It's been marvelous for me, I was just over the edge into overweight, so no one would prescribe it for me, even though I had a borderline pre-diabetes A1C, and reactive hypoglycemia runs in my family.

My choices were gain another 10 pounds, or find a telehealth that wasn't bothered by not following the FDA rules so strictly. So that's what I did, I got a script from telahealth and now I'm smack dab in the middle of the healthy weight range (-24lb), haven't had a hypoglycemic incident since I started it, and as a bonus my IBS-D went away completely.

I've reduced my dose to the point that I'm at the dose you start out on, and that has let me keep my weight constant without losing more or gaining more. Plan to stay this way for a year and then see about titrating it even more until I'm off of it. I also followed their instructions and only titrated up when I wasn't seeing weightloss, so I never hit the highest dose, and kept my weight loss to .75-1.5 lb/week. Perfectly sustainable.

This has been miraculous, and something that multiple years of consistent dieting hasn't solved. And as a bonus, I can now do my strength training I love without feeling like I have to eat the house on the recovery day

It has some kinks to work out but I got it working with IDEs too (e.g. the Intellij IDEA Docker Compose integration to work with it).

What I also like is that existing scripts and etc that use the docker-compose cli work with Rancher Desktop too, as it uses nerdctl https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl

While the scantly researched health risks associated with a ketogenic diet remain, the diet is very effective to keep blood sugar stable. A low-carb diet protects most people from T2, and people with T1 profit from simplified insulin management.

For a T2, eating ketogenic could be healthier than eating carbohydrates. Depending on progression, they would recover quickly and not be a T2 anymore.

I really wish AI companies would call hallucinations what they really are - Mistakes. Using wishy-washy words like that make non-techy people trust outputs of LLMs much much more than they should. "Oh it just hallucinated - how silly!" instead of "It got it wrong - we should be more careful". Can be scary hearing how much trust the average joe puts into LLM outputs...

I was raised by my grandmother - let's just say my parents were not ready. And I know a lot of parents that want their kids to have kids but the kids aren't ready. What if it would become the norm for Grandparents to raise the children? That way the second generation can focus on their careers, etc and the first generation could raise the third. That wouldn't mean the second generation wouldn't have a role and be a part of the process. Of course, there would have to be consent on each level - and if it was part of the culture maybe there would be. Also, technology may have a role in this also - if no one has to actually carry the children, the second generation could be more willing.

The whole point is that this happens all the time, but it's always seen as a break from the norm, not the norm. What if we just embraced it?

The next generation would happen earlier, the first generation would have their grand kids and the second generation would have time to "wait" for whatever reason.

Again, I know this doesn't really work out, but it's a thought I've always had.

* Location: Sitting on a shelf in my basement office. Ventilation is okay, the WiFi is fine but not great.

* Hardware: An old PC I picked up at a neighborhood swap meet. I added some RAM taken from another old PC and bought a hard drive and WiFi card.

* Software: Debian stable and podman/podman-compose. All my useful services are just folders with compose files. I use podman-compose to turn them into systemd units.

If the stuff in the article is the kind of thing you're into, that's awesome, go ham! But you absolutely do not need to ever, and you certainly do not need to do it right away. I run a bunch of services that my family uses daily on this thing, and we use less than half the 16GB RAM and never get over 5% CPU usage on this old, ~free PC.

If you just want to print stuff (like if the printer is to support another hobby, or you have a business) get a P1S/X1C or a Prusa MK4. I wouldn't personally bother with an AMS until down the line when you're sure you need it.

VORONs are fantastic if you want a fun and very well documented robot building project, and at the end you get something pretty comparable to a Bambu. It can be a frustrating process at times but you'll learn a lot about a variety of interesting stuff. The printers are also massively hackable and moddable, and they have larger build plate options (although ~250mm^2 is realistically enough for most home users). Bambu is the exact opposite mentality, fully closed source, they work incredibly well but are effectively a black box. Think Linux vs Mac.

Another option would be to see if you have a local maker/hackerspace, they will usually have at least one decent printer.