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[x3firehexx]

Tech connections will never troon out.

i call optimistic on that, but he also doesn't check many of the "pre troonout/troonout incoming" checkboxes. He doesn't really seem like he will, not anytime soon, atleast

 

[Pee Cola]

Latest Techmoan update: Blood infection, not blood cancer. Liver status still unknown, MRI and colonoscopy due soon. He lost at least 13kg (28lbs) since February, and will be referred to a dietician. Whilst TM feels much better than he did a few days ago, the doctors are yet to discharge him. He's keen to get home and start working on videos again.

Most recent photo, taken at the hospital.

Spoiler: Full update copied from Patreon

Here’s what’s been going on with the hospital.

12 hours ago
This is a long block of text, but there’s not a great deal else for me to do right now. Typed into an iPad Mini.

A bit of history…

I went to the GP because I was really going downhill. You know when you’re ill. I thought I might have a bladder infection…just a guess. It is extremely rare for me to go to the Dr because my surgery is notoriously hopeless. They’d struggle to diagnose what was wrong with a patient with a missing head. I’m sure the whole place is a front for something, I don’t know what, but it definitely doesn’t require any medical training.

As predicted they couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me other than ‘there was no obvious infection’. They suggested I might want to go to hospital as they ‘might’ be able to do more tests. No one wants to go to hospital in England - at best you’ll be waiting six hours to see anyone, at worse it could literally be days sitting in a chair. Hospitals also really don’t need random people wandering into Accident & Emergency who just feel a bit ropey so I went home.

Meanwhile, in the afternoon the results of an earlier blood test came in. The GP rang me at home and said after seeing them that I definitely needed to go to the hospital, so reluctantly I gathered a few essentials and the Mrs took me to A&E.

Last Wednesday (day two in the Hospital) they took blood to put in a culture to see if it grew anything when put in a Petri dish. By the way imagine having a type of dish named after you, although I suppose Dave Pyrex was another.

Anyway in the meantime they gave me two blood transfusions and more than a few broad spectrum intravenous antibiotic drips while they figured what was going on. Apparently I was running a bit of a temperature, not that I’d noticed. By the way ‘running’ is a weird verb, you can run a temperature, the bath and the gauntlet.

Then there was an endoscope down the throat because an earlier X-ray had revealed potential swelling in the throat. It wasn’t there. All clear.

By this point I’d been in three days and was feeling a heck of lot better. The weakness had gone, as had the hot and cold temperature swings. Clearly the treatment was working.

So by Friday it seemed things were all set for me going home by the end of the day with a bag full of strong antibiotic pills.

But then the culture results came back and showed there had been something in the blood. As a result they wanted me to keep taking a more targeted antibiotic drip every eight hours. So no going home for me.

Long story short it seems my symptoms were the results of a blood infection, which I’m sure had itself been caused by my mega infection from February/March. After all, for me one thing just lead into another without ever fully recovering from the first.

So now I’m just waiting until Monday when a Consultant can make a decision on my future, thumbs up or down Roman Emperor style as to being set free. It seems a bit silly for me to be taking up a bed based on the state my blood was in back when I arrived. I’m sure it’s much better now.

They also plan to send a dietician to see me due to the rapid weight loss. Even though I look fuller in my face, apparently I’ve lost a few more kg. I’m now 82kg instead of the 95-100kg before this started. However I looked up the ideal BMI range for my age and I’m now in the zone. So every dark cloud…

Oh and the liver stuff is not really relevant to this. That’s going to be investigated separately, an MRI is the first step. There’s a looming colonoscopy too, which is a pain in the a*se.

So that’s my current status. I’m anxious to get back home, eat something with a bit of bite resistance, have a long shower, sleep in my own bed, watch my own TV, but more than anything else…use my own loo in peace. After that I want to make some progress on the next video, this will be as much for my own sanity as anything else.

The main thing I want to do now is to thank everyone for all the positive words, messages and encouragement. When I arrived in bed 15, the previous person who’d been in this location had left a ‘get well soon’ card behind, signed by their colleagues/family. I joked to the Mrs that I should keep it displayed to pretend those well wishes were for me.

As it was though I ended up getting hundreds of messages via Patreon which really meant a tremendous amount. It actually made me a bit emotional and I’m speaking as someone who usually is only capable of displaying Vulcan/Norther British Male levels of emotion.

If I do ever get out of here I’ll let you know. With any luck I should have returned to my pre February levels of energy, but with a way more unkempt beard.

Take care.

Photo was taken outside the front of the hospital yesterday evening. The ‘do not sit here’ sign carries on to read …’to smoke’

 

[Mikoyan]

How bri'ish. Got a loicense to sit there mate?

Well, at least he's not going south too fast currently.

 

[Pee Cola]

How bri'ish. Got a loicense to sit there mate?

Well, at least he's not going south too fast currently.

Photo was taken outside the front of the hospital yesterday evening. The ‘do not sit here’ sign carries on to read …’to smoke’

Techmoan's sense of humour and stiff upper lip will give him a fighting chance. He's a good egg, even if he is Bri'ish.

 

[Meriasek]

This shit looks so cool.

That is, frankly, awesome.
I like the look of early to mid 90s OS. Windows 3.1 and Mac OS 9.2. Most people trying to recreate older styles on modern Linux seem to focus on recreating Windows 95 at most, but I do like the taskbar-less style of 3.1 and bottom-left dock of OS9.2. Generally also the crisp and minimalist look, if translated to modern screens and resolutions they give you a lot of screen real estate with no wasted space on massive taskbars and shit.

 

[Pee Cola]

Techmoan has been released from hospital and says he's feeling much better. Apparently the NHS has a system where their doctors can monitor patients from home, including a special device used to contact the hospital with details of vital signs. I can see him making a video about this tech eventually.

Speaking of, he wants to start making videos again in the next few days, but he's not quite up to it yet.

Original video link

 

[mr_negativity]

I'm really starting to doubt the legitimacy of Neil's, little venture. Is this an actual museum with real visitors, or is this a private hangout and computer collection for Neil and his group of friends that happens to have a non profit status?

Looking at the hours this is open to the public once a week 6 hours a week split in half between the "museum" and the "arcade". Each section is only open 3 hours per week. A ticket to each costs £16. They are not transferable to both. Visiting both will cost a full £32, or £5.33 per hour

The renaming to the "Retro Collective" doesn't really imply public access or any kind of public service mission, however neither did calling it a "man cave".

In addition to the troon Holly sickening up the videos, there is now a dude with a massive tumor on his face who could pass as a discount 80's Bond villian. The NHS will pay for Holly's stinkditch and HRT, but doesn't have enough money to laser off disfiguring facial deformities.



His face is growing a silhouette of a man.

Is this a computer museum or a mini human freak show?

Since, I didn't grow up in Britian in the 80's interviewing developers of ZX Spectrum tape games doesn't really interest me. The technical/hardware/restoration videos which would normally interest me have gotten rather dumbed down and have troon hands in them. Time to unsubscribe and move on.

 

[Pee Cola]

In addition to the troon Holly sickening up the videos, there is now a dude with a massive tumor on his face who could pass as a discount 80's Bond villian. The NHS will pay for Holly's stinkditch and HRT, but doesn't have enough money to laser off disfiguring facial deformities.

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His face is growing a silhouette of a man.

Is this a computer museum or a mini human freak show?

I noped out around the time that troon joined Neil's posse, so I didn't know that he'd also recruited Rocky Dennis.

I didn't grow up in Britian in the 80's interviewing developers of ZX Spectrum tape games doesn't really interest me. The technical/hardware/restoration videos which would normally interest me have gotten rather dumbed down and have troon hands in them.

It feels like a whole bunch of established retro/vintage channels have dumbed down over the years, including The 8-Bit Guy and LGR. Here's hoping Adrian never leaves his basement.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

Is this an actual museum with real visitors, or is this a private hangout and computer collection for Neil and his group of friends that happens to have a non profit status?

It’s a hoard looking for a justification for its existence.

It feels like a whole bunch of established retro/vintage channels have dumbed down over the years, including The 8-Bit Guy and LGR. Here's hoping Adrian never leaves his basement.

I agree

 

[Mikoyan]

I'm really starting to doubt the legitimacy of Neil's, little venture. Is this an actual museum with real visitors, or is this a private hangout and computer collection for Neil and his group of friends that happens to have a non profit status?

I was going to bring a bit of this up, specifically at how 'Holly' is always wearing the Mk3 name/logo merch, likely as sort of a 'haha, chuds, I made this name happen'. thing.

I didn't know the museum was so restrictive. That's actually pretty bad. It's unlikely to pay its own way - few museums do - but three hours? I"m not sure I could get through that collection in three hours, but then I'm intensive at museums. Fuck the arcade, all my homies hate quarterstealers. Does he still do the interviews? Those don't always interest me since I'm not into muh speccy but I'm glad someone's getting that history while we still can.

In short, I think I now agree: This is a non-profit grift to make someone's collection space affordable.

For the dumbin' down, I agree. I think it's tuning for the algo.

 

[Goht]

Fuck the arcade, all my homies hate quarterstealers.

If there were an "arcade" full of say, PC adventure-type games (new old w/e) MAYBE I could muster some interest in them.

 

[Ahriman]

A (real) chick into '80s programming, that's pretty nice. I'd imagine she got into the hobby through her dad, but either way, it's refreshing to see.

If anything--she may or may not start getting hounded by troons.

 

[Maxwell Carter]

i call optimistic on that, but he also doesn't check many of the "pre troonout/troonout incoming" checkboxes. He doesn't really seem like he will, not anytime soon, atleast

He is a Bluesky user, but nearly all tech nerds are on there now regardless of trooning out status.

 

[Mikoyan]

He is a Bluesky user, but nearly all tech nerds are on there now regardless of trooning out status.

Which makes me chuckle because rolling your own activitypub instance is much more in keeping with the ethos.

 

[ZMOT]

Here's hoping Adrian never leaves his basement.

iirc he lives in portland, if he ever stops posting videos we know he did and got assaulted by a hobo looking for fent money.

 

[Pee Cola]

Latest Techmoan health update, copied from Patreon:

Boring medical update

The blood infection appears to have been resolved - fingers crossed that’s the end of that. I’ve finished my course of antibiotics. I’m off the home monitoring equipment (collected by the postman and returned to base).

But I’m now on to the next big hurdle. Tomorrow morning I’m having an MRI on my liver. This will tell me whether I need any treatment, whether I’m just too far gone for that, or whether everything is fine and there’s nothing at all to worry about.

I believe a team of people will look at the results and will inform me of the outcome within a short amount of time. Perhaps a week.

This really is one of those flip a coin moments that’s totally out of my control. I’ll just have to wait and see. This is a very weird position to be in - I’m just getting on with life as normal, but I may also be a dead man walking - I’m living in limbo and it’s all a bit too much to take in.

In lighter news, went out for a really nice posh Sunday lunch today with the Mrs while my smell and taste are working. I’m ticking off meals that I’ve wanted to taste again. Had an Indian meal the other night…so at the moment I’ve got fish and chips at the top of the to-do list and then a kebab.

Anyway that’s more than enough about me, take care and have a good one.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Which makes me chuckle because rolling your own activitypub instance is much more in keeping with the ethos.

Go back to monke, finger .plan files

 

[tehpope]

8-Bit Guy takes an objective look at Tesla's autopilot and fsd.

 

[quaawaa]

8-Bit Guy takes an objective look at Tesla's autopilot and fsd.

And he won't let leftists bully him over owning a Tesla:

 

[Kalsarikännit]

And he won't let leftists bully him over owning a Tesla:
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It is very amusing to me how the script’s flipped on EVs.

I’m still saying the battery tech isn’t there for them to actually supplant normal cars, personally.