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Rai @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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  • Blocked urinary tract D:

    He went from totally normal to hiding from us and refusing to eat all day. We brought him into the vet and she IMMEDIATELY looked horrified and said “I need to make a call”, then rushed us off to an emergency hospital who informed us that if we had waited another day, he had a super high risk of dying… I guess this is a thing that can happen with boi kitties.

    So they had to put him under heavy sedation, put a catheter in, and keep him for a day to flush his bladder. There’s still crystals as of the morning but he’s showing great progress!

    Alas, what we thought was going to be a 500-700USD vet bill is now a LITTLE BIT MORE… the deposit to leave him there was 2.7k, and it could be up to another thousand, which is the reason we tried a fundraiser.

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  • Our boi is not even back from the hospital yet and we’re halfway to our goal of $3k… I feel so insanely fortuitous and appreciative. Thank you again for offering to chip in. <3

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  • Thank you so much again—you’re sweet. Our little kitty boi is still in hospital but he’s stable now, it sounds like they’re hopeful he comes home soon. His littermate brother is very confused. :c

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  • I made the fundme for friends and workmates and I appreciate your offer sooooooo dang much but I have privacy autism stuff and I don’t know how to PM things on Lemmy… I left Reddit after Apollo died and PMs were easy there but yeah. You’re a wonderful person for offering and both my partner and I are so thankful for your offer. Much love :3

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  • Thank you so much! I use my real name so I can’t post it for strangers, but I’m insanely lucky to have some friend support already <3 I’ve been prefacing it with “I don’t expect anything from this but we made this because it was such a shock.” No chance we’ll hit the goal of The Amount(TM) but if we exceed it we’re donating anything extra to a no-kill shelter.

    For context he’s a 4YO cat with a littermate brother who is very distressed right now, not knowing where his brother is. Outlook is good, so we’re thankful.

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  • Thank you, much love. It’s looking promising. About 2k USD more than our highest expectations though before we took him in @c@

    Gonna make a GoFundMe for the first time and share it with my workmates and friends. I feel bad doing it because I feel there’s more important causes, but he’s not even four yet and he’s so important to us… not to mention his twin brother.

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  • Hahaha I really need to check that out. That’s also my mood. My friend was once like “You haven’t been drinking, right? Want to try GHB?” and I’m like “nope and I would LOVE TO!”

  • After migrating from Reddit, it’s jarring that comment sections aren’t cluttered with hashtag-style comments that are just links to subreddits like /HoLuP/

    I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.

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    homelab @lemmy.ml Rai @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Beginner Resources: RPi4b to learn, then a GSA

    Hello there!

    I am extremely new to this kind of stuff, and I’m excited to learn! I have recently acquired a Raspberry Pi 4b, which I would like to use to learn how to.. even begin with any of this. My experience with Linux is Ubuntu in 2008, then nothing until setting up my PiHole (I love you PiHole.)

    I’ve heard all sorts of things about Docker and stuff. It seems above my head at this point when I’ve looked into it.

    What I’d love to do is set up my Pi as a lil NAS. I’m seeing a video from this lovely fellow for setting up OpenMediaVault. Would you folks recommend I follow this verbatim, or should I do more research before doing such a thing? I think I overdid it on my OS card, by snagging a 256GB Extreme Pro (maybe should have gone endurance? I have a USB SSD and some USB HDDs I can use for this lil project.

    Anyway, after learning that, I also have a GSA I came across with like 156GB RAM and like ten SAS drives. My mate tells me UNRAID might be the best choice for that. I’m a bit intimidated coming from nothing, so I’d like to play with my Pi first.

    I suppose my main question is, for my use-case, does anyone have any resources, video or reading or whatever, that might help this situation? I’ve dug around a bunch but I’m in over my head. I’m good at tech stuff (CFW on my phones when I used Android, which was tough in the G1-G2 days, CFW on my PSP/3DS/Vita back when it wasn’t easy, standard-to-great PC building skillz like most of y’all) but this is a whole ‘nother beast!

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