great question. Can I take creatine and skip the workout hassle?

If your body requires more creatine than your diet currently provides, then supplementing with creatine would help, even without exercising.

from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42578920/ (CrM is creatine monohydrate)

  Results: CrM supplementation without exercise training and diet intervention increased lean tissue mass, strength, and muscular endurance while promoting favorable changes in selected blood lipids, HbA1c, and selected markers of cognitive function and memory. Creatine supplementation during an exercise and weight-loss diet intervention increased lean tissue mass, promoted a greater reduction in body fat percentage, and improved muscular strength, endurance, and selected markers of cognitive function and memory. Supplementation was well-tolerated.

  Conclusion: CrM supplementation with and without exercise and diet intervention may help middle-aged and older adults maintain muscle mass and strength while favourably affecting selected markers of health and cognitive function. Individual cognitive and biomarker findings should be interpreted as exploratory.

Going from minimal exercise to light-moderate exercise will do as much for you as creatine would. To me it's almost a no-brainer to try doing both.

For me, just creatine doesn’t seem to do a whole lot. But heavy workouts (with or without creatine), energize me enormously.

You can do the workout and skip creatine and its marginal benefits pushed by gym bros and health influencers beyond reason.

At the beginning of the century, I used to live from October to September looking forward to the next OS release to fix the bugs I would encounter. Maybe because I was not aware that it would eventually choke my low tier machine. Now, I dread the day I will upgrade the OS

If Apple wanted to make the OS more secure, they would make the OS more modular, allowing users to reduce the surface risk by not installing bloated components

So far, I haven’t read many complains about GG. Only the huge amount of space that the AI takes on the disk

they should release the new OS on the 1st of January

why did you do that to yourself when an alleged fix is coming in a few months?

Figured it might be slightly less painful to update one major version at a time.

iPadOS 27 also isn't looking so hot that I'd believe macOS 27 to be a magic bullet.

yes. I have been waiting 12 months already because Tahoe didn't convince many people, and I dread the moment I upgrade my mpb m3. Maybe I should just keep the factory OS

A consumer respecting brand sells products. A Consumer selling brand sells consumers so they can be profiled, analysed for weaknesses and exploited economically in the name of Surveillance Capitalism

It is sad that Twitter is basically a private closed gate monopoly that people beg to use instead of developing alternatives like RSS

Social media is addictive. RSS is not. Social media is profitable so worth marketing. RSS is not.

It's the ability to reply, I think. Like this one. Makes you feel like you're doing something even though you're just shouting into a black hole where some other people are also shouting and you might even hear each other sometimes.

There was a time when Twitter supported RSS, it lived at @your-username/rss

Then they stopped it, because "eNgaGeMEnT" or w/e

Selfhosting friction has to be close to zero for that to work. And Termux is already way too much.

what is termux ?

Way too much, obviously. It’s an Android app that exposes the underlying Android OS cli, and bolts on a Linux user space. Unsure why it’s relevant to this discussion

Termux lets you run on your phone things you'd normally need a Linux (apple) pc or a vps.

Maybe selfhost on an old phone? Just guessing what the OP meant.

Yeah I keep yelling at Mum “Stop logging onto Twitter and develop and enhance RSS” but lately she’s stopped speaking to me.

macOS mail application used to receive RSS news feeds. It couldn't be simpler for your mom than that. She wouldn't even need to log onto twitter

This year, it got cloudy right at the climax. Luckily, we were watching it from home. I would therefore warn people against spending stupid amounts of money on something that a few scattered clouds can easily ruin