That's really tough, sorry to hear that. In my case, Oz drastically reduced my own triglycerides. Even after a ~2 week fast, my triglycerides were over 700. Nothing I've ever done has brought them down as quickly as Ozempic has. My primary is a D.O. and he's been fantastic to work with through all of this. I set the stage early on for my own risk tolerance and he's happy to work with me on self experimentation. Any doctor is hit-or-miss, but in my limited experience D.O.s have been more willing to work with me -- if you've never tried one.

Though if you were being literal with "unco0ntrolled," it feels like the risk of pancreatitis vs the definite, undersatnd path of high glucose is worth the attempt either way? Or it would be to me.... I hope you find somebody who will work with you on it.

I've been diabetic for about 20 years now, mostly controlled through diet. I lost about 60lbs over three years - also mostly through diet. Aggressive low carb and IF. But I hit a hard wall and decided to switch from an oral "extra" (in addition to metformin) to try Ozempic. I could see ways that I could market/sell around it.

The experience is a lot like The Sinclair Method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Little_Pill) for alcoholism. I've not personally had that issue, but I've known people who had and walked out the other side with pharmacological intervention.

I know around a dozen people taking some form of GLP-1 agonist - oz, wegovy, compounded generic semaglutide. The pattern has been almost universal - even at the lowest doses -- extreme gas, a "I'm going to vomit" like feeling, shaking/tremors, constipation, etc etc

I recommend developing the McSimethicone or perhaps Chicken Simethiconuggets. Arby's could change their marketing to "We got the meats...and vegetables!" Every fast-food hamburger could ship with a Pepcid AC ground directly into the patty. ... but seriously, the fresh vegetable market stands to make a ton of money. Nearly universally (in my experience), there are mental changes that accompany GLP-1 where the types of food you can tolerate or crave drastically change. I have been a meat-and-veggies person for decades (no potatoes, no fruit, etc) ... but mostly through force of will. I loved pizza, I just didn't let myself eat it very often. Now I'm down another 20lb and the mere thought of pizza makes me queasy.

My investment advice for the post GLP-1 world is double-down on locally raised meat and varieties of vegetables.

In my experience, this behavior varies heavily based on what connection the monitor uses. HDMI and DVI, things tend to work great. DisplayPort is uniquely bad for a desktop use-case, where even permanently connected monitors go away from a desktop connection when you power them off. Or, I should say, that behavior is implementation specific depending on who built the monitor.

KDE seems much worse at handling monitor add/removal that other DEs, too. But I haven't seen it being a problem with X. Maybe the Nvidia drivers? I switch to AMDGPU a few years ago and stopped buying NVidia cards. My multi-monitor support is much, much better under AMDGPU.

With his persistent advocacy of "Safety Third". The unintended side-effects of systems like this are that people who have to get a job done have completely different incentives from the people who want this sort of should-surfing.

https://mikerowe.com/2020/10/o...

That's always in demand, and probably more after the apocalypse. Whiskey and ammunition...

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "Monitor0"
        VendorName "Unknown"
        ModelName "Unknown"
        HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
        VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
        Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Device0"
        Driver "nvidia"
        VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
        Option "SLI" "1"
        Option "Coolbits" "4"
EndSection

AH.... thanks for asking. I forgot teh "SLI" part : )

The NVS450 has 4 outputs; I'm using three of them. And they're not in the right order on the desk (according to the card)

I should mention I'm using relatively new drivers from NVidia's site, not the apt-able ones. 313.09, specifically, though after the 310.x series BaseMosaic hasn't broken any more.

I can confirm that BaseMosaic on an NVS450 works under LMDE (Debian Testing) using:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device "Device0"
        Monitor "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth 24
        Option "BaseMosaic" "True"
        Option "MetaModes" "GPU-1.DFP-0: 1680x1050+0+0, GPU-0.DFP-1: 1680x1050+3360+0, GPU-0.DFP-0: 1680x1050+1680+0; GPU-1.DFP-0: NULL, GPU-0.DFP-1: NULL, GPU-0.DFP-0: 1680x1050"
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth 24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

This is such a ridiculous comment I had to actually reply, and that doesn't happen often. I would have dismissed it as a troll, but I think you're serious. I'm a DBA (mostly MySQL + random stuff like DB2, Mongo, etc) and we're heavily virtualized on real workloads, real 24x7, on a product you've definitely heard of. And we're not incompetent. Doing real virtualization (we use VMWare with VSphere) is fantastic because:

1) Moving VMs between hosts with no downtime.
2) Hardware abstraction layer
2.a) Hardware upgrades with no downtime to any service
2.b) VM failover on the fly
2.c) Move VMs between datacenters
3) Cloned spinup
4) Snapshot backups (with OS integration)
5) On-the-fly storage expansion
6) multi-SAN connectivity
7) Resource pooling
8) Cost effectiveness
9) Resource oversubscribe (production, but typically unimportant machines get things like the memory balloon driver)
10) Rebalance of resources as workloads change.

Where virtualization really sucks (at least on VMWare)

1) SMP/multi-core VMs
2) Purple Screen of Death
3) 2TB limit on LUN size on ESX 4.x