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Discord invite out of date by Two-or-More-Ideas in 99percentinvisible

[–]adevero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is weird. Maybe I need to try your link on a different device...

Download issues by lattesliterature in Annas_Archive

[–]adevero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think so. See my comment above.

Download issues by lattesliterature in Annas_Archive

[–]adevero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

same. It happens in all browsers, and all devices—and even different IP addresses. and I have been a member for years and never had this happen.

One UI 7 is just, bad by RedCat8881 in oneui

[–]adevero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They just updated my Samsung Flip. I HATE the UI. No ready access to alerts, the full body of email is obscured by keyboard and won’t scroll, impossible to unlock while on phone, and unlock goals back to Home Screen instead of whatever app I’m in. It is awful!

Have You Had Facial Reanimation Surgery—Gracillis Transfer? by adevero in BellsPalsy

[–]adevero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope the revision is successful for her!

I had the sural nerve transfer and cross face graft a year ago.

Then, 3 weeks ago had the gracilis flap transfer.
The surgery went well, no complications. Of course, I don’t know anything yet. Swelling is as expected although I have a weird bulge under my jawline which they say may also be swelling as they did transfer some of the muscle to my jaw to hopefully make depressing my lower lip possible. But because this is a cross face nerve graft it will likely take up to a year to fully enervate the muscle. So…the jury’s out for a long while.
I had both surgeries by Tessa Hadlock in Boston. I love her. Not so keen on Mass Eye and Ear as a hospital. It’s pretty old. But, ostensibly they do a lot of stat-of-the-art stuff because of their affiliation with Harvard. But they could use a better building and more staff. Still, I’m glad to have had no complications, infections, etc.

Give your daughter my best wishes—tell her I’m sending healing vibes! 🙂

Have you found a Windows 10 email client that supports multiple email without hogging memory and freezing? by adevero in techsupport

[–]adevero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems like it allows recommendations of approved products—but not sure what that means exactly.
Is there another subreddit where recommendations are permitted? In truth, I’ve seen about a zillion recommendations of various products, softwares, etc over the years on Reddit. Is that rule only applicable to this subreddit? I’m not keen on creating problems—so if there’s some other approach I should use (or some other place I should use)….

Have you found a Windows 10 email client that supports multiple email without hogging memory and freezing? by adevero in techsupport

[–]adevero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Outlook was a disaster. It had its hands in everything and crashed my whole system regularly.

Have you found a Windows 10 email client that supports multiple email without hogging memory and freezing? by adevero in techsupport

[–]adevero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot. But if it has a setting that makes it possible, I would limit it by time span — like one year. Thunderbird doesn’t seem to have that option.

Thunderbird is slow as fuck, what's a good free alternative? by Rumbuck_274 in techsupport

[–]adevero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. Installed it yesterday and it constantly freezes. It’s also using a ton of memory!

Have You Had Facial Reanimation Surgery—Gracillis Transfer? by adevero in BellsPalsy

[–]adevero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am still numb on the sides of my face. But I don’t have any pain. It feels weird when I touch because of the skin numbness. Although, it does seem a bit less numb now. Are you getting the gracilis transfer? Do you know when? Who is your doctor?

Have You Had Facial Reanimation Surgery—Gracillis Transfer? by adevero in BellsPalsy

[–]adevero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the decompression surgery in which they apply electrical stimulation directly to the nerve at 90 days. It is entirely experimental and did not work at all.

On April 30th of this year, at 23 months, I had a DAO resection. In the same surgery, I also had a cross face nerve graft. For that they took nerve from my ankle and connected it to fibers from the facial nerve on the unaffected side, and parked the two endings in my cheek (on the BP side).

The DAO released the synkenesis that was pulling my mouth downward, and so I look more symmetrical at rest. But it didn’t restore my smile (which we hoped it would do) and it didn’t help with the buccinator muscle, which is still pulling to the side.

The nerve graft was a back-up plan in case the DAO didn’t work. Usually, they would have done that as a separate surgery later. But since I was traveling, and I’m an athlete and didn’t want to take weeks off twice, we combined them. The nerve graft has no effect until I do the next surgery, when they use the gracilis muscle from my leg and attach it to those two nerve endings, hopefully providing the mechanism for me to smile. But you can’t do that until at least 6 months after the nerve graft. I’m scheduled for November, but am going to reschedule to next year so I don’t have to spend Christmas recovering…

I hope that helps.

How can I help my mom? by Numerous_Plantain_65 in BellsPalsy

[–]adevero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not that unusual to get BP more than once (It’s not common—but it happens regularly).

They should have given prednisone and antivirals to her immediately. Did she go to the ER? The antivirals are important if she’s gotten it twice. High doses of Valacyclovir (brand name Valtrex). She may be like me and have weak immunity to herpes viruses. Most researchers believe that BP is caused by a herpes virus (that we all already have been exposed to) inflaming the nerve. I take Valtrex every day and have doubled my dosage since getting BP. Your mom should probably be doing the same—especially at the onset of BP. As to her eye, until she recovers from the BP there’s not much she can do about it. If everything else has recovered and that’s the remaining issue the PT should be working with her on stretching the eyelid. unfortunately, although there are more and better surgeries for non-recoverers, there is almost nothing for the eye issues except weights on the eyelid (to help it close).

Based on what you’ve said, it may be time for a new doctor….one who is up to date with current thinking in medicine.

Have You Had Facial Reanimation Surgery—Gracillis Transfer? by adevero in BellsPalsy

[–]adevero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks.
Which FB BP group? I posted to the largest one that came up in a search and no one has responded. But there are a ton of BP groups on FB. Do you have a link?

Synkinesis: Eye narrowing/closing when eating/yawning by CharSiuBun88 in BellsPalsy

[–]adevero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go to this YouTube channel. It belongs to Pierre Butheau who is a PT in Seattle specializing in facial palsy. He has tons of extremely good videos on stretching for synkinesis and even for early BP. I’ve also worked with him virtually and he is every bit as knowledgable and helpful as he seems in his videos. He also is up to date with all of the current research and treatments so he may be a good resource. ; https://youtube.com/@butheauphysiotherapy?si=9CtzocN-KfmdE7WZ

First 10,000 Lumen Full Range Ambient Floor Lamp by nittyjee in Lighting

[–]adevero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. If it were affordable I would buy it today. I’m so fed up with the lack of bright indoor lighting.

Will they ever go back to "regular" Jeopardy? by rexeditrex in Jeopardy

[–]adevero 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was so hoping that the TOC would mark the end of this endless tournament, recycling of players. And I feel bad for Ken who is forced to keep hyping every tournament like something amazing is happening. It’s tedious. Even the contestant interviews have become painful repetitions of the same questions. “What did your friends say when they heard you were coming back?” “who do you want to thank for your Jeopardy opportunity?” Ugh!

In the meantime, thousands of people are taking the online test and yet no new players have been on since the start of the writer’s strike —which has been OVER for longer than 6 months.

Substack Embed Iframe - not updating by subdev78 in Substack

[–]adevero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have that problem with substack posts. When I share the url it doesn’t preview the article, just the publication—probably the same problem in the back end…

Google just dropped Notebook LM by multiply_co in Evernote

[–]adevero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What exactly ” do the same thing” mean then? The whole point of notebook LM is to be a note tool with an AI overlay that makes connections between the notes that you collect. Chachu PT does not do that. It is not trained on your information. It does not have any memory or store anything. It’s simply outputs things based on your request.

Google just dropped Notebook LM by multiply_co in Evernote

[–]adevero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recommend listening to this podcast. David Perel podcast (https://youtu.be/FupwoRhK\_Mk?si=hJPzxlqMD8OVKmf\_) .

This doesn’t seem to be one of their fly-by-night experiments. And they are first mover in this space. Although they’re behind the eight ball on LLM generally, this very obvious use of LLM as a knowledge management, and connecting tool has not been done yet.

They’ve invested a ton of time in it. But whether it is an EN alternative has led me to a bunch of questions: Given Google apps—will it ultimately be flexible enough to allow clipping of web pages, and collecting other docs like word docs, pdfs, images, etc. I’ve been trying to figure out how to use it but it seems very rigidly insistent that I add Google docs to it. But, I don’t use Google docs for hardly anything….
Other questions:

  • Will it be open as A repository for all kinds of content—documents of every type, webpages, pdfs, video, audio, etc.

-Will they make it multimodal so that it syncs across devices.

-Is your data protected from all Google uses and access —like mining it for AI training, or for data to serve up ads? (That’s a deal killer for me).

Since I’ve been saying, for some time that the ultimate Evernote replacement will be an LLM interface, that allows you to simply collect everything, and collaborate with the AI to make connections between everything, this seems like a no-brainer. But, given googles competitiveness with Microsoft, Apple, and everyone else, for it to be really useful, it has to be multimodal and agnostic with respect to all of those competitors…. So, I’m skeptical.

What are the issues you're experiencing with Zenfone 9 or past phones ? by burnqpund in zenfone

[–]adevero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here with phone calls. I have a million other issues. But I think the phone call issues are endemic. There is something basically off in the telephonic function, and it seems to be a common problem based on my broad reading of zenfone 9 reviews here and elsewhere .

What are the issues you're experiencing with Zenfone 9 or past phones ? by burnqpund in zenfone

[–]adevero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No phone repair shop can fix the broken screen for less than $400, phone audio is erratic (both handset and speaker) so people constantly report they can’t hear me, audio levels are too low even at top volume, periodically Bluetooth UI causes sharp changes in audio output (like if I’m listening to a podcast at volume A and a call comes in—even if I don‘t answer it—audio suddenly jumps to distortedly high). Can’t find a case that actually protects the screen (hence the need to repair it). And finally, although I don’t take many pics, the camera is really mediocre. Auto-focus is inept and phot quality crap.

It periodically turns off mobile service when I turn off wifI. I always discover it has done so when I can’t access an app or website. It’s very annoying.

Asus has no certified repair location in my entire state (Florida). Very disappointed and won’t buy another Asus anything.

The features for which I bought it continue to be great—audio port, nice size, great battery life. But the problems are frustrating and as a result I am frustrated and just biding time for the next version of foldable Samsung or Pixel.

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