u/slaughterhousesean

I don’t know if this is strange or common and what this subreddit is for but im gonna give it a try anyway.
2 weeks ago i was working in an attic, a job that I regret taking. The entire attic was covered in poop, turds about the size of a cats turd.

I knew working around poop isnt great so I did what I could to mitigate danger. I have a respirator i try to wear when doing attic work, it’s a cheap one from Amazon so I don’t know how well it protects anyway but of course on this particular job I realized I was missing the filter one side. So I used a paper mask and broken respirator on top of it when I was up there, although it definitely shifted around a lot so im sure i was occasionally breathing in whatever the attic had to offer, and there were a couple of times that I just needed to pop my head up quickly and look around, which I now regret not masking up for as well.

Like I said it’s been about two weeks since that job, and ive been having some neck and throat pain, it’s probably unrelated but it made me start wondering about the danger i was in prior so of course i start looking things up. Now im terrified and can’t seem to get the answers I need.

I never saw any of the animals that had been living up there but based on the size of the poop I would have to guess a raccoon or family of raccoons had been living up there for some time because poop was everywhere and now im freaking out because everything im seeing online from like the CDC and other sources says you should treat within 3 days of suspected exposure.

I usually see a PA, and I contacted her, this type of thing is not her wheelhouse, she was willing to prescribe me a 14 day script for albendazole, so it’s there if I want to take it. But as far as weighing the risks and protocol for contact with raccoon feces and possibly exposure im on my own.

Ive tried reaching out to ID doctors in my area with no luck, and everyone ive talked to just seems to be interested in symptoms when im saying forget symptoms, everything I’ve seen says dont wait for symptoms, what is the protocol for possible exposure? Should I start now without being certain i was exposed, 2 weeks after the fact when the cdc recommends 3 days, or should I just wait and hope no symptoms appear and then at that point it might be too late?

My girlfriends brother just got a new pc and isnt using his old one, im looking for a PC for my niece going off to college. She likes to game, mostly Fortnite, but would also be using it for college so I would want something that can handle CAD software and any other school related programs and hopefully be able to handle pairing it with a 1440p 165hz monitor for gaming.

He initially told me it had an issue he couldn’t figure out with occasional crashes that Whocrashed tells him is a video driver issue but has re installed drivers and it still happens. Most recently he said he realized there was a problem with his monitor, im assuming he noticed after switching to his new pc. And doesn’t know if maybe that was causing an issue or is unrelated. Im probably going to borrow the pc for a day or so and test some things before buying so will know more after that.

When I asked about price he threw out $350. Which to me seemed a little low, I think he is trying to give me a good deal but I also don’t want to rip him off so I’m turning to you guys to suggest a fair price for both parties.

Pc specs he sent are i7-11700kf, 3070, 1tb ssd, 32gb ram. I don’t know the mobo and it’s a prebuilt so im sure the PSU is borderline trash but hopefully still works well enough

I’ll have more details eventually but just trying to get a ballpark, please and thank you

I was with an ISP for many years that was horrible but the only ISP available to me, over coax. For years I desperately waited for fiber in my area, and I finally recently got it. Only to be let down again.

At first glance it seems great, but im still suffering from network issues, I game a lot, and the games I play, as im sure any other fellow gamer will understand, milliseconds matter. I can feel the lag when playing and it’s causing a bad experience.

I am gaming on my PC, wired over Ethernet, and it is capable of 1gb speeds, currently paying for 2gb. When I run speed tests it looks fine, about 900mbps up and down and decent ping, but it still feels really bad and when I run a bufferbloat test I get an F, with hundreds of added ms to the upload.

I called the ISP, they told me I was on a shared IP, something I haven’t heard of called CGNAT. He told me that could be causing the issue and that he would remove me from it and put me on my own, sadly that may have improved it slightly but it’s still bad.

I just want good internet for once, ive been suffering with lag for over a decade and thought my problems would be behind me once I got fiber :(

I know a little but not a lot and am hoping someone can guide me through eliminating the buffer bloat. From what I can tell it might just be my gateway/router(provided for me) but I don’t know

I dealt with this same problem before fiber and purchased my own coax modem and tried 2 different routers recommended for gaming that may have helped but never eliminated the issue, looking up what I can do now I don’t know if I could one of those two routers in conjunction with the gateway they provided or not. Is it as simple as just disabling Wi-Fi on gateway and just running Ethernet from that to another router, or do I have to put in bridge mode? If so i also don’t see a bridge mode in the router settings but I do have options for DMZ hosting or something else called Arp spoofing

I would prefer not to have to buy all new equipment, especially if it isn’t going to resolve the issue, as I don’t know if it’s and issue on my side or with the ISP so any help would be greatly appreciated. I just want to game lag free for once

My ps4 pro all of a sudden is stuttering when playing games, it feels pretty hot and I noticed I have not heard the fan really ramp up in a while so I took the cover off and the fan is definitely still spinning.

So then I thought maybe it’s just time for a good clean and re-paste the APU, so I did that. It did not seem to solve the issue

I also made sure the storage drive is not overly full, I have a 500gb SSD that I swapped the stock out for years ago and it has about 100gb free space

Is it possible the fan is failing but still running, just not enough to keep up? When I put my ear to the system I hear a clicking that doesn’t seem like it should be there.

Please and thank you