That depends on whom you ask. 🤷 And how eager are you to live in a remote community?

KDE FTW.

S-Pen? 🤷

I strive for clarity in everyday communication, but reserve the right to play when ambiguity is easily tolerable. I try to make life easier for second-language speakers in English and I appreciate it when they do the same for me in their language.

Good thing I never finished a project!

Yes, that’s true. I wouldn’t say that that entirely fits Bob, but the point stands. He strikes me as having eventually stopped being capable of Beginner’s Mind.

Those sentences prove nothing of the sort. And you really have no reason to get that arithmetic so wrong. And you could have looked it up instead of guessing. He has a Wikipedia page.

He was born in 1952.

There are good reasons not to follow him. No need to invent bad ones. That only hurts the credibility of people decrying him in public.

I don’t know what those first two sentences are doing. This kind of thing is exactly what mesmerized young me and puts wise me off.

One thing worse than appealing to authority is appealing to your own authority.

I infer they mean that you can’t divorce CICO from patterns in hunger signals.

People make unnecessary assumptions and that causes them problems. When I took active part in various Keto and LCHF communities, I volunteered to help with that. No, you can’t just eat bacon. No, carbohydrates aren’t forbidden, but merely limited. And so on.

I remember some active folks helping people who didn’t want to eat meat learn how to eat Keto without meat. Some of them even managed not to be stereotypical vegans. 😉

And I’ll tell you what I’ve told everyone who has "well, ackshually"d me about CICO: yes, but sugar seems to cause most people most of the time to struggle with limiting food intake, whereas fat tends to do the opposite for those folks, so eating more fat and very little sugar helps them play the game on easy mode. This is an effective way to transform eating habits. I was one of those people. Eat fat xor sugar, for the folks who understand Boolean.

And I’ll point out three things:

• Studies that purport to study and debunk low carbohydrate eating routinely choose limits for carbohydrates higher than what Keto and LCHF folks actually eat, which renders those studies inconclusive with regard to Keto/LCHF. They’re debunking something else. Some of those studies, for the sake of simplicity, feed subjects fats in a way (typically large amounts from a single source) that no human would, which avoids the benefits of eating a variety of whole foods, which Keto and LCHF approaches recommend. (Even Protein Power, which incorrectly recommended increasing protein intake during the Atkins craze of the 1990s explicitly recommended switching from processed food to whole food.)

• There’s no guarantee that the health problems introduced by extensive Keto/LCHF eating are worse than the health problems that accompany an extra 20-50 years of obesity. (Some studies, including one by Banting (I’m going by memory and will accept being wrong about this), indicated that at least some of the population can eat almost zero carbohydrates indefinitely with good health outcomes.) Neither “side” can be sure of its stance here, due to the practically difficulty of studying this question. In particular, cancer comes for us all, in one way or another. In many ways, life is becoming an exercise in ensuring that cancer gets you instead of some other disease. 🤷

• Many folks, including me, report success using Keto/LCHF as an intervention rather than a lifestyle. I can report that I changed my eating habits radically so that now, even when I’m not attentively restricting carbohydrates, my default choices hurt my body less than they did before Keto/LCHF. I think that’s why I’ve regained 40 pounds instead of all of it.

I get fiber by eating fiber. What’s the problem?

Nothing about the ketogenic approach to eating precludes fiber nor water and it does not promote maximizing protein.

It tells you to drastically limit carbohydrates, eat enough protein, and otherwise eat fat.

Some folks have reported better results eating more protein and less fat. More, not as much as possible. Not a ridiculous amount. 20-30 g per day more.

I’m very familiar with the complex social forces that lead people to get this wrong and for those wrong messages to proliferate. Please hold your cards and letters.

Source: I lost 160 pounds in my 30s eating keto and only gained back 40 once I reached middle age. I know that’s not double-blind, but it’s also not nothing.

Peace.

Ugh. No. I still don’t know how to just boot this backup. When I try it in an older laptop, the keyboard and trackpad stop working once I log in. I presume this is a hardware driver problem. Presumably that’s unavoidable.

I am, of course, not eager to screw up the BIOS settings on my daily laptop.

I couldn’t figure out how to boot the cloned drive in a VirtualBox VM. The tutorials seem to assume that I have a virtual disk image or enough internal hard disk space to copy the cloned drive locally in order to run it locally. That defeats the purpose.

So I’m stuck. If I can’t just boot to the USB external drive because of UUID clashes, then I don’t know what I’m supposed to have gained by cloning my laptop’s internal hard disk. I have a backup that I can’t safely boot to. 🤷

I continue to be grateful to anyone willing to try to help me understand how to do this. It’s literally the only thing that stops me from feeling 100% comfortable with a Linux distribution as my everyday OS. I feel like I’ve been living with a ticking timebomb for the past eight years.

UPDATE: I booted to Pop!_OS, then used chroot, but this is not what I was expecting.

Thank you for the warning. This is exactly the kind of thing that makes this not at all just as easy as creating a bootable backup of a Mac! And it’s the kind of thing that makes “this is easy” difficult to take seriously.

Now I know what to search for and I will probably be able to piece it together.

First, thank you for trying.

There’s what I want and there’s what I’m trying to do. 😉

Waving my magic wand, I’d like a bootable backup of my laptop’s internal hard drive. This is what SuperDuper does. I would like it to be straightforward: I issue one command, then I can boot from the external hard disk to which I have backed up. For bonus points, restore is merely backup in the other direction.

That is what I’d like.

I’m cloning a drive with Clonezilla and tomorrow I’ll try to boot to the backup drive. I would like to understand how restore works, but frankly, I’m not optimistic and I’m not currently eager to risk screwing up my laptop’s internal hard disk.

How curious.

I am now trying my first backup. There were extra steps and I think I did it correctly, but the web site inundated me with details in a way that Shirt Pocket did not do with SuperDuper.

I haven’t used Mac OS regularly since about 2018, so I take you at your word that backing up isn’t as easy on Mac OS as it used to be.

With any luck, this just works. There is room for a simpler and gentler introduction to this. Maybe I can publish one.

Easy? Is this the kind of easy that’s “easy once you understand”?

I want to be able to back up, not earn an undergraduate degree in how to back up.

Yes, but to folks accustomed to using SuperDuper to create bootable backups, it does not seem so straightforward.

Exactly. Designs are tangled, causing unexpected explosions in the next building. And when I invite programmers to create less-tangled designs, they scoff and call it “overengineering”.

And then another explosion in the next building.

🤷

(This isn’t the only cause/effect path leading to unexpected defects, but it’s a very common one.)

Folks like the idea of being a vigilante, but once you have a taste for using violence to get your way…