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Thankfully a retired LTC got involved (back when we were first going through all the fun) who did an amazing job helping us navigate the mess that is the VA. Still kept in touch too.

But will definitely message if I run into any roadblocks, appreciate it!

He died 4 years back, so no. ALS is usually about 2 years from diagnosis, and he made it a bit past that, but not much.

Once the ridiculous amounts of nonsense paperwork was run through (during which time my dad lost the use of his arm, speech was one of the first things to go), he got plenty of support. But getting there is the nightmare in my opinion. They started out trying to give him like 15% disability - which is insane, ALS is terminal and is always a 100%.

But thanks for the link! It looks like there's some stuff there that applies to my family in terms of benefits, so going to do some digging.

Gaël Duval.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABl_Duval

The foundation manages /e/OS, ECORP SAS is their online sales/services. ECORP SAS is privately owned.

Edited to add:

The corporation: https://ecorp.solutions/

https://www.societe.com/societe/murena-840996516.html

Layers make keyboard go brrrrr

A pretty typical VA issue.

My dad was drafted, went to Vietnam, and many years later developed ALS - somewhat recently added to the "Always covered for vets" list, as being a veteran in any war doubles the risk of ALS.

The battle to prove it was ALS though was insane, had to be done outside of the VA with specialists (it is still rare, of course, so not many out there can actually give a diagnosis), and took about a year from blatant symptoms to diagnosis, and then another few months of VA paperwork to get coverage and other things he was owed.

Not a new problem unfortunately, and certainly not unique to this situation. Just another kind of symptom of another kind of problem.

It's more likely it wouldn't be able to handle the number of people + PCs. They are sized for use, and they may be hitting the limit with just the people in there, then add the BTUs coming off all that hardware, and you've got yourself a sauna.

If they did it the other way around, and you're a clown from outer space, that would be fun.

Nobody (worth caring about) would look down on you for not being in a situation to donate.

Besides, there are lots of ways to help that don't cost money, like telling people who do have money that they can donate to the internet archive. Equally valid effort.

Eh, I have a couple of issues with that. For one, I doubt CF would even respond to this. I could easily see them using this very writeup to sue, with all the admissions in it.

The bigger part though, is calling an online casino, whose own IT team (the writer) admitted they were knowingly abusing the plan they were on, the "little guy".

Are they small in comparison to Cloudflare? Absolutely, those schmucks have way too much control of the internet. Calling an online casino, whose own staff lied in the title, the little guy though... Doesn't sit right with me.

No, I'm not going to side with them, or with CF. I'm going to make my assumptions off what I know (two terrible companies, one of which has a liar writing an article where they pretend to not have admittted to their own lies about the subject), and I'm going to assume this:

• Terrible casino used a plan they know they shouldn't have been on.
• Terrible casino would have known what their traffic looked like for a long time.
• Awful CF noticed, and said "Hey guys, wrong plan, talk to sales."
• Terrible casino threatened to just leave awfuo CF.
• Awful CF demands a year up front to ensure their costs are covered for previous abuse of the TOS.
• Awful CF figures "screw it, they are stringing us along, just cut them off so we don't spend more money. TOS violation makes it easy."
• Idiot IT from terrible online casino writes an article (stupidly) in which they admit to TOS violations, and pretends not to know about their own traffic from a resource they are relying on.

Seems pretty obvious to me. Barring further details, my assumptions are based on what I know, and I am perfectly happy sticking to that.

You do you.

Fair enough. Most of my work means building out LXC's and VMs for testing, and with 2 kids I don't have much time/energy left for gaming, so my setup works for me.

But it's definitely not for everyone, I already have the pieces in place to make it work nicely. I actually had a windows workstation set up for work, but couldn't deal with the windows nonsense anymore, which is why I went this route.

It can work on a single machine with an iGPU, but kb/m gets a bit complex. And then there's streaming over no machine or something, but that has its own drawbacks unfortunately.

Whatever works for you, works for you and that's what matters

If it works for you, I've found running some things as a VM works better than dealing with windows.

Admittedly I have a lot of hardware due to what I do, but I've got (multiple, but just one is relevant in this case) proxmox server set up with an extremely tightened up windows 10 build. I've removed pretty much everything humanly possible on the windows side, just installing enough for the applications I need.

I then have a GPU that's passed through to it directly (that machine is headless otherwise). So I'm getting all the GPU acceleration, but without using anything else on Windows, it stays slim and trim so it runs pretty well, and it's pretty light on ram use.

With the second DP input of my monitor, I come off a video switcher but you can skip that and go right off the GPU. Now you've got a lightweight little VM directly connected to your display. Pass through your USB device of choice (I'm assuming a controller here, but you can use a second keyboard/mouse or USB host switch if you want).

Personally I find this approach easier since I don't have to deal with all the memory gobbling nonsense on the windows side, I get to do my daily work in Linux, and specialty stuff that I just can't run in wine stays readily available.

BMD bought Resolve maybe 15 years ago now, but the support is not limited to BMD hardware. It was more of a way for them to ensure BMD hardware support in a video editor at the time. Personally I have their web presenter and an older model of their TV studio kit at home (long story), but I also have a variety of other hardware, all of which works just fine with Resolve.

I'm using Resolve on the regular for my VHS conversions, though some tasks would be easier with the premium instead of the free version, I just fill in with ffmpeg or other tools and move on.

Just FYI, the download will ask for an email/name/etc, but the download starts right away, so you don't need to actually give any PII out to get it.