celeste

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last time i got a virus i made sure i had documents backed up and then formatted the hard drive. that was over a decade ago though so i don’t know how people deal now

I helped a lady your age pick out a color for a room in her house, and she ended up going for a very bright peach. She loved it so much she put it in every room in her house where she didn’t have a color picked out.

If you aren’t planning to sell in a year or two, I say pick something that makes you happy when you see it. Realtors might have a different favorite color in 5 years.

Was something done in like photoshop with the colors in this pic? It looks off to me, but I’m not an expert.

Trust in what sense? With computer security? You probably can’t. To diagnose you and find a proper course of treatment? You probably need to research the individual doctor.

My mother worked at a hospital for years helping doctors use computers to keep up to date with research in their fields. By and large, doctors 10-15 years ago sucked at using computers. Doctors who helped save the lives of relatives of mine by diagnosing cancer early would struggle doing simple searches.

I knew a psychologist who would openly chat about patients - names included - in casual party settings. Doctors don’t have to be bad at computers to violate your privacy.

If you think their computer security could be better, you’re right, but the more they have to learn, the more room for error you’re introducing during the changeover. Do they spend millions replacing a diagnostic machine because no one knows how to switch it to better software? When it works and those millions could go towards equipment that needs replacing?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996174/

My suggestion is to do research on tech security in hospitals. Read up from people who are experts in the subject, because it’s deeply complicated. Figure out what current recommendations are and contact your local doctors and hospitals to find out if they’re investing in patient information security. They might still not use linux, but it’s more important they be doing what research shows works.

When you find doctors and hospitals that are working towards those recs, give them what trust you can muster, keeping in mind any of them could just be like “my lung cancer patient Joe Smith said the funniest thing yesterday” at their next cocktail party.

Most won’t. But these are human run systems. You need to give them enough trust that they can monitor your health, but be prepared to withdraw it when they prove it’s undeserved. Tech-wise, pay attention to actual recommendations from experts and keep in mind that the doctors themselves aren’t the experts there.

Just, like, don’t let yourself die because your doc thinks a linux is a kind of hybrid animal.

There are some local news sources that post info about local traffic issues, emergencies, etc, much faster on twitter than elsewhere.

Also, there are some experts on international topics who write articles elsewhere, but still discuss those issues with each other on twitter. There’s a list of english speaking experts on ukraine I keep up with. everyone’s migrating, but not as fast as I’d like.

I use nitter for that stuff. Here’s hoping they move soon, but people who know what I want to know aren’t always good at social media.

I’ve been using it for years and usually install it on new computers my relatives ask me to set up. I’m not sneaking it in. If they need ms office for work, I’m not going to screw it up for them.

I stopped for a long time because of a terrible bug that deleted an important file, but in the years since I started using it again, I’ve never had the same problem.

I like it for writing up work emails and printing out estimates. I used to have trouble keeping my intended layout, but not so much these days. Everything I do is pretty uncomplicated, though.

You also need to account for where the really tall people are in the row in front of you. Social optimization be damned, I want to see!

Are there independent groups that audit that kind of thing?

That assumes every human being has the same base of knowledge and people have to cater to that to tell a good joke. You can just not like it.

I’m not sure how to get started and am also reading this for suggestions.

I don’t particularly care if people find my porn or whatever, since I’ll be too dead to look relatives in the eye after they saw that. But I like the idea of being kind to whoever is left dealing with the administrative issues surrounding my death. Like swedish death cleaning, except the mess is loan payments and pictures of my pets.

I tried to find out why kitchen tubs and showers might be a thing (back when some were first posted here) and read an article about how ages ago in new york, landlords were required by law to provide baths for tenants. So they just stuck them where there was already a water hookup. So, in old apartments in New York, you’ll occasionally run into a kitchen tub.

So far that new knowledge has been completely irrelevant to the kitchen/bath situations posted here, but maybe someday it will be useful that I know that now and I won’t be left assuming a fetish situation.

There’s some speculation in the comments on this site that the American Battlefield Trust purchased it as part of an effort to preserve a historic battlefield location in Princeton. So they don’t want to be destroying other historic stuff, I guess?

I hope whoever moves there doesn’t paint over the mural. I wish I could see the details. I suppose the TV screws up the look.

I adore this. It’s got personality! If someone invited me up there, i’d feel weird if i wasn’t in full vampire regalia, even if i was just popping up there because they forgot their keys on the loveseat.