We would be dead without it. It is a building block of our body, and the reason our cells don't need cell walls.
To the high amounts of "bad" cholesterol, that is precisely why the over-simplification of it is a terrible thing. The amount of LDL in your blood is not the problem, it is the type of LDL and the particle size that is the issue. (and you could argue the particle number in conjunction with size)
Several years ago there were only a few labs in the country that were even equipped to perform the lipid testing required to get those numbers. I would be really interested to see mine, but without a good reason to pay for it, I am content just knowing that I am doing the right thing from a diet perspective.
Many years ago (1998ish mabye?) I found out about Newegg and ordered a couple of sticks of RAM from them. They shipped me double what I ordered, and charged me for it. It was a nightmare to get my money refunded even AFTER I shipped back two sticks on my dime. It was such a bad experience that I swore I would never order from them again.
Fast forward a few years and I decided to give them another chance, and wow had they changed! They were my gold-standard for internet shopping experience. Fast, often free, shipping, perfect amount of communication and tracking, best prices, feature-rich search options, and fantastic review system.
Needless to say, I haven't bought anything from them for a few years now. It was caused by ordering something that I didn't realize was shipping directly from China. I still go to their site to find items and sometimes read the reviews, but I can now shop around once I find the item I want. Their reviews are still better than Amazon's, but Newegg just isn't close to what it used to be.
Our bodies produce about 85% of the cholesterol in our blood... it doesn't come directly from our diet. Our diet CAN affect it of course, but not by fat. All fats are not equal. Cut out any grain/vegetable fats - anything highly processed. Basically eat dairy fat (if you can tolerate dairy), olive oil, coconut oil. I've been doing it long enough that I eat what I eat.. but there are variations on how much of your calories should be from protein, carbs, and fat. Depends on if you want to go full Keto (lower protein) or something more primal/paleo. But it is ASTOUNDING to me that people still think fat is bad for you.
Less meat more veg isn't bad advice - keep away from really starchy veg though, they can be pretty carby. If you are comfortable with talking to her, ask her WHY she is against a high-fat diet. Have you also cut out sugar? It's a carb you know, and a very nasty one at that.
I'll just throw this out there... high cholesterol as it is currently defined is not necessarily bad for you. There has been a lot of research over the last few years in that field. It is usually over-simplified down to "good" and "bad" cholesterol. But what really seems to matter (in terms of risk to heart disease) is the type and particle size of the LDL. Unfortunately, normal lipid panels do a poor job of measuring what really matters. Things like LPa or apoB that are emerging as true indicators.
Think about this: if "High Cholesterol is bad", then the converse is true that "Normal Cholesterol is good". 1/2 of people who have heart attacks have "normal" cholesterol. HALF. My father had two stints put in last year, one artery was 98% blocked and further down the same one was 60% blocked. His cholesterol levels were perfect.
My point is that "cholesterol issues" that you brought up may have been non-issues. Our bodies produce roughly 85% of the cholesterol in our blood, it doesn't come from our diet. (our diet can affect it though... and I'll give you a hint - it's not from the fat we eat) . Cholesterol is a building block of our body. It has gotten a bad rap by bad science.
He has a high-standard for himself, and others, and he calls it like he sees it. Now I think he is just realizing that HOW he calls it makes a difference. Not only that, but his outbursts over the years as well as this message that he is going to seek improvement on that front, is made public by his own choosing.
It would be silly to think that it is for everyone - because it may not be since there are variations in how people's bodies respond. But I think that would be the exception to the rule.
But I am curious, what was the reasoning your doctor used to talk you out of it? I have found many doctors are sorely under-informed, and they cling to the flawed reasoning they were taught 30 years ago. Or they are as misinformed as everyone else, and think the food pyramid is a real thing that should be followed. If your doctor is not learning and keeping up on recent research (in the last 10 years) then find another doctor. Sadly, I STILL hear people saying to eat a low-fat diet. Even though scientific research proved that there was no benefit to low-fat diet, it was still recommended by our government because it 'made sense'. It just goes to show how nefarious misinformation can be and how hard it is to shake from public perception.
Why do you falsely presume that he'll stop caring solid engineering just because he stops being an assholish aspie? The two are not mutually exclusive in any shape. Instead of being a dick, he can provide constructive criticism and mentoring instead to motivate people to actually want to continue working on the kernel.
I guess you learn something new every day. In this article, I learned of the assholish term "aspie". Yeah, I had to look it up. So you are making your point about how Linus should stop being an asshole and provide constructive criticism, and you make this point by being an asshole yourself? Very nice. Perhaps you should take some of your own advice, asshole.
I am approaching my 6th year eating low carb / high fat. STILL feeling the best I have felt in my life, and I am in my late 40s. I know people like to call it a fad, but high-carb low-fat bullshit is the fad. We only eat huge amounts of grain/starch carbs in the absence of real food. We've only been farmers for 10k years, yet as a species we've been evolving for millions of years. We didn't get to where we are by accident. I've also been an avid home cook for 20+ years. Once you learn the basic principles, you can use them the rest of your life. Teach a man to fish, as it were.
This is supposed to be a site for nerds, and if you REALLY want to nerd out on something read up on low-carb and a lot of the research going on. Learn more about lipidology and heart disease. Don't like reading? Listen to some of the podcasts on peterattiamd.com. Seriously fascinating stuff, lots of links to as much as you would want to learn and as deep as you would want to go.
If you earn in a month 6 times more than what professionals in other industries earn in a year, how about just quit after a few months? Learn some financial managment (ie, don't spend more than you have) and be set for life.
"... and be financially set for life." The answer is pretty clear to outsiders looking in, but I would expect it is similar to anyone who gets famous - how people handle it ranges from loving it and thriving on it, turning it into other opportunities all the way down to people who hate it and wish it never happened. I think what has changed over the past 10-15 years is that the speed at which it happens has accelerated. It seems that quite-literally anyone can become famous on youtube. Personally, I just don't get why people are so intently interested in famous people.
And as is fairly well known, money can't buy happiness. I do believe that. However, I would still like to have a few million bucks in the bank knowing full well it won't make me happier than I am now.
The hardest thing about Agile is trying to fit it into your busted company. "Oh, we don't do requirements, we're Agile". Uh-huh. How about SOME direction on what we are trying to build here then? How about not having insane product owners who over-simplify everything, don't listen to actual development teams, and aren't actively engaged in the process? How about the CEO who hires a high-priced CTO who picks some oddball technology stack, then has an international contract team do the work because they are cheap, and after missing every promise of delivery over a year and a half period, moves on to another projet and leaves the onshore team with the bag of garbage.
Agile has always be bastardized. But when it works, even if it is not perfect, it is beautiful. I am old enough to remember the waterfall days and at that time it was the only thing around until iterative (the true original method), XP, and Agile came around. Agile is simply a tool to get the job done, and it will not solve all of your problems. But you absolutely do need to do it right, and maintain that process, to really make it work.
“We believe in work-life balance”: You’ll be required to wear a beeper whenever you’re not in the office
If anyone ever asks you to wear a beeper, find Doc Brown immediately. And it is critical that no matter how hot she is, under no circumstances should you make out with your teenage mom.
The assumptions are that you have the same commute during your entire career. I have had anywhere from zero (worked from home for 8 years) to 1.5 hours. For that 1.5 hour commute, I drove or walked to a train station, rode the train into the city (Chicago) and then had a 20 minute *brisk* walk to the office. During that commute I was able to relax, and I read lots of books that year. I also got 40 minutes of exercise every day walking to/from the office. My schedule was also very predictable. So there are trade-offs. I wouldn't want to do it today, but it wasn't bad at all at the time.
I cannot imagine ever needing to move to a Chromebook. Or really, even a laptop. Sure, I use one at work, but it's docked most of the time and I have 3 monitors hooked up to it. When I do need it in a meeting I hate using one tiny screen and I feel so inefficient using it. At least I take my mouse with me, I can't stand watching people in meetings fumble around with their trackpads. (I hate them so much) Even at home I have 2 monitors for my linux desktop. There is a now a Chromebook in our house now, my daughter has one issued to her at school. They are expected to do all of their work from it, and it integrates right in with her school account.
I will say that Google is much smarter and smoother at their sleaziness than Microsoft EVER was. They put real engineering effort behind their software/hardware offerings to make them desirable and usable for their products. (us)
This is real news. It really happened, stop with that BS.
Everything else you said was spot on. It is somewhat of a slippery slope that could go bad. I think that anyone providing these files, or really any information about making guns for personal use, should be required to include the information you posted. Because as you noted, you have to be LEGALLY able to use that information, and people should understand the law if they would make one and NOT be legally able to do so. Also the part about being prohibited from creating guns that cannot be detected by metal detectors.
People need to be more EDUCATED about guns, and in this case about obtaining these plans. Because we can't rely on their common sense, or lack thereof.
I find it troubling that guns are such a polarizing issue. They are not the cause of all the horrendous things they can do, it is how we operate as people and a society with each other that drives the horrible acts that people do. As long as people think "all guns are bad" or "I should be able to own ANY kind of gun I want" then we won't be able to achieve sane solutions.
P.S. I am a multiple gun owner, and live where I can legally carry concealed.
by lawyers I mean. It's really a shame that so much money is spent on things like this, and other frivolous legal actions. While hopefully the right people are vindicated by this (you know who you are, Bruce), the only ones who really win are the lawyers. Their profession is such a twisted self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.
FTR, my first distro was Yggdrasil, followed quickly by Slackware cause they had an easier method for bring in the Adaptec SCSI card.
For Desktop, I'm currently running Linux Mint which is pretty damned solid and stable and I've installed it on several family members during the Windows 7->8 fiasco and they're all still really, really happy with it.
What I would like to see Linux Desktop(TM) focus on is overall greater consistency! Starting with sound, all the way through the most basic stuff, the wide plethora of desktops (KDE, Gnome, etc.) and applications is a bloody mess of inconsistency. Having lived through "The UNIX wars", I can tell you that MS' *CONSISTENCY* in everything the user did - along with enabling developers of applications to have a single target platform - led to MS being what it is today. Choice is great, until you're paralysed by the plethora of choices and wind up with a tiny market. PS - I could give a bubbly-fart about systemd. All I (as a user) care about is: Does this shit work?
So... what you really want is consistency the way YOU want it. Otherwise you would have just stuck with Windows 8 for your family. You are given the ability to have what you want with Linux, you are NOT with Microsoft. I think i know what you were getting at, and I think you would want some things to be standardize. But really, I don't mind some of the inconsistencies.. it lets me choose what I want. e.g. XFCE is my choice of DE... I wouldn't enjoy Linux as much with some other one, even though I can appreciate them. I do think there is a downside to standardization/consistency... lack of choice. I could never use a Mac because their UI makes NO sense to me.
Back in 2008ish we started using MindAlign at a large bank I worked at, where we had a distributed team. It was great! I'd used IRC in the past and it was similar but I think better for what we were doing. I heard that MS had purchased them, and incorporated their code into MS Lync Group Chat, which we then started using because it was MS, so - Corporate Approved!:|
Then MS completely crapped on that product and killed it, and now there is MS Teams which is their super-integrated-with-O365 garbage solution to a problem they already had solved!
So where I work now we can't use Slack (not corporate approved) so we are stuck with what we fumbled around with before MindAlign way back - regular IM but no searchable logged history. It's a combination of Skype for Business and regular Skype, because we have to chat with contractors who don't have corporate accounts.
I have bought many Humble Bundles over the years, and while there have been a lot of games available for Linux, there have been quite a few "steam/windows only" games that I haven't been able to play. My kids' computers run Win7. I have been disappointed that more and more games in bundles are "steam-only" instead of DRM-free like in the beginning. For the most part because my kids all use my steam account because that is what the games are linked to. But there are challenges with that approach (one logged in online at a time).
I was very hesitant about Steam originally, I still am not comfortable with having to run Steam in order to play a game that I bought. While this move will allow me to play more games that I already own, it still makes me cautious about getting locked into how Steam controls things.
I am approaching my 6th year on a low-carb high-fat diet. I am 5'11" tall and I weighed 172 when I started. I hold steady right around 160 now, +-5 lbs. Went from 34" waist to 32", and am still there.
I know plenty of people who chose a low-carb diet who were not overweight. I was in good shape (not my best) but saw significant improvements after only a month. Joint pain went away, my teeth are better, my cardio vascular health improved. I suspect these were due to things like lowering of inflammation due to drastically reduced sugar and grains. From an evolutionary perspective, we've only been farmers for 10k years.... so how did we evolve over 2mm years without farming? Go actually look at 2mm of something, then 10k of something. Not just the numbers, but that many things. It's staggering. We haven't evolved to eat the garbage we eat today is just high percentages and refinement.
However, you are partially right, but you don't know why. People generally DO have health problems, they just don't know it - they are addicted to carbs. Your body tells you to carb up so you can get your blood sugar fix. Once you break that addiction and retrain your body to not ride the glucose roller coaster, everything just works better and more easily. Sure, there are people who do have health problems who benefit from it, but there are lots of regular and very fit people who follow it as well. It is gaining a lot of support in the scientific community as well, there are more and more studies about it that will benefit us all in the long run. Look up Peter Attia, Ron Krauss, Dom D'Agostino, Mark Sisson, Gary Taubes. There are more hard-core scientists, but those should give you a sense of what's out there.
You could read up on it and give it a try, for three weeks. Chances are you won't because you think eating like a caveman is silly. I did. You think it's a fad, and it's just for sick people. But you don't realize how much better you can feel until you do it. What's to lose, eating differently for 3 weeks? What's to gain, feeling a lot better with more energy and the ability to maintain your weight with little effort, potentially staving off diseases that are plaguing our society?
The only thing I felt bad about was that I didn't do it sooner in my life.
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We would be dead without it. It is a building block of our body, and the reason our cells don't need cell walls.
To the high amounts of "bad" cholesterol, that is precisely why the over-simplification of it is a terrible thing. The amount of LDL in your blood is not the problem, it is the type of LDL and the particle size that is the issue. (and you could argue the particle number in conjunction with size)
Several years ago there were only a few labs in the country that were even equipped to perform the lipid testing required to get those numbers. I would be really interested to see mine, but without a good reason to pay for it, I am content just knowing that I am doing the right thing from a diet perspective.
Many years ago (1998ish mabye?) I found out about Newegg and ordered a couple of sticks of RAM from them. They shipped me double what I ordered, and charged me for it. It was a nightmare to get my money refunded even AFTER I shipped back two sticks on my dime. It was such a bad experience that I swore I would never order from them again.
Fast forward a few years and I decided to give them another chance, and wow had they changed! They were my gold-standard for internet shopping experience. Fast, often free, shipping, perfect amount of communication and tracking, best prices, feature-rich search options, and fantastic review system.
Needless to say, I haven't bought anything from them for a few years now. It was caused by ordering something that I didn't realize was shipping directly from China. I still go to their site to find items and sometimes read the reviews, but I can now shop around once I find the item I want. Their reviews are still better than Amazon's, but Newegg just isn't close to what it used to be.
Our bodies produce about 85% of the cholesterol in our blood... it doesn't come directly from our diet. Our diet CAN affect it of course, but not by fat.
All fats are not equal. Cut out any grain/vegetable fats - anything highly processed. Basically eat dairy fat (if you can tolerate dairy), olive oil, coconut oil. I've been doing it long enough that I eat what I eat.. but there are variations on how much of your calories should be from protein, carbs, and fat. Depends on if you want to go full Keto (lower protein) or something more primal/paleo. But it is ASTOUNDING to me that people still think fat is bad for you.
Less meat more veg isn't bad advice - keep away from really starchy veg though, they can be pretty carby.
If you are comfortable with talking to her, ask her WHY she is against a high-fat diet.
Have you also cut out sugar? It's a carb you know, and a very nasty one at that.
I'll just throw this out there... high cholesterol as it is currently defined is not necessarily bad for you.
There has been a lot of research over the last few years in that field. It is usually over-simplified down to "good" and "bad" cholesterol. But what really seems to matter (in terms of risk to heart disease) is the type and particle size of the LDL. Unfortunately, normal lipid panels do a poor job of measuring what really matters. Things like LPa or apoB that are emerging as true indicators.
Think about this: if "High Cholesterol is bad", then the converse is true that "Normal Cholesterol is good".
1/2 of people who have heart attacks have "normal" cholesterol. HALF. My father had two stints put in last year, one artery was 98% blocked and further down the same one was 60% blocked. His cholesterol levels were perfect.
My point is that "cholesterol issues" that you brought up may have been non-issues. Our bodies produce roughly 85% of the cholesterol in our blood, it doesn't come from our diet. (our diet can affect it though... and I'll give you a hint - it's not from the fat we eat) . Cholesterol is a building block of our body. It has gotten a bad rap by bad science.
He has a high-standard for himself, and others, and he calls it like he sees it. Now I think he is just realizing that HOW he calls it makes a difference.
Not only that, but his outbursts over the years as well as this message that he is going to seek improvement on that front, is made public by his own choosing.
Show me another leader who does that.
It would be silly to think that it is for everyone - because it may not be since there are variations in how people's bodies respond. But I think that would be the exception to the rule.
But I am curious, what was the reasoning your doctor used to talk you out of it? I have found many doctors are sorely under-informed, and they cling to the flawed reasoning they were taught 30 years ago. Or they are as misinformed as everyone else, and think the food pyramid is a real thing that should be followed. If your doctor is not learning and keeping up on recent research (in the last 10 years) then find another doctor. Sadly, I STILL hear people saying to eat a low-fat diet. Even though scientific research proved that there was no benefit to low-fat diet, it was still recommended by our government because it 'made sense'. It just goes to show how nefarious misinformation can be and how hard it is to shake from public perception.
Why do you falsely presume that he'll stop caring solid engineering just because he stops being an assholish aspie? The two are not mutually exclusive in any shape. Instead of being a dick, he can provide constructive criticism and mentoring instead to motivate people to actually want to continue working on the kernel.
I guess you learn something new every day. In this article, I learned of the assholish term "aspie". Yeah, I had to look it up. So you are making your point about how Linus should stop being an asshole and provide constructive criticism, and you make this point by being an asshole yourself? Very nice. Perhaps you should take some of your own advice, asshole.
I am approaching my 6th year eating low carb / high fat. STILL feeling the best I have felt in my life, and I am in my late 40s. I know people like to call it a fad, but high-carb low-fat bullshit is the fad. We only eat huge amounts of grain/starch carbs in the absence of real food. We've only been farmers for 10k years, yet as a species we've been evolving for millions of years. We didn't get to where we are by accident. I've also been an avid home cook for 20+ years. Once you learn the basic principles, you can use them the rest of your life. Teach a man to fish, as it were.
This is supposed to be a site for nerds, and if you REALLY want to nerd out on something read up on low-carb and a lot of the research going on. Learn more about lipidology and heart disease. Don't like reading? Listen to some of the podcasts on peterattiamd.com. Seriously fascinating stuff, lots of links to as much as you would want to learn and as deep as you would want to go.
I thought at first this said "A Companion to Kegel"
Current:
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
So far so good... very insightful into how we think and act.
Up Next:
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Looking forward to this because he's such a great figure.
oh wait.... that doesn't apply anymore.
Do the right thing. There... way more open to interpretation.
Carry on.
The Apple side has held up over the years, not so sure about the Windows side of that cartoon.
master -> dom
slave -> sub
Fuck it, lets just burn all the computers and go back to using bows and arrows, and hunting in the woods.....
What about the vegans you insensitive clod?!
If you earn in a month 6 times more than what professionals in other industries earn in a year, how about just quit after a few months? Learn some financial managment (ie, don't spend more than you have) and be set for life.
"... and be financially set for life." The answer is pretty clear to outsiders looking in, but I would expect it is similar to anyone who gets famous - how people handle it ranges from loving it and thriving on it, turning it into other opportunities all the way down to people who hate it and wish it never happened. I think what has changed over the past 10-15 years is that the speed at which it happens has accelerated. It seems that quite-literally anyone can become famous on youtube. Personally, I just don't get why people are so intently interested in famous people.
And as is fairly well known, money can't buy happiness. I do believe that. However, I would still like to have a few million bucks in the bank knowing full well it won't make me happier than I am now.
The hardest thing about Agile is trying to fit it into your busted company. "Oh, we don't do requirements, we're Agile". Uh-huh. How about SOME direction on what we are trying to build here then? How about not having insane product owners who over-simplify everything, don't listen to actual development teams, and aren't actively engaged in the process? How about the CEO who hires a high-priced CTO who picks some oddball technology stack, then has an international contract team do the work because they are cheap, and after missing every promise of delivery over a year and a half period, moves on to another projet and leaves the onshore team with the bag of garbage.
Agile has always be bastardized. But when it works, even if it is not perfect, it is beautiful. I am old enough to remember the waterfall days and at that time it was the only thing around until iterative (the true original method), XP, and Agile came around. Agile is simply a tool to get the job done, and it will not solve all of your problems. But you absolutely do need to do it right, and maintain that process, to really make it work.
“We believe in work-life balance”: You’ll be required to wear a beeper whenever you’re not in the office
If anyone ever asks you to wear a beeper, find Doc Brown immediately. And it is critical that no matter how hot she is, under no circumstances should you make out with your teenage mom.
The assumptions are that you have the same commute during your entire career.
I have had anywhere from zero (worked from home for 8 years) to 1.5 hours. For that 1.5 hour commute, I drove or walked to a train station, rode the train into the city (Chicago) and then had a 20 minute *brisk* walk to the office. During that commute I was able to relax, and I read lots of books that year. I also got 40 minutes of exercise every day walking to/from the office. My schedule was also very predictable. So there are trade-offs. I wouldn't want to do it today, but it wasn't bad at all at the time.
I cannot imagine ever needing to move to a Chromebook. Or really, even a laptop. Sure, I use one at work, but it's docked most of the time and I have 3 monitors hooked up to it. When I do need it in a meeting I hate using one tiny screen and I feel so inefficient using it. At least I take my mouse with me, I can't stand watching people in meetings fumble around with their trackpads. (I hate them so much) Even at home I have 2 monitors for my linux desktop.
There is a now a Chromebook in our house now, my daughter has one issued to her at school. They are expected to do all of their work from it, and it integrates right in with her school account.
I will say that Google is much smarter and smoother at their sleaziness than Microsoft EVER was. They put real engineering effort behind their software/hardware offerings to make them desirable and usable for their products. (us)
This is real news. It really happened, stop with that BS.
Everything else you said was spot on. It is somewhat of a slippery slope that could go bad. I think that anyone providing these files, or really any information about making guns for personal use, should be required to include the information you posted. Because as you noted, you have to be LEGALLY able to use that information, and people should understand the law if they would make one and NOT be legally able to do so. Also the part about being prohibited from creating guns that cannot be detected by metal detectors.
People need to be more EDUCATED about guns, and in this case about obtaining these plans. Because we can't rely on their common sense, or lack thereof.
I find it troubling that guns are such a polarizing issue. They are not the cause of all the horrendous things they can do, it is how we operate as people and a society with each other that drives the horrible acts that people do. As long as people think "all guns are bad" or "I should be able to own ANY kind of gun I want" then we won't be able to achieve sane solutions.
P.S. I am a multiple gun owner, and live where I can legally carry concealed.
by lawyers I mean. It's really a shame that so much money is spent on things like this, and other frivolous legal actions. While hopefully the right people are vindicated by this (you know who you are, Bruce), the only ones who really win are the lawyers. Their profession is such a twisted self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.
FTR, my first distro was Yggdrasil, followed quickly by Slackware cause they had an easier method for bring in the Adaptec SCSI card.
For Desktop, I'm currently running Linux Mint which is pretty damned solid and stable and I've installed it on several family members during the Windows 7->8 fiasco and they're all still really, really happy with it.
What I would like to see Linux Desktop(TM) focus on is overall greater consistency! Starting with sound, all the way through the most basic stuff, the wide plethora of desktops (KDE, Gnome, etc.) and applications is a bloody mess of inconsistency. Having lived through "The UNIX wars", I can tell you that MS' *CONSISTENCY* in everything the user did - along with enabling developers of applications to have a single target platform - led to MS being what it is today. Choice is great, until you're paralysed by the plethora of choices and wind up with a tiny market.
PS - I could give a bubbly-fart about systemd. All I (as a user) care about is: Does this shit work?
So ... what you really want is consistency the way YOU want it. Otherwise you would have just stuck with Windows 8 for your family.
You are given the ability to have what you want with Linux, you are NOT with Microsoft. I think i know what you were getting at, and I think you would want some things to be standardize. But really, I don't mind some of the inconsistencies.. it lets me choose what I want. e.g. XFCE is my choice of DE... I wouldn't enjoy Linux as much with some other one, even though I can appreciate them. I do think there is a downside to standardization/consistency... lack of choice. I could never use a Mac because their UI makes NO sense to me.
Back in 2008ish we started using MindAlign at a large bank I worked at, where we had a distributed team. It was great! I'd used IRC in the past and it was similar but I think better for what we were doing. I heard that MS had purchased them, and incorporated their code into MS Lync Group Chat, which we then started using because it was MS, so - Corporate Approved! :|
Then MS completely crapped on that product and killed it, and now there is MS Teams which is their super-integrated-with-O365 garbage solution to a problem they already had solved!
So where I work now we can't use Slack (not corporate approved) so we are stuck with what we fumbled around with before MindAlign way back - regular IM but no searchable logged history. It's a combination of Skype for Business and regular Skype, because we have to chat with contractors who don't have corporate accounts.
I have bought many Humble Bundles over the years, and while there have been a lot of games available for Linux, there have been quite a few "steam/windows only" games that I haven't been able to play. My kids' computers run Win7. I have been disappointed that more and more games in bundles are "steam-only" instead of DRM-free like in the beginning. For the most part because my kids all use my steam account because that is what the games are linked to. But there are challenges with that approach (one logged in online at a time).
I was very hesitant about Steam originally, I still am not comfortable with having to run Steam in order to play a game that I bought. While this move will allow me to play more games that I already own, it still makes me cautious about getting locked into how Steam controls things.
I am approaching my 6th year on a low-carb high-fat diet. I am 5'11" tall and I weighed 172 when I started. I hold steady right around 160 now, +-5 lbs. Went from 34" waist to 32", and am still there.
I know plenty of people who chose a low-carb diet who were not overweight. I was in good shape (not my best) but saw significant improvements after only a month. Joint pain went away, my teeth are better, my cardio vascular health improved. I suspect these were due to things like lowering of inflammation due to drastically reduced sugar and grains. From an evolutionary perspective, we've only been farmers for 10k years.... so how did we evolve over 2mm years without farming? Go actually look at 2mm of something, then 10k of something. Not just the numbers, but that many things. It's staggering. We haven't evolved to eat the garbage we eat today is just high percentages and refinement.
However, you are partially right, but you don't know why.
People generally DO have health problems, they just don't know it - they are addicted to carbs. Your body tells you to carb up so you can get your blood sugar fix. Once you break that addiction and retrain your body to not ride the glucose roller coaster, everything just works better and more easily. Sure, there are people who do have health problems who benefit from it, but there are lots of regular and very fit people who follow it as well. It is gaining a lot of support in the scientific community as well, there are more and more studies about it that will benefit us all in the long run. Look up Peter Attia, Ron Krauss, Dom D'Agostino, Mark Sisson, Gary Taubes. There are more hard-core scientists, but those should give you a sense of what's out there.
You could read up on it and give it a try, for three weeks. Chances are you won't because you think eating like a caveman is silly. I did. You think it's a fad, and it's just for sick people. But you don't realize how much better you can feel until you do it. What's to lose, eating differently for 3 weeks? What's to gain, feeling a lot better with more energy and the ability to maintain your weight with little effort, potentially staving off diseases that are plaguing our society?
The only thing I felt bad about was that I didn't do it sooner in my life.