Thanks for the info concerning the pneumonia vaccine, I’ll check with my family doctor next time I am there.

Yeah, we have the annually flu news-cycle, too. This year they claim it is worse for children, because the hospital beds for children are supposedly at their capacity, and also in my team at work nearly everyone was sick within the last 4 weeks.

Just a heads up: I learned it is ‘flu’ for the disease and ‘flue’ is like a device to let go of smoke. Sorry for spreading my bad English!

Wow, nice! Do you have to pay for the shots or do you get them for free?

Sorry, ‘flue’ is just my incompetence at using the English language, it seems I also learned that it is ‘shot’ and not ‘shoot’.

I have a super bad German accent when I speak English, and although I hope I have a descent understanding of the language, I couldn’t write a sentence with correct spelling/grammar if my life depended on it.

Thanks a lot for chiming in!

Thanks a lot for the information! Damn, Canada really deserves its great reputation! :-)

Nope, I am a total boring office worker and the company I work for is not related to health care.

If there is a yearly refreshed pneumonia vaccine, I never heard about it being offered in Germany. (If it is a one time thing, I would trust everyone open to it got it already.)

Exactly what you said is at the heart of my question: Is it an economic consideration to not recommend the covid yearly update shoot or a medical one.

To further elaborate: The flue shoots are provided for free and paid for from the public health care, so in Germany you can just visit a regular family doctor and get it for free, or the flue shoots are given out at universities etc. In summary, while you nearly have to make an effort in Germany to not get a yearly flue shoot, for covid shoots you even have to sign a paper to the doctor to not sue them for vaccination problems, unless you are in the vulnerable group (elderly, asthma etc.).

How does it work in Denmark, if you would ask your family doctor for a covid shoot, will they simply give you one, no questions asked?

Thanks, one follow up question: In Germany (where I live), for flue vaccinations, it is kind of ‘free for all’, at my work place they even send doctors to vaccinate the employees (who are willing to take it).

This is the confusing point for me, as in Denmark, covid is treated like a flue by now. So why is there the difference between the recommendation between covid shoots and flue shoots?

Thanks for clarification, my question was indeed missing the point, that 2 vaccinations are recommended.

I am asking, because we have a wave right now and I see people, which most likely are vaccinated (or I know got their two shoots in the past), get sick for one or two weeks.

Please allow my follow up questions:

• Flue shoots are kind of free for all in my country (Germany), even if people are vaccinated and they also get refreshed every so often by the real thing (right now we have a flue wave in children) - is there a reason why there is a difference between flue shoots and covid shoots?
• From the individual point of view, is there any reason not to get a covid shoot, especially when the person already got vaccinated in the past?
• Is the benefits of further vaccinations vs. the risks a monetary/effort evaluation or a medical one?

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• Michael Mans ‘Miami Vice’ 2006. Absolute shit rating is probably to hard, but the reviews back then were underwhelming (I remember ‘style over substance’ as a quote)
• The original XXX with Vin Diesel. It feels that nobody got the joke, that it is a parody of the James Bond movies, although a James Bond look alike literally gets killed within the first scenes of the movie…

Strange Days is one of my favorite movies, ever! Tough I think it got good reviews but failed at the box office. (I stand corrected, it polarized the reviewers according to Wikipedia.

I don’t know either, but unless one uses zstd (lzo seems more like a thing for this hardware), I would hope that it is totally usable. (Running zstd memory compression on a Raspberry Pi 2, w/o any noticeable speed impact)

Show me some numbers! ;-) … Perhaps I miss something, but basically we have 32bit pointers vs. 64bit pointers, the rest of the data should be the same size. 64bit should be faster for tasks where the CPU is the bottleneck/computations, so IMHO it will be an interesting tradeoff with no clear winner for me.

The most important thing is not the distribution, but to enable ZRAM (or ZSWAP) and use a lightweight desktop. I am not sure how much difference a 32bit vs a 64bit distribution makes, but if possible you could take one for the team and run some trials and report your numbers (RAM usage) back here.

Of course I recommend Debian with a lightweight desktop of your choice, or Alpine.

I am an IT guy, so my needs, preferences and priorities are not the norm.

IMHO software is mostly a shit-show, doesn’t matter if property or FOSS. My most loved target of critique is macOS/Apple, because the user experience is so bad for me. (Forced by my work to use it, so I have several years of experience/suffering with it.)

I think it is more about finding software which works by accident (or your training/prior knowledge), as you expect it should work. The biggest problem with proprietary software is that they usually need to up sell, dump down features (hello, macOS window management, finder and everything else) or want to force you into their walled garden.

One easy example where FOSS kicks ass compared to proprietary is managing/installing and updating software: Linux and the BSDs have all sane centrally managed systems for native packages and Flatpaks/Snaps, compare that to the shit-show on Windows and macOS devices. Don’t let me start on provisioning and other topics, where FOSS is by now decades ahead of the stuff one sees in macOS/windows.

One proprietary system which works awesome is Steam and SteamDeck. No questions there and I’ll happily throw my money at Valve.

I had the pleasure of working with great UX designers, but you are sorry out of luck if you are not the persona they target and their decisions are guided by making money and making their manager happy, so a good user experience is at most their 3rd concern, if you are lucky.

Concerning documentation I fully agree with you, with very few exceptions (Arch WIKI, FreeBSD handbook, RHELs documentation), the FOSS world is a sad place.

In the end, there is the potential for great UX in both proprietary and FOSS systems, but when you want to focus on user centric, FOSS wins IMHO for IT guys because they are the only systems which are literally build by their users.

This.

Media has always had an agenda, which even if meant in good faith is manipulativ.

Just speaking about newspapers:

• the topics are mostly chosen for the audience who can afford newspapers (= good/settled middle class)
• the journalists usually have a social background which allows for having unpaid internships and can afford to study journalism at university (e.g. rules out working class people)
• advertisement is a big (paid newspapers) or the only income source (‘free online news’)
  • this implies to not fuck around with the companies/people paying the advertisement
  • this implies also, to not fuck around with the world view of what your readers seem acceptable too much (less readers = less money for advertisement)
• newspapers are owned by rich people which also impacts what topics are covered or not
• newspapers have competition in search engines/internet etc. which they will fight / badmouth
• in Germany at least newspapers/their companies tried to fight adblockers and the peoples freedom to use adblockers in court - w/o making much noise about it. So, information damaging the newspapers reputation are willfully held back.
• every topic I have a little bit of knowledge about which is covered by so called specialists in newspapers is full of shit/wrong assumptions/lacks any kind of deeper understanding

Long story short: Everyone/everywhere has grown up consuming deeply manipulative content from media. Given the bullshit and propaganda we are getting each day by people with an agenda/on someones payroll, crazy hallucinations / generated content won’t make things worse than they are already.

Add to that ‘The Lamplighters Leage’ from HBS.

• Learn a proper tooth brushing technique (Bass, Stillman, etc.)
• Floss
• Strength training 2x a week
• Get some daylight every day
• Have great manners all the time
• Be nice and respectful to people around you (especially the ones you don’t benefit from)
• Read the classic books in literature and your field of work
• Get a hobby and follow it with discipline
• Go to the free health checkups that are provided to you
• Save early and regularly
• Plan your next day, week, month, year
• Have some fun and spent yourself from time to time on your own terms - YOLO ;-)

I stand corrected!

Open BETA on Steam

Best advice I ever got regarding this kind of things: Try it out and see where it goes! Play open, be honest and have fun! ;-)

Yes, Apple! :-) Obviously Apple doesn’t have the win margins to put proper parts in their hardware…

Just yesterday I realized my Thinkpad Edge 330 is running w/o any trouble for 11 years now, cost me little above 300€, brand new back then. :-)