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Cake day: May 19th, 2021
  • RiderExMachina@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is it really just ageing/ getting older? How is this supposed to work? How is everyone else doing this?English
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    25 days ago

    I’ve started having issues recently, too. After a work injury, I finally saw my GP, who recommended Physical Therapy, which has basically just been a guided workout with some yoga moves worked in over the course of an hour.

    It hasn’t fixed my pain yet, but it’s made it better, and my pain was explained in a way that makes sense (my shoulders and core weren’t as strong as they should have been, placing undue burden on some of my backmuscles).

    If you don’t want to go to PT, I’d strongly recommend just slowly doing 10-15 minutes of simple stretching like what you might have done in Gym as a kid. Stretch to the point of mild discomfort, not pain, doing each stretch 3 tines for 10 seconds. It might be worth looking into some basic yoga poses that target your particular pains (or the ones that you want to target first).

    I’ll bet you’ll notice good results after a week. If not, definitely go see your GP again.

    Obligatory “I am not a doctor”

  • RiderExMachina@lemmy.mltoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•The reason everyone thinks Americans have no culture is because their culture is prevalent everywhere.English
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    7 months ago

    Ehhhhh, I don’t know if I agree with this.

    American “culture” has had a whole bunch of definitions, usually changing with the decades. For most of the 20th century, you could point to something and say “That’s American”; things like milkshake bars and greasers, anything surrounding the hippie movement (that we actually probably stole from somewhere else), and… Whatever that strange design of random shapes the 90s had.

    After 2000, there hasn’t been really anything that stands out, in part due to the rise of the internet, and in another, the dangerous build environment. In order to have culture, people need to congregate in a place and create something meaningful. Because Americans go to work and then go home, often with little-to-no time in between from long commutes, they have no time to create the next “culture moment”.

  • RiderExMachina@lemmy.mltoTechnology@beehaw.org•We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score | iFixit NewsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I work in electronics manufacturing and I’m torn on this issue.

    On the one hand, fuck Apple for requiring to go through so many hoops.

    On the other hand, every device my company makes has an internal checksum and if one PCB is installed incorrectly, the main board throws a fit because the device checksum doesn’t match.

    It sounds like Apple may do something similar for their products and it sort of makes sense: determined people try something crazy like take an older iPhone and install a newer Wireless module or replace Lightning with USB-C. Neither of those things were intended by Apple, and there’s a huge potential that it wouldn’t work.

    With that said, it’s absolutely overkill for things like display or digitizer replacements, which are going to be the majority of repairs on iPhones.

    Tl;Dr - fuck Apple, this is dumb, the users have the right to repair