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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.

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I’ve found playing solitaire on my phone is just the right amount of stimulation to keep me engaged, but repetitive enough to put me to sleep after maybe 2 or 3 deals, at most. Often it’s only half way through a single hand.

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

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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.

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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“The crash caused significant damage to the aircraft”. Um, what aircraft? You mean that hole in the ground?

Glad the pilot’s OK.

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