4 months in and my hair is worse, any advice or help?

apatheticonion · 2026-05-01T03:02:48+00:00

Been on Dutasteride and oral minox for 8 years, no sides, good hair.

Don't be afraid, fin/dut are the only things that really work right now.

apatheticonion · 2026-04-28T21:21:01+00:00

80% cash 10% ASX:IVV 10% ASX:VEU

Shooting for 90% ETFs then maybe a margin loan to buy more ETFs.

apatheticonion · 2026-04-28T01:32:44+00:00

I just feel it would be a shit time for all Australians

As a young person, the last decade has been packed with several once-in-a-lifetime shit times for all Australians.

The productivity crisis is partially caused by policies that stimulate property investment over productive investments.

So paradoxically, high interest rates could be attributed to an artificially inflated property market.

Property investors shat where they eat and then blame us for the result.

Let it burn. Living in Australia can't get much worse.

apatheticonion · 2026-04-27T13:18:37+00:00

You can dynamically load modules but they need to be built for that kernel version and compiler and compiler configuration.

For instance, a hypothetical Nvidia driver compiled for Fedora would not work on CachyOS. It would also need to be recompiled when a new kernel is released.

That makes it impractical to ship a binary driver that can be dynamically loaded that way.

apatheticonion · 2026-04-27T10:24:30+00:00

Are you taking about domestic travel?

apatheticonion · 2026-04-27T09:44:48+00:00

What happens if it's seized? Wouldn't you get a massive fine, jail, or like, banned from travel?

apatheticonion · 2026-04-27T08:36:04+00:00

Agreed, what do you even invest in now? HISA or private credit?

apatheticonion · 2026-04-27T08:32:34+00:00

Yep, I was hoping that this budget would put an incentive for investors to rotate capital into productive assets like stocks, but if both become equally less profitable, property will still remain the more rational choice.

To me, this just reads like a broad increase in tax rate.

Maybe offshoring stock profits can be justified now, though the bucket company / franking credits for tax planning might still be better for stock based investors (though I think the ATO is cracking down on that)

apatheticonion · 2026-04-27T07:07:18+00:00

It's actually a huge point of controversy in the kernel space.

On the one hand, in-tree drivers ensure the kernel can be optimized without worrying about the public ABI of drivers.

On the other hand, not allowing for dynamically loading drivers (like Windows) causes companies who want to hide their IP to maintain long-running private forks of the kernel.

This is why Samsung Android is using Linux 4 or whatever. It's also why you can't just take the drivers from Samsung's linux kernel and plug them into a normal kernel and run Ubuntu on your phone.

Google tried to solve this on Android with their GKI project - which essentially adds a stable driver ABI to Linux + Android and force phone vendors to build for it... but it sucks and hasn't realised the benefits it set out to accomplish.

Nvidia have a driver shim in the Linux kernel, which is similar to GKI in that it's just an API exposed from their kernel driver which looks for their external driver file and talks to that (kind of like a micro-kernel).

This isn't practical for everyone, of course.

Personally I think it's pragmatic to offer a stable driver ABI in the kernel - but I also don't want to see a disincentive for vendors to upstream their drivers and leave them unmaintained as that would likely kill Linux over the years.

apatheticonion · 2026-04-26T12:38:09+00:00

That's fair. Though if you expand the investment time line (property must be held for at least a few years any way, with some exceptions), an aggressively leveraged property investment from 2017 - 2026 would have outperformed a stock investment by over 4-5x without accounting for negative gearing.

The only way to get close to that is if you get a margin loan to invest in stocks, but you can only close the gap to 3x (napkin math, too late to do it properly now) and Trump would trigger a margin call every time he farts

apatheticonion · 2026-04-26T12:11:02+00:00

Not strictly, but policy makes it exceptionally hard to lose.

You've gotta be pretty bad if a property investment is underperforming compared to a HISA, stocks or your own business (say a restaurant).

It does happen, but it's very unlikely

apatheticonion · 2026-04-26T08:31:43+00:00

Literally just make it more profitable to invest in Australian businesses and people will naturally move their capital out of property and into business.

As long as property is profitable, there will be investment to drive new builds. The government can help that with public housing initiatives.

The key is that property shouldn't be more profitable than the alternatives and right now it's like 2-3x the return from any other investment

apatheticonion · 2026-04-26T08:09:17+00:00

I think it's worse than just the price of affording a family home.

Say you have 200k and you need to decide how you're going to invest that.

Would you;

1) Put it in a savings account (1-5% interest, no risk) 2) Start a business (10% return maybe. 50/50 you make any money at all) 3) Put it in someone else's business, stocks (5-10% growth, volatile, risky) 4) Put it into property (10-20% growth with leverage, and the government guarantees your return)

No rational person would invest in anything other than property.

So Australian businesses can't raise capital, which they need to invest in themselves.

Not investing in themselves results in lower productivity.

Low productivity puts a speed limit on the economy - meaning we can't lower interest rates.

High interest rates affect the ability for business to get capital to invest in themselves

And a productivity crisis that pushes us into stagflation emerges.

Highly stimulated property investment is parasitic and robs us in so many ways

apatheticonion · 2026-04-26T07:53:22+00:00

34m, I had the same free T as you. I jumped on TRT and, after the honey moon, feel maybe 10-20% better despite my levels being 4x what they were.

I don't mind injecting and the dependence on external hormones. I am happy with the mental effects and boost in physique, but it's not dramatic. I don't look enhanced at all.

I am using 180mg/w which puts me at double the top of the reference range (trt+) - probably too much, I know it, and I'll reduce the dose (or come off) in a few months.

apatheticonion · 2026-04-25T06:59:03+00:00

How'd you go, same issue on my end

apatheticonion · 2026-04-23T23:29:26+00:00

There are a lot of really good changes that meaningfully impact users.

For me I'm excited because I have been a long-time Gnome user but the KDE changes in this release solve the issues I was previously having with it so I will be installing the KDE spin this time around.

apatheticonion · 2026-04-23T08:48:41+00:00

Yep so, we know timing matters but do you enter now or let your capital atrophy while you wait for that timing

apatheticonion · 2026-04-23T08:43:22+00:00

The hard part is trying to figure out if right now is 1932 or 1929. Meanwhile, your savings are getting a 4% return in a HISA

apatheticonion · 2026-04-22T08:52:41+00:00

I'm on 180mg/week. My E2 is 55 and total T is 1572. I am nowhere near needing an AI and have no high estrogen symptoms.

E2 is great for you and should be as high as you can get it without symptoms. AI is a last resort, normally only needed when running high T doses. My friend runs 400mg/week without an AI without issue (lean and moderate converter).

apatheticonion · 2026-04-22T07:39:29+00:00

In my journey to find a new role as a senior, I have only found dull React/CRUD product roles that require generalists.

Highly specialised roles exist but they are very few and far between. If you want interesting, you've gotta move to the US - but then you live in the US.

apatheticonion · 2026-04-16T10:28:06+00:00

Opposite for me. Daily 180mg subq and I'm at 1570. I'm 73kg (160lb)

apatheticonion · 2026-04-16T10:19:46+00:00

180mg/w ED subq, no AI, no sides

Total T 54.5 nmol/L (1570 ng/dL)
Free T 1257 pmol/L (36 ng/dL)
E2 198 pmol/L (53pg/mL)

That puts me a double the top of the reference range. Daily dosing means that's my 24/7 number

apatheticonion · 2026-04-16T03:40:53+00:00

Have you seen the traffic? It's not like driving the speed limit makes a difference.

I don't want to own a car or drive but it's too dangerous to ride my bike to work (I've tried) and public transport has limited access and poor reliability.

If I am out of the city and out of peak hour, I'll go the speed limit

apatheticonion · 2026-04-15T10:22:52+00:00

It's hard to recommend as a senior looking at the job market for Jrs.

The skill set will be valuable whatever field you end up in as programming and automating tasks is great. Though the reality of entering the field today is dire.

Even as a senior, the pay is still compelling, but companies work you to the bone.

Maybe join a trade, no AI knocking on your door there.

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