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.

Same. I have no more patience for it and if the discussions go into things that actually matter like Palestine I’ll state my opinion, but won’t spend any energy on debating them anymore.

I just do my work, spend time with my commie partner and kid. I am ok with not having libs as friends, I cannot look past the way they ignore everything. I am polite with them at work, but tend to keep to myself as much as possible.

When younger I tried so hard to fit in and got burnt so many times

Around my teenage years/young adult, but I had been very justice minded from a kid (audhd I suppose). I took part in politics in school, was very radlib and interested in all things political pretty much as soon as I could.

When the 90s neoliberalism hit my country, I was a young uni student, saw how people got treated when trying to get welfare and was in the same boat myself with poverty so I started collecting peoples stories and tried to push the stories into the public. This is when I hit my first real wall with a bougie newspaper that refused to publish my opinion piece and pulled back on a story I almost got them to publish. I did get the stories published in a local student magazine. I vaguely knew how all of this works before that, but getting involved in something made it really sink in.

This is also when I still was naive enough to think that human rights, basic rights and just decency means something in the country I live in. This is also a time when I started to really ask why people don’t rise up even though they are treated horribly. I just could not understand it as a starry eyed uni student that people just took the shock therapy and internalized it as their own failure. I watched my family lose work and my dad ended up suicidal from the “personal failure” that was not at all on him (or anyone who lost everything then) and been radicalizing from there to whatever I am today.

I stopped drinking coffee after decades of ml coffeemaker-life, because my stomach can’t take it anymore. Ngl the wastefullness of it always annoyed me so I would microwave the old coffee or drink it when it had burnt in the pan for hours.

Maybe my destroyed gi system is the enlightenment that comes to those who occupationally keep themselves awake with pots of coffee.

Having to read academic slop about service user meetings atm for my studies and jesus christ I am exhausted by this constructionist drivel.

Oh yes, look at all these interesting discursive practices and communication strategies in the meetings, completely detached from the reality they get executed in. Mentioning in passing that there surely are power differences at play, but completely refusing to engage with where this power is coming from and who has it.

1,5 more years of this. Ffs.

Remembering the beautiful rant Parenti had on people who think it’s Gaddafi in their mailbox, Gaddafi in their bathroom, Gaddafi in their bed at night.

Now really news so posting this here. Because I just need to get it out of my system that the honorary nazis that are the Finns are doing a hero movie about the sniper Lauri Törni and this was in the national news the other day. They reported that the Finnish movie society is giving funding to this “important work”.

I cannot believe it, stanning this guy like 20 years ago was still considered in very poor taste and problematically nationalist, in fact unheard of. But now we are in nato and the fash has been normalizing stanning for these various nazis since the 90s. Now we have holomodor displays, nato war drills and movies about nazi killers who got themselves killed in Vietnam and all I can think of is where to run when this stuff evolves back to what it was during the civil war. Problem is that this time there are no bolsheviks or actual left to counter this shit.

That is a really good way to explain it.

I’ve also gotten into pretty epic fights with these people for “not showing empathy” to their rich people woes. An example was a water damage in the house of a person who owns several houses and can just buy their way out of it thanks to inherited money. I said “shame, but they are going to be fine” and got my head ripped off and was told how hard it is for them to talk about their upper class woes, because I always say they are going to be fine and don’t seem to show empathy for their “hardship”.

For what it’s worth me and my partner and kid had toxic mold in our rental years ago and lost all our stuff and had nothing to replace it with, which these same people knew perfectly well. It’s epic stuff.

All my life. It sucked as a teen and it has sucked as an adult. The sort of people who just cannot comprehend how someone just does not have money for a coffee, a movie ticket, dinner or whatever.

Also the endless stories about expensive vacations, but them getting pissy as soon as you point out that you never travel, because it costs too much.

Definitely. And as linux is forced to run these via a sort of emulator and in windows they have straight access to the hardware, it will surely be different (as far as I understand it). But that is ok. So happy to be windows-free, omg!

It wasn’t, there was just one. Heroic was able to detect that.

This was a pc. The laptop is just a media machine for us, that installation was a breeze, it works so well now.

I did it! Got diablo 3 and battle.net to work via Heroic with Proton GE 10-4. Steam games work fine too.

• 24 hours of hyperfocus and three reinstalls later I am all in with Linux. So much dopamine omg! Made all the mistakes, starting from installing it to the wrong drive first.

Tried Lutris, Bottles, Steam with Proton but on Heroic it just works.

This could be it. If my latest try fails, might go back to the Steam method one more time and see if this is the issue.

Am finding this out. I’ve now tried Lutris, Steam and Bottles. None were a success apart from Steam actually installing and running it poorly. Now trying Heroic and then going to give up, lol.

I wish I had not signed up for this lan-thing. Haven’t touched blizzard shit in years after I quit wow due to what came out from them.

Everything else is working great.