Smoking would decarboxylate all the acid forms, ie. turn CBD-A to CBD and Cannabigerolic acid to cannabigerol and THC-A to THC. And in the study the active forms were the acid forms. So you must not heat them at all! They even say so in the article. Un-heated, even fresh cannabis will contain all those compounds in the acid form that seemed to stick to the virus spikes.

At least the cannabinoids in question are neither toxic nor psychoactive, and there is no practical upper limit for the dose. So even in the worst case they simply are not effective, but they will not kill or harm anyone ingesting them.

So there is no obstacle to testing them on humans, even at very high doses.

And yeah, I got two doses of Pfizer 5 months ago, and got Omicron 2 weeks ago and seem to have survived it. And if I get it again, I am going to ingest cbd-a just in case it might be effective, but I am not going to fool myself into thinking it is a miracle cure.

XFCE only needed a little tweak to make QT apps use a similar theme as the rest of the desktop. (Breeze Dark is pretty nice).

Umm, connect to your phone for 4/5G internet?

With Proton on Steam Linux, you can play a constantly increasing amount of even AAA games meant for Windows with not many problems. There are many reasons to run Linux, and many reasons to not have a dedicated Windows box just for games, or even any Windows at all. My household has 4 PCs, couple of them Core2Duo-era (but still used for occasional Borderlands 2 or other gaming), 2 are new and capable boxes used much for gaming, but all have only Linux installed with Steam+Proton for non-native games. We gave up our last Win7 install since all games we play can now be run on Linux, thanks to the efforts of Valve and Proton team (So DXVK and Wine as well).

The last Windows in our household was Win 7 - used solely for some games. Some time ago first the keyboard stopped working, and shortly after also the mouse stopped working - and no updates were installed at the time. Simply stop working. Good thing the machine dualbooted Ubuntu, which continues to work with said keyboard and mouse with no issues. And good thing Proton+Steam now runs almost all of the games Win 7 was kept around to play.

You should get a DUI for driving tired. Being tired is just as bad as being drunk, see https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/abou... People who solely use cars to get around have this terrible misconception that driving cars in any condition is some god-given right. Well, cars are lethal weapons, ready to mow down and kill innocent bystanders - or pedestrians or cyclists - at any moment, and all it takes is a little bit of distraction of any kind. Cars are one of the leading causes of death everywhere on the planet. One should use a level of care similar to handling a loaded weapon when operating a vehicle of any kind. It is that simple.

Well, maybe he should have taken a fucking taxi. That is just pathetic whining, he had been drinking too much, and got in the car. Too bad. Or get a breathalyzer of his own and test himself before driving. Problem solved.

I wholeheartedly agree. In my opinion, the only valid reason to decommission hardware is that it is broken and unfixable. Older hardware gets repurposed to less demanding tasks. I have computers with single core Celeron (Eee pc 904, with SSD drive swapped for the original spinning rust after it failed), I have Core2Duo with SSD and Linux, still able to even play games such as Borderlands 2, my media pc is a dualcore Intel that was thrown in the thrash at a friends work place, and so on. Producing even a single chip takes tons of material, and plenty of resources. What we have is consumerism, where consuming stuff is our duty in society. Well, I am a materialist. That means I value things that are built well and are durable. This age of mass produced crap destined for the scrap heap in a few years is simply - unsustainable. Hell, I still have my Nokia 3310, and until a couple years ago I used it as my main phone. Now it is the backup one. A phone I have had for almost 20 years... Most websites would work with very old hardware too, if only they werent built so bad. Loading resources from 30 different places, running javascripts left and right, and no optimization of any kind? Loading tens of megabytes of utter crap, when all I need is some simple text? That is plain stupid.

1990s bicycle, a Nokia 3310 from 2002, Eee pc 901 laptop and - well, this is spanking new - AMD FX 8350 desktop. No, no kind of "smart".

I have an almost identical machine regarding specs - a ShuttlePC case with Core2Duo 2.4 Ghz, originally with 4 GB memory, updgraded to 8 GB. It is running Xubuntu 16.04, ie. XFCE as a desktop. The one thing I really recommend is swapping the HD to an SSD - that really makes a difference. I bought a 120 GB Kingston for 50 euros when I set the machine up. I got the machine for free, as a friends company was throwing them into the trash heap :) Boots up really fast with the SSD. It was completely usable even with the 4 GB it originally had, and with 8 its sweet. -- It works great for everything I normally do - movies, web, email, light photo editing and so on. I even play older games on Steam - I have an Nvidia 620 passively cooled graphics card on it - games such as Torchlight 2, Borderlands 2 on low details, Divinity Original Sin etc run just fine.