North of $25k... And that's for the first round.
Because here's the thing, every body is different. At first they go with the "average IVF woman's" level of hormones to produce as many eggs as possible. Will it work for you? Who knows! They check blood work every week, and then at the end of the cycle they surgically remove anything that looks matures and try to fertilize. Say 12 eggs are retrieved, maybe 7 are successfully fertilized. Then they incubate for a few weeks - maybe 4 make it through and are candidates for surgical implant, (if so, you're lucky and they'll try one or two max for implant at a time). Or maybe all of them don't make it.
But if you don't have any viable options, well we try for round two with slightly tweaked hormones. Did round two not work? Time for round three with slightly different hormone levels/timing. (We learned so much about your specific body chemistry!)
Even after all of that, say you get a successful implantation - you're now pregnant. All costs for prenatal care, hospital birth - that's an add on to the $75k you've spent for IVF. And because humans are weird, there's no guarantee with IVF that you or the baby will survive and be healthy!
A digital solder gun with a properly sized tip and a magnifying glass with helping hands (flexible clips) helps immensely. I had to hand solder a surface mount resistor that looked about the size of the tip of a pencil. It wasn't pretty but I got it done.
I wish someone would do a NoClip-esque documentary on Sierra. That studio seems amazing and Roberta Williams was a crazy good game designer.
Archive link: https://archive.is/VIQSn
LIES! He was prominently featured in a a brief final race scene thereby filling is obligation and allowing another Lance Riddick film to be made.
(Guessing on the reason why they dragged him out for one 30 sec throwaway scene - but at least they could incorporate the cast for TD in Fast 9)
Unfortunately, dental is typically separate from health care in the US. (It's stupid).
Do you have any persistent pain or discomfort when doing things? Get that checked out.
Another +1 for colonoscopy.
Also if there's a family history of anything nasty, see if there's a test for it my maybe? (E.g. heart attacks, get blood work done for cholesterol).
Get a full physical including blood work.
What the hell is up with Nebraska?
Or if you want to float some money the developer's way, pick up last epoch.
Don't worry, AI will help us (make the situation much, much worse by simultaneously causing outages and causing a massive increase of emissions.)
Come over to Last Epoch - I've had a much better experience solo and with friends. And shockingly, the global chat is helpful/welcoming of newbies.
Hey! It could totally be some other nation state that has strong, documented ties to the party running against Harris!
/s
Yes it's weird, but is it a Walmart? Granted, I haven't been in quite a while, but the signage looks off?
Again, fucking weird to wear a Trump flag as a cape to go grocery shopping.
The other thing to keep in mind with PiHole - some things are just going to break with it's default blocking, namely the Google suggested results.
i know, I know - just don't use google, but android phones/parents have a hard time not just braindead going to Google for results.
It's not the end of the world - I've trained myself to just keep scrolling to actual results.
Another feature for PiHole is local DNS - if you want, you can set up custom dnsmasq entries for self hosted/internal services.
I've recently gotten on board with Invidous/Viewtube - and they're both great in their own ways. I like not having the algorithm hide or force new content down my throat, but I'm wondering if there's a way to take this to the next level.
I also subscribe to nebula - and have some patreon exclusive videos. It would be amazing to gather them all together in one location - is there some self-hosted option for this? Maybe some combination of yt-dlp + plex/jellyfin?
I've been running Viewtube in my homelab for my family after the actual YouTube started misbehaving. Was it because I use Firefox? DNS adblock? Unlock origin? Who knows!
I absolutely love that with Viewtube I can make the front page only my subscriptions. It seems to be relatively low on resource usage as well.
But lately, the lack of features is starting to get to me - namely closed captions and "Add to queue".
Are there any other self hosted options that are more feature rich in this regard?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16072674
> I've been quite happy with my Steam Deck - both as a gaming console and as a secondary computer when it's docked, but for newer titles I picked up a Rog Zephyrus M16 (2023) last year. > > Now that Windows is going off the deep end with AI, I'm looking to dual boot/trial Linux on this laptop with the goal to give Microsoft the boot. > > It's a beefy laptop: > - 13th Gen i9-13900 > - 32GB Memory > - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 > - 1TB NVMe (Windows) > - 2TB NVMe (Linux) > > I added the second drive to avoid any issues with dual-booting with Grub/Windows Bootloader - instead making the Linux device the primary boot device and spamming Esc if I want to change to the Windows drive. > > For distributions, I'm most familiar with Debian/Ubuntu - it's the daily driver for my work laptop, and the vast majority of my home lab VMs are Ubuntu. With the Steam Deck, I started to get more into Arch with the Steam Deck, and now it's the OS of choice for my HTPCs for simple streaming/Plex media player. I've also messed around with ZorinOS (basically a fancy skinned Ubuntu). > > I need some advice on what to throw on this laptop - and some suggestions on how to squeeze the best performance out of this (Optimus vs. Proprietary NVIDIA vs. Open source drivers).
I've been quite happy with my Steam Deck - both as a gaming console and as a secondary computer when it's docked, but for newer titles I picked up a Rog Zephyrus M16 (2023) last year.
Now that Windows is going off the deep end with AI, I'm looking to dual boot/trial Linux on this laptop with the goal to give Microsoft the boot.
It's a beefy laptop:
- 13th Gen i9-13900
- 32GB Memory
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
- 1TB NVMe (Windows)
- 2TB NVMe (Linux)
I added the second drive to avoid any issues with dual-booting with Grub/Windows Bootloader - instead making the Linux device the primary boot device and spamming Esc if I want to change to the Windows drive.
For distributions, I'm most familiar with Debian/Ubuntu - it's the daily driver for my work laptop, and the vast majority of my home lab VMs are Ubuntu. With the Steam Deck, I started to get more into Arch with the Steam Deck, and now it's the OS of choice for my HTPCs for simple streaming/Plex media player. I've also messed around with ZorinOS (basically a fancy skinned Ubuntu).
I need some advice on what to throw on this laptop - and some suggestions on how to squeeze the best performance out of this (Optimus vs. Proprietary NVIDIA vs. Open source drivers).
Almost all of my own padlocks have been picked, save for just two, the ABUS 64TI/40 and the Master lock LOTO. Still relatively new to the tubular lock game, so the yellow Urban bike disk brake lock as also eluded me.
I found getting the two cut away locks helped immensely - the American helped me really hone in on how over setting pins feel, and the Sparrow (after disassembling and putting in some of their advanced driver pins) showed how I was accidentally picking more than one pin with my older/bad technique.
If anyone has suggestions for the Titanium or LOTO locks, I'm all ears!
Bing image prompt:
photograph of a cat and dog sleeping on a large pet bed. wooden floor with fireplace in the background. warm, cozy, peaceful. short focal length
For those who celebrate, or those who appreciate Terry Pratchett's Discworld, I hope your day is full of jolly, holly, and other things that end with "olly".
Bing image creator with prompt
Teletubbies made of wet spaghetti, horror realistic night time Christmas holiday
I find pasta makes everything weird and fun.
Prompt: Santa eating cookies by the fireplace at Christmas, but the cookies are made of spaghetti
Not quite what I wanted, but that pasta beard tho.
My first non-smart watch that's more than $20. I picked it up from Retro Watch Guy and have been really impressed with the simplicity of a manual, analog watch.
The design mimicks old parking meters and there's a continuous 60 minute timer that you can reset with the top button.
