Metawish

Lots of great conversation here, I also work somewhere where this is required. If I didn’t need my phone for access to chat, I just wouldn’t use it for work. Alternatively, my phone has a work profile so I use that for any work related or non-FOSS apps. My IT guy even approved of my methods and said do the minimum and never more with tech.

I don’t care much for Biden, but I gotta admit, all the policies that could make a significant difference keeps getting blocked by…the republican congress! So yeah, not blaming Biden for the failure of policies and will vote for him

These kinds of lists always make me laugh, because it takes a very specific world view and experience and assumes all must be like that. Atomic Habit I do agree partially on, but you know two books that have recently changed my life? Certainly not on the list here.

4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman and The Little Book of Listening by Donna Duffey et. Al.

As someone who feels outside the domimate traits of society, Sensitive: The Hidden Power and The Power of Quiet are also books that changed my life in that I am embracing my own traits and talents, rather than struggle to adopt those more commonly sought after.

I use Zorin OS for my laptop that’s gotta be at least 15+ years but still kicking it. Outlasted the newer laptop I bought that was only 5 years old.

As someone who is only mildly into tech, Zorin is certainly familiar and I would probably recommend it to people.

I downloaded Gallium OS for my mom on her Chromebook, that’s perhaps another important consideration to make…what laptop someone has.

If you let go of the feeling that you were owed something (love, friendship, etc) in a relationship and just enjoy the time you spent together and what you learned from it, loss becomes a lot easier to deal with.

Also, people change, maybe you left the relationship before that happened. The relationship you remembered is not the relationship you’d be in now. I find that helpful to remember too.

Tbh in a sense this is the way tho…In the way that no singular event should be a defining victimization but instead to self-determine a better future. Complaining keeps you in the past, but having hope propels you forward into a future of possibilities.

Feel sad, feel upset, but don’t settle into the feeling. It is only a moment, and the way you respond will lead you down the path you choose with that response.

BMI is a bad metric because the data it was based off of was racist.

https://scrippsnews.com/stories/citing-racist-origins-american-medical-association-deemphasizes-bmi/

I’ve grown up underweight my whole life into adulthood, got on birth control, and now carry weight despite eating the same fruit/veggie based diet and less food (cause inflation hurts) PLUS regular access to the gym. Tbh thanks to the person who posted the articles because the cognitive dissonance was getting too much to handle!

Human connection is a need just as strong as hunger or rest, like it’a almost an accepted medical issue that loneliness causes early death. If anything, having such a low rate of marriage only further harms the low income group more than it would higher income groups

Bold to assume that it’s an instinct and not a taught and learned behavior.

I’ve been slowly implementing steps from this guide, but I just don’t understand changing the default SMS app to a different app…is it a case of using open source applications? I guess in Silence case, that provides some level of encryption, but wouldn’t there still be metadata? Also, I have a VPN that works on my phone always, and I noticed both Blokada and Netguard require the one port used for the VPN…should I drop the VPN on my phone and use Blokada instead? Thank you for making this guide by the way, I have a Samsung device and can’t find any open source OS that support it so I have to keep using it as is and wanted to find ways to secure it.