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@gjacobse said in What does your desk look like?:

@stuartjordan said in What does your desk look like?:

@obsolesce is that third poor monitor been shoved on to the cabinet you need a bigger desk lol.

That or just one monitor,... like a 42-65” one,....

They are 27's

@stuartjordan said in What does your desk look like?:

@obsolesce is that third poor monitor been shoved on to the cabinet you need a bigger desk lol.

It's because I only want 2 monitors on my desk. I can fit 3 on it, I tried, it fits nicely, but I purposely want the 3rd on the cabinet so I can turn it the other way towards and it be closer to the bed. I got a Roku Stick for it so when I am not working, I can use it as a TV.

I decided to keep the 3rd one

@gjacobse said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

K9 COW DEPUTY... Sounds like some kind of badly translated Anime.

K9 beats Cow.
Deputy Beats K9
Cow Beats Deputy ?

Maybe

Deputy eats cow.

No, cow kicks deputy.

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

This is a very interesting article. Science people...

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/

More proof wearing masks do absolutely nothing at all for anyone unless they are new, clean, well-fitted N95 masks.

One could argue that most masks worn through this only made it worse.

That is pretty much the opposite of what that article was stating.

All of the non-n95 masks literally do nothing against aerosols, which according to that article is the biggest threat of covid. At best they stop big dropplets, which also according to the article it specifically mentions was barely a threat.

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

This is a very interesting article. Science people...

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/

More proof wearing masks do absolutely nothing at all for anyone unless they are new, clean, well-fitted N95 masks.

One could argue that most masks worn through this only made it worse.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The numbers are out and you can see the effectiveness of the vaccines.

Yes, and it's only really effective against serious infections. Some of the vaccines (remember, whole regions of the world can't get the really effective ones and no children can - nor can people pick which they get) are only like 65% effective against infection, but nearly 100% effective in stopping a serious complication from infection.

So stopping the infection isn't even on the radar realistically. The name of the game is lowering infection rates to allow hospitals to have capacity while stopping serious infections to allow people to live and hopefully recover.

“In the United States, vaccines were 90% effective against any infection in nearly 4,000 health care workers, and 94% effective against hospitalizations from COVID-19 in an evaluation across 24 hospitals in 14 states,”

@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller That link not working Scott.

Likely fake news. Someone writing about something they didn't understand.

@scottalanmiller said in Business number texting services:

We don't have a cool name for our product, yet. So we are open to anyone providing cool ideas. Yes we wanted to use Textastic, but sadly someone took that domain already.

Textadillo

@jaredbusch said in What does your desk look like?:

Is that the deck area you redid? Looks nice

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That's not how vaccines work. That's now OTC medicine works... for example, you get the Flu, and you take something for headache. It lessens the symptom, but does nothing to stop you from getting the virus. Vaccines on the other hand, are absolutely designed to stop you from getting it.

That's nice in theory. But here in the real world, what something is designed to do and what something does aren't the same. While the vaccine does reduce your chance of getting the virus, the primary purpose that people are getting it for is the discovery that the vaccines protects well against severe cases of the virus and can even lead to recovery from long term symptoms.

In the current, real world situation, the vaccine is one to reduce symptoms, not to stop you from getting the virus.

And we've had people we know infected after getting the vaccine.

A successful vaccination means you are fully immune and you don't get sick at all after exposed to the Covid-19 virus. An unsuccessful vaccination means your body never reaches full immunity after the 2 weeks following completion of vaccination.

So, for the small percentage of people the vaccination does not work, that's what I was referring to in the part I wrote that you left out of your quote. The numbers are out and you can see the effectiveness of the vaccines.

You can see for yourself what "at risk" actually means, and you can also see what the risk factors are. It is totally not as unknown as you think. There is tons of data now.

You can find all of this on the CDC website yourself instead of saying things that aren't true.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The vaccine's don't stop you getting it, it just makes the symptoms less severe.

That's not how vaccines work. That's now OTC medicine works... for example, you get the Flu, and you take something for headache. It lessens the symptom, but does nothing to stop you from getting the virus. Vaccines on the other hand, are absolutely designed to stop you from getting it. They either do or don't stop it, which is why the vaccine has an percent based effective rate. What you might be referring to, is in the cases in which the vaccine is in-effective (excluding the cases where you get sick after getting vaccinated, but before enough time passes that you're fully immune)... in THOSE cases it can lessen the symptoms.

You're also throwing around a whole lot of "can" and "could" as if everything you say is "how it is" in all cases.

But if, for example, you look at the CDC numbers, you'll see that only about 0.05% of those who get Covid19 are hospitalized. Of those 0.05%, something like 80+% have severe underlying conditions, where you'd already know that your at-risk anyways. Most of the others are simply old age. Then you're left with an insanely small amount of fringe cases... which you will have with everything you can possible imagine.

For most people, the common cold produces more severe symptoms than Covid19. Covid19 is only so bad because how badly it effects those at risk, where other things such as flu and common cold is something that makes pretty much everyone (for the sake of making the point) equally sick regardless of health. My whole household was recently very sick from the common cold, and the symptoms were pretty bad (but standard). But last year, we have all had Covid19, and didn't even notice.

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Not everyone has access to vaccines.

Everywhere I go, they do.

Are they places where people are paid a lot more than the average income?

In the US the vaccine is free, which is where I am and where I go.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Not everyone has access to vaccines.

Everywhere I go, they do.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@notverypunny some more food for thought...

I'm not getting a vaccination for something that literally poses no real threat to me or 99.9% of the world.

Sure, I'll vaccinate against polio or smallpox for example because most people who get that would be fucked. No argument there. But for the flu or covid? Wtf?

While personally I have no worries about COVID either, it's killed family members for us, and nearly killed staff. We've had people in the hospital for over a month with COVID (he's back and okay now) that we nearly lost. It poses a real risk to people, mostly at random. The problem with not getting the vaccine is not that you are or are not potentially at grave risk, but that only if we all get the vaccine do we protect those who are at risk, and it's a large number of people including young, healthy people.

Then those at risk of covid issues should get vaccinated for themselves. If you are worried about covid issues, get vaccinated. If someone is at risk or worried about covid, then by all means they should get vaccinated for themselves. I shouldn't have to get vaccinated for them when they can vaccinate themself. If they vaccinate, it doesn't matter then if I do.

@notverypunny some more food for thought...

I'm not getting a vaccination for something that literally poses no real threat to me or 99.9% of the world.

Sure, I'll vaccinate against polio or smallpox for example because most people who get that would be fucked. No argument there. But for the flu or covid? Wtf?

@pete-s said in ESXi VMware ESXTOP:

Or just pipe the output to grep, awk or whatever before writing it to file.

Xbox Has Never Turned a Profit On Any Of Its Devices

Even now, analysis from documents revealed during the trial suggests that both Sony and Xbox are taking a loss on the hardware, while Nintendo doesn't as per its long-running strategy. Meanwhile, Microsoft currently generates over a billion dollars in revenue from software and services, just as Wright testified.