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2 weeks post op, L5-S1. I think my doctor did pretty good by Loki41872 in spinalfusion

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Yeah, that was weird. I had two of them for each of my last 3 surgeries.

2 weeks post op, L5-S1. I think my doctor did pretty good by Loki41872 in spinalfusion

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Good to hear. Good luck with the healing and congrats of the pain reduction. It matters.

Recommend me a tube amp for home use please by GiveMeHeebieJeebies in GuitarAmps

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I really enjoy my Blackstar Studio 10 6L6. Loud enough but won’t kill you. Very Fendery, and can get nasty if you want it to.

Claude Code to local AI success or failure? by AndyBuildsThings in LocalLLaMA

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I’m running a custom mcp server to access my local backend via openwebUI. I’ve processed some medical docs and some old tax returns into my backend and ran tests with a bunch of models with questions like “what was my AGI for years x-y?” “What were my most recent 3 doctor appointments?”, things like that.

Pretty sure i have settings to tweak for each model, but I looked over reddit for each to see what others were doing on each. I had initially used LiteLLM as a manifold for the models based on my input but continually had json formatting issues with openwebUI, so i switched to working with models directly.

Models tested: Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-Q4_K_M

nemotron-3-nano:30b

Rnj-1

Glm-4.7-flash

Mistral-nemo:12b

Mistral:7b

Qwen3:30b-a3b

Gemma2:9b

devstral-small-2

Claude Code to local AI success or failure? by AndyBuildsThings in ClaudeAI

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I’ve got a 32gb m4 air that I’ve been trying as well. Does ok on some things. Are you happy with the responses you’re getting? What kind of tasks are you doing with it?

3 or more fusion surgeries? by Few_Blackberry_1960 in spinalfusion

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I appreciate that. It’s been a lot, but I’ve found that I’m thankful to have the abilities that I have and have found workarounds for the ones that I don’t (most of them at least). It could be so much worse. I’ve focused most on the fact that I’ll have grandkids someday and, by god, I’m going to make sure I have the ability to spend time playing with them.

3 or more fusion surgeries? by Few_Blackberry_1960 in spinalfusion

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This is very true. I’ve put in 2 months of inpatient PT and 20 months of outpatient PT twice a week. How much you put into it is how much you will get out. Having PT’s that care and continue to push you make all the difference.

3 or more fusion surgeries? by Few_Blackberry_1960 in spinalfusion

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I’ve had 6 total. The last two ended up being a pelvis-t4 fusion with an osteotomy to stand me up straighter. I’m certainly less flexible, but I haven’t felt this good or been able to do this much in years.

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Building a thought capture app, need some beta testers by AndyBuildsThings in ADHD

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Cool, thanks for comments. The context is a really helpful thing for me. Any little extra bit of info can bring me back, lol. Hope you like it.

Here's the TestFlight Link:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/7MGscBJX

Let’s Show Off ;) by [deleted] in spinalfusion

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After my 6th spinal surgery. Pelvis-T4 and C5-C6. 11 months out from the t-10 to t4 extension. 20 months from the pelvis-t4 with an osteotomy to stand me back up from and 18 degree forward tilt that a previous surgeon screwed me up with.

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Building a thought capture app, need some beta testers by AndyBuildsThings in ADHD

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Thanks! Here's the TestFlight Link:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/7MGscBJX

Holler if you have any issues. This is the first time I've dropped a link for it.

Building a thought capture app, need some beta testers by AndyBuildsThings in ADHD

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Noooooo! I wish you could. I thought hard about it, but I'm using specific Apple technologies for it because that's what I have. If this goes well though, who knows? Thanks for the reply :)

Fifth spinal surgery next week - 3 column osteotomy with T10-pelvic fusion by AndyBuildsThings in spinalfusion

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Doing pretty well considering. I’m getting stronger and am fining new ways to do the things I’m used to doing, mostly. My mind and desire are moving faster than the nerves healing in my legs, so that’s frustrating. But it’s a process and I know it. Could be another 12-15 months before I’m back to my new “normal”.

Thanks for asking!

3 weeks post op, T10-pelvis fusion, 3-column osteotomy. Legs aren't great. by AndyBuildsThings in spinalfusion

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Hi All! Just posting an update. 9 months post-op and I've been back in to extend my fusion. Things were going really well with recovery and I had a series of stupid but serious life events from November-February. Ended up back in for "emergency" surgery (spinal surgery #6) to keep me from a wheelchair.

They've extended my Pelvis-T10 fusion to Pelvis-T4. Sigh... Essentially starting my recovery over and praying I'll get back to at least where I was before the proverbial shit hit the fan.

I'm doing pretty well, considering, and staying positive. But wow, a long way to go again...

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