StillNoLeftLeft [none/use name, she/her] @ StillNoLeftLeft @hexbear.net

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The first swim in a lake this summer. Took me a long ass time to get out of my winter fur this year as it's been so chilly, but today it definitely wasn't so we went for an evening swim.

It's just so nice and relaxing.

Yeah.

In a country with a very strong sauna and communal swimming hall culture this sounds so familiar.

Was just at a summer cabin, happily reading my book by the lake and my view was a naked couple doing their sauna in a nearby island. It's so funny in a country of supposed introverts, but you can't go anywhere in the summer without seeing naked people on lake shores.

We grow up doing the sauna with family, often extended family included and family friends. You see so many bits of different ages so maybe it should just feel normal, but personally I would still prefer some privacy. I know people bond in the sauna here, like work colleagues do it together.

I did this as a total linux noob and had issues with getting the nvidia driver to work. I had to disable secure boot to get it to work.

No idea if this has any relevance to you but just putting this info out here.

Found lots of chantarellers.

I've planted a tiny meadow in front of our rental and the birds are really loving it. They come to eat the seeds and it's so fun watching them hop around in the daisies.

I am going to have my first paid vacation in my life in a few months, took me some decades to find a job that provides this.

And since I've been doing full time studies with work for the past three years straight, no vacation or break, I figured I should really actually go somewhere and not just sit in the same chair I always sit in spoonless.

Looked at all the insanely expensive hotels and such. Realized I'm really not interested in that stuff, also my pay is pretty shit so can't afford to do a week of any hotel. But also, nah.

Honestly I just want to see the stars with no light pollution again and listen to the sea and silence. So I found a really cheap retreat type thing on a remote island where you can still see the milky way on a clear night. This is what I will do, I'm so exited.

There is nothing there, no shops or anything. Under 20 people live there out of the summer touristy season. There are more sheep than people! There are ghost stories and old viking ship routes to see. I bet it's amazing during a storm (be careful what you wish for, lol).

It's going to be so late in the autumn that I will get to experience real darkness at night again, grew up on an island so I miss it.

And the ship there is public transport so it's free.

It's going to be so nice.

So, a tech bro I know just told me that "FOSS is inherently capitalist exploitation" and I'm so confused.

Context is me saying that Linux is a better way to which he said that all corpos use linux for final hosting because it's free to exploit.

And I think this is comparing apples to oranges, but I know fuck all about the tech world so help?

Edit. We continued the discussion. I get it now. Contradictions, contradictions everywhere.

Aww what a precious little guy!

It's good that its looking lively. These guys grow up to be active in the nighttime only, but when they are wee like this they don't yet have the adult hedgehog rhythm and can be active during the day also.

If you worry at all about it not being warm enough, a warm water bottle in the box can help with that.

And if you decide or are told to release it back to the wild, you should take it to where you found it as hedgehogs live in the same area their whole lives.

Thanks for the update, I am rooting for you guys.

You are doing awesome with it!

Stuff like this is related to my never-ending

This hedgehog rescue stuff especially is also something that has been pretty widely distributed and discussed in the media where I live, because these guys so often come live in peoples backyards and there used to be a lot of misinfo for example about giving them milk (which was bad) or taking in small alone looking individuals that look like they are alone, but are actually fine and just out for their first adventures from mom. Their behaviour typically is a tell on if something is really wrong or if you should just let them be. We make winter nests for them and stuff these days. They used to be so common when I was a kid and now they are so rare that you rarely see any. It's a protected species here.

There are websites and experts we can call for advice about wild animals, if this ever happens to you, I hope there is something similar where you are so you can get help. Common sense often gets you pretty far too.

Milk is a no because these guys are lactose-intolerant like others here have said and it would result in diarhhea.

If you do cat food and it's dry, do soak it first because the little guy can eat so much that it swells in its tummy with bad results. Wet cat food is fine.

Worms and stuff it would eat out in the wild are also fine.

The best drink for it is water. If it seems low in energy or dehydrated you can mix some honey in the water or mix 1 teaspoon of sugar and a pinch of salt per 1dl of water to hydrate it. If it looks like it can't or doesn't drink, you can try using a syringe to get water to its mouth in very small amounts.

If it weights 150-350grams it's reached the age when it can be weaned from the mother

If you can, you should check that it doesn't have any fly eggs or worms in its coat. If you see any, you should remove them with tweezers.

If you want to make it more comfy, you can put it in a cardboard box with air holes, some soft cloth and shreaded newspaper inside so it can hide and feel safer. If it's very tiny, a heating mat might be needed.

One thing to note for your own safety is that hedgehogs often carry salmonella and they spread it in their poop (its asympomatic for them). So the water cup and utensils, gloves and other things you use to handle it should not be washed in the same sink or with the same washcloths you use for your food. Always wear gloves and wash your hands well after dealing with it.

Thank you for saving the little guy!

Edit. Adding that if it is so small that you suspect it can't eat solids, the baby formula for cats can be given to hegdehogs.

And not to alarm you, but just want you to know that these guys can take a turn for the worst very fast when they are small so hydration and warmth are very important. Flies lay eggs in hedgehogs very fast when they are in any sort of trouble so doing the fly egg/worm check is super important.

Best of luck to you and the little one. Hope you can get it to a shelter quickly.

Yes, genuinely vile. Like distilled meanness. I regret going to read the thread.

I've now used Mint for a few weeks and never going back.

At work I just spent over an hour on a Friday waiting for a windows update to install. The copilot crap is in everything. Opening our personal pc or laptop at home feels like an oasis of peace compared. No invasive ads, no AI, everything seems to work better. Only thing that took some figuring out was the nvidia driver on our pc, but we got there. All our games work, including battledotnet that definitely would not want to.

My laptop was miserably running it's fans constantly when just watching netflix on a browser on win. Now it's so much faster, completely silent and probably will work for years still.

Should have done this sooner, I procrastinated for well over a year with this. But the AI crap and pushing win 11 pushed me to get this done.

About 60 pages in with Losurdos Stalin - history and critique of a black legend and for someone like me who has had to listen to decades of stalin hate and nothing else, reading this feels like stepping to a fountain of clarity.

Same. I have no more patience for it and if the discussions go into things that actually matter like Palestine I'll state my opinion, but won't spend any energy on debating them anymore.

I just do my work, spend time with my commie partner and kid. I am ok with not having libs as friends, I cannot look past the way they ignore everything. I am polite with them at work, but tend to keep to myself as much as possible.

When younger I tried so hard to fit in and got burnt so many times

Around my teenage years/young adult, but I had been very justice minded from a kid (audhd I suppose). I took part in politics in school, was very radlib and interested in all things political pretty much as soon as I could.

When the 90s neoliberalism hit my country, I was a young uni student, saw how people got treated when trying to get welfare and was in the same boat myself with poverty so I started collecting peoples stories and tried to push the stories into the public. This is when I hit my first real wall with a bougie newspaper that refused to publish my opinion piece and pulled back on a story I almost got them to publish. I did get the stories published in a local student magazine. I vaguely knew how all of this works before that, but getting involved in something made it really sink in.

This is also when I still was naive enough to think that human rights, basic rights and just decency means something in the country I live in. This is also a time when I started to really ask why people don't rise up even though they are treated horribly. I just could not understand it as a starry eyed uni student that people just took the shock therapy and internalized it as their own failure. I watched my family lose work and my dad ended up suicidal from the "personal failure" that was not at all on him (or anyone who lost everything then) and been radicalizing from there to whatever I am today.

I stopped drinking coffee after decades of ml coffeemaker-life, because my stomach can't take it anymore. Ngl the wastefullness of it always annoyed me so I would microwave the old coffee or drink it when it had burnt in the pan for hours.

Maybe my destroyed gi system is the enlightenment that comes to those who occupationally keep themselves awake with pots of coffee.