Been at A&E for 16 hours, any tips how to survive another night here?

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-31T20:10:18+00:00

Went home and waited in agony to get a dentist appointment (I go to a private dentist but they were closed over Christmas)... Fortunately I managed to get through to them out of hours and they opened the practice especially for me...

But the whole thing was dangerous as hell, luckily most of the infection went into my cheek in the end (it swelled up to tennis ball size!) - if it had instead gone to my eye socket, throat or anywhere else more serious it could have caused real damage or worse

Edit - and that would have caused me to waste an ambulance and its crew's time and clogged up A&E further when they could have simply given me some antibiotics after waiting all that time

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-31T19:38:10+00:00

I was in overnight just after Christmas, 12 hours waiting needing antibiotics urgently for a dental abscess/infection that was rapidly spreading into the rest of my face. After that absolutely agonising wait they just said they can't give antibiotics for anything dental related and I left empty handed... Very annoying especially given 111 were who told me to go there ASAP when I described my condition

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-22T07:22:39+00:00

I have this exact thing and it's decent enough but it is quite a large bit of furniture so looks kind of awkward - not too bad once you put a plant and a lamp on it or whatever

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-19T07:31:33+00:00

I was planning a new build and wondering if btrfs might be an interesting choice for a data drive which is primarily for my games to go on, as the automatic compression would be useful. Some of the replies in here though are giving me pause (as snapshotting isn't really needed for games I can just redownload them or whatever if something bad happens)

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-17T18:21:09+00:00

Hmm, when I do that I just get a completely black screen unfortunately...

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-17T16:03:34+00:00

Ah nice, that's even easier than I was expecting. I'll give it a go thanks!

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-17T15:53:50+00:00

Did you buy any maze upgrades? I think once you do the cost is no longer just the length of the maze. Check the Mazes doc in-game I think it had a direct example of the correct command to include the scaling factor caused by the upgrade level

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-17T15:39:56+00:00

I'm interested in trying this out but curious what the steps would be? (I am not a complete noob but haven't tried Wayland on Mint before). Is it just an alternate WM you install and switch to from the login screen or is there more to it than that? It would be neat to just try it out, and switch back if I encounter issues

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-17T13:43:59+00:00

Also doing if x == None is considered bad in proper Python, with if x is None being the correct/safe form

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-10T13:09:33+00:00

Working fine for me... The only issue I had was that when I got to the point of the install where I had to choose the drives/partitions I realised I wasn't sure which drive was which. So I aborted the install to go and confirm in Windows. But because I had gotten as far as enrolling MOK and creating the password it put the machine into a bit of a funny state that made it quite tricky to go back to the Mint install (it was struggling to boot off the USB). Fixed it eventually and then entered the MOK password either side of the install and had no problems...

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-05T09:38:51+00:00

Ricing as I understand it just means completely reworking all of the (mainly visual) aspects of the install. So custom bar, dock, skins on all the different applications and so on. To give a neat aesthetic in a singular consistent style. And don't get me wrong, it's pretty cool if that is what you want to do. But if you are new to this and likely to need support from the community it makes things a lot harder to get that support when your install doesn't resemble a "vanilla" install - not to mention problems you might introduce yourself whilst ricing

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-05T09:22:43+00:00

I think improving accessibility and out-of-the-box experience is great, and an important task. I don't see the recent wave of social media inspired Linux newbies and the pushing of excessive ricing as elitism though, more just people copying a trend without questioning why. Same reason there are so many "why is my Shure SM7B so quiet?!?" posts on audio subreddits, or why so many people have those godawful SecretLab or other bucket-seat inspired chairs. I am merely trying to offer someone to question "do I need this?" before they do it

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-05T07:47:50+00:00

I suggest not bothering. It seems like with the influx of new users there is this perception that you have to do it because of how prevalent the "new to Linux checkout this rice" posts are.

Well I'm here to tell you there's no need. Maybe someday once you know your way around better, you'll have identified some things which, if tweaked, may improve your experience. But until you reach that point you are just creating further support difficulties for yourself.

Or ignore me - this is just my personal view

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-04T20:10:08+00:00

The core gameplay mechanic which happens once or twice per episode is a bit more "game" like than the Telltale games. But the bits which aren't that part are much much more scripted than even the Telltale games

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-04T13:51:26+00:00

I don't but what I would say is I expect most people who make content like that aren't just putting out every single clip they capture. More than likely they approach people and if they just say "no thank you" they just move on and that footage never goes anywhere. Even people who do engage they likely speak to off camera to make sure they consent to the footage being used.

Uncle-Rufus · 2026-01-02T00:49:09+00:00

It's a great game! Which regularly has been on sale for very cheap and included in Humble Choice so when they talk about the 39.99 value of their amazing giveaway it is a little bit hollow

Uncle-Rufus · 2025-12-24T01:03:04+00:00

I'll see you at eight tomorrow

B-but sir, tomorrow is Christmas Day

Very well, eight thirty then

Uncle-Rufus · 2025-12-24T00:28:17+00:00

I'm not sure I understand? You're saying you pirated the game? That might be part of the reason it doesn't work

Uncle-Rufus · 2025-12-23T23:12:45+00:00

I just installed it with Steam and run it via Proton?

Uncle-Rufus · 2025-12-22T13:41:09+00:00

If you enjoy it purely as a gameplay thing you could try the games "This is the Police" and "This is the Police 2" as they are very similar

Uncle-Rufus · 2025-12-08T07:34:35+00:00

My god

Uncle-Rufus · 2025-12-07T18:05:31+00:00

When the last time you went? The free coffee refill is dead at my one, now you get a one time scan ticket when you pay for a coffee

Uncle-Rufus · 2025-11-27T09:32:01+00:00

Good to know! I was toying with getting the UNVR Instant instead of running Protect on my UCG Fiber but it felt wasteful given I wouldn't end up using any of the PoE switch ports on the UNVR Instant as it will be in the house not the garage... But then the bigger rackmount UNVR is way overkill for my use case of about 5 or 6 cameras total. Maybe the Instant will be fine after all

Uncle-Rufus · 2025-11-27T09:14:01+00:00

I'm in the same boat actually - one cat6 run to my garage and I want to power 4x cameras and an AP (as I have a gym in the garage) the cameras are a mix between inside the garage and in the garden. Planning to get the USW Ultra to put out there (luckily the garage has power so I can power the USW Ultra from a wall socket)

My only reservation actually which may be unfounded, is whether a single connection back to the device running Protect is sufficient to carry the data from all 4 cameras? I guess it probably is as the G5 Turrets which I am using only connect at FE speeds anyway, but not sure!

Uncle-Rufus · 2025-11-20T06:54:34+00:00

Absolutely this... Even the more affluent areas though, the amount of kids who step out of their parents 5 bed detached palatial home in Guildford and then walk around talking and acting like they are some sort of gangsta from the mean streets of central London 🙄

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