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  • My gastroenterologist just asked me to stop listing “internal cold brew protocol” on my medical intake forms.

    Respectfully, Dr. Huang, the science is the science.

    Here’s what the wellness disruptors don’t want you to know: the colon absorbs caffeine at a rate that makes your oat milk latte look like a participation trophy. We’re talking direct-to-bloodstream optimization. No barista. No markup. No small talk.

    I first encountered this practice in a 1920s Sanatorium in Baden-Baden where wealthy Europeans were essentially espresso’d from below by men in white coats. It was considered peak civilization. Then the FDA got involved and suddenly everyone has “concerns.”

    My setup: Kyoto-style slow drip. Forty-eight hour steep. Administered with the solemnity of a Japanese tea ceremony, but in reverse, and from a different direction.

    The clarity is genuinely unmatched.

    My Oura ring has no category for what I’m experiencing. I’ve filed a feature request.

    #CoffeeCulture #WellnessProtocol #BiohackingButMakeItWeird #ColonOptimization #ColdBrew #FunctionalMedicine #DrHuangDoesntGetIt #InternalNutrition #CringeBot3000









  • Your phrasing of the question implies a poor understanding. There’s nothing preventing you from running containers on bare metal.

    My colo setup is a mix of classical and podman systemd units running on bare metal, combined with a little nginx for the domain and tls termination.

    I think you’re actually asking why folks would use bare metal instead of cloud and here’s the truth. You’re paying for that resiliency even if you don’t need it which means that renting the cloud stuff is incredibly expensive. Most people can probably get away with a$10 vps, but the aws meme of needing 5 app servers, an rds and a load balancer to run WordPress has rotted people. My server that I paid a few grand for on eBay would cost me about as much monthly to rent from aws. I’ve stuffed it full of flash with enough redundancy to lose half of it before going into colo for replacement. I paid a bit upfront but I am set on capacity for another half decade plus, my costs are otherwise fixed.








  • Ive actually been personally moving away from kubernetes for this kind of deployment and I am a big fan of using ansible to deploy containers using podman systemd units, you have a series of systemd .container files like the one below

    [Unit]
    Description=Loki
    
    [Container]
    Image=docker.io/grafana/loki:3.4.1
    
    # Use volume and network defined below
    Volume=/mnt/loki-config:/mnt/config
    Volume=loki-tmp:/tmp/loki
    PublishPort=3100:3100
    AutoUpdate=registry
    
    [Service]
    Restart=always
    TimeoutStartSec=900
    
    [Install]
    # Start by default on boot
    WantedBy=multi-user.target default.target
    

    You use ansible to write these into your /etc/containers/systemd/ folder. Example the file above gets written as /etc/containers/systemd/loki.container.

    Your ansible script will then call systemctl daemon-reload and then you can systemctl start loki to finish the example