Yeah, put Oracle on that list

Yeah, I’m trying.

But I’m fighting for the life of my cat and I’m cooking food for him every 2 hours - since 2 months.

Me and and my wife are already completely devastated, because we also need to somehow work…

So getting some real sleep wasn’t an option for quite some time.

At the moment he is doing better, and I’m trying to get the portions a bit bigger and the times between feeding larger. But it will probably be a process.

And as this has taken an enormous emotional toll on us, I’ve stepped up my liquor intake. Which doesn’t help with good sleep as well.

At least he is currently fine…
That was what we were aiming for. And how I am didn’t matter much - until now I got some some more serious problems as well, because of not sleeping and all the stress.

Sorry for just venting… I’m just finished…

I think down voting is some style of caring about something?

And I do care. If I’m wrong, I want to correct it

Ah, fuck yeah I missed the period…

Well, my only excuse is that I didn’t got much sleep in the last… 2 months

Edit: after that fuck up being be so sleep deprived, I’m not confident enough to point out my mistake anymore

*he’s
I know, pedantic, but I don’t understand, how someone can think, that this is grammatically correct.
I just don’t get, how someone can confuse “his” and “he’s”

(OK, need to proof read my sentence now to not fuck myself ;-))

Sorry, I’m misread. Even down voted myself now

Edit: and seems my formatting skills aren’t working out as well.

Edit 2: ok, looks better now.
Yeah, was wrong and misread the sentence. My fault

We found our cat young and starving, being left alone outside.
But he was used to be outside and just locking him in would be cruel.
He mostly happily hides in a hole or some cellar around, when he is outside anyway.

We tried giving him a safety collar, but he was already like 6 months old, when we found him and wasn’t used to one. So he always got rid of the safety ones and we were too afraid that he should strangulate himself with a non-safety one.
He is chipped. So I hope this is enough, when someone catches him.
But he is very shy with other people and it worked out for 13 years now I’m different areas of the city - sometimes, in his young and wild years, he was gone for 2-3 days, but he always came back happy and hungry :-)

Sometimes I work on a larger project that is split up in different sub projects, that were sold separately and are maybe paid by different departments. So I need to at least spilt those up.
Also it’s often easier to follow what exactly was done, when I differentiate more between my tasks and not just put a collective line there - just like small commits are more helpful than one large one.

But maybe I understood you wrong…?

As we’re currently fighting for the life of our cat, who always loved to eat grass for years, be aware that eating grass/plants is often a sign of illness - because that want to puke something out or aren’t feeling well.

Because I didn’t reacted early enough, I’ve maybe fucked up. So please keep an eye on that and maybe check for an (bacterial) infection of the stomach

Because you can’t easily borrow it your friend or bring it with you to a game night?

Why ‘S-E-X’?
Are they aware that spelling something out isn’t working the same way as I’m speech - and even then, why not just talk about sex?

We feel you :'(
Since 1.5 months we’re fighting for the life of our cat Loki. He usually had 6-6.5kg and only has 4.25kg left because of his gastritis, after surgery of an unrelated eye tumour, when we’re did a gastroscopy.

We tried to give him some stomach protector, which he hated. So I mixed it into his food, which only led to him declining his diet food more and more.
We switched the stomach protector to something more easily eaten and we started cooking for him - every 2h from 5 in the morning until 1 at night (sometimes also at 3, when he had appetite)
Didn’t really help…
So he got daily subcutaneous infusions with antibiotics and after a week or two he was much better and even gained like half a kg.
He was happy, we were jumping in joy.
But exactly after the last control visit at the vet, he declined his food again and 2 days layer he was diagnosed with a pancreatitis.

So he would need to go for 24 hours stationary at the vet with IV infusions.
That didn’t work out, as he wouldn’t hold still without us.
So we went with him and did daily IV infusions for nearly 2 hours a day and he finally got better.

He gained nearly 1kg and we were happy as fuck - him as well, as he was enjoying just being outside again.

Then he started puking again…

So the vet told us, that we need to switch to a specific diet food instead of our low fat cooking.
He surprisingly ate 1-1.5 portions, but after that he declined it again - even with Mirtazapin to give him some appetite.

That was yesterday. So last night he like really proudly showed me his puke, with a face of “look what this new food has done” and we switched back to cooking.

I’m currently at the end of my wisdom and we’re emotionally completely drained.
I’m self employed and haven’t worked for the whole time now, because I can’t focus anyway and with him being miserable I was just a 24 hours nurse. My wife luckily had a vacation now, so she could jump in a bit, so I could catch up with some sleep…

But it’s a daily rollercoaster. Sometimes he has good days and wants to go outside, sometimes he just want to sleep and mostly he cuddles with us.

He is the nicest and bravest cat I’ve ever had and we’ll fight however possible. But have my whole sympathy as we now how shit it is to see your loved cat deteriating and you can’t do much but watch :-(

I actually wanted to add some pictures as tax, but I can’t find an easy easy in comments (in my mobile app) now

At least feel hugged from very understanding other cat owners, currently facing mostly the same dilemma
(By now I could probably fill a book just with the shit that happened in the last month…)

Not OP, but can only speak from my experience: Installing a second WM/DE usually messes up my install, as quite some stuff is just from one GUI framework, so I don’t have to have to much stuff installed.
Also getting rid of it afterwards always wasn’t as easily possible.

I completely get trying out a WM y firing up a VM. You could even just boot the live USB stick to check it out.
But changing my working install just to try something (and then have to clean it up again) wasn’t working out for me in the past

Ok, I’ll go search for your other comment

Edit: I’m still not sure how the US supporting Israel is making Russia attack Ukraine or how that should be connected - obviously, geopolitical everything is somehow connected, but not causal

Edit 2: I’m absolutely not in favour of US backing Israel (or their fucking imperial capitalism), but do you want to say, that Russia had no other choice or…?
I do know this sounds foolish, but I’m currently really struggling to make sense of what you want to say

I’m really not sure, if I can follow.

How is Israel (absolutely doing a genocide atm - just to have that said) involved with that? What’s the connection?

Maybe I missed something just scrolling through?

Thanks! Couldn’t come up with the correct word and settled for “syrup” ;-)

You don’t make opium from the seeds

You can wash them though and the “syrup” around contains morphine, codeine and stuff.
The seeds themselves don’t get processed, but the poppy cup gets cut so this white liquid flows on the outside.

That you scrape of and gets processed to opium or heroin.

Most stupid book I’ve ever read…

Happens to everyone

Just having a multitude of terminals open with a mix of test environment and (just for comparison) an open connection to the production servers…

We were at a fair/exhibition once and on the first day people working on an actual customer project asked us, if they could compare with our code.
Obviously they flashed the wrong PLC and we were stuck dead at the first hours of the exhibition.
I still think that this place was cursed, as we also had to do multiple re-soldering of some connections of our robot and the sherry on top was the system flash dying - where I had fucked up, because I just finished everything late at night and didn’t made a complete backup of everything.
But it seems, if luck runs out, you lose on all fronts.

At least I was able to restore everything in 20mins. Which must be some kind of record.
But I was shaking so much from the stress, that I couldn’t efficiently type anymore and was lucky to have a colleague to just calmly enter what I told him to and with that we’re able to get the show case up and running again.

Well, at least the beer afterwards tasted like the liquid of the gods

Never touch a running system
Until you have a inviting hole in your system

Nevertheless, I’m panicking every time I update my sever infrastructure…

Link has a “whttps” in there, that shouldn’t be there