Ear wax has never been an issue for me either, I had a friend who had just had their ear canal rinsed by a doctor. And their explanation kinda fit the bill…
So with a new born, new house that I was renovating, and stubbornness that I can handle everything myself, I managed to convince myself that this was the root cause
Not my proudest moment…
Seeing this post made me physically cringe. I am “The Public.”
In my late 20s, my ear started hurting. I was utterly convinced it was just a stubborn clump of earwax. I went to the pharmacy and bought one of those bulb syringes for rinsing ears. The pharmacist calmly and explicitly instructed me: “Make sure you only use lukewarm water.” I went home, washed my ear canal, and nothing happened. I figured I’d just give it a few days to loosen up.
Over the next couple of days, the pain escalated to an excruciating level. I’m talking find-chair, put-my-head-in-my-lap kinda pain. And as my son had just been born, I was operating on a good mix of extreme pain and severe sleep deprivation.
Eventually, i came to the conclusion that hotter water = more wax melting, and if lukewarm water didn’t work, maybe it just needs more heat. The hotter the water, the better chance it has of melting the wax, right? So, I boiled some water. And with zero hesitation, I injected boiling hot water directly into my ear canal.
It was not earwax.
I ended up at the doctor, where I learned that the initial agony was actually a severe case of otitis media (a middle ear infection). And thanks to my brilliant home remedy, I had managed to add a scorched ear canal and a secondary outer ear infection right on top of it.
So yeah. When that optometrist said, “Look at me. I want you to understand that I mean water that has been boiled and has since cooled down,” he was talking to me. I am the guy.
I’ve gone with Authentik for my homelab, and sure there is some learning to do, but it is fairly simple once it’s setup, and in the end it is not that bad.
If I were to choose over, I’d god with KeyCloak as it seems like that’s almost exclusively what’s used in the marked ~ and thus would be good to know in depth
Well, don’t get me wrong. I don’t like the man any more than you do. But I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that most people on the planet does not give a fuck, or might even know who the guy is.
My critique is not of the intent of the message, just the fact that ppl from the US think that all that happens in the US must be on the world agenda, and is probably that most important thing in the universe right now…
This self importance is tiring, and stretches from left to right in US politics.
here we go again with Americans thinking they are the fucking bellybutton of the universe… there are worse people on the planet than Donald Trump, his death won’t be celebrated “globally”
I truly hope the delays was due to the fact that they “give a fuck about their game”… But, I won’t believe it until I see it…
I had sudo on our prod server on day one of my first job after uni. Now I knew my way around a database and Linux, so I never fucked with anything I wasn’t supposed to.
Our webapp was Python Django, enabling hotfixes in prod. This was a weekly or biweekly occurrence.
Updating delivery times for holidays involved setting a magic variable in prod.
Just imagine an internet after america, something to look forward to.
An internet without Americans?
Yes please, I’ve been craving this for quite some time by now
I mean. Of course vidya games’ gonna get hit with inflation from time to time… just like every other product…
every link in the chain, from producer to consumer needs to have an ever growing increase in profit for capitalism to work
Americans be like; “If you can’t afford to pay 69% tip then don’t go out eating at all”
Thanks for the kind words, I am glad that you are here as well!