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I did this as a total linux noob and had issues with getting the nvidia driver to work. I had to disable secure boot to get it to work.

No idea if this has any relevance to you but just putting this info out here.

Found lots of chantarellers.

I've planted a tiny meadow in front of our rental and the birds are really loving it. They come to eat the seeds and it's so fun watching them hop around in the daisies.

I am going to have my first paid vacation in my life in a few months, took me some decades to find a job that provides this.

And since I've been doing full time studies with work for the past three years straight, no vacation or break, I figured I should really actually go somewhere and not just sit in the same chair I always sit in spoonless.

Looked at all the insanely expensive hotels and such. Realized I'm really not interested in that stuff, also my pay is pretty shit so can't afford to do a week of any hotel. But also, nah.

Honestly I just want to see the stars with no light pollution again and listen to the sea and silence. So I found a really cheap retreat type thing on a remote island where you can still see the milky way on a clear night. This is what I will do, I'm so exited.

There is nothing there, no shops or anything. Under 20 people live there out of the summer touristy season. There are more sheep than people! There are ghost stories and old viking ship routes to see. I bet it's amazing during a storm (be careful what you wish for, lol).

It's going to be so late in the autumn that I will get to experience real darkness at night again, grew up on an island so I miss it.

And the ship there is public transport so it's free.

It's going to be so nice.

So, a tech bro I know just told me that "FOSS is inherently capitalist exploitation" and I'm so confused.

Context is me saying that Linux is a better way to which he said that all corpos use linux for final hosting because it's free to exploit.

And I think this is comparing apples to oranges, but I know fuck all about the tech world so help?

Edit. We continued the discussion. I get it now. Contradictions, contradictions everywhere.

Aww what a precious little guy!

It's good that its looking lively. These guys grow up to be active in the nighttime only, but when they are wee like this they don't yet have the adult hedgehog rhythm and can be active during the day also.

If you worry at all about it not being warm enough, a warm water bottle in the box can help with that.

And if you decide or are told to release it back to the wild, you should take it to where you found it as hedgehogs live in the same area their whole lives.

Thanks for the update, I am rooting for you guys.

You are doing awesome with it!

Stuff like this is related to my never-ending interests. I am also old and grew up in the countryside.

This hedgehog rescue stuff especially is also something that has been pretty widely distributed and discussed in the media where I live, because these guys so often come live in peoples backyards and there used to be a lot of misinfo for example about giving them milk (which was bad) or taking in small alone looking individuals that look like they are alone, but are actually fine and just out for their first adventures from mom. Their behaviour typically is a tell on if something is really wrong or if you should just let them be. We make winter nests for them and stuff these days. They used to be so common when I was a kid and now they are so rare that you rarely see any. It's a protected species here.

There are websites and experts we can call for advice about wild animals, if this ever happens to you, I hope there is something similar where you are so you can get help. Common sense often gets you pretty far too.

Milk is a no because these guys are lactose-intolerant like others here have said and it would result in diarhhea.

If you do cat food and it's dry, do soak it first because the little guy can eat so much that it swells in its tummy with bad results. Wet cat food is fine.

Worms and stuff it would eat out in the wild are also fine.

The best drink for it is water. If it seems low in energy or dehydrated you can mix some honey in the water or mix 1 teaspoon of sugar and a pinch of salt per 1dl of water to hydrate it. If it looks like it can't or doesn't drink, you can try using a syringe to get water to its mouth in very small amounts.

If it weights 150-350grams it's reached the age when it can be weaned from the mother

If you can, you should check that it doesn't have any fly eggs or worms in its coat. If you see any, you should remove them with tweezers.

If you want to make it more comfy, you can put it in a cardboard box with air holes, some soft cloth and shreaded newspaper inside so it can hide and feel safer. If it's very tiny, a heating mat might be needed.

One thing to note for your own safety is that hedgehogs often carry salmonella and they spread it in their poop (its asympomatic for them). So the water cup and utensils, gloves and other things you use to handle it should not be washed in the same sink or with the same washcloths you use for your food. Always wear gloves and wash your hands well after dealing with it.

Thank you for saving the little guy!

Edit. Adding that if it is so small that you suspect it can't eat solids, the baby formula for cats can be given to hegdehogs.

And not to alarm you, but just want you to know that these guys can take a turn for the worst very fast when they are small so hydration and warmth are very important. Flies lay eggs in hedgehogs very fast when they are in any sort of trouble so doing the fly egg/worm check is super important.

Best of luck to you and the little one. Hope you can get it to a shelter quickly.

Yes, genuinely vile. Like distilled meanness. I regret going to read the thread.

I've now used Mint for a few weeks and never going back.

At work I just spent over an hour on a Friday waiting for a windows update to install. The copilot crap is in everything. Opening our personal pc or laptop at home feels like an oasis of peace compared. No invasive ads, no AI, everything seems to work better. Only thing that took some figuring out was the nvidia driver on our pc, but we got there. All our games work, including battledotnet that definitely would not want to.

My laptop was miserably running it's fans constantly when just watching netflix on a browser on win. Now it's so much faster, completely silent and probably will work for years still.

Should have done this sooner, I procrastinated for well over a year with this. But the AI crap and pushing win 11 pushed me to get this done.

About 60 pages in with Losurdos Stalin - history and critique of a black legend and for someone like me who has had to listen to decades of stalin hate and nothing else, reading this feels like stepping to a fountain of clarity.