Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

@elliot yeah, last time I stayed in ketosis the whole 3 months.

I don't think it's necessary, but cheat days are just end up motivating me to break away from my diet, from past experience.

@calicoday I'm pretty heavy on the physical activity, and I go basically zero-carb to get started. Still, I'm shocked I switched so fast!

It's nice to have the energy boost and clear mind associated with ketosis, but once I hit a goal weight, I really prefer to have access to better food choices.

I went from 230 to 190 last time. New goal is 150, if I can.

After that I won't need to lose weight, so it might be my last keto diet unless I mess up.

Decided to do another round of Keto after an entire year off.

Last time I dropped 40 pounds in about 3 months. Haven't lost a pound since. Figured it was time to give it another go.

Took me only 2 days of carb restriction to get back into ketosis. Hoping for another 30+ pounds before the Summer weather arrives!

@winicons Somebody call the FBI.

@valkyraven oh wow, that's terrible. Hoping they get you back up sooner than that!

Republicans: "The Second Amendment exists to protect the First Amendment"

Also Republicans: Bans books and criminalizes freedom of expression.

@calicoday Yeah, I go to Reddit fairly often for that kind of thing. Basically a worse version of StackExchange.

But I created an account and tried to get back into the discourse recently, and had a way worse experience than I've had in the past.

The one thing that seems to have changed is that violent and harassing comments actually seem to get admin attention now.

I guess the toxicity has the admins seeing the writing on the wall for the future of their site. Probably too late though.

Returned to Reddit for some reason for the first time in years, and I'm not sure if I've just become a better person since I was last there, but the toxicity over there is just awful. Not sticking around...

@PixelAndPolyCurator I'm working on everyone's first Blender project right now: A donut.

I'll definitely post it once it looks the way I want it to!

I've been spending a lot of my free time learning #Blender, and I finally feel like I know enough to actually use the software. I'm still a complete beginner, but I might start posting stuff that I've made soon.

It's a really cool program, I've wanted to learn it for a long time. Really happy with a lot of the improvements over the past few years that make it easier to get started. Used to feel like I needed a degree to have a chance at making anything...

I'm always a little taken aback by some of the scam items sold on Amazon, but these faux CBD gummies with 15 MILLION milligrams (33 pounds) of "hemp" per serving might be the most absurd one I've seen so far.

To-do:

-Install Pop-OS.
-Install Drivers, software, and custom user config.
-Restore Steam library.
-Test everything to make sure things still work the way I like them.

Here's all that went wrong:

-Nvidia driver not compatible with Blender.
-Upgrade driver and lose graphics entirely.
-Downgrade driver and still have no graphics.
-Futile troubleshooting and frustrated googling.
-Try to boot from USB, MSI fastboot blocking all preboot USB.
-More googling...
-Take computer completely apart to get to BIOS battery.
-Reset BIOS
-Put computer back together.
-Turn of Windows defaults in BIOS.
-Boot to USB.
-Back up home folder to USB hard drive (ongoing)

Love it when a small project like "get Blender working with my RTX 2060" turns into an entire evening taking my PC apart, resetting the BIOS, backing up my NVMe, installing a new Distro, and reconfiguring from scratch...

To be fair, my PC has been through a lot of hacking, patching, breaking, fixing, and dist-upgrading over the past few years, this is probably a good thing that needs to happen.

Retiring Kubuntu and getting a fresh start with Pop-OS. Hopefully rendering with Cycles at the end.

Need a math tutor?