Yup, exactly!
I'm pretty tech literate but I still come across things often within the Linux space that I have only recently been delving into properly that are just not written in a clear, understandable manner and I then have to waste hours researching additional things often many layers deep where each successive thing throws up more unknowns.
I agree it is bloody frustrating! I can only imagine how put off people are that don't have any tech know how to begin with!
I think you missed the point I was trying to make. Some people can start losing weight quickly by making those small changes but that isn't the case for everyone at all, so when I say it is a massive struggle for some people implementing stringent diets and exercise regimes, those are the people that making just small changes like OP is talking about hasn't been effective and consequently their weight loss / fitness journey can be a lot more of a struggle.
I was not trying to put OP down because it is beneficial for not only themselves but society as a whole for them to live in a healthier manner, I was trying to get across the point that when talking about these subjects to be mindful of everyone's own journey within health and fitness.
The people that do find it hard for reasons such as pointed out by your other response to this post can already be very demoralised by the journey as a whole and to just be claiming it is all so easy by making such small changes can be even more demoralising for those people by making them think what is wrong with them or what are they doing wrong which in turn does minimise and diminish the effort they are putting in.
I have no desire to put OP down in terms of making a positive change in their life and tried to write a response that put that across as we should all be encouraging each other to live healthier lives, in turn I hope OP encourages other people too to make positive changes in their lives, I just think it is important as well to not approach it by framing it as "easy" because that can be seen as dismissive to people that already struggle with health and fitness.
I'm not going to disagree with what you say because everyone can benefit from small things and should be encouraged to start small so that they don't quit early on trying to change their entire lifestyle in one go but claiming it is easy does not help achieve that and will sometimes have the opposite effect for people that aren't finding it easy.
Everyone has their own journey with its own issues, I just wanted OP to be able to encourage other people with his story but in a manner that won't be seen as negative by some others :)
You are kind of disregarding and minimising the struggle that a lot of people go through to try and lose weight.
Everyone has different experiences and everyone's body will react differently to diets and exercise, for a lot of people it is a massive struggle and despite following strict diets and exercising religiously they will still struggle to lose weight effectively.
You obviously react well to differences in diet but if you were also only around 95kg despite eating inordinate amounts of shit for 10 years then it is obvious that you don't put weight on as quickly as other people can through having a shitty diet.
I, like you, am very lucky that I can eat shit for a while and won't put on a lot of weight. I can fluctuate 5kg within the space of the same week so for me I prefer to measure progress through actual fitness and gains in things like stamina and strength as weight is just not a reliable indicator for me at all.
Don't get me wrong it is fucking great that you are making healthier choices and actually getting some exercise, hopefully you stick to it for the long term and make positive habit changes for yourself going forward. Hopefully you can find some exercise that you actually enjoy and start chasing something more meaningful such as stamina, endurance or strength rather than just a number on scales. Going forward from now hopefully you will notice the improvement in your everyday life that even a minor improvement in base fitness can provide.
I just think you should also be mindful of going around thinking "this shit is easy" and getting some kind of superiority complex over people who have been struggling with health and fitness for long periods of time, it isnt a good look.
Good luck with your continued progress, I hope you get more into fitness in general and start to reap the benefits outside of numbers on a scale :)
I think a big part of the problem with wider adoption, particularly of less tech savvy people, is the documentation is often terrible. This is true of the FOSS community in general in my experience. There are many great people working on great projects for the FOSS community but when it comes to writing a guide to help people implement things they far too often assume a level of knowledge of the reader that is unreasonable to assume for the wider world of people that could benefit from their work.
If more people could write simple, broken down guides on how to implement and use their software then it would decrease the barrier of entry. Far too many things I see have instructions that include terms or processes that are too complex to expect an "average" person to know or understand and that will put a lot of people off as your average user doesnt want to try hard just to figure out the language used for a world they may not have an interest in getting deep into but those same people could probably benefit from the end result.
Because the majority of people (I realise that won't be the majority of people on Lemmy due to the general user base) aren't technologically literate enough to flash custom ROMs and the like on phones even if they want to get away from the bullshit you mention.
Graphene is the easiest for sure and when more phones are supported with that kind of easy install I believe it will embolden more people to make the switch away from crap they don't like.
I can't remember the drama with audacity, the usual over reaching and collection of data type shit I think but you should check out Tenacity instead which is a fork of Audacity.
"In a world where a footballer often goes down in a heap after the slightest of nudges"
I can't stand football but have you ever tried getting hit from any angle when you are full out sprinting? You will also be "going down in a heap".
What about fighters of all levels taking hits constantly but having the mental and physical endurance to keep going on?
Ultra runners who carry on despite breaks, sprains, blistering etc and that is usually for their own personal goals not a "contract"
This whole article smacks of "look how much better and more resilient we are than other sports" energy.
Every sport has injuries that happen and consequent shows of both mental and physical fortitude from the athletes participating if you want to get into a dick swinging contest, cyclists aren't the only ones that push through those kinds of things.
They do have to show massive patience to put up with an absolutely petty and pathetic governing body though.
That isn't an English menu, the prices are in R which I think is South African Rand and not Pounds. It was more to illustrate the type of food available.
Yeh pretty much -
Cheers bruv.
My apologies no it isn't a type of food there, it is naughty in the terms of being indulgent or impulsive and is more of a turn of phrase that is often used in "lad culture" over here, which is sort of like a parallel to a "frat bro" in US culture. Think obnoxious, loud sometimes aggressive groups of guys.
Cheeky in this sense was in the past more often used in terms of alcoholic beverages so often people would use it to say things like "Do you fancy getting a cheeky pint after work". More modern usage it is often used to refer to food as well as drink and in the case of "cheeky nandos" will quite often be used by aforementioned "lads" when they have already had a few drinks and want to go and indulge in some chicken before going out and getting shit faced for the night.
Tldr: It is a turn of phrase used to mean indulging in an impulsive meal from the restaurant chain "Nandos"
Those cable ramp things are obnoxious and terrible for anyone using the pavement at best they are a trip hazard for normal pavement users at worst they are down right dangerous / make the pavement unusable to people with disabilities. Cables should not be going across a public pavement!