My life is in OrgMode structured plain text files which are themselves managed by git along with scripts for managing link integrity. This works fairly well but I dream of replacing all of that with relational databases and knowledge representation systems. So far, every fancier system I've used or built has eventually failed, but I'm working on yet another fancy system built on top of Postgres for stability.
I could really use a nice open and modular low power home office server with ecc ram and (optionally?) suitable to be a file server. It would be awesome if many of its components could be swapped with the laptops.
You could use a framework mainboard for that![1] Especially if you already have one from a previous gen laptop it's a great way to reuse. They open sourced the CAD files so you can print your case or buy one[2].
I have a first gen framework 13 whose body is about toast, and it is going to become a NAS once it finally stops working. Until then it's a great video-meeting machine.
One of the disappointments of living in the USA is that when I buy that Gouda imported from the Netherlands, etc. it's actually a special (and not very good) product made for the American market and not sold in Europe. It's a guaranteed fake! Part of why our products are often poor is we can't get the real thing to compare!
Inline SQL functions so I can modularize my code without a massive performance penalty. Foreign key references to system tables so I can reliably store, e.g. function oids.
I recommend studying the short book "Treat Your Own Back" by Robin McKenzie and also finding a physical therapist familiar with his techniques. I was in similar distress and it was fairly quickly resolved by these techniques and I have also observed these techniques being effective for several other people. Physicians in the US are not trained in physical therapy yet physical therapists in the US are only allowed to apply physician-prescribed treatments! This can lead to some bizarre Catch-22 situations until you find a highly experienced physical therapist who can work with you. Checking if they use the "McKenzie methods" is a touchstone.
Seconded. I've had several episodes of acute pain (agony, really), and these ideas, together with similar things discovered on the Internet and YouTube seem to have resolved the situation for me.
There are many possibilities, of course. Be your own scientist. And especially, try things with little downside first.
