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I’m a personal trainer, I’ve destroyed two lumbar discs, gotten disc replacement surgery and currently working with a physiotherapist to get back on track. Back pain can have many causes. Anything from disc degeneration to muscle imbalances. If you’re not in pain that prevents you from doing them, there are a few exercises my physiotherapist has me doing.

• Glute bridge to activate your glutes. Underactive glutes can cause you to compensate with your lower back muscles, causing overuse.
• Prone cobra for strengthening your back muscles.
• Plank and side plank for strengthening your abdominals, obliques and deeper core muscles
• Lying hamstring stretch. Tight hamstrings, common in people who are sedentary or sit a lot for work, can cause referred lower back pain.
• Kneeling hip flexor stretch. Hip flexors are also commonly tight in people who are sedentary or sit a lot. Can cause a muscle imbalance with the posterior chain, altering the length-tension relationship in the muscles.

But if you have more severe lower back pain, go see a doctor and get an MRI if necessary to find out if there’s something going on with your discs. Don’t just try to work through pain and ignore the problem. That’s what I did, and it just made things worse. You may not necessarily need surgery, but it’s good to find the root cause so you know what options you have.

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“Privacy” from people peeking at your phone, while containing a hundred methods of tracking, monitoring and stealing your data on the system itself.

Thanks mate, and best wishes to you as well. You have china to deal with in your part of the world, we have russia.

Can you mention some of the changes you’ve made? Maybe it would help someone who might read this comment chain.

Next up, the sick fucking culture of russia that powers all of this. In Finland, we’re quite tired of it. And prepared for the next round.

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Good advice. We also swapped the blankets they slept on, to get them used to each other’s scent. Our older one hissed a bit but then chilled out. Later we the new one out, but we supervised their interactions for a week or two. They were best buddies after a short while.

We lost the younger one last year, and the older one keeps going to the place where he used to sleep to sniff around. This might be anthropomorphizing but I can’t help but feel like she misses him.

I was the same way before, but you have to weigh the pros and cons of having proper, long, randomized, unique passwords for each site against the possibility that your database password might be compromised. I only have my password database locally, on removable drives.

So in order to access it, I have to plug in a USB drive (I have backups) which only happens for as long as I need the database, then I unplug it. I also use a keyfile, which is on separate drives, just in case. If anyone wants to access it, they’ll need both the “something I know” (password) and “something I have” (keyfile) which is pretty unlikely.

Not advertising, but I use Keepass.

For a long time I went with IBM, then Hitachi when they bought IBM’s HDD division. Never had a problem with them. Though there was the infamous “Deathstar” and the click of death.