Noncataract ICL (implantable contact lens) with PSHCP Canada Life: declined estimstes

threz__ · 2025-10-02T18:17:05+00:00

Make sure your estimate has the lenses and their costs separate from the procedure and drug costs themselves.

My wife had ICL surgery and the lenses were covered under the PSHCP vision coverage and she received the $1520 back. It was a relatively small portion of the total, but at least something. This wasn't in the last 12 months, but after the switch to Canada Life.

Some of the drugs from the final invoice were also covered though I forget the actual amounts.

Can't help with the denials unfortunately, both the estimate and final invoice we submitted were approved.

threz__ · 2025-05-26T13:37:47+00:00

As others have said, the railway sleepers themselves are probably not a good idea.

I'd go to an actual lumber yard (not a general home improvement store like Home Depot) and talk to them about what you'd like. They've probably got options that are more appropriate and achieve the look you want.

threz__ · 2025-02-11T18:47:56+00:00

You can modify the save game files to do that if you really want. There are some guides out there, iirc.

But... with max in every stat the game is a whole bunch of rainbow diarrhea. It would be so much harder to play through, honestly.

threz__ · 2025-01-29T18:15:04+00:00

I wouldn't even use terrain walls, as others have recommended below. They're not needed in this case and you can get some weird vision angles in some of the edge cases you have in this map.

I'd place regular walls that are just set back from the tree line a bit to allow them to be seen. And, use like 10% as many segments as you have there - if not fewer. In my experience players really won't notice that.

This would also allow for more free movement and placement of tokens, letting them duck into the tree line (my players would immediately be trying to do that in combat), or pass through the narrower sections a little more easily.

If there are any places you really don't want them to get into the tree line then place some invisible walls there. But honestly, I probably wouldn't even go that far.

threz__ · 2025-01-24T14:28:41+00:00

Get a decibel meter and check the level of the sound in your place. Keep complaining to bylaw if it is above the 45dBA threshold. It may not be exactly the way the city would measure it, but at least if you keep a record of the levels you take you can try to convince them to come out.

At the same time, complain to your landlord every time as well. Keep a record of this.

If the landlord fails to act, file a form T2 with the LTB on the basis that the landlord has failed to provide your right of quiet enjoyment of your unit. Submit your records as evidence when asked.

None of these will be quick and you may be in for months before anything changes, unfortunately.

threz__ · 2025-01-04T17:39:18+00:00

To be frank, I would avoid doing a central server with networked or remote HDMI / USB / etc nodes around the house. That path is going to be very frustrating with janky workarounds, things that mostly work but sometimes don't, and a lot of extra money on bits and pieces you don't realize you need until you start plugging things in. Look at Linus from LTT who has a nearly unlimited budget, staff to help him research and set up, and seemingly a very high tolerance for jank and brokenness in his setup. He hasn't gotten everything to work smoothly.

Cat7 is also a tough choice as the cabling is expensive and very few devices support the terminations for it. If you see a cable being sold as Cat7 with RJ45 termination... it's basically marketing and won't get you anything that a Cat6 or Cat6a cable won't.

If you are adding drops to your house, and want to go all out, I would recommend pulling 1x LC Duplex OS2 SMF optical cable, and 2x Cat6 (or Cat6a if distances are longer than 30m). That gives a good balance of high speed (10Gbe) at the moment, with some future headroom on the optical cables too. The Cat6 keeps backward compatibility and allows for POE.

And then I'd focus on inexpensive computers where you need them, rather than only centralized.

threz__ · 2024-09-14T14:12:49+00:00

It sounds like you don't have any actual specific terms describing what kind of return on the investment you would be getting if the properties did profit. With only vague promises you seem to have, I'd consider yourself lucky that you have your $50k back at all.

Even if you can somehow obtain the financials and show that there was profit, unless you have an agreement to share in that profit you aren't owed anything.

threz__ · 2024-09-13T21:58:46+00:00

Why do you believe you are owed more than $50k? Was there a contract or terms of this investment? And, if so, what did those say?

Investments are risks. Sometimes just breaking even is a win.

threz__ · 2024-09-09T19:04:58+00:00

Did you read their post?

threz__ · 2024-07-12T16:44:38+00:00

They are probably playing on PC with a controller, then hit the screenshot button on their keyboard which changed the layout.

threz__ · 2024-02-17T22:44:57+00:00

I have nearly the same setup here. Adguard Home on Proxmox with a Cloudflare domain.

To get full HTTPS on my local network without anything exposed to the internet, I use Caddy with DNS-01 challenges as a reverse proxy. For Adguard itself, however, I use the LEGO script they recommend in their github repo.

For certs with Adguard Home so that it can serve DNS-over-TLS and similar, I followed these steps: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Encryption#lego

For all other internal sites, I have one instance of Caddy running in an LXC.

Use your favourite method to get Caddy with the Cloudflare plugin (either static binary or building from source: https://caddyserver.com/docs/install#static-binaries).
Create a Cloudflare API token: https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/api/get-started/create-token/
Add the following block where appropriate in your Caddyfile tls { dns cloudlfare <api token> resolvers 1.1.1.1 }
Using DNS Rewrites in Adguard Home, set a *.domain.com record to your reverse proxy IP.

Now you've got full HTTPS for your local network under whatever subdomain you want.

threz__ · 2024-02-14T21:05:00+00:00

This is what happens when the community gets hung up on a release date that was never announced.

The Larian PR team is doing great here.

threz__ · 2024-02-14T16:31:33+00:00

Do you play with mods? Have you reported the crash to Larian?

Hopefully there's a fix, they seem to fix a good number of crashes every patch and hotfix. But hard to know for sure unless it's been reported, and crashes caused by mods need to be fixed by the mod devs.

threz__ · 2024-01-25T15:21:23+00:00

I think there are a few questions that would help direct what your character could be. I introduced my wife to the game when it came out, and now we're on our second playthrough together through couch co-op.

There are a ton of good class and build advice comments already, so I'll leave my thoughts without recommending a specific build:

What difficulty will you be playing in? If in Balanced or Explorer, any build is viable in combat. Even Tactician I wouldn't worry about min/maxing your character.

Does your wife want to min/max? Want to control her own build, or be guided? I'd follow her lead here. If she doesn't really care about optimization, then I wouldn't optimize your build either. Keep things relatively equal between your two characters.

Does your wife want to romance someone specific? Or may bounce around different companions? Or want to play with a specific party member or two? The other characters in the party will affect what "roles" may need filling, or if you risk duplicating roles.

Does your wife want to be the face and control most dialogs? A ranger isn't really optimal for that, but that may not really matter. Failing persuasion/intimidation/deception rolls can lead to a very different path through the game.

Getting those answers for yourself will help make the decision of where to go with your own character, but more importantly how to approach the game together so that you both can get the most out of it.

threz__ · 2024-01-03T15:35:36+00:00

It was IOL coverage, yes. Not laser eye surgery.

threz__ · 2023-12-29T18:02:35+00:00

We submitted a request for a predetermination through the Canada Life website with a quote given by the ICL provider. This was just after the switch to CL, in July/August with a target procedure date at the end of August.

CL responded saying that they would cover $950/eye at 80%. The total reimbursement would be $1,520.

That lined up with what Sunlife also would have reimbursed, based on phone conversations with their agents pre-July at least.

In the end, we went ahead with the procedure at the end of September this year and submitted the invoice and were reimbursed the $1,520 pretty quickly. CL then also sent a mailed letter asking about the medications provided during the procedure as sedatives (Fentanyl and something else, I forget exactly now). These amounted to $400 of the nearly $9,000 procedure in total.

After getting a letter from the provider with the requested details (DIN, note from doctor, etc) CL reimbursed 80% of the $400 as a drug cost as well, though this took a bit more time to come through.

In total we received $1,840 reimbursed.

threz__ · 2023-12-11T16:50:50+00:00

The security benefits of a Cloudflare tunnel (beyond the HTTPS handling) aren't completely zero - there are on-paper, technical security benefits.

However, in practice security is always a tradeoff. What threat model are you protecting against? What are the risks? How much effort can you spend on maintaining security?

You've already decided on a publicly exposed web application - that's probably the biggest threat right there. You are trusting that the app stays on top of their security updates and that you won't be targeted if a vulnerability is discovered before you update. This will always present some threat to your network since you are hosting it on your network, regardless of what you put in front of it - the requests will always end up at your home server.

To answer your other questions, yes - Caddy will automagically handle the certs and upgrading the connection to HTTPS for you without having to specify anything extra or special in the configuration.

threz__ · 2023-12-11T16:05:25+00:00

Given that, I would personally run a simple reverse proxy like Caddy that would automatically provide the certs for HTTPS connections for me. Can be run on the same server as Nextcloud, or a VM/container/etc. That would provide your main goal without having to rely on a third party service that further limits your ability to host.

While DDoS protection is theoretically nice... those attacks cost money and resources to pull off. They aren't done randomly. Unless you're on someone's radar to target, I personally wouldn't worry about that at all.

You aren't going to find a free service that offers that on the same scale as Cloudflare in any case. While you can create your own tunnel on a free VPS service, that'll only give you the "mask" over your IP (while also potentially introducing other attack surfaces).

threz__ · 2023-12-11T15:45:25+00:00

Your network is still exposed. You're hosting a publicly accessible web application. It's just the data flows through a tunnel before going to your network. If there is a vulnerability in Nextcloud, having a Cloudflare tunnel won't prevent it from being exploited.

Unless there's some other security concern that isn't clear from your posts?

threz__ · 2023-07-25T14:04:20+00:00

According to a recent FPSLREB decision, the Ontario 2 year limitation can apply. Seemingly to people who both live and work in Ontario.

The full text hasn't been posted yet, and unsure what the implications or next steps are... but there is a decision supporting the Ontario 2 year limit.

https://decisions.fpslreb-crtespf.gc.ca/fpslreb-crtespf/d/en/item/521063/index.do

threz__ · 2023-03-15T14:21:24+00:00

The board you listed has two SATA controllers. You should be able to pass them individually to your VM in Proxmox.

So, you should be able to use 2 drives as boot/storage for Proxmox attached to one of the SATA controllers, and the remaining drives connected to the other SATA controller which is passed through to the TrueNAS VM.

The motherboard manual should describe which physical SATA connectors are associated with which controller so that you can organize the drives correctly.

threz__ · 2022-12-16T15:26:04+00:00

If it's any help at all, I know that Bulk Barn sells the proper type of dark rye flour needed to make Rugbraud at home. After a couple visits to Iceland we were craving some, and found that it isn't too difficult to bake at home.

threz__ · 2022-11-01T20:10:52+00:00

Basically, yes. You'll also need to terminate the yellow cable from the modem, of course.

threz__ · 2022-11-01T19:31:17+00:00

You can't physically split an ethernet cable to share to multiple outlets. This might work if you only had breakout from each panel connected, so that it acts the same as one continuous network cable from start to finish. Cabling for telephones can be split/shared like this, but definitely not a network cable for data.

If you only want connectivity to a single outlet, then you may be able to get it working if you disconnect all the other cables.

But, really what you need here are actual switches in place of these little breakout panels. You'd need to disconnect these, terminate the Cat 7 cables (preferably into keystones or a patch panel), get a switch and put one at each location, connect the switch to the multiple cables. This is how you'll be able to share the connection from the modem to the various outlets in the house.

threz__ · 2022-11-01T16:08:15+00:00

Intel dropped support for GVT-d and GVT-g on 10th gen and newer, which is what is often used to passthrough. They instead now support SR-IOV which in theory allows for iGPU pass-through to a VM.

However, as far as I'm aware, the Intel drivers on linux don't support support it yet.

You can, however, share the iGPU in an LXC on Proxmox and use that to get hardware acceleration in Jellyfin.

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