peto (he/him)

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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • The lack of pain-empathy in healthcare is mind-blowing. I’m a white man in an excellent position to be listened to, but when I had appendicitis last year getting people to understand that no, I am in crippling pain and I think it’s urgent was far to much hassle for someone in crippling pain. I can’t imagine what it’s like for women.

    I can understand folk getting jaded eventually but I often get the feeling that many people start out not caring.










  • A lot of digital signage runs on windows or a cut down version thereof. If you are already running a Windows office, and larger orgs often do, it means you can leave it in the care of that same tech team. If all you are doing is showing a slideshow you can run it on a cheap mini pc, even multiple screens off of one, but the screen is likely the expensive part.

    No idea about that program. It’s the most generic-ass icon you could have these days. Google thinks it’s a weather app but that AI crap doesn’t know anything. It might even be a web page running in application mode.





  • People also underestimate the danger of the flu. The flu kills people every year, and that’s the mild, endemic one. Only reason it doesn’t kill more is that we vaccinate at risk groups and people at high risk of spreading it. People sometimes call other things the flu, but if you get the real thing you know it.

    We’ve avoided several major flu outbreaks because we look for them and take the threat seriously, and frankly, got lucky.

    Influenza in the USA does 2x 9/11s a year.


  • There is generally a battery that powers the clock and keeps it running even when there is no external power to the system normally one of the larger coin shaped ones. It’s non-rechargable as it lasts for a long time. It’s being constantly drained but it’s only the smallest trickle.

    If you can get to the internals you should be able to find and replace it, it’s pretty obvious when you know to look for it. While you are in there you can check for corrosion/damage to the traces and components, give things a dust. The biggest issue is probably going to be an old battery, 20 years ago they were rather primative and though generally more replaceable than modern builds, getting a replacement might be harder.