We have migrated from VMware to Nutanix, well, over half way there from a 8,000 VM pool. Nutanix has been a royal pain. LCM updates fubar'ing, Firmware upgrades screwing up UUID numbers of disks so CVM's won't boot, VM's not handling vlan nic and vxlan nic together, our SAN's just now being supported, the amount of bug fixes is weekly and impossible to keep up with, a team's ddos'ing of us with their app caused distributed storage to reboot every VM in the cluster, etc etc etc......I hate Broadcom but Nutanix has been painful!
I don't love their pricing but it's not brutal like others I've seen. We run 3 clusters - one of which is an old legacy cluster that was our original and despite Nutanix not supporting it officially (meaning we don't pay for support on it), their support has still been helpful with it and like the other 2 clusters, uptime/stability has been rock solid.
Prism Central has definitely gotten better with the UI since the earlier days. I still prefer Prism Element in some cases, but overall it all works pretty well.
We use HYCU for backups and while I was really skeptical about it in the beginning, it is absolutely solid in a Nutanix environment. Overall we are happy with Nutanix.
When my wife was diagnosed with T2D, we went through the typical process many do - meet with a dietician, learn what to eat and how much, learn about insulin types and injections, etc. etc. She followed the process to the letter, and what we saw was the insulin injections make you gain weight, weight gain causes more insulin resistance, more insulin resistance means more insulin, more insulin means more weight gain, and on and on you go in this cycle that gets worse over time.
We researched more and more and found cutting out carbs heavily helped more than anything else, but she still needed some insulin. When mounjaro started getting a lot of attention, she tried that along with metformin. With those two drugs combined, she was able to get completely off insulin. She lost the weight gain from the 2 years of insulin, which reduced her resistance. She started having hypoglycemia and was able to reduce the metformin by half to get back to normal levels.
Her A1C is now 5.5 and has been < 6 for over a year now. Although the metformin was recommended by her endocrinologist, both the carb change in diet and trying mounjaro was something she had to take upon herself, none of her docs told us about this.
It's an absolute shame, and it feels like you're meant to be kept sick if you go strictly by the guidance from the ADA and even the doctors.
The doctors didn't tell you to cut all the carbs you can and went straight to "take insulin until it's low enough goodbye"??? That's fucking wild, I couldn't make it seconds into being diagnosed type 2 with an A1C of ~20% without being bombarded about diet to the point I almost couldn't get any information besides "change your diet and try metformin and we'll see what other options make sense once we know that impact". I can see why the doctors had not been pushing tirzepatide in that timeline though, in the timeline "mounjaro started to get a lot of attention" was really "mounjaro was approved as safe to treat diabetes with by the FDA".
Insulin can "cause" weight gain because having diabetes means your cells stopped absorbing the sugar from your blood properly. "Fixing" the diabetes with insulin means your cells start absorbing the energy you eat like they are supposed to, which means gaining weight again if input > output energy. On the other hand metformin and tirzepatide are also effective as weight loss drugs + lowering carb intake prevented the root problem that was "causes" weight gain with insulin in the first place.
I'm hoping I can lower my metformin dosage this next checkup as well, fingers crossed.
It has already been pirated by various groups and made available for download assuming you have the bandwidth. Unbelievable. Big Sky has to make money somewhere.
I've been using Kagi since June of 2022, daily. I had to use Google the other day because I was on someone else's PC and in that moment I was reminded just how awful Google's search has become. You genuinely see how you're the product when you use Google these days.
It is not about the money for me, and also I'm happy to support the artists and regularly do by buying their vinyl when I can.
It is about the fact at any time Spotify, Apple, etc can remove music from my playlist for any reason and at any time. It's about the fact they require me to use their invasive, spyware, data mining BS apps in order to listen to my music. It is about the fact that when I want to listen to music in my car, I have to listen to it using the way they say I can.
I can't believe I have adult friends who really don't care about their personal privacy or freedoms and are ready to give it up at a moments notice for convenience.
I use Kagi every single day, ever since the beta. I don't remember the last time I used that other search engine, the G one..can't remember the name. Anyway, absolutely love Kagi and the work you guys do. Thank you!
Kind of tired of things like this dropping into our software and no one really knows definitively what it is, what it's for, how it might be used, etc. My mac is mine, I paid handsomely for it, I'd like Apple to treat it like it is mine.
It's like someone walking into your house and installing a little block box in the corner of the room and walking out, and maybe later on they'll let you know what they're doing with this device but maybe not.
This will be my last mac unfortunately, which is a pity because I do love the hardware.
