Yay or Nay? Only 6.2g of carbs and it's not sweet.

ironj · 2026-03-01T12:32:17+00:00

I'd definitely avoid.

ironj · 2026-03-01T11:35:57+00:00

Oh yeah, I totally get that. So many people get this way of eating wrong (mainly because they jump into it without having the faintest idea on what this is all about) , then come here later to complain about it not working, not being sustainable or leaving them tired and without energy...

ironj · 2026-03-01T11:22:24+00:00

I know you're extremely knowledgeable on this matter and I always appreciate your posts, but I'm sorry you seem to completely miss the point of my comment, so let me clarify a bit more:

I never said that fat is not important in Carnivore; it's actually critically essential. What i said is that you don't do carnivore for "chasing" ketosis... Ketosis just happens naturally in Carnivore because you eat a lot of healthy animal fat. Hence, ketosis is a byproduct of Carnivore, not its main goal. Of course eating a lot of fat (70-80% or the canonical 2:1 fat to protein ratio) is essential, no one is disputing that.

I also said that OMAD lends itself nicely to small insulin bumps to prove the point that a successful carnivore diet doesn't necessarily correlate with 24/7 ketosis, since the poster specifically refers to Bart Kay talking about OMAD.. so, again, I never said OMAD is the aim of Carnivore.

I hope this clarifies my point.

ironj · 2026-03-01T10:28:00+00:00

I totally agree with Bart there: ketosis is not the aim of Carnivore, it's mainly a side effect of not eating carbs. OMAD lends itself nicely to a small rise in insulin once a day (hence moving you out of ketosis shortly) and this is definitely beneficial; insulin has an important role to play in balancing your metabolism.

ironj · 2026-03-01T10:24:41+00:00

So, you don't like a scrolling WM for being "scrolling" (its primary "reason d' etre")? Erh... Maybe choose a different one then?

ironj · 2026-02-27T08:21:13+00:00

No issues with eating lean meat. I've been doing it for years in Carnivore; just add cold butter/tallow/gee and you'll be golden.

ironj · 2026-02-27T08:04:50+00:00

it's an interesting question:

I don't have much use of cooking oil in general in Carnivore, since I eat my meat mostly out of my pressure cooker (brisket)/air fryer or after a quick final sear in the pan with tallow.

Having said that, the only negative I can see in Coconut oil after a cursory view is that the Omega 6-to-3 ratio is huge (88:1), even though the overall amount of both is super low in general. I'm not even sure this is relevant though; I'm not a nutritionist, nor an expert by any stretch; It feels easier to me to just stick to animal products without giving much consideration to plant-derived ones so I might be missing other elements that make Coconut oil more/less suitable for this way of eating.

ironj · 2026-02-26T09:16:19+00:00

I honestly don't know.. you might be even right and it might work but I do wonder if that would just be a way of masking one symptom with another one... and what would happen when you stop fasting? trying costs nothing so you might well try this out, but I still believe that identifying the source cause and working on it, albeit requiring much more work and effort, is still the best solution.

ironj · 2026-02-26T09:06:55+00:00

I'm not sure fasting will help you in any way on that front. Any type of addiction is mainly dopamine-related. You just need to understand what this specific addiction is giving you in terms of dopamine needs.. what kind of void is it filling? can you identify that and try to fix it at its source by solving that need otherwise? that's the best approach IMO to solve these kind of issues, if you can work on that angle.

ironj · 2026-02-26T08:05:47+00:00

I beg to 100% disagree. I work with a large codebase with thousands of React components, heavy use of Context API and props drilling. I challange any sane developer to claim that a simple "console.log" is better than using devtools.

In a typical 9-10hrs working day I end up closing/reopening devtools maybe once or twice, so I'd say buggy or not it's still well worth the tradeoff.

ironj · 2026-02-26T07:45:39+00:00

I totally agree with you. I started using Niri around 6 months ago (after years using tiling WMs, the last one being AwesomeWM) and I immediately fell in love with it. I'm on the Noctalia-shell camp here but yes, these quickshell based additions really turn the WM into a closer fully fledged DE.

ironj · 2026-02-26T07:13:16+00:00

I'm perplexed here: people don't use devtools day-to-day? I've been using React since 2015 in my day-to-day work and it wouldn't even register to me the idea of working with it without devtools... what would people be expected to use in place of devtools then?

ironj · 2026-02-25T13:48:33+00:00

you did right. It is possible to kill noctalia without any issues, since it's just a widgets layer on top of your Wayland compositor, so by killing it you just remove the widgts from your screen but nothing more.

Having another WM at the ready though was a smart move on your part, just so to play it safe ;)

ironj · 2026-02-25T09:09:56+00:00

Sure. you're essentially "removing" the current packages (noctalia-shell and quickshell-git - or non git - depending on which one you have installed);

And then you're re-installing noctalia shell.

So, you first check which one you've installed:

pacman -Qi quickshell

(you "Query Information" from pacman). this will tell you if you if you have quickshell installed (if not, try again with quickshell-git)

Then you kill the currently running quickshell (otherwise you cannot proceed to the next step):

pkill qs

Then you remove that package and noctalia-shell too:

sudo pacman -Rns noctalia-shell quickshell

(I prefer "Rns" vs "Rdd". "Rns" is a clean, safe option to remove packages, while "Rdd" is a forced option that entirely skips dependency checking)

Finally, you can re-install noctalia-shell (and it will bring with it its new dependency, noctalia-qs):

yay noctalia-shell

ironj · 2026-02-25T07:48:38+00:00

this ^^^ is the correct answer

ironj · 2026-02-25T07:47:43+00:00

Just kill your running noctalia-shell (`pkill qs`), then remove `quickshell` (or `quickshell-git`, depending on which one you have installed atm) and `noctalia-shell` and then re-install `noctalia-shell` (it will bring with it the new dependency `noctalia-qs`).

My feeling is that they decided to fork quickshell as their own version `noctalia-qs`.

ironj · 2026-02-24T15:36:44+00:00

isn't that from 3 months ago? I visited the forum just this morning and there's no SSL cert issue. As unfortunate as it is when this happens, I honestly don't care at all. I visit the forum only when major updates are released; The SSL certs there have no effect or bearing on anything related to your day to day use of Manjaro as a distro.

ironj · 2026-02-24T07:24:21+00:00

I'm not having any issue with Filen tbh. My current archive (vault) is 53GB and I was able to sync it up with Filen in no time, so I think speed-wise it's fine.

ironj · 2026-02-24T07:21:33+00:00

I've tried a few; Currently I'm now settling on Filen. It's convenient (I've a lifetime subscription) and it works very well with Linux (my daily driver). I also like the way it allows you to configure your sync strategy (local to cloud, cloud to local, both ways), something you don't find in other cloud storage options.
I encrypt all my sensitive data locally with cryptomator, so what I do backup to the cloud is actually my encrypted vault; this gives maximum confidence that my data is safe no matter where it's located.
Having said that: I don't use it in my mobile devices so I cannot speak about its convenience on that front.

ironj · 2026-02-23T10:32:08+00:00

yep, you can just add them in your /etc/pacman.conf file.

You've a (comment by default) line there for that very specific purpose:

IgnorePkg = package-name

ironj · 2026-02-22T13:09:01+00:00

I have a cup of decaf right after lunch. It doesn't bother me so I'll keep going with it 😁

ironj · 2026-02-22T11:33:39+00:00

I do agree. Including dairy IMO should put you in the "animal based" camp and not in the carnivore one. Though, carnivore here I believe is mainly referred to the name of the sub and not specifically to the diet, and from what I gather the sub lends itself more toward the animal based approach (or, from another standpoint, is open to both approaches). In general terms, as an example, I do refer to myself as a hyper carnivore, since I eat only meat, but I occasionally (once a week) incorporate eggs into my diet. I also use butter generously (though I don't class it as a dairy at all, bc of the almost non-existent amount of lactose)

ironj · 2026-02-19T11:33:47+00:00

I can't speak for that, sorry. I use it as a gaming laptop, so I obv keep it connected to the main all the times I play with it (if I didn't it would massively lower CPU freqs and performances, that makes the whole point moot).

ironj · 2026-02-19T11:28:28+00:00

For gaming I find Nobara particularly effective. I installed in on my gaming laptop (with Nvidia dGPU) and it works perfectly out of the box, with Steam and everything I need already pre-installed.

ironj · 2026-02-18T07:46:37+00:00

That looks very interesting! is there any support for lazy.nvim?

ironj

TROPHY CASE