tomazbodner

Cyanide capsules... Novichok candies... Plutonium tea bags...

Oh, yeah? All lies then? All thermometers rigged?

It is! All you need is power, closed windows, decent air conditioner and HEPA air filter.

https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/21gg18q1ddmv Cable from SG to Europe cut...

I'm amazed so far nobody jumped out to suggest OP bakes his own, and how easy it is...

True and AIS same issues. Sires in US load fast. So it is likely some outage on cabling between Asia and Europe... There was undersea cable between Asia and Europe cut in red sea, next to Yemen, but that's nearly a month ago. That cut the data throughput capacity by about 25%. No idea if there was any further damage which could explain further deterioration.

As I can't edit it anymore, I wanted to add screenshots of this: This is what sensor actually read at noon, when it got a beep from IQAir to fetch the data: And this is what AirVisual by IQAir actually showed a few minutes later: That's quite a discrepancy... Or is it that it doesn't use all data? No idea. But makes me curious about trusting AirVisual numbers now.

In the old days, rice fields were burned down. Since rice pledging scheme fiasco, many turned to corn, cassava, sugarcane fields. What's left on fields after harvest varies a lot, depending on what was harvested, so fields now have a lot more to burn, hence causing a lot more pollution. Then you have rising temperatures, which are an accelerant for chemical reactions, which make pollution even worse. This isn't new, it's more than 10 years on a steady decline, both in quality of air as well as duration. Going back to 2012, smog in Bangkok lasted only about 2 months in Feb and Mar, where it was over AQI 75, which was from my reader in the middle of the city. Now it's getting close to 6 months that readings are over 100 at least 20 days in a calendar month. The reason for the HEPA filters and sensors for me was intense headaches that started when I moved to Pratunam. Had no idea why. A friend stayed over and brought this black box from China. Headaches stopped. Asked what that was and learned it was HEPA filter. Had one in each room since then, that's 20 years ago. A few years later I saw first pm2.5 sensors for sale. Had one mounted outside ever since. Which now also leads me to something else - that IQAir is downplaying actual numbers. I'm contributor to them. My sensor is weekly checked against others, but it consistently reads higher than the same sensor appearing in AirVisual app. Sometimes double that. IQAir states "data calibrated by IQAir"... Yesterday's numbers were 158 from my sensor and 91 from same sensor at AirVisual at the same time. Don't understand why they are doing that. As I'm quite high up, I can actually tell the approximate pollution figures by looking out the window, which buildings I can see. Another one is that my indoor air filters have sensors and show figures on their displays, which are in 5-10% of outside pollution range. So 10 inside would be 100-200 outside. And if they start making jet take off sounds, which happens at 75 inside, I'm not leaving the room. It sometimes does just that at 4-4.30 am. Loud enough to wake me up. That didn't happen much in the past but it is getting more frequent, especially in February.

What's the use, if then they just spend a few months in hospital and get released...

If this is still original body, you have serial number printed at the bottom plate, although very small. Alternative is to find HP System Information in All Apps. That lists all details of computer including serial number. Hotkey for it is holding Ctrl and Alt keys together first, then pressing S key. From information above, this seems to be HP Pavilion 17-ab067nr. Is that correct? Not sure if this would fit: https://www.ebay.com/itm/364844380360?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&var=634391659182&srsltid=AfmBOooluSlsOuJ8DZGXPjbsd7ke_Z8kTBQqP2yW3EcUK6e-jIPOIblFoC0

Should ask Coway to handle this for them as focus should be on maintenance, not installation.

Majority of whom pay no taxes...

Most important! Jokes section remains, right?

Is this ZBook from HP? I didn't try to replace body of 17" ZBook but I did replace body for a friend who dropped it for the 14" Firefly model. It requires taking entire notebook into pieces and putting it back together, but the body was purchased from Lazada from a parts seller in China. I can attest that the parts were identical to original ones (minus the dents), including being made from metal, not plastic. Maybe I can help some more if you pass on the actual laptop model.

There's a guy Cyrus who had diabetes since about 20's that has a channel Mastering Diabetes on Youtube. It's focused around reversing insulin resistance. My better half is double diabetic (1&2) so it made sense to do something about type 2 first. And that seems to have been quite effective. She went from 10 units to 4 in about 2 months, while her readings are far more stable than before. Before she had spikes to 600, now she barely gets to 250, and is mostly resorting to sweet drinks when it drops too low. I absolutely agree with you. It's worth to try. There's nothing to lose 🙂

Apparently in location shown on picture below, there's no pain whatsoever on installing it, and with that thin foil over it, it's more securely attached. If you don't have hair, then it is very comfortable, except for an hour or 2 after removing it, it's not great to put another sensor in the same place, as the skin is a bit sore from pulling the glue of the old one off. Here's a video that we followed: But some people put it on the belly, 2-3 cm lower than belly button, about 10-15 cm towards the side, especially the 2-part sensors (sensor and transmitter are separate), but for Libre, above is probably quite safe place to put it and it seems to stay put (about 3 months now, no incidents of knocking it off or alike). Last note, if you put it in place where you have hair, then after some days it could become itchy under the glue of the sensor. The area above usually has less hair than other parts of the body, so it's quite ideal.

Cancel his visa and deport him! ... Oh, wait....

Lantus is about 700 baht at DIamond pharmacy (but needs to be kept in the fridge) for 24 hour insulin, but it's quite dangerous if someone is injecting it as you would not see what happens if you only prick the finger now and then. So to anyone injecting insulin I would definitely recommend CGM, connected with phone or reader, which is about 5000 baht per month together with the insulin. The cost of pump is too high. Checked how much it costs in Europe and it's about the same. But then comes problem of pump is one thing, but where do you get supplies for it... and insulin is not something you can just send by post. So you're stuck with buying it locally. Hence considering constant monitoring and daily injections a reasonable compromise.

These are not closed systems. Only continuous glucose monitors, which either only give reading and graph when you tap on then (like Libre) or continuously transmit information to reader and give alerts if readings go outside limits (like Libre 3). There are also closed loop systems which include an insulin pump. The reader detects too high reading from the sensor and instructs insulin pump to release insulin. Those are available, but cost in range of 250-300,000 baht for a pump that only works with some compatible sensors. Those sensors are also about 15-20,000 baht per month (each lasts 10-14 days) and then there are insulin capsules for the pump, generally only for a week's supply and costing about 800 baht per one, so that would be way over the budget of many people in Thailand to finance. I know a few who have pump (not closed loop) in Thailand and paid around 200-250k baht for it, with about 3500 baht a month in insulin. And I know 1 in Europe with closed loop system, but there I would not know the cost as that particular person has it covered by insurance so he pays nothing. Yes, it's convenient. But not many will be able to afford it here. As for just the sensor... this is what you'd get out of Libre:

She was probably slimmer before. They can eat a lot, but body can't absorb sugar in type 2 diabetes. When they take Metmorfin it helps absorb more, and that makes them gain a bit of weight. But they are still having severe insulin resistance, which is probably accumulation of fatty foods over prolonged period of time blocking insulin from working. Slim shape no matter what they eat therefore makes quite a lot of sense. They eat a lot but very little of glucose gets into cells, hence they have no surplus to build fat. Maybe it would be worth listing symptoms of hyperglycemia here so possibly someone here can recognise it early on their partner or themselves: - eating a lot but not gaining weight, or losing weight without reason - feeling hungry all the time - feeling extremely thirsty, and having cravings for very cold drinks - easily tired, sleepy, like getting into a vehicle and promptly falling asleep - very dry mouth, often with cracked lips which heal very slowly - blurred vision - frequent headache that lasts hours - frequent urination, like running to toilet all the time, rarely making it an hour in-between, even during the night Some resort to lowering sugar through insulin or medication, but that can drop it too low, and that's even more dangerous. Symptoms of hypoglycemia are: - most prominent one is intense sweating - skin gets very pale - person gets very easily irritated - feeling very hungry, but not much different from insulin resistance where cells are undernourished - sleepy, weak, in serious cases that last longer time unable to move - confusion In cases of too low sugar, somewhere under 3/56 it is best to get some sugary drink without any food to quickly spike sugar, say a few sips of a sugary tea or just sugar water, and 20-30 minutes later, when glucose increases, have some food with longer lasting effect on glucose (complex carbohydrates, proteins, fats...) Had to graduate from this in the past 6 months and having a 40+ year veteran diabetic type 1 in family helped a great deal in this. Hope it helps anyone.

You can purchase it. Check Abbott FreeStyle Libre on Lazada. About 2000 baht for one. On Shopee there was just promotion for about 1700 baht per one. They got a bit more expensive recently because of THB sliding, but still affordable. It can be used with FreeStyle Libre reader (~1500-1600 THB) or iPhone (or if you activate with iPhone or reader, you can also read from it with a phone if it has NFC). Libre 2, Libre 3 (which doesn't require tapping on it to read last 8 hours of data) are more expensive, both readers and sensors. The sensor lasts 14 days. There is also SinoCare available on Lazada, which is a bit more clumsy to put on, a bit less accurate but still close, which has 2 parts - a replaceable sensor and a transmitter - so you have to first apply sensor which is just that, and then put the transmitter on it. Never used it, just know some who do, so I am aware you need WeChat account to activate it, then use phone to read from it. Apparently it transmits all the time so you get alert when glucose is too high or too low. I'm adding a couple of links where I purchased stuff from for my better half: For FreeStyle Libre (same link for sensor, reader, or both): https://www.lazada.co.th//products/i4129320146-s16186087767.html https://www.lazada.co.th//products/i4248137921-s16806882918.html And some which I did not buy: Sibionics: https://www.lazada.co.th/products/sibionics-24-i4917068558-s20703981535.html SinoCare: https://www.lazada.co.th/products/sinocare-cgm-15-i5012890537-s21186047871.html Libre3: https://www.lazada.co.th/products/freestyle-libre-3-3-abbott-freestyle-libre-glucose-sensor-real-time-ver3-i4238285617-s16902949255.html? Libre3 Reader: https://www.lazada.co.th/products/abbott-freestyle-libre-3-3-sensor-reader-mmoll-100-i4484157122-s18132930020.html Libre2: https://www.lazada.co.th/products/abbott-freestyle-libre-2-ver-2-2-i4238288039-s16736937929.html I don't know what the difference between Libre 1 and 2 is, both are 2 weeks duration but need different readers. Libre 3 is linked to device that activates it and that's what it communicates with. Libre 1 you can use several devices to read from it. Readers from above link for Libre 1 are in "European" mmol/L numbers, where normal fasting glucose is about 5, while application would read it like the "American" units mg/dl, which is x18, so normal fasting glucose would be around 90. I haven't seen readers that can use mg/dl, but the numbers are easy to convert, and if you really don't want to, use phone to tap on the sensor. Libre 1 takes 1 hour from activation to start sending reliable readings, and lasts 14 days for Asia/Europe versions. But US version locks itself up after 10 days. No idea why, they look identical. Hope this helps. Ah yes, all these shops are in China so it takes 5-7 days to deliver. So far I haven't had a problem. Beware the expiry date. Currently most sold sensors are expiring 31 August 2024 or 30 September 2024. So mind the quantity purchased to make sure you use them up before they expire. They should be kept on 4-25C.

That location is somewhat misleading. This is actually a couple of 100m north from Rama 7 bridge on Bangkok side, next to King Mongkut University of Technology North Bangkok.

Of course he did...

Using my own meter and numbers are worse than above. North Bangkok.

Wonder what you're smoking, Bob...