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Cake day: July 29th, 2025

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  • I realize this may seem more critical than helpful, but trust me, it comes from a place without judgement. This is purely advice, not criticism:

    Vomiting and pooping aren’t effective solutions, because they don’t actually help you lose weight.

    Vomiting with a high frequency wreaks havoc on your esophagus, vocal folds, mouth, and teeth. It’s a stopgap measure for consuming too many calories, but it won’t help you. Rather, it will only make things worse.

    Pooping does NOT lead to weight loss. This is a common misconception, one I held until my 30s! As it turns out, weight is primarily lost through breathing! Pooping is mostly just removing the waste that wasn’t kept by the body from the food you ate.

    When you burn fat the vast majority (like 84% or something) leaves the body through your lungs as carbon dioxide. The rest as water through exhalation, urine, and sweat.

    The key to weight loss is eating fewer calories than you expend. The simplest way to do that is to eat fewer calories, but this can be really difficult for people like you and me. The alternative way is to exercise, though it takes quite a bit of exercise to offset food intake. Just remember, anything that makes you breathe harder is helping you lose weight faster!

    Definitely talk to your doctor if you’re concerned about your weight, especially since it sounds as though you have an eating disorder (which are nothing to be ashamed of and are far more common than people think; binge eating for example is an extremely common eating disorder that I myself suffer from).



  • They aren’t wrong. You’re keeping the mass constant, they’re keeping the volume constant.

    I think the confusion might come from their phrasing: “the same volume of ice as water,” which could mean “the same volume of ice as the volume of water” (which is what they meant), but could also be interpreted as “the same volume of ice in the form of water.” The latter interpretation doesn’t fit the rest of their sentence though, so we can safely assume they meant the former.





  • Oh I’m still a Windows user, haven’t yet migrated over (though I do have a Nobara install I’ve played with a bit, I haven’t tried to get Apollo working on it). I stream 2560x1440 and just ignore the black bars, but I could request 2560x1600 and I think it would work just fine (I prefer the higher resolution for higher quality, rather than the native 1280x800, though I can confirm that requesting 1280x800 works when my bandwidth is limited).

    That setting is handled within Moonlight, and Apollo respects that setting by default, so Apollo presents itself as a virtual display with the resolution requested by Moonlight. At least that’s my understanding.


  • Turns out the major difference is the thing I use most: virtual display in headless mode.

    When I connect as a virtual display, I have Apollo set to treat the new virtual display (whose resolution is set by Moonlight’s settings, so I can control it on the client end). Headless mode means all apps open in the virtual display, so I never need to go to the PC itself. And finally, in the advanced settings I have it set up so the virtual display is treated as the only display, so existing applications move to the virtual display (in case I already had Steam or Battle.net or whatever open).