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Re: 2018 DIY ZFS NAS (Disaster)

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Re: MasterCard SecureCode and securesuite.net

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Re: MasterCard SecureCode and securesuite.net

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Re: 1 Year Personal Health Intervention Summary

Journey W. — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 23:49:35 -0000

Self care is the best - we only have one body and one life.

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Re: Building a Battery Powered PC

Julia Fisher — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 10:19:09 -0000

That's because connecting batteries will give you a DC current, while standard PSU requires AC current on its input terminal

Re: Motile M142 Cheapo Linux Laptop Notes

ed — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:49:18 -0000

How did you boot onto a usb drive? I'm fairly new to Windows 10 and it boots too fast for me to get to the bios.
Also... what is the key to get into the bios?

thank you if you reply

Re: Motile M142 Cheapo Linux Laptop Notes

lhl — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 18:11:25 -0000

Yeah, this is controlled in the BIOS I believe, I don't know how to adjust it.

Re: Motile M142 Cheapo Linux Laptop Notes

Rowdy Rick Wisenheimer — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:51:16 -0000

I'm curious, I'm running it with the stock Windows installation. I like the laptop fine so far - I've had it for a few weeks. However, it comes with little to no instruction. The one small issue I have is that my backlit keyboard doesn't stay lit and I have no idea if this is by design or if there's someway to change this. Would you happen to know? I emailed their support weeks ago (twice) with no response. Thanks.

Re: 1 Year Personal Health Intervention Summary

lhl — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:05:39 -0000

I haven't seen anything on ketosis and hair loss, although there's frequently temporary hair loss with weight loss (Telogen Effluvium). I suspect to the degree that there's hair loss it might also be triggered by changing hormonal levels (eg, higher DHT?).

You can look up the "Brain" category of my nutrition references, but in my research I found a fair amount of evidence suggesting that ketosis confers beneficial/neuroprotective effects (whether it's TBI, oxidative stress, hypoxia, neurodegenerative diseases, or even general cognition) but the evidence is still emerging - generally, I think there's a huge amount of bio-individuality and people should learn to listen to what their body is telling them and go with what makes them feel best, but to do less generalization.

Keto as an eating pattern seems to work especially well for specific phenotypes - eg, those exhibiting obesity, central adiposity, poor glycemic control, or that are otherwise exhibiting signs of carbohydrate intolerance. It might not be for everyone. But, I do think that long term it's probably a healthier option than most others, and longer-term studies are emerging. The Virta Health trial is going into its 3rd year with improvements in virtually every surrogate marker of metabolic health (https://www.virtahealth.com... , June 2y report: https://www.frontiersin.org... ), the FASTER trial tested VLC athletes that avged 20mo (9-36mo) on the diet: https://linkinghub.elsevier... and this paper was published with a cohort where 29% was on VLC for >36mo: https://www.oatext.com/long...

IMO Carbs aren't "as important" for health, simply because it's there's no essential carbohydrates (vs essential fatty and amino acids) - you can produce all the glucose/glycogen your body needs endogenously, but I'd agree that it seems like most people can healthily have reasonable amounts un-refined/cellular starch and sugar and my personal goal for being healthy has been to have the metabolic flexibility to eat carbs when I really want (which I do ocassionally) or even the rare crap meal/junk food (but recognizing that's probably not the healthiest thing).

The future of chronic/metabolic health is precision or personal rather population-wide, but even without rigorous instrumentation, I think people get much too wrapped up in trying to make rules that apply to everyone all the time when they clearly don't. Try some stuff, do more of what works for you, less of what doesn't. That's probably good enough.

Re: 1 Year Personal Health Intervention Summary

Sascha Ehrentraut — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 04:46:24 -0000

I cant say I studied all the data but what a great journey! Well done, keep it up and thanks for sharing. :)

I have gone full Keto for a few months. I also do the 8 hour feeding period on and off. At times it feels entirely natural and easy but often I struggle with energy levels. Especially Keto - no matter how much good fat I put in me I felt like I was floating, low focus, low energy and low mood. My body seems to handle intermittent fasting much better. Worth noting that I am also extremely physically active so of course this has an impact on how much and what my body needs to keep ticking over. Unfortunately I dont have access to doing all the blood work and actual testing so I have to go more with iterations and noting my own performance(physical and mental).

I am skeptical of full Ketosis as a long terms solution. Anecdotally I feel like it is something that is better to move in and out of. That there might be certain functions better with carb based energy. (I heard somewhere brain response actually slightly better to carbs than Ketons although you will mostly read the opposite by Keto advocates. And a notable amount of people have reported hair loss after long periods of ketosis but who knows that was a pretty tenuous call out). It seems very sensible to me that carbs are just as important to health (just a much much lower than the current average consumption) This is all anecdotal. I wonder what your thoughts on this :)

Re: Building a Battery Powered PC

Varró István — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 07:08:34 -0000

What if i link 16 pieces of low capacity 12V leadacid batteries serial? That would give me DC in the range 16*(11-14,4) = 176-230,4 Volts output (14,4 as highest under charging and i choose 11 as cut-off). My idea is that it should work with any generic PSU which is designed to work in the 110-240 range. However someone told be that the PFC circuits would burn down, but i donțt really understand that why. Any hint about this? (i need the 230 range for other usage, powering pc, laptop, tv and other electronics would be just an additional benefit.)

Re: Large Capacity Travel Battery / Power Bank

lhl — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 17:45:17 -0000

Laptops all charge via DC power, typically between 12-20V depending on the model. All batteries output DC. If you use an inverter, you are converting from low voltage DC to 120V AC that your laptop charger then has to convert back to DC for your laptop to charge with. You lose efficiency for both these unnecessary conversions. This is doubly bad if your inverter is using a modified/non-pure sine wave for the AC. You can search for “AC to DC conversion losses” or “difference between AC and DC power batteries” or the like to find out more introductory information on how that all works.

Re: 2018 DIY ZFS NAS (Disaster)

jackharvest — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 01:57:58 -0000

Now that... was a rollercoaster. And to think I got here by googling '"diy" "synology" "slim"' because I'm trying to create something similar in a MUCH smaller form factor. I couldn't stop reading though - very interesting. :)

Re: Large Capacity Travel Battery / Power Bank

Julien — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 09:36:11 -0000

can you explain why you would prefer 12V DC for a laptop charger? Also the RAVpower is AC as far as I can tell...

Re: What I’ve Been Up To Lately

Carol Hansen — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:34:45 -0000

Wow congrats! I read something similar for me, because I have been slowly working on my project SuperbEssays, it seems like forever. But your idea is brilliant. I hope you will have time to keep on your blog, I love your design choices.

Re: MasterCard SecureCode and securesuite.net

securesuit — Mon, 21 May 2018 17:22:25 -0000

For me was worse. This is 2018, I ran into the same thing last week, the only difference is that one day after a got a call from the MasterCard fraud department advising me about several transactions executed on the web on sites such as WINWIN store the more expensive one was for US$600.00, I canceled my card, and now waiting for cleaning those transactions from my account. To me this securesuite.net is a real phishing scam

Re: Building a Battery Powered PC

Asra Amm — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:52:08 -0000

Hi. I'm doing some research about running a mini pc on batteries. My question is: could I install a battery monitoring program so my PC could see the battery level just like a laptop does?
Tyvm

Re: Building a Battery Powered PC

Abarth Abarth — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 15:20:27 -0000

Hello, I am currently interested in building a solar powered pc. This would be easier with deep cycles and inverters as I understand, in fact I may just use li ion to inverter to psu if necessary, but am curios if anyone would have any suggestions for a build like this, only difference being that I would consume 200 watt for cpu and mobo, with 3 gpus each pulling 250 watt tdp, although I would likely limit the draw to around 165 I would prefer to use the 250 tdp with some estranged headroom.

Any response is apreciated.

Re: Building a Battery Powered PC

lhl — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 02:31:36 -0000

The HDPLEX is built for PCs so you shouldn't need to do anything hooking up to the motherboard, etc (some people recommend making your own harnesses to make the cabling neater, but I'm lazy and just did extra cramming).

Re: Building a Battery Powered PC

Brian Grant — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:36:07 -0000

how are you connecting the HDPLEX HiFi 250W DC-ATX (nanoATX Series) to the computer? Did you roll your own cabling for this?

Re: DIY Backpack VR System

lhl — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 03:58:16 -0000

Hey Dani, I've been traveling. This link should help you if you're looking for DC PSU options: https://smallformfactor.net...

Re: DIY Backpack VR System

Dani Martínez — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:08:40 -0000

Hi , I find this project really interesting and decided to replicate it myself but the DC psu that you are using its out of stock everywere, can you recomend me an alternative?
Its feasible/necesary use 2 DC pico psu (with less power but cheap) with a dual psu adapter as alternative?
Thanks a lot!

Re: DIY Backpack VR System

Scott Ownbey — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:21:45 -0000

Can I purchase your Vr backpack or pay you to make us one? scotto@animaticmedia.com

Re: DIY Backpack VR System

lhl — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:39:29 -0000

Probably less worried than all the other ways that electricity can kill you, be sure to read my previous posts on DC powering a system to make sure you're comfortable with soldering the leads etc. If you don't have any electrical/hardware experience, you may be better off buying one of the commercial options coming out soon like: http://vr.msi.com/index_VR_...