Generally, salbutamol (Ventolin) is consider less “strong” as it is shorter lasting; formeterol is quite a bit longer lasting.

The rule of thumb is that if you need a rescue dose more than 4 times a week, you probably need to increase your inhale steroid dose (budesonide, etc) or try something different etc when you talk to doctor.

If you minor asthma, you are probably not needing a combination medicine like Symbicort; you are probably fine with a steroid by itself. And if that is not enough, ie you need rescue meds all the time, then adjusting the steroid dosing or adding the formeterol (or outright switch to the combo like Symbicort makes more sense).

The reason for this is that it is much cheaper for a generic steroid or salbutamol, than the brand name combos etc. also the combos come in fixed combination doses etc

Symbicort contains two medicines: budesonide, a steroid, and formeterol, a bronchodilator. It is the latter that is helping open up your lungs as a rescue medicine. However, it is a long acting medicine, versus salbutamol (Ventolin). Both formeterol and salbutamol can have other side effects, especially at higher rescue doses. The thought is that using too much Symbicort during an asthma attack versus salbutamol, could lead to delayed response for the rescue or increased heart related side effects. But if all you have is Symbicort during an asthma attack, then it will work as a rescue, just understand it is not meant as a rescue.

No I had to start from scratch sort of. PinchFlat lets you choose a start date for downloading newer videos.

I decided to age out of my old TA library and keep the ones I wanted. Not perfect but it was an okay trade off to get away from TA’s naming system

I changed over to PinchFlat instead for Tube Archivist for these reasons. It’s even easier to setup than TA. I have mine hooked up to store the files on an SMB share that JellyFin can read. https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat

We ran OpenSolaris as our NFS server for several years on ASUS Xeon servers. zfs was a big part of that. Ilumos is still alive and keeping the OpenSolaris world going in a small way.

EasyDNS. They are on or the largest independent registrars and DNS providers. When you call or make a ticket, you get competent engineering support. They also work with Let’s encrypt via DNS rest api as well.

One thing I have been told by family who took several attempts to adopt hearing aids is to start at a low volume level. In addition, it takes several attempts to set the “levels” to what sounds right for a user. Most newer ones have an app that allows you to customize it yourself. Otherwise a good technician should be able to help tweak it.

It is a big change that is not easy to accept or get used for many people. I have had several people I know of the try, use, return cycle 2-3 times. Hope that helps.