We feel you :'(
Since 1.5 months we’re fighting for the life of our cat Loki. He usually had 6-6.5kg and only has 4.25kg left because of his gastritis, after surgery of an unrelated eye tumour, when we’re did a gastroscopy.

We tried to give him some stomach protector, which he hated. So I mixed it into his food, which only led to him declining his diet food more and more.
We switched the stomach protector to something more easily eaten and we started cooking for him - every 2h from 5 in the morning until 1 at night (sometimes also at 3, when he had appetite)
Didn’t really help…
So he got daily subcutaneous infusions with antibiotics and after a week or two he was much better and even gained like half a kg.
He was happy, we were jumping in joy.
But exactly after the last control visit at the vet, he declined his food again and 2 days layer he was diagnosed with a pancreatitis.

So he would need to go for 24 hours stationary at the vet with IV infusions.
That didn’t work out, as he wouldn’t hold still without us.
So we went with him and did daily IV infusions for nearly 2 hours a day and he finally got better.

He gained nearly 1kg and we were happy as fuck - him as well, as he was enjoying just being outside again.

Then he started puking again…

So the vet told us, that we need to switch to a specific diet food instead of our low fat cooking.
He surprisingly ate 1-1.5 portions, but after that he declined it again - even with Mirtazapin to give him some appetite.

That was yesterday. So last night he like really proudly showed me his puke, with a face of “look what this new food has done” and we switched back to cooking.

I’m currently at the end of my wisdom and we’re emotionally completely drained.
I’m self employed and haven’t worked for the whole time now, because I can’t focus anyway and with him being miserable I was just a 24 hours nurse. My wife luckily had a vacation now, so she could jump in a bit, so I could catch up with some sleep…

But it’s a daily rollercoaster. Sometimes he has good days and wants to go outside, sometimes he just want to sleep and mostly he cuddles with us.

He is the nicest and bravest cat I’ve ever had and we’ll fight however possible. But have my whole sympathy as we now how shit it is to see your loved cat deteriating and you can’t do much but watch :-(

I actually wanted to add some pictures as tax, but I can’t find an easy easy in comments (in my mobile app) now

At least feel hugged from very understanding other cat owners, currently facing mostly the same dilemma
(By now I could probably fill a book just with the shit that happened in the last month…)

Not OP, but can only speak from my experience: Installing a second WM/DE usually messes up my install, as quite some stuff is just from one GUI framework, so I don’t have to have to much stuff installed.
Also getting rid of it afterwards always wasn’t as easily possible.

I completely get trying out a WM y firing up a VM. You could even just boot the live USB stick to check it out.
But changing my working install just to try something (and then have to clean it up again) wasn’t working out for me in the past

Ok, I’ll go search for your other comment

Edit: I’m still not sure how the US supporting Israel is making Russia attack Ukraine or how that should be connected - obviously, geopolitical everything is somehow connected, but not causal

Edit 2: I’m absolutely not in favour of US backing Israel (or their fucking imperial capitalism), but do you want to say, that Russia had no other choice or…?
I do know this sounds foolish, but I’m currently really struggling to make sense of what you want to say

I’m really not sure, if I can follow.

How is Israel (absolutely doing a genocide atm - just to have that said) involved with that? What’s the connection?

Maybe I missed something just scrolling through?

Link has a “whttps” in there, that shouldn’t be there

Signal doesn’t provide such open and easily found chat rooms.
It’s really much more a messenger (with group chats, but those you have to manually set up)

So it’s not an “open” place like telegram and with that not as attractive for advertising illicit services or products.

besides that, Signal is the technically much more secure variant. No discussion about it.

Well, luckily all just had a talk and some tea about it and nobody died

I own the apartment and even a parking place, that’s my own. but just doing the cableing will cost me a few thousand Euros.
And I’m one of the lucky ones who don’t need to search through public parking slots.

Not everyone has a house…

I’m living in an apartment and charging at home is not an option. I do have a EV though and when we take a larger trip, I need to plan a bit more to charge up before the trip.
That sucks a bit, else it’s pretty great

Lights in shoes that blink at each step were all the hype in my childhood

Africa? Isn’t China already all over it?

Thank you very much for those insights!!

Would you give your perspective anyway, as I would be quite interested, although I’m not the one you talked to?

Since when is Ukraine in Scandinavia?
Or did I miss something?

Utter bullshit…

Because of all the nice feedback about OpenSUSE:
SUSE was my first (bought) Linux distribution, at a time when I would have spent days downloading an ISO, SUSE was available with a manual in store. That was nice.

But then I had an AVM Fritz! ISDN card and it was a complete shit show to get this working. Especially as YAST(2?) didn’t support the configuration I needed, but every time you opened it, it would overwrite your manual changes in some configuration files.
(Edit: I’ll probably need to add, that this was like 25 years ago. So besides “fuck, I’m old”, my perspective in SUSE is very probably not up-to-date)

After that I hopped through a few distros and mostly stayed with basic Debian.

Nowadays I’m mostly using Manjaro (or just Arch itself, if I don’t need X), because I like the Arch package system and actually also the whole system architecture… Don’t exactly know what it is, but I feel much more at home.
With apt I sometimes found myself in situations, where a fresh install will resolve things faster than trying to restore/save the system. With Arch I always was somehow able to restore everything.

Can someone tell me how Tumbleweed differs/excels?
Thanks in advance!
Currently waiting for my new laptop (Framework 16 :-D) and that would be a nice opportunity to try something new.
But as I need my device for work, it’s important to me, that I really have it under my control and am not depending on some half-baked configuration utility like YAST was.

Edit: I’m also playing with the thought of moving to something immutable. NixOS looked nice in concept, but the more I read about it, the more I see that it’s more suitable for more server than my laptop - but maybe I’m wrong here, as I don’t have any hands-on experience

Microsoft has built a number of safety features into Windows Recall to ensure that the service can’t run secretly in the background. When Windows Recall is enabled, it places a permanent visual indicator icon on the Taskbar to let the user know that Windows Recall is capturing data. This icon cannot be hidden or moved.

Oh my, that one is really cute

The immune compromised will die because of those unmasked fuckers

Quite some time that I’ve seen something so stupid

It’s even absolutely not true, that Linux is last. They just don’t know about the less used OS’ on desktop

What a braindead take…

Wonder where he took the idea from…