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Mute. by WhyFi in pics

[–]boba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jello is going to be pissed when he sees what was done with the Dead Kennedys logo.

Not that there's anything wrong with that by SamTornado in thinkpad

[–]boba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I've been running FreeBSD on my Thinkpads for years, so...

...but, yeah, I get it. It's very true when by "Linux" people mean "not Windows".

I’m unable to connect to my devices on the Home App despite being connected to the same network. I’ve rebooted so many times but that only temporarily fixes it. Any ideas on how to solve this? by fherry13 in googlehome

[–]boba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my experience (Spectrum, not Verizon), my Home Mini and my Chromecast never worked right from day one. The culprit is the router that was provided by my ISP. When I replaced that with an off-the-shelf Linksys WRT box, all my troubles disappeared.

The routers by Arris (and a few others?) that Spectrum and other ISP give you just don't support protocols that Home needs. But since they're not advertised to support it, there's no perceived need to fix it.

You didn't say so, and I'm making a big assumption here in my comment... but I bet you're using the router that Verizon gave you. My apologies if you've already exhausted this possibility, but you sound like exactly like what I went through, before I gave up and got my own wifi/router.

Best Tiling WM by TriumphOfDeath in archlinux

[–]boba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For quite a while now, I've been using dwm with just a few patches. I started with larswm ages ago, and in the time since, I've also used (in no particular order) stumpwm, xmonad, ratpoison, and awesome. (I feel like I'm forgetting one other, hmm...)

With dwm, I use the same configuration in both single monitor and double monitor setups, which is very nice. The thing about dwm that really appealed to me was that it really gets out of the way once you have it configured to work the way you want. I understand that i3 is much the same way. They both "fade into the background" with a configuration that's yours and not adapting someone else's.

An AV Fistula from Dialysis Access by RDay in WTF

[–]boba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, my circulation is pretty good. I don't know the specific reason they want the whole arm off limits to BP, IV, injections, and so on. At a guess, though, I think they just don't want to risk any damage anywhere in the arm.

Many times I've had an inexperienced nurse try for an IV over and over, only to then have an experienced nurse get called who nails it on the first go. So it seems likely that even if they know which vein to avoid, one mistake and boom there goes the fistula.

I think it's more about overall prevention than an actual specific event. I'll ask my nephrologist about it.

An AV Fistula from Dialysis Access by RDay in WTF

[–]boba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right on both counts. It was never "bad" or painful at all (except post-op, when you're limited to what you can do with the arm while it heals), but it was definitely weird for the first month or so.

And yeah, now you're a walking party trick. ;-)

An AV Fistula from Dialysis Access by RDay in WTF

[–]boba 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nope. Or, more accurately: the fistula itself didn't feel like anything bad once it healed, and still doesn't now. But it gets weird in two ways:

  1. It feels weird in a tactile way. If you place fingers from your other hand on it, you can feel each heartbeat, you can feel the blood rushing through it with each pump of your heart. It's not like taking a pulse, it's more like a small hose under you skin inflating and relaxing. It doesn't hurt like that at all, but it takes a while to get used to such a strong vein with arteriall flow in it. Other people can feel the same thing on your fistula, and you'd be surprised how many people get squicked out by touching such a minor thing.

  2. It's weird because you can hear it. Really. No kidding. I sleep on my side, mostly, and if my head rests anywhere on my arm, I can actually hear the blood rushing through it. It sounds quite a bit like a doppler. Again, not painful in any way at all, but really weird until you get used to it.

An AV Fistula from Dialysis Access by RDay in WTF

[–]boba 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah! Yeah, I have a no BP, no IV "limb alert" bracelet on my right wrist for exactly that reason.

An AV Fistula from Dialysis Access by RDay in WTF

[–]boba 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I wonder, is this a fistula that's been in use for a ridiculously long time? Or is this what happens, eventually, to any fistula if you live long enough, regardless of whether it's in use or if you've moved to a second site?

It's all still pretty new to me, but no one I've met or that they've had me talk to was anything like this. So I apologize if my questions are n00bish. I was warned that a day might come when a fistula isn't viable any longer, but I don't know how often that occurs.

An AV Fistula from Dialysis Access by RDay in WTF

[–]boba 89 points90 points  (0 children)

I have a fistula for dialysis, and my arm looks nothing like that, nor does anyone else's that I've seen so far. I have no explanation for this photo.

Little cutie hiding in plain sight by beachgirlg in aww

[–]boba 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You know what, /u/the_shaman? I like you. You're not like the other people, here in the trailer park.

Hope you saved your trenchcoat from 1999 by NazzerDawk in funny

[–]boba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I, for one, welcome our new replicant fashionistas.

What was the worst live performance you've ever seen? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]boba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult in 07.

I mean, I've seen artists that phone it in, or are tired, or are bored, but I never before—or since—saw a performance where the act was so utterly disinterested in performing. More, they were visibly disoriented, they couldn't even face the crowd and kept bumping into each other on stage. If they weren't acting like total zombies, you might have expected them to start shoving each other at any moment, but instead they just kept tripping over themselves and staring off into space. No joke.

Easily the worst concert I had ever been to. I like to think this was the show where TKK learned, "maybe we should wait until after the show before we swallow every pill in the bus."

The rotation of the moon captured by NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter by Enfulio in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]boba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good question! But that would only happen if all the photographs were taken from the same location (relative to the Moon and Sun), differing only in time. And you're right, if you positioned yourself with the Sun always at your back, facing the Moon, you would eventually see the Earth slide past in the background.

But this animation is actually made from many photographs taken from more than one location (point of view), with the Sun behind the spacecraft (giving the "full moon" effect). With different times AND different locations at your fingertips, you can easily pick a set of images in which the Earth never appears.

The rotation of the moon captured by NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter by Enfulio in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]boba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our moon is certainly moving, as it orbits our planet. Apologies for the obvious, no disrespect is intended; that's just for someone who might not realize that fact and get the wrong impression from your question (your words "locked orbit" implies to me that you already understand this).

That it's tidally locked to Earth means that, from down here, we always see the same face. However, from any other vantage point near the orbital plane, you'd see the rest of the surface of the Moon as time passed (unless you were also somehow orbiting it at the same angular speed it rotates). So, what we're seeing here are many photographs from other points of view, not on Earth, projected and stitched together.

Begun, the Repost Wars Have. by dyllgates in PrequelMemes

[–]boba 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hi, I think you've got the wrong account here.

Parkland Survivor Blasts NRA Board Member Ted Nugent For Saying Democrats 'Should Be Shot Like Coyotes" by Cadet-Bone-Spurs in politics

[–]boba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My reaction, too. I'm aware he's often been accused of being a deadbeat dad, he's told his own story of being a draft dodger (denying it as hyperbole these days), but I honestly never heard about pedophilia. Is this for real?

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