BearOfaTime

As someone a little older than you, who's dealt with chronic pain for 30+ years and despises the gym, I'm giving you some "tough love": you're just gonna have to do it. The trick I've found is to focus on what tomorrow will look like because of what I'm doing right now (those tedious physiotherapy exercises).

But, ease up on your self-criticism, you're clearly not able to do much right now, again, having "been there" for 30+ years, you simply can't force it, you must be patient and wait until you're recovered enough from the current thing.

A couple other things that have provided tremendous improvement:

Massage from a therapist that approaches it like physiotherapy. I've had a few therapists where it was challenging to get through a session (because it's painful, just like working out or physical therapy), but each visit I'd reach a new level of flexibility/mobility and reduced pain. Which I can then maintain with my own exercise.

Yoga. Because yoga provides both flexibility and strength training simultaneously, it can be very effective. You use one set of muscles to stabilize, while stretching their complement. It has an isometric element using your own bodyweight. This guy's story has been my inspritation for years now.. As bad off as I am, he started off way worse. He gives me hope. DDP's own story of coming to yoga is also inspirational, and most of his stuff is on YouTube.

Just remember that so much in life is about doing a little bit, repeatedly and regularly, not doing a lot at once. It's better to do 15 minutes of yoga once a day than going to the gym sporadically.

You got this, you can do it.

Edit: forgot to mention a Theragun. They may seem gimmicky, but I've seen first hand how effective they can be. Be careful of the knockoffs, some really suck so much it would make you think the whole idea is bunk. There are other brands that work, I just don't know which ones. You can get the Theragun mini on sale for about $100, it's at least a known quantity. If anyone knows a good knockoff, I'm all for spending less. Just the ones I've tried have sucked (though one massage therapist has a knockoff and it works fine).

Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials that use polymers as a main ingredient. - Wikipedia

: a plastic substance specifically : any of numerous organic synthetic or processed materials that are mostly thermoplastic or thermosetting polymers of high molecular weight and that can be made into objects, films, or filaments -Merriam Webster

plastic, polymeric material that has the capability of being molded or shaped, usually by the application of heat and pressure. This property of plasticity, often found in combination with other special properties such as low density, low electrical conductivity, transparency, and toughness, allows plastics to be made into a great variety of products. These include tough and lightweight beverage bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), flexible garden hoses made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), insulating food containers made of foamed polystyrene, and shatterproof windows made of polymethyl methacrylate. -Brittanica

Composites like CF and fiberglass use those materials as a stress distributing component and a plastic component as the rigid layer.

Historically fiberglass composites used things like polyester resin - a polymer derived from oil - as the rigid component.

If that's not a plastic, what is it then?

Metal? Wood? Glass?

In the 90's telcos were exposed as providing a connection for feds to duplicate any and all comms.

Or, hear me out... Don't use Twitter?

Virtualbox has awful performance issues though.

Use a distro that has native KVM.

get Win10 LTSC. It gets updates 2x/year, has very minimal bloat.

Then get O&O Shutup to reduce bloat even more.

And you can permanently license it using Microsoft's own scripts.

Scripts on Gituub.

Hit your local library, look for DVDs from The Teaching Company, pretty sure I've seen ones on Home Repair and other skills.

Thank you for this. Always looking for good historical shows to add to my library

Who said he didn't just take it with him in the trunk to deal with later? 😁

The simplest cocktails have the smallest margin if error

See: Gin & Tonic, the drink that 99.4% of bars can't make right.

I suspect Group Policy will be fully effective at disabling this, and there's a documented way to prevent it being installed and to remove it.

Imagine a massive corporation built on Risk Management, legal constructs and regulation, such as Wells Fargo, Capital One, CSC, Bank of America, etc, suing the pants off MS because this caused a leak of something, especially some data that's strictly regulated.

MS wouldn't stand a chance. Those places have ruthless legal organizations that know their world inside and out.

In the 90's, Good Will was exposed for spending 80% of what they took in on running the company and salaries. There was also something about the CEO paying his wife for a bullshit role, or she was the CEO and made millions per year.

Unless I know the charity personally (as in I've looked at what they take in and what they spend), they get fuck all from me.

I have a local charity that publishes a pamphlet every year showing a high level of what they take in, and what they spend money on (buying clothes/food for people, maintenance on their facilities, etc), including any salaries (largely maintenance on facilities, accountants, and a couple folks in management).

Over 80% of what they get in donations goes directly to helping people.

Unless a charity is open like this, they're a scam in my mind.