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Hey @turnerpike20@lemmy.ml OP, I saw this on Reddit and thought of you:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1dluz2r/comment/l9rlakb

That I was more addicted to the breaks and deep breathing than I was to the nicotine.

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Yes! Because what do you do when you smoke? You go outside and take intentional deep breaths and it relaxes you. So, I kept my full routine of breaks when I needed, went outside and took intentional deep breaths. Just this time without a cigarette. Quitting was SO EASY this time and zero cravings. Because it turns out, she was right.

I need to replace a set of expired smoke detector at my elderly parents’ house. They’re too old to have alarms going off in the middle of the night just because the wind blows.

Yet, Amazon only seem to sell ones with photo-electric sensors, and many reviews complain about over-sensitivity with dust, and under-sensitivity when the room is clearly full of smoke.

Additionally, the ones with sealed 10 year batteries - many reviews report a battery life of 2 years or so in practice, with increased false positives as battery life runs down. So now, they have to replace whole units rather than just batteries.

What happened to good old ionizing smoke detectors with 9v batteries that needed replacing every 2 years or so?!

In the UK, the ads for these patches also say “requires willpower”. From what you’ve written, it sounds like that’s the part of the process you need to find in you. Good luck!

I’ve found cleaning my nose before bed has helped - remove the day’s snot and boogers rather than sleep with it!

Libre Cloud’s head office is a unit on an industrial estate: 82A James Carter Rd, https://maps.app.goo.gl/nu75EEHEDFbY5PMW9 (Update: it’s a virtual office address, which doesn’t really inspire confidence for me)

They probably colocate at data centres.

Personally, I’m on Hetzner’s Storage Share (Nextcloud but without Collabora), and I’d prefer to trust my data to them: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

Regardless of your choice, I definitely agree that nextcloud rocks.

I like the system in Singapore. Organ donation is mandatory, though you can complete a form to opt out. If you’re on the opt-out register, you have a lower priority to receive organ transplants. Fair is fair.

Yes for zstd. Here’s a comparison:

https://github.com/azlux/log2ram#compressor

Trying to work out why this is a good idea. Please could you explain why?

Get a used pair of good headphones, buy new replacement ear pads off eBay/AliExpress.

Chunky chips, McFries, wedges, in a curry, in a soup, roast cubes, ROAST POTATOES!!

Pi-hole (or my preference Adguard Home) is great for devices connected to your home network. For your phone, go with Blokada (free) or Adguard (iOS, Android, paid - see Stacksocial for occasional license deals) - that’ll cover you at home and out of home.

Sinclair ZX Hand-Computer.

Watch ‘The Wire’ - the good guys are bad guys, bad guys are good guys. It’s all mixed up!

Thank you @Doctor_Rex@lemmy.ml for asking these questions, and for everyone giving answers. I was trying to plan out my proxmox installation, and you’ve all pointed me in the right direction.

Ah, that’s understandable, we don’t want Uncle Jim doxxed over the zombie game.

Thanks for the amazing lists of other things to do. I’ve got to agree that any form of exercise is the best alternative! Are you up for sharing your dumb games with us? I’d love to have a go!

I used to Google for help, but the thing about Google is you have to know the correct technical terms, but when learning Linux, there are many unknown unknowns. And then you have to trawl through am the answers.

Now, any time I enter a command and get errors, or if I don’t understand something in the logs, I’ll copy paste it into perplexity.ai - if necessary, it’ll ask for clarification. But mostly, it’ll suggest various causes and solutions, with explanation.

This is me!

Dragon/Nuance abandoned Swype keyboard. All I want for Christmas is that they open source Swype.

What a handsome dog! I hope your memories together stay strong :)