@bryan dementia would suck, but I'm hoping they'll have that figured out by the time I get there. They seem to have some pretty good leads. Shingles is strongly linked to cognitive decline, for instance, and I guess the vaccine protects against that.
@bryan survivorship bias survives on survivor anecdotes. My grandmother, a lifelong smoker, died when she was about 60 from lung cancer. No dementia, though, she had that going for her. Entirely aware all the way to the end.
@swelljoe My grandmother quit smoking when she was 70-ish. She stated her habit of smoking daily at 12. Anyway, at 70, she was taking care of her mother at the time. Her mother (my great-grandmother) spent the last 10 years of her life with dementia.
The experience made my grandmother decide she’d rather be dead than “talk like a fool”. So she started to smoke again. She passed many years later and never had dementia.
Today I learned that uname.c on #FreeBSD is a light wrapper around sysctl nodes. For example, uname -r is equal to kern.osrelease.https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/usr.bin/uname/uname.c
It's time to de-duplicate the desktops • The Registerhttps://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/deduplicating_the_desktops/ by Liam Proven, @lproven "… There are an almost ridiculous number of Windows-style desktops on Linux – and mostly this applies to the BSDs, too. …"#UNIX #Linux #FreeBSD #BSD