2026-07-28 17:50 UTC
When I moved into this place, I noticed that the water tastes a bit off and it tastes better (but still off) if you run the water for a long time (it turns out the standard advice for what to do if you have copper in your water is to run for a long time). Only one other person (out of ~10-15) noticed this taste, so I figured I was just imagining it.
Using the filter, I immediately noticed the water tasted better but thought it was probably placebo until I looked at the prefilter.
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@danluu@mastodon.social 2026-07-28 18:01
For a while, I had less mental energy than I used to. This used to be infinite, but it got harder to do things and I would get mentally exhausted after a lot of focus, which I can observe is fairly common but never used to happen to me. I talked to doctors, etc., about this and the universal response was basically "you're getting older; it happens", until I paid some "overpriced" private doctor (this is Canada, normal doctors are free) who did some tests and found a trivially fixable problem.