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When you're a hundred or older, you'll then regard it as a dash.

Good post. I've thought of creating a thread to relate what I've learned and give a list of resources. Most sites and advice are geared towards the money: young men with the dream of attracting babes. They'll buy anything.???? The methods are derived from Arnold bodybuilding. No wonder the eventual burnout and Dad bod. But most people only know about that, if anything. Our old resident bodybuilding guru, recently injured I seem to recall, didn't actually know what fitness is. So it's intimidating to think of all that time and effort to be expended in the gym. (Effective alternatives exist.) Not to mention a bit dangerous for seniors, for a number of reasons. However, the (cough) ethos of the forum discourages such a post. All the arguing, hostility, dogmatic pronouncements, nitpicking, proud affirmations of elbow bending, confusion of healthspan and lifespan, anecdotes about The Relatives or The Guys ("I knew some guys . . . ."), blah blah. Too much hostility. The entire goal of ANF Longevity Science is actually to create excuses and rationalizations for NOT dieting OR exercising. That is, to be happy blobs. The happiness of chasing docs and meds is somehow overlooked, however. Only a very few would be seriously interested and prepare to be convinced. And it does take some time after the decades of brainwashing. One Twitter poster joked that it took him 10,000 hours to learn that he can just spend a minimum 1 hour (an intense hour) a week strength training.???? So I post more on sites w/ members who share the same goals of health & fitness. Mostly younger people, but some older guys show up. NO hostility there. You might read Dear Over-45 Trainee… by a well-respected older trainer w/ a long track record. He's spot on. I follow P. D. Mangan, 68, daily on Twitter, one of my faves. But it requires some background reading really to understand what he's doing, why, and how he does it. He offers well-regarded 1-on-1 training that'd be worth it for those who can afford it and want the shortcut. I also follow Alexander Cortes, offers courses not too expensive. On Instagram, he's also got a great series on form. Knows what he's doing. He has a broad appeal. I favor intelligent, educated, well-read trainers who are all about fitness, not bodybuilding. Their Twitter feeds attract more intelligent, wittier comments, too. Today on AJAC one poster wrote: Self development for women is, “You are amazing, learn to love your perfect bad ass self.” For men it’s, “You’re a loser, time is running out, here’s how to get it together before you die a losing loser.” Probably a bit harsh but directionally not hard to see as more effective. We seem to be getting a lot more of the self-development for women here. ???? Exactly. Their preferred form should also be checked against some guru like Athlean-X on youtube. Also, they'll promote exercises you shouldn't be doing. They're out of date. Better than nothing, to get started, I guess, if you check behind them. The untrained in the gym--well, they're often funny (some guy playing imaginary hula hoop), but also setting themselves up for injury. I wince at some of the antics.

The container is formatted in NTFS. So you open the container and it appears like a drive formatted in NTFS, too. Supposedly NTSF support is baked in to Linux kernel versions as of 5.15 if you have that. Otherwise, you'll probably need to fool around with getting an NTFS driver for your Linux installation. Even so, NTFS is not one of the Linux standards and Linux still doesn't much like it, notably for writing. You have to be careful to avoid file corruption. As one guru explains, There is no risk that Linux will corrupt your files if you 1) properly disconnect ntfs drives or properly shut down your system before disconnecting 2) periodically have them checked on a Windows system, 3) only access ntfs file systems that have been properly closed on Windows (i.e., eject button in the tray or a Windows system that is **fully** shut down, i.e., no "fast start"). Linux doesn't really need Veracrypt, since it offers an encrypted /home and you can encrypt partitions as you will. The issue would be one of sync I suppose.

You should try it and let us know. The new operation doesn't seem much like the old Tony's.

In previous years the police attempted, with the usual limited success, to ban the PVC pipes. They went around and confiscated some. Didn't hear a thing about it this year, or about powder, so I assume it's now the classic experience.

Yeah, you check the specs before buying to make sure you're getting CMR. Extra step nowadays.

Snacks and meds on the table beside the recliner in easy reach.

Irrelevant, as the board in the promo under discussion is socket AM4. AMD, not Intel. Moreover an AM4 ATX with 6 SATA ports will cost only around B1200 more than the mATX at JIB. True. And I had noted it has headroom. I have a Corsair myself and it's been great.

"Welcome to the rebellion, brotha"

She doesn't seem worried about that.

Merely going by what he said. You? How about this: the OP gives you his bank AC# and you make a transfer to cover the extra expenses you prescribe? For some reason we never find posters willing to do that, or agreeing to raise their visa fees for the lack of public services they whinge about. But you could be the first, since you feel so strongly. ????

Or not. He's not building a new system--yet--but upgrading selected parts. Maybe he can get away with a minor repair. We dunno, and OP's not telling. As noted,

You're quoting the wrong poster. SIGH.

4 < 5 The OP hasn't expressed interest in buying any new parts other than SSD, CPU, motherboard, and RAM. One thing we've always been good at around here is spending other people's money. If he's indeed happy with his machine (we all have different standards of happiness--I do) he should take it to a shop and verify what the problem really is. Could be a cheap fix. Could even replace the m'board w/ another used one or a new Chinese board. Couple of years ago a member wanted to upgrade his CPU. He was of course advised he couldn't upgrade it (he really was), computer's junk, buy a new one. In fact, he could upgrade it. I recommended he get a used, faster CPU at Aliexpress. So he did. I think he ended up with an FX-8320 or maybe a FX-6300 for B700-1000. Installed it and an SSD, worked great, he was happy.

Me neither. I do it anyway, like brushing my teeth. Without exercise, including strength training, there's no slowing the inevitable loss of muscle and strength--and then sarcopenia. That's why you find most older guys shuffling or waddling or walking slowly. Telling indicator of frailty right there. It's amazing how dangerous falls are for the elderly. 30% might die within a year afterward. Often, by the time sarcopenia is diagnosed—if it ever is—a person’s abilities are so limited, and their complications so numerous, that it’s difficult to treat. “As you’re getting older and older, [gaining] muscle back is very difficult, almost impossible,” says Hans Dreyer, a University of Oregon muscle physiologist. --https://proto.life/2022/12/sarcopenia-what-a-waste/ The good news is that even a little exercise goes far. Keep in mind, increasing your VO2 max by any amount is going to improve your life, not only in terms of how long you live but also how well you live, today and in the future. Improving your VO2 max from the very bottom quartile to the quartile above (i.e., below average) is associated with almost a 50 percent reduction in all-cause mortality, as we saw earlier. I believe that almost anyone is capable of achieving this—and they should, because the alternative is so unacceptable. Once maximal oxygen consumption or VO2 max drops below a certain level (typically about 18 ml/kg/min in men, and 15 in women), it begins to threaten your ability to live on your own. --Peter Attia, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity True. They don't, and then they do, perhaps with surprising suddenness, a decade earlier than they might have. Seen how that works. By the time some preventable underlying condition shows up on the usual routine tests, damage has been done. Now comes the effort to deal with, in your case, the symptoms, for a decade or more. Unfortunately, the meds for alleviating symptoms may make the condition worse. They may have side effects you may not be aware of, ignore, or simply excuse. Vital signs are too basic. Need a full blood workup at least every two years--and know what the numbers mean, like the TG/HDL ratio. I do one yearly.

I would think the alternative is worse. Vigorous exercise, I do in the gym. HIIT keeps the cardio to 10 minutes of intervals. Recent study on oldsters just came out. In older adults, high intensity exercise (HIT) elicited similar benefits for oxygen uptake and blood pressure as moderate intensity activity, despite taking only half as long to perform. Additionally, HIT resulted in improvements in working memory. --High-intensity exercise shown to be beneficial for untrained older adults I do a moderate intensity walk 3 times a week on the beach. The air's not as bad in Pattaya. So far so good anyway.

Yes! Gaming helps. I have several installed on my PC and play regularly.

Watch me crash her motorbike! Hee hee! (Good one!) Maybe I can give this Thai permanent deafness in one ear! Haw!

Maintain a good long healthspan, slow the slide into morbidity to a shorter, steeper period towards the end of a probably longer lifespan. Fries wrote about compression of morbidity in 1980 and the theory has been affirmed and amplified over subsequent decades. Fries, James F. “Aging, Natural Death, and the Compression of Morbidity.” New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 303, no. 3, July 1980, pp. 130–35. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198007173030304.

You'll get wet. Besides the Promenade idiots, the bar idiots may cross over from the bars to the beach side and nail you if there's a shot. Avoidance puts you in danger as well. If the traffic's tied up, as it may be, then you'll be a sitting target.

The rate of aging starts to accelerate around 70 and really picks up at 75. It'd be nice if it would stay on the same gradual slope as in previous decades--but no. So that's disappointing. But it means that the effort to slow the decline must remain a priority.

No. Old ones abound but get no publicity. the National Senior Games, held every other year, brings together remarkable older athletes, some of them in their nineties and beyond. The record for the hundred-meter dash for women ages one hundred and up is about forty-one seconds. . . . A small study of nine well-trained octogenarian endurance athletes (cross-country skiers) found that their average VO2 max was 38, versus 21 for a control group of untrained octogenarian men, a difference of more than 80 percent. That’s huge. The athletes had the aerobic capacity of people decades younger than them,[*3] while the men in the control group had declined so far that they were on the verge of losing their ability to live independently. --Peter Attia, The Art and Science of Longevity

That is a profound question on this forum. Lack of support can be worked around if you know what you're doing. Safe browsing (with the help of addons), regular scans w/ third-party antivir, avoiding phishing scams, not opening doubtful files, firewall (third-party if needed), regular backups, etc. Security is the issue but maybe not as big as you may think for the average user keeping his nose clean. A lot of the feature updates aren't really needed.

Not bad, but mATX m'board, lacks sufficient SATA ports, would need a card. Case has only 2 3.5" drive bays. Be interesting if OP could work out a deal for different case. PSU model doubtful, probably low end, doesn't appear on the tier list: https://cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/.

You mean, getting off the benzos? Strong tea = caffeine. How about chamomile tea? I've tried @Sheryl's suggestion about having a fast-acting melatonin if I wake up early. That seems to work.