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  • I dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu, it was super easy to do years ago with a YouTube walkthrough, I’m sure there are even better ones now.

    I’d recommend just finding one that makes sense to you and following that step by step, it’s a very straightforward process.

    I’m not sure about secure boot, I had to disable mine.

    I have a single SSD drive and have had zero problems switching between Windows and Linux for years.

    Backing up your hard drive is the only precaution you need that I know about.

    I can access Windows from my Lennox installation, and have transferred files from Windows to Linux, and I haven’t seen any problems. So anecdotally, I don’t think you’ll have any trouble with them being on the same drive.




  • Pretty important to note that while the no surprises act is a successful piece of legislation alleviating medical poverty, the " surprises" the article is talking about is shitty doctors acting poorly.

    "Insurers, however, charged that big physician groups — some of them owned by private equity investors — are trying to manipulate the process to squeeze out higher payments. “A small but significant number of bad actors” have flooded the system with cases “as a way to maximize revenue,” said Kelly Parsons, a spokesperson for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. “Should this trend continue, health care costs are likely to rise unnecessarily.”

    The no surprises act is helping people, and greedy assholes are taking advantage of it.









  • The study begins by adding up how many people self-reported taking multivitamins in some reports, then they added up the dead humans.

    Pretty simple.

    I thought I said there were no relevant variables and parameters? I’ll check.

    Yes, I said relevant in point four.

    I guess I could have used it in two and three also, although I think it makes sense in context.

    I stand by my earlier comment and don’t see the need to edit it to add in the word “relevant” to further dunk on an irrelevant paper.

    Here: There are no relevant controlling variables or parameters that make this study useful.

    It’s not even a curio because any number of factors could influence the conclusions of their addition.



  • There are many problems with this post and this study:

    1. This study did not conclude that there are no health benefits from taking multivitamins, that’s a false equivalence made by the poster.

    2. This study has no parameters for the quality or types of vitamins taken other than “multivitamin”

    3. This study exclusively reports the correlation between mortality and multivitamins, which is an inconsequential and useless statistic without any parameters.

    4. This study does not take into account any variables apart from a lack of long-term health disorders among multivitamin takers.

    This is relevant as many people take vitamins specifically to rectify long-term health disorders.

    Then again, seeing as how their only metric was mortality and not efficacy on health, that wouldn’t have mattered in this study.

    1. Objectively, a large percentage of the multivitamin market are older people, who are more likely to die.

    This could be one of the explanations for the 4% higher mortality rate in multivitamin takers. I’m sure there are others, since no variables are parameters were taken into account or structured into the study. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2820369

    This “study” is the sum function on an Excel sheet that counted the number of deaths connected to the number of people who reported taking multivitamins, which is a useless number without controlled parameters or variables taken into account.

    The study means nothing.