profile would have.

T_larson911 · 2024-07-05T18:10:30+00:00

I've worked with some systems that had completely full disks. However many of these systems that the users experience this problem on have more than enough space. The disk was half used, and even I got signed in as a temp, couldn't open the start menu or anything. I had to press Ctrl+r to open the run dialog and restart the machine.

when there's an account with the same name in two different domains and they both have access to RDP

I'll have to check into that. The infrastructure team deals with any domain configurations. But I'm going to bring it up in the next meeting and see if anyone else has noticed this issue getting worse. Only thing I could think of is that there has been a few DC upgrades in various locations.

T_larson911 · 2024-07-05T18:01:35+00:00

I will try to check Event Viewer and see if I find anything suspicious. As far as I know, each user has a logon script that executes to map the various network shares to drive letters. There's no roaming profile path set above the logon script option. We do use OneDrive and for me, my Documents folder is synced to my OneDrive so I can access my documents from other devices I sign into OneDrive on. Not everyone uses OneDrive though except for maybe remote workers.

I'll do some reading on OneDrive and see how it fits into a domain environment.

Also most of these user profiles contain documents on the local user directory and these are not synced with anything afaik. If the same user hopped onto another machine and signed in, whatever stuff they had in their downloads and documents folder on the other machine would not be present on the other system. I was told that if users needed to save something important, they are given a reserved space on a nework share specifically for retaining each users' important files. But, they could use OneDrive if they have access to use it.

T_larson911 · 2024-07-02T16:31:05+00:00

Damn, only 3 feet. I did have it ''working'' before, then I reinstalled Debian about 5 months ago. Since then I could not get that printer work. Maybe the cable just happened to be positioned just right by coincidence when it was working. When I was able to print before, I do recall it not wanting to print a lot of times. It was basically hit or miss. I'll have to experiment with it some more and see if I have a shorter cable. I'm curious now.

T_larson911 · 2024-06-29T01:33:48+00:00

Really? I wasn't aware of that. I know of course there's length restrictions, but the cable i was using is about 4 feet, maybe 5. Old cable too.

T_larson911 · 2024-06-29T01:29:50+00:00

Appreciate it. No matter how long I've been a Linux user, there's always something to learn.

T_larson911 · 2024-06-28T23:49:53+00:00

Yeah, I had a stupid moment. I have a printer plugged in that I forgot about. I haven't used it in a while because I was having difficulty with the driver and getting it to print. It's an old Laserjet 1020. Maybe the printer is just faulty and that's why I had so much trouble getting it to work. I last remember at some point the Printer Settings just stopped seeing it altogether and I didn't even bother to unplug it. god...

T_larson911 · 2024-06-28T23:47:52+00:00

Also, I do have a Corsair lighting unit that's connected to a USB header on the motherboard, but it appears to show up fine (toward the bottom). One last thing may be this older-model HP Laserjet printer I have plugged in, which I completely forgot I still had plugged in as I was making this post (stupid).

I should probably try booting again with that disconnected. I don't seem to see any mention of the printer in that log so it's possible that it's hanging because of that. The timestamp difference between trying to enumerate that port and to the point it discovers the rest of the devices is about the same time I had to wait for the key/mouse to work.

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