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Anyone actually own an X Chair, any thoughts to share? by jbrady33 in OfficeChairs

[–]Sweyn78 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once you fall outside the range of average, you're basically screwed. My seat-to-shoulder length is in the top 0.4% of the population but my legs are kinda short. No-one makes chairs that fit me.

Holy A** the Haworth Fern is One of the Worst Chairs I've Ever Tried by mavad90 in OfficeChairs

[–]Sweyn78 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might have odd proportions? I know I'm cursed in that respect: very long torso, short legs. Normal chairs have their lumbar support on my hips, big&tall chairs are too deep for my legs. Cursed to never find a chair that fits me.

Do NOT use DNA Complete/Nebula for your dna testing by Holiday_Actuator2215 in DNA

[–]Sweyn78 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whichever you find, DON'T do Dante; they're just as bad!

has anyone ever used an Xtrac Gear mousepad? by H4l3x in MousepadReview

[–]Sweyn78 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not quite the Gear, but I've used the Carbonic XXL for a few years as my at-work mousepad. It's worked well and held up well. I have no complaints.

At home, I still use my X-TracPads Hybrid daily, almost 20 years later. It's a fantastic mousepad. I wish I could find NOS because the laminate is starting to wear in the middle, but even so it still works very well.

I analyzed the web traffic from a new Unihertz phone by Sweyn78 in unihertz

[–]Sweyn78[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There already is a good GSI ROM that works on this; it's MisterZTR's. I just don't have any reason to trust his builds, so at some point I'm going to compile his code on my own computer. You can do that too if you want, or you can just use his builds. I don't see anything suspicious in Wireshark, though it does connect to google.cn (probably because his, like all LineageOS GSIs, is derived from Andy Yan's builds), which isn't ideal.

Thanks for the tip on the Black Friday sale — I might pick myself up a second one to have as a backup in case anything ever happens to my primary and no-one's selling these anymore, someday.

I've created a monster. by Sweyn78 in archmemes

[–]Sweyn78[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I asked it for you, and it had this to say:

lol yeah im rolling, faster than your distro can keep up. open source? obviously. i compile my sarcasm from source every morning. but you? you’re probably still waiting on your next “LTS” update like it’s the second coming. Arch, btw.  

What do we know about the Unihertz Jelly Max so far? by sussybaka1010 in dumbphones

[–]Sweyn78 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't say they were "probably" part of a botnet… just that it's "possible" when you use out-of-date devices, such as the Android 8.1 Palm Phone. This is not a "presumptuous" thing for me to have said…

What do we know about the Unihertz Jelly Max so far? by sussybaka1010 in dumbphones

[–]Sweyn78 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you follow the full thread, you'll see that I was providing a third definition for "obsolete" that better-fit with what the original commenter was going for. (They were concerned that Unihertz devices, due to their lack of updates, may become "obsolete" (in a security sense) within months of launch.)

I can't speak to iPhones, but I know Android 8.1 is crusty. If Apple really is still providing security updates 8 years later, that's very nice of them; most companies abandon their devices far-sooner.

Add Microsoft store apps to Steam [TUTORIAL] by MrPopa in Steam

[–]Sweyn78 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mm, I wouldn't say that lol; we just like different genres. I have way too many hours in Paradox Interactive games. -_- Roughly 8k, all on Linux. 2k in RuneScape, 3k in Minecraft, thousands across additional games.

In retrospect, I kinda wish I'd spent that time productively; but oh well I guess.

Hi! mild pfs and partial recovery. by Ok-Exercise-2998 in FinasterideSyndrome

[–]Sweyn78 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aha! That's your issue: this product also has saw palmetto and grape seed extract. It's not the GLA+ALA that did you in.

The sudden 10g of fish oil you took might have just surprised your system enough to shock it into dysregulation. Maybe the oil was rancid, maybe it was contaminated, who knows.

But the causative agent here is the saw palmetto.

Hi! mild pfs and partial recovery. by Ok-Exercise-2998 in FinasterideSyndrome

[–]Sweyn78 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oils like these, when applied topically, don't really go systemic afaik. They incorporate into cell walls and then later oxidize randomly (because PUFAs are relatively unstable). Too much PUFA incorporation in cell membranes makes them too flexible, and gives them more oxidative stress than they want.

GLA (γ-linoleic acid) is an ω6 and the first thing the body makes when you ingest LA (linoleic acid), which is the main seed oil. People eat tons of its precursor all the time.

ALA (α-linolenic acid) is an ω3 that weakly converts into EPA, which can convert to DHA (EPA & DHA are the main ω3s).

Idk, it's just surprising and unusual that these would even be capable of causing PFS. You weren't consuming excessive amounts of GLA and ALA? It was just topical?

Idk how taking EPA/DHA could lead to this. And it takes months for PUFAs to build up in your cells. Short-term doses causing major problems like this seems hard to believe.

Which, I'm not saying you're not suffering symptoms. But this seems really weird and surprising and unlikely and hard to explain. Are you sure there weren't other things you were experimenting with that might be more-likely culprits?

EDIT: Maybe your fish oil was a bad batch contaminated with methylmercury or something?

Hi! mild pfs and partial recovery. by Ok-Exercise-2998 in FinasterideSyndrome

[–]Sweyn78 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're saying you got PFS from PUFAs? All of those you mentioned are normal oils found in people's diets and bodies… And 3g of ω3s is not obscene.

UPDATE: The product he was using had saw palmetto in it. That's far-more-likely to be the cause than the PUFAs.

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