In mozambique i was committed to the hospital with my liver failing after spending two weeks taking acetaminophen daily because everyone at work got sick and someone had to keep the business up (it was a bank, our IT department was very specific and only 6 people knew that job and everyone got extremely hill).
After two weeks, i finally went to the hospital and I couldn't leave; spent the next two weeks fighting for my life and at some point I was told I was not going to make it.
All due a simple over the counter medicine... crazy. This was 2016.
To this day I still get extremely tired if I take it, so I have to choose it carefully when to take it.
I think I was taking 3 grams a day, 1g every 8 hours; the day I finally decided to go seek medical help, I felt extremely tired... when I traced back how much I had taken, it was 3 grams in less than 8 hours, but this was due to being extremely tired and exhausted from the fever, which made me "forget". Lesson learned, I now keep a strict journal with all medicine I take.
I love HomeAssistant, and my second time on a new home, i'm slowly getting what i want in terms of interface and devices; doing it slowly helps you plan better and execute it perfectly.
I've also been watering my garden (sprinklers) and i even built my custom ESPHome device: https://github.com/mgarces/open-esp-sprinklers
A friend of mine recently built something I thought some people here might appreciate: KindScreen.
It's an open-source, community-curated catalog of YouTube videos that are safe for kids aged 3–12. The key idea is simple: nothing appears in the catalog unless real parents have actually watched the video and approved it.
The project came from a personal experience. He was watching YouTube Kids with his daughter when a video that started like a harmless cartoon quickly turned into something he would never have chosen for her. The automated filters allowed it through, which made him realize he didn’t want to rely on algorithms to decide what his kid sees.
So instead of trying to block bad content, KindScreen flips the model: only allow verified good content.
Every video in the catalog is watched and approved by multiple parents. No recommendation algorithms, no surprise autoplay rabbit holes — just a transparent list of human-reviewed videos.
The whole thing is open source and meant to be community-driven, so parents can contribute reviews and help grow the catalog.
Hope someone here enjoys it and very curious on finding out if it's something useful.
same here; I bought a M2 Max with 96GB of RAM almost 3 years ago, for €4K, but a client paid half of it for a 1 year retainer. This machine is still the best thing i've worked with, and I have zero intentions of switching this machine anytime soon (i'll probably need to replace it's battery in the future). Rather keep the same machine for 5 or 6 years than to buy a crappier one every 2 years
Most people look at computers as a commodity that needs to perfectly balance performance and price; most really expensive computers usually are acquired by professionals that do need the specs and within small time, it gets paid off quickly.
I have a 16" Macbook Pro M2 with 96GB of RAM. Costs without VAT around €4k, but a client paid half of it as a one year retainer for my work, so the device ended up costing me €2k. You would say those specs are over the top, but it's been 2 years and I still have an amazing work machine and there's not enough things I can do to make it feel slow; it pays off, because I don't waste my time waiting for my device, it's the other way around. Would my dad buy such a machine for browsing? Absolutely not! Me as a professional? Makes no sense not to!
There's also the fact that usually, a higher-end machine will have better components that are more comfortable to use. Most brand-new "enterprise" computers we have at work have much worse screens, keyboards and touchpads than my 2013 mbp. I know many people don't seem to care, so that also has to be considered.
Sure, they cost maybe half as much in nominal terms, but seeing how they fall apart even though I take good care of them, I would have needed to replace them so often that I'm not even sure I would have come out ahead. And, at the same time, I would have always had a terrible experience.
Now, I haven't used that Mac in a few years, ever since I stopped going to the office and it stopped being supported. But even over a 7-year period, when I used it daily and carted it around daily, I'm pretty sure it's still an all-around better investment.
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