Linux users try not to mention that they use Linux during any single microsecond of their life challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) 🤯😱🤯😱

Gen x (1979) grew up as computers were evolving. Pre PnP hardware, where you had to use dip switches. Worked IT in the late 90s through until about 2005.

The lack of any technical troubleshooting, inquisitive nature, problem solving in the youth today is gobsmacking

I think this must be region specific. Where I am taxi drivers will refuse to use the meter and demand twice as much compared to using something like uber.

Windows starts to login quickly, it's slow after that, and shutting down is generally much slower.

Get with the times. It’s less than 10sec to login from cold boot in windows. The extra few seconds doenst matter.

When you're doing intensive physical work and start to feel it build; know when to stop and step away. You might be delaying completion of your task a bit a little, but if you toss out your back or have a nerve pinch and take a fall, you're useless for a lot longer than taking a break. I pushed it on a long trip with lots of heavy baggage and equipment, and suddenly my left side started failing me and I thought I was having a stroke and I fell hard on tile. I was trying to catch a flight so I had little choice, but before that I ignored all the little pains and misused my chances to sit down and heal a little so I could sightsee. Same feeling started building a couple weeks later when I was doing some landscaping and I was still pushing it, and my leg almost gave out for a second and I nearly took a fall on concrete. So I walked away and laid down. And I felt no shame in that.

For non-physical work: take an Aleve when you feel it coming on (not too often to avoid dependence or building a tolerance) to get in front of it before it compounds.

For all the lifestyle exercise tips mentioned here, I'd add to make sure you get enough fiber. It's surprising how much intestinal distress can worsen existing back pain.

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Upgrade to SSD you caveman

I also feel that this simple jump into load bearing exercises really skips many essential steps like mobilisation, not working through severe pain, etc.

YAY! SPRING BREAK !!!! ....wrong sub.......sorry

Agreed that you can work through mild pain, although it's best not to when in severe pain. You start with light mobilisation exercises without stretching and gradually move onto increasing your range of motion and bulking up through light stretching and increasing load.

Cool story bro

Switching an os for such a specific problem which solution we already know is kinda overkill

Yeah. If they don't find the prank funny (especially with hindsight), you shouldn't have pranked them.

Exercise and musculation are more important than stretching. It has been proven time after time that the best is to build up your core. Avoiding prolonged static postures also helps to not lock up various muscles and articulations. So many ways to find relief, like alternating cold and medium-heat and relaxation. Lowering your overall stress levels also contributes to your greater well being in cases where people are dealing with chronic pain.

It depends on where your pain is, and whether it is muscular or otherwise, but I found a very good solution for lower back pain (for me, since I spend a lot of time sitting), was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmGArQBtFI

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I do it every year, my wife thinks it's hilarious!

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For me this never worked. Brazil, Paraguay, France and India is always been cheaper go with apps.

Stretch those hammies!

Seal stretch. There’s PT method called the McKenzie method I was taught when I had lower back pain. More or less the idea is that we lean forward a lot every day, but rarely lean back. Here’s a video that seems to demonstrate the stretch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k_rbNlMUP5E

the true hero, you are

"What's the most fun you've had this week?" is a good go-to.