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Cake day: August 22nd, 2024

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  • I might need to consider private insurance at this point. What pisses me off is that corpo jobs will offer health insurance but NOT dental, even though most people can probably brave a GP waiting list but everyone has to pay out their arseholes for Dental.

    The again, maybe I’m the minority with my fucked up teeth lmao. I’m just thankful my wisdom teeth grew in straight!


  • The UK’s dental care is also not really covered by the NHS beyond a few emergency procedures, and even when it is (assuming you can get onto an NHS dentist’s register) it costs a significant amount of money (70+ for checkup and dental work) once you turn 18, so I can imagine that most people just don’t bother.

    I’ve already resigned myself to getting most of my teeth removed or replaced, as painful as that is, because I spent years without dentist cover thanks to COVID and generally refusing to spend the costs on checkups (as bad an idea that was)










  • One thing that no one can argue is better on windows is app updates.

    On Linux, my apps update through the app store or a terminal command.

    On Windows, the app has to create its own auto-updater that usually means it bugs you for permission (sometimes if it’s something like Adobe or Office it’ll keep an update-checker service running!). Otherwise your app is just stagnant forever.

    It’s not impossible for Windows to fix, there’s chocolatey and winget but they’re always going to be a niche alternative to the shitty systems Windows gives by default.