Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

If the progress so far is any indication, I'm going to conclude that my immune system is definitely weakened, but it was aggressive enough to begin with that I'm still left with a serviceable amount of disease resistance.

It's taking longer than it usually would to recover from this, but it seems about similar to the more insistent flus and how other people experience them. Though I don't yet know what the long-term consequences will be.

(This is all pretty much as expected; that I have an aggressive immune system was something I already knew, given my history of "being sick for a few hours and that's it" whenever I caught a flu or whatever)

Feels like I'm coughing out my lungs, but it seems like my fever has fucked off, at least.

Also a pounding headache, but that's probably "just" the tension in my shoulder/neck muscles leaving my body, as that usually results in headaches.

@jalcine Most likely due to https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-03-17-git.sr.ht-llms/

@Riedler (This is also the same place that - still! - sells expired food on the cheap and just *tells* you that it is expired, which honestly I can appreciate)

@Riedler I've never had the experience myself (don't have a car), but I was quite fascinated by it reading up on it - and ended up looking at their past location lists, because the various articles about it neglected to mention the "industrial park" bit 🙃

@eloy Yep :p

@whreq @roelgrif Niet echt, nee... er werd zelfs vooraf al gewaarschuwd dat ziek worden bijna onvermijdelijk zou zijn bij carnaval.

In dit geval is het het huis binnengekomen via huisgenoot die bij de McDonald's werkt, en daar was het tijdens carnaval natuurlijk stampensdruk...

@bumblebeedc Right, so then the process would look something like this:

1. Download a "live" ISO for something like Ubuntu or Pop! OS (you can try both and see which one you prefer most).

2. Either burn it to a DVD, or flash it to a USB drive of some sort (microSD card in a reader works too), using Balena Etcher: https://etcher.balena.io/ -- note that this will erase whatever is currently on the card/thumbdrive.

2b. (Alternatively, you can use Ventoy to put multiple ISOs on one drive: https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html)

3. Reboot PC, go to the boot menu using your computer's specific key combination (usually briefly displayed on startup). If it doesn't say, boot into the BIOS/setup instead, there is usually also a menu there.

4. Then select the card/thumbdrive as the device you want to boot from. It will now boot into a 'live' installation of the distro you picked - it won't install anything on your system or delete any data on it, it runs *entirely* off the thumbdrive/card.

5. If you're happy with how the chosen distro works, you can usually install it directly from the booted system, often there's a shortcut on the desktop. This *will* make changes to your system.

6. In the installation, carefully check what it says about the changes it will make to your disk or filesystem; by default it *should* resize your Windows partition, and install the Linux distro next to it, giving you a choice each time you boot.

If it suggests *replacing* it instead, make sure it's okay for your Windows installation (and all the personal files on there!) to be deleted.

If it suggests resizing, then it *should* not break your Windows installation, but it's always good to have a backup regardless because the process is not perfect.

7. Once the installation is complete, you should now be able to reboot your system and boot into the new Linux installation :)

I haven't used distros like Ubuntu for a long time, so I probably won't have much advice for Ubuntu-specific things; but there is a lot of online help to be found for Ubuntu, and Pop! OS specifically tries to be easy to use, which is why I suggested those specific options.

Installing software is going to differ a bit between distros; usually there's going to be something named "Install packages" or "Software center" somewhere, and that's the main way to do it.

Is that helpful? I can provide more guidance if you get stuck on something, of course, but this should be enough to at least get a working installation and tinker around with it.

If you don't want to install it yet, you can also just keep using the booted 'live system' off the thumbdrive/card indefinitely, and stop after step 4; it won't save any changes or files you make, but everything like "installing software" should work fine, it just disappears after you shut down. So should be good for trying things out.

@whreq @roelgrif Deze komt vermoedelijk voort uit carnaval (met een tussenstapje via iemand anders)