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  • Artwork@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•How are you?English
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    2 days ago

    A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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    Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. ~ Paul Tillich

  • Artwork@lemmy.worldtoUnixporn@lemmy.ml•How should I rice Sway?English
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    17 days ago

    Holy smokes! Now this is a pure miracle exposed! An X200 Lenovo ThinkPad! ✨

    I have Debian with AwesomeWM on non-tablet awesome ThinkPad X201 i7 620M, chassis 3249CTO, I pre-purhased in 2010, and it works as a charm with KDE Plasma latest even! <3

    Magnificent support for every single hardware module… iwlwifi for the Wi-Fi, Gobi 2000 SIM and GPS, too… Everything…
    Source: https://lemmy.world/comment/22463493

    On X200, though, I would start with a minimal latest Debian install with AwesomeWM, too, and tried benchmarking.

  • Artwork@lemmy.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•The price is correctEnglish
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    18 days ago

    There is a moment, late at night, when the hospital is quietest. Not silent. A hospital is never silent. There is the beeping and the footsteps and the soft pneumatic sigh of a door closing on the ICU ward. But the administrative floors are dark. The compliance department is dark. The revenue cycle office is dark. The spreadsheets are still running on servers in a windowless room on the second sublevel, but no one is watching them. The spreadsheets do not need to be watched. They do what spreadsheets do.

    I go home. I have a home in a neighborhood where the ambulances do not come often. I have a personal laptop. Sometimes, late, I open it. Not for work. For something else.

    The CMS price transparency portal is public. Anyone can search it. I searched it once. I typed in my own hospital. I typed in a procedure I had last year — a routine thing, nothing serious, the kind of thing a man my age gets checked. I found the chargemaster price. I found the negotiated price my executive plan paid. I found the cash-pay price.

    The cash-pay price was eleven times what my plan paid. For the same room. The same machine. The same technician who called me “sir” because she had seen my badge and knew my title.

    I closed the laptop. I did not search again.

    Source: The Price Is Correct

    Related: The Claim Was Processed (Before I explain what my department does, I need to explain why it exists…)