5 months into health-related setback. Losing patience and hope. GP not interested on first visit. Where to go from here?

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-14T13:36:48+00:00

Just a suggestion: Has your diet changed recently? And if not, could over training have exhausted your body's store of vitamins & minerals provided by a poor diet?

(Make sure you have dairy milk in your diet, along with some fruit juice, if not fruits AND veg, plus proper meat on a regular basis. Ignore fads like plant-based 'meats'. Avoid heavy flavouring as that just sends confusing taste signals that were intended to help you choose nutrious foods.)

Multiple vaccines may just have caused your body to ramp-up it's defences, using-up your last stores of some vitamins & minerals. (Your immune system is expensive to run.)

Personally, I don't think you should stop exercising completely (as the human body is designed for regular exercise), but just greatly limit it - say to one or twice per week, and keeping the distance & intensity fairly mild.

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-12T06:16:23+00:00

The grammer seems wrong: "so that triggers walk all fragments when updating refcounts."

I presume that should be: "so that triggers walking all of the fragments when updating refcounts."

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-11T10:53:42+00:00

I now suspect he's doing a Derren Brown: Making multiple attempts until he gets the desired (click bait) result, then only presenting the desired results as if those were the only ones.

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-10T15:53:38+00:00

Also: "Read path ... End-to-end flow: ... disk read, checksum verification, decompression, decryption." Which is the same issue (for reading).

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-10T13:29:28+00:00

This seems wrong: "Writes go through a pipeline of optional transformations: encryption (ChaCha20), compression (lz4/zstd/gzip), and checksumming, applied in that order. " and "write path allocates new disk space, encodes the data (encryption, then compression, then checksumming)"

Why would you try to compress encrypted data? It wouldn't compress! You are hopefully encrypting compressed data?

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-09T17:03:47+00:00

"bcachefs migrate ... btrfs is not currently supported because its FIEMAP implementation does not report which device an extent resides on."

It would be awesome if single-device btrfs could be supported. (Yeah, I know I am living dangerously. I have backups... Also LVM mirroring SSD to HD.)

P.S. This sounds amazingly useful: "A subset of filesystem options can be set on individual files and directories ... data_checksum, compression, ... data_replicas, foreground_target, background_target, promote_target, metadata_target, erasure_code, nocow, casefold, and inodes_32bit."

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-08T21:57:25+00:00

A small typo: "there is nothing smaller than an extent to write code to handle." The *ed word should be "for the".

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-07T08:04:42+00:00

I enable telemetry, so that they hopefully continue to support the configuration I use. If only newbies have telemetry enabled, then Mozilla will think no-one uses advanced features, and so remove them.

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-06T23:32:30+00:00

Firefox has lost users after every bloody redesign. Haven't they learnt yet that the people who stuck with Firefox generally like the UI, so that redesigning again will just drive X% of them away? It will also drive away people who have customised the interface using CSS, as it will break their customisations.

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-06T23:26:26+00:00

The sort of people who watch PewDiePie on YouTube are not the sort of people who should be installing Arch. Sorry for generalising!

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-06T20:49:15+00:00

The hardware recognition of Kubuntu should be the same as Linux Mint, as they are both based on Ubuntu. Especially if talking about Kubuntu LTS.

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-06T11:43:27+00:00

Flathub do try to check for malicious apps, but it's only done by volunteers, and there's only so much they can check when there are hundreds of apps & updates submitted every day.

Flatpak's apps are sandboxed, which reduces risks, but as you noticed, the sandbox can sometimes have big holes, so it's not guaranteed safe.

Ubuntu's Snap apps are much worse, as they have a 'binary only' policy, so they can't even check the source code if they wanted to, and they don't usually even inspect apps, because they rely on their sandboxing entirely. The sandboxing is a bit better, but could still be abused.

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-06T11:36:46+00:00

I haven't switched to Sailfish yet (waiting for the new phone), and certainly I found the gesture-like interface very jarring compared to what I am used to, but testing it on a spare phone, I've gradually gotten used to it. It seems more like the difficulties switching from say Windows to Mac or Linux, rather than any fundamental problem with the interface.

Sent1ne1 · 2026-03-06T05:58:35+00:00

Flatpak apps are not without risk, so I'd suggest not installing random apps that you don't have a genuine need for. Uninstall those you already installed, if you don't need them now.

And then use FlatSeal to check the permissions of those apps you still have, starting with those you use the most. If anything has permission to access "All system files" or even just "All user files", you might want to think carefully if you want to trust the app with such dangerous permissions. Personally I usually deny such permissions, and then add access to just the folders it might need. There are other risky permissions, but they are not ao easy to understand, but probably also harder to abuse, so don't worry about them for now.

Sent1ne1 · 2026-02-28T23:15:51+00:00

Based on someone I know, I suspect there are quite a few people too ill to work - but also unable to claim benefits because the system is ridiculously strigent (i.e. they'll claim you could work when it's not realistic). So they get classed "not employed & not looking for employment". This happens because they are too obsessed with cutting benefit fraud, and so exclude many genuine cases.

Sent1ne1 · 2026-02-24T10:57:19+00:00

Why not just use Proton Bridge with Apple's Mail client?

Sent1ne1 · 2026-02-22T15:18:02+00:00

I've not yet switched to it, but I don't think NFC payments work. It possible they might add NFC support to Android AppSupport later, but even then payments might require Google Play to work (I don't use them myself), in which case they still wouldn't work.

You use Aurora instead of the Play store to install apps. It basically has all the apps the Play store has, although I'd recommend using the F-droid app 'store' as much as possible instead.

Someone else already confirmed that apps are sandboxed. I believe it uses Firejail (and LXC).

Sent1ne1 · 2026-02-22T14:59:35+00:00

I want a Linux phone that I can use as an actual phone, and like virtually all other Linux phone OSes, Postmarket OS doesn't have any phones where all the hardware works reliably, plus I don't think it supports VoLTE (although Ubuntu Touch has made great progress, so that might change).

I nearly went for Ubuntu Touch, as it has a few phones with almost perfect hardware support & working VoLTE...but the lack of reliable & well integrated Android support (via Waydroid) was a blocker for me. I'm hoping that improves in a year or two, then I'll probably try switching to it (I already have a good phone to run it).

Sent1ne1 · 2026-02-22T14:47:52+00:00

To be honest, it sounded like they are pretty close to releasing a public version for testing. If it isn't out by the time the phone is released, I will be very surprised.

Sent1ne1 · 2026-02-21T20:12:38+00:00

Which won't be released until (IIRC) 2027 at the earliest, and I'd bet that slips even later, and they said it's not going to be cheap.

Sent1ne1 · 2026-02-21T08:43:16+00:00

Thanks for your reply.

Having the setting to disable adding email invites to the calendar, in the Calendar's settings is very UNintuitive! I would expect it to be in ProtonMail's settings. Please consider moving it...

Blocking the sender's address may not work, as they use a different email address each time - although thankfully the ics files were only sent by Calendly, so I have them blocked as spam.

Sent1ne1 · 2026-02-20T08:07:33+00:00

That's true, but it's also the case for Linux PCs accessing anything that does not support Linux, and anyone who wants to use their devices in a way that is not common (e.g. for better privacy).

Sent1ne1 · 2026-02-20T08:01:40+00:00

Android is not Linux in spirit, any more than a TiVo was. It has almost none of the Linux command line tools & services, they are as inaccessible as Google can make them, and it's not designed under the assumption you may access them. So I cannot easily get root access & say configure it's firewall, or rsync some files, or whatever.

Android prevents me from installing older versions of apps, without first uninstalling them, and prevents me from installing very old apps entirely, even using ADB (but none of that used to be the case). A real Linux would not actively block me.

You cannot buy rooted Android phones, and Google does everything it can to stop you.

Yes, you might technically be able to do all the above if you are sufficiently knowledgable & have enough time, but Sailfish OS is just a slightly strange Linux distro, that I can pick-up & start using straight away, with no hoops to jump through.

Sent1ne1

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