Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/10
It has been a while after my last post about me having cancer. No, I am not giving up. But I am having the regular fear of the upcoming checks: did the metastases return, or do I have the luck to outlive some 30% of my peer group.
The last metastases surgery has been slightly more than a year ago. A year from now, that percentage hopefully will be 50% and slowly increase over time until about 90% in some 9 years from now.
At year’s end, I will know for sure.
Below are some links on, mostly Dutch but with English abstract, articles about the mental side of having cancer, or having survived it for now.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/15
Lees deze, juist ook als je dit nog nooit aan de hand gehad hebt:
Het sluit enorm goed aan op mijn eigen ervaringen als partner/naaste van, patiënt, overlevende en ondersteuner van andere mensen met (al dan niet terminale) kanker.
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/15
[Wayback/Archive] Monitor Brandstofprijzen ACM: lichte daling brandstofprijzen gehele keten, diesel weer goedkoper dan benzine | ACM
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Autoriteit Consument & Markt: “⛽Brandstofprijzen over de gehe…” – social.overheid.nl (Mastodon)
⛽Brandstofprijzen over de gehele brandstofketen zijn licht gedaald ten opzichte van een maand. Diesel is aan de pomp weer goedkoper dan benzine. Het beeld dat gemiddelde winstmarges niet bij tankstations, maar bovenin in de keten zijn gestegen blijft onveranderd. Dat blijkt uit onze Monitor Brandstofprijzen.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/15
I wrote about Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption | Hackaday before, quoting my tweet
[Wayback/Archive] @hackaday I’m have been running a few Raspberry Pi systems with 8-32Gb micro-SD cards as web-dashboard with refreshes every few minutes or so: much write access. When using Sandisk (no matter the type) they last about a year, Samsung (no matter the type) cards last multiple years.
That post got scheduled when I was recovering from my rectum cancer treatments and coping with bad LAR-syndrome. The good news when writing is that I survived and LAR-syndrome is more manageable. The bad news is that at the time you read this some 75% of my peer group didn’t, including some good friends .
I write this post at time around 50% of the peer group have passed away. A kind of tribute to them: let them be remembered.
This time I am trying to see if a microSD card causing the boot to hang on starting with “A start job is running for File System Check on /dev/disk/by-id mmc” then containing some time elapsed followed by “/ no limit”.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/12
Needed this for some Windows 11 Virtual Machine experiments of Windows 11 on Apple Silicon ARM under VMware Fusion to see how well the Intel x64 emulation on ARM provided by Apple Rosetta or/and Microsoft Windows actually works: [Wayback/Archive] What is the best way to get Windows 11 Pro Key for cheap ? : bootcamp
At the time of writing (especially the “/Archive]” versions of the links below under “Queries” show remarkably cheap licenses):
Wondering what these will do during Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
In the meantime: reset timer galore (:
TL;DR from most links below on activating Windows 11 on ARM under VMware Fusion: it should work, but back in the experimental days (around 2021-2022) it sometimes failed.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/11
[Wayback/Archive] Post by @lookitup.baby (Ian Coldwater) — Bluesky on recharge being part of your work
I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it:
Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted
The replies add a few other useful tips. Be sure to read the thread on BSKY.
A few days later, this Dutch post basically stated it in a different way:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/11
[Wayback/Archive] USB-SD-Mux with drivers written in Python at [Wayback/Archive] linux-automation/usbsdmux: USB-SD-Mux Project – Driver and Documentation and documentation at [Wayback/Archive] USB-SD-Mux Manual — usb-sd-mux-M01-R10-V01.
- Shape of an Micro-SD Card: Is plugged into the Micro-SD-Card socket of a DUT.
- LEDs indicate the status
- Micro-SD-Card slot: Insert the micro-SD-Card here.
- Micro-USB port: Conntects the USB-SD-Mux to a host PC via an USB-Cable.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/10
[Wayback/Archive] This is useful for playing back in Cartrain CP7##BMW devices (currently CP700BMW, CP730BMW, CP740BMW) as these play back in the order in which directories and files have been created. which is related to Elektronik-Idee – CP740BMW – USB wireless MP3 Player (with Bluetooth and Audio/Video in support) and fully PowerShell 2.0 compatible:
Script to recursively copy directories in alphabetical order from source-base-directory to destination-base-directory
while adding an intermediate directory with a single uppercase letter in destination-base-directory for
each set of directories under source-base-directory starting with that letter.
This is useful for playing back in Cartrain CP7##BMW devices (currently CP700BMW, CP730BMW, CP740BMW)
as these play back in the order in which directories and files have been created, as per:
- https://www.cartain.de/downloads/cp740bmw/CP740BMW-OM.pdf
Unterordner sind hervorragend geeignet um Musik besser zu organisieren. Dateinamen und Unterverzeichnis sind in der Reihenfolge gleichgestellt. Die Wiedergabe der Titel in sämtlichen Unterordnern erfolgt der Reihe nach wie sie auf den USB Stick kopiert wurde
- https://www.cartain.de/downloads/cp740bmw/CP740BMW-OM-EN.pdf
Sub folders are a good possibility to organize your music collection. The order of playback is the same order you copied the files onto the card.
- https://www.cartain.de/downloads/cp730bmw/CP730BMW-OM.pdf
- https://www.cartain.de/downloads/cp730bmw/CP730BMW-OM-EN.pdf
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/09
A very important report from September 2025 for users of 18650 lithium-ion battery cells: [Wayback/Archive] The Lumafield Battery Quality Report.
Summary:
… beneath the surface, a hidden world of quality control issues and dangerous counterfeits puts consumers and manufacturers at risk.
…
Our automated analysis focused on key indicators of cell safety and quality, including anode overhang (AOH) and edge alignment, two critical factors that directly impact battery performance and safety.
…
Flawed anq quality battery cells:
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