Verify your sleep habits and that you’re actually sleeping through the night. Disturbed sleep really messes with the cycles, so you don’t get proper sleep. If you snore, that may be an indication of apnea, which can really mess with sleep.

Take a look at your diet, and eating schedule. If either are inconsistent, it can affect quality of sleep.

If you drink soda, (or any bottled drinks), work on changing that. Between the sugar and caffeine they can really mess with you in so many ways when consumed regularly.

This is a hard one - pay attention to (and respect) your sleep gate. I’ve struggled with this my whole life. When you body tells you it’s sleepy, listen, and go to bed. I know, it can be tough. But overriding your sleep gate can really mess with your sleep schedule.

Hahahahaha, thanks for the chuckle, that’s perfect!

If it’s in Forbes, it makes me wonder what new agenda is being pushed and by who.

Check out JMP.chat

Their big idea is phone numbers that pipe all calls AND SMS into XMPP. It’s $5 mo for unlimited messages, and the rate for voice calls is less than 1¢/min (I forget exactly).

So now calls and sms for my second number come through an XMPP app on my phone (Cheogram), and through apps on other devices/operating systems (e.g. Snikket on iOS, Gajim on Windows and Linux).

Voicemail show up as attachments via XMPP in Cheogram, and it does transcription.

You can use pretty much any XMPP app you want, but I’ve found only Cheogram supports phone calls well. I do use Monacles Chat on my phone for messaging and disable message notifications on Cheogram.

Massgrave also has links to installation media, notably the LTSC versions. The IoT LTSC is especially nice since it lacks lots of the bloat.

https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media

Disconnect the network to force it to do local account creation.

Check out Hermit and Native Alpha. They make websites work like apps. I use them for Amazon, my bank, my medical insurance portal, Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart, my local libraries, dictionary.com, etc. Pretty much any website I use regularly.

Combine it with a password manager (Bitwarden), and it’s almost exactly like using an app except much less phone data collected: no location, no installed apps, no phone number, no device or advertising ID, no battery level, etc, etc. Only what I allow the browser to give it (and both of these have settings to limit data collection).

Also, I find it works way faster than some (bloated) apps, and it’s a single install for multiple services so I’m not eating up storage for crappy apps.

Yep.

I think to be more specific it’s like popular music: the broader the reach the more it’s appealing to fundamental aspects of human nature (aspects that everyone has to some degree). This makes it more useful from a data collection standpoint.

This makes it harder for outliers to avoid, even if we want to, as everyone else using something like WhatsApp means we have to fight against the tide of other people and not just the crappy companies.

Oh, for sure.

Even though there are numerous easy to switch to, more private, robust, platform agnostic, and synchronizing apps out there.

It’s arguable that even Telegram is more private than SMS.

I’m mostly willing to use whatever someone has, provided it’s not one of the great offenders like WhatsApp. While I don’t care for Signal (mostly becuase it doesn’t have desktop sync, yet), I’ll happily use it with anyone who has it. Or Teleguard, Telegram, XMPP (my preferred), etc.

There is, just too many people refuse to use something more modern than 1987.

I’m going to save this video for family and friends who refuse to switch. It probably won’t change their minds today…

Great point.

This could be added as a warning.

Eventually, if you don’t stop at a red light, something’s gonna happen and it’s probably not good.

Lol, for sure.

I don’t know what the laws are like, but I’m pretty sure there’s quite a few that are really going give him a bad day.

If you just met them, you’re likely asking to deep or personal of a question for the current relationship.

“Uhh, you just told me?”

Lol, that was not a smart move, son.

Oh, wow, I didn’t realize masgravel license 365 too.

Mushroom, mushroom!

Exactly.

Just like any art, once you put it out there it’s not up to you how people use it.

Your question isn’t clear.

Just because the results they find are gov sites people don’t do it? I don’t follow. Seems like gov would be a good source?

(Well, not really, I’m sure they leave out some crucial details).

I strongly disagree on the small lenses. Now your reading zone is a larger percentage of the lense, so you have to move your head more. A larger lense enables a lower rate of change from the central reading zone to the distance zone.

How the zones are designed is a significant factor too. You can have a larger reading zone (say you do close work most of the time), or a smaller reading zone if you only occasionally do close work. It’s really important to work with an optician to get the right setup, especially for your first pair.