Impossible if you have any skin conditions. I suffer from eczema (fortunately mild now, but in the past I was seriously considering suicide), and one of the things that reliably trigger a flare-up are unwashed clothes covered in dust mite excrement. Neither sun nor cold will help with that, only good old washing.
On that auto-immune topic, this reminds me of the Hygiene hypothesis which basically assert immune issues as a result of too much cleanliness (over simplified version).
"The hygiene hypothesis states that early childhood exposure to particular microorganisms protects against diseases by contributing to the development of the immune system. In particular, a lack of exposure is thought to lead to defects in the establishment of immune tolerance." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis]
I had problems with a flaky scalp, canker sores and irritating bedsheets.
Long story short, I cut out SLS (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate). I think it is just very efficient at removing protective oils from your skin, or possibly layers of "healing goo" when you have a cut or sore.
I removed it from my toothpaste, shampoo and laundry detergent.
I use verve toothpaste (@amazon), shea moisture shampoo and all fresh clean essentials sulfate free laundry detergent.
ymmv, but it has helped me quite a bit.
also, companies are tricky and rename it to various aliases on their labels to keep sales going.
I only have to deal with localized eczema flareups - when they happen they always start with small blisters forming on my middle or ring fingers, and was more frequent on my right hand. Probably very small compared to what you have to deal with, but when it first started happening over 20 years ago, it took some heavy steroid creams or ointments to control.
Over the years outbreaks have become less frequent, and now when I start to feel the tightness that would signal an upcoming outbreak can be alleviated with normal moisturizers and if it does get worse, it just requires frequent moisturizing rather than steroids.
As far as I can tell, over time the immune system continues to evolve. I can't promise the same will happen to you, but it is possible. Other allergies can be similar - especially generalized allergies - they seem to sometimes get worse or better without any real change in exposure to allergens.
I had severely dry skin and eczema to the point where my bedsheets were often covered with bloody spots because I was constantly scratching while asleep...
What worked for me eventually was not bathing/showering regularly. I started showering at most 1-3 times a week but only with water, no soap, except on the pubic areas for hygienic reasons. Might sound disgusting, but it turns out that daily showering, especially with detergents, can harm your skin by upsetting its microbiome.
I still have drier skin than other people, especially in winter, but my eczema have pretty much disappeared.
The studies endorsing dilute bleach baths came out well after my eczema resolved, so I have no first-hand experience with it, but it sounds cheaper and safer than corticosteroids.
N=1, very mild symptoms etc, but I rinse with diluted apple cider vinegar after shampoo and sometimes soap since the skin is naturally acidic. The slight scalp itch goes away.
Not the OP, but I had eczema that required regular steroid cream treatment. It did get somewhat better in my twenties, but it wasn't until I started experimenting with different lotions and moisturizers that things got a lot better.
In general, light lotions with glycerine seem to work best for me (they even taste slightly sweet). Finding Palmer's cocoa butter lotion was literally a life changer though - I apply a thin layer after ever shower, and I finally know what it's like to have normal-people skin in my thirties.
I know exactly what you mean about quality of life. It sucks when your skin is bad; _everything_ feels continuously uncomfortable. I'm not sure the same thing will work for you, but I really would encourage you to experiment with different moisturizers. Work out what's different about the better ones, and iteratively improve from there. I thought they were basically all the same, but they're really not!
Being heavily subject to eczema in my first two decades I have experimented with various changes to the point of having it stop 98% of the time now:
- increasing the skin natural barrier through limited soap (only if there is a stinky area)
- reducing overall inflammation (better sleep, more sport, better nutrition through vegetables fruits and limited meat proteins)
- bathing in the ocean
- minutes of direct sun exposure
The last two will do wonders. A highly stressing episode or accumulated sleep debt however and the skin will start itching as a warning.
An old friend of mine has recently finished his term in the Russian military. According to his words explaining his own experience, and things he heard during military exercises from guys from other parts of the country, most soldiers are being trained not to defend their country, but to do three things: paint walls, wash their clothes, and clean up the premises.
It's no wonder you can mistake a passenger airplane for a military aircraft after such a stimulating experience.
Russia still has military draft. Gotta do something with all that free labour. They do however also have actual professional soldiers, and lots of them. Those should be more trained / competent.
Considering that Americans who shot down Iran Air Flight 655 were given medals, shooting down a passenger plane is quite an achievement for a well-trained Navy.
I can't run C on a 8-bit calculator either. At least not using GCC or Clang or any other mainstream compiler. Sure, I could use some toy compiler for that, but then 99% of the libraries I'd like to use won't work there anyways, due to a variety of issues.
I was about to object, but actually it looks like you're right; tigcc appears to only target the TI-89 et al. which run on the 16-bit Motorola 68000 series. A quick search doesn't give me any C compiler for the TI-84 after all.
Your actual point, of course, is valid regardless:)
>Can you use the dollar to buy food at a foodstand in Germany
I don't know about Germany, but most places you can easily convert it to local currency right around the corner. Not many currencies can boast of something like that.
I am confused. I live in a country with "banking services", but almost nobody here uses them. We get paid on debit cards, and then we immediately withdraw the sum in cash. We pay for everything in cash, why would we ever switch to something different? I can only see the negative consequences: the usual privacy implications (some guy can see what I spend my money on); the danger of not being able to spend money at all if they decide so (like the famous Visa/MasterCard WikiLeaks fiasco); fees (2-3% on every purchase? No, thank you.)
"Banking services" does not mean just bank accounts, it means any services that depend on money being elsewhere, not in your hands.
That debit card you use, it's backed by a bank. Most credit cards are backed by banks.
Economic censorship is certainly a valid concern, I think that's the kind of stuff we should be talking about with Libra. Fees on Libra would be way way cheaper than fees on credit cards, I don't think that's a huge concern. (most of the fees on credit cards come from the underlying banks, not the payment networks themselves)
Both of those don’t seem super essential if you don’t even have a bank account. maybe get a bank account first and then think about a subscription music service, also both amazon and Spotify sell prepaid gift cards for this purpose, which you can buy in any super market here.
Ah yes, Arch certainly is much better. I've had enough to do with Arch when they totally borked my workflow three times in a row in a couple of months. One of the issues was rebuilding all of the Qt5 libraries without testing any of their dependents. All Qt5 applications simply stopped working.
I don't blame them though, one of the maintainers was supporting like, 3000 packages? I don't recall the exact number, but it was an impossible amount of work for a single individual. This strongly implies there was zero QA for these packages (an he really was doing it himself, it was not a front for an organization.)
They could implement something like Fedora modules: you have a stable base system, and then you have separate module streams for some software packages, which are updated separately, with multiple versions supported concurrently. For example, you can install the latest Fedora, and then pull the postgresql-9.6 module (or 10, or 11, or all three in parallel), despite 11 being the "official" version.
Tangential but this is misunderstood widely, so I cannot resist the urge to explain.
First of all, modules can not be installed in parallel [1].
Secondly, it is not a new technological development at all. Modules in essence are just a fancy version of maintaining multiple overlay repositories on top of your base distribution. Only difference is it adds a more streamlined usage to dnf. You could do the same thing 15 years ago with yum or apt by manually enabling/disabling repositories.
This is the easy part.
Real hard work that goes to modules is actually creating and maintaining those separate modules having separate versions of the same software stack. And that is the thing none of the distributions were willing to do until recently. Heck, maintaining multiple versions of the same library or the same program in a distribution release was a taboo. Distribution developers dreaded the idea of doing that and avoided it as possible as they can.
Jury is still out on how well it'll work in practice and how much useful it'll be (in that will maintainers be actually eager to do the hard work of maintaining multiple stacks in parallel, how long will they support each version or how many versions will they maintain in parallel etc.)
I have the best wishes Fedora developers with the modules idea and I hope it'll prove to be successful thus maybe other distributions would be more open to the idea in the future.
