Phenomenal photograph. 💜

Good grief.

Where’s the strength in a strike if a court can just order people back to work…?

How about that.

Honestly never had a clue. Thanks for the share.

May it be so.

Private DNS is currently Auto (and not off). I haven’t tried to specify another.

Tracker control is pretty fantastic. It blocks an incredible amount of communication from every app including advertisements.

Examples:

• I love Gboard and detest Google’s data theft. And so, my gboard is now cut off from Google and offline with all features still available.
• I’ve made simple games like Mahjong entirely offline.
• I block dozens of trackers for apps I pay for which I think inappropriately steal information. Why on earth is Paramount+ trying to contact 43+ companies. Or AP contacting 32?

Tracker Control is a very very useful tool.

And… It uses only a tiny fraction of my battery. I’m talking 0.13% the last 24 hours.

I think it’s a great addition, but it sure does eat up a lot of space. Any way it can be condensed to the absolute basic information?

This is what it looks like for me on Boost:

We always called them sand fleas within our family. Never really knew what their real name was and hadn’t realized others called them sand fleas as well. We often used them as bait for fishing.

It’s terrible how companies like this can do anything they want with impunity.

This tool seemed so beneficial.

Oh my! 💜

I would always try to remind myself that the character is a person and they are simply observing things and that many of those observations are ones I would even make myself. There’s no wrongness in noticing any particular thing. It’s just input. However, when I’m describing observations about a person to someone else, I’m almost certainly not going to provide that kind of detail. It’s absolutely superfluous. And so I found Butcher’s propensity for that to be weird. At the same time, it was human enough that I felt it could be tolerated should the story be good. And the stories are good. I miss them.

It’s been at least two years since I read a Dresden story and I’m not sure what Butcher’s timetable is for more books. Word on the street (aka wikipedia) is that he has plans for five more. No idea if he’s written much in this world the last 4 years though.

I’ve never been good at “following” personalities, so I get surprised when I eventually find out new books are published. One author I enjoy just released the final book in a series I’ve been reading. I found out because apparently I’m on his email newsletter list. I guess I should be doing that for every author. 😁 No need to when it comes to Patrick Rothfuss though. I’ve given up on that dream. (Okay okay. Below the belt. sorry. But a little not sorry also. 😬)

Printed and posted on my wall. An incredible resource!

I enjoyed these books, but there were many moments of eye rolling and frustration especially early on. I started a game with my partner where I yelled “tips!” out loud every time Butcher describes the tips of womens nipples through their shirt. Gah.

Regardless, the books and characters grew on me and I really look forward to future reads. It’s been forever since the last book. It’s so odd to fly through so many books and then find myself waiting. I tend to read series really late and don’t usually have to wait. Ack! I even watched the TV series as a filler. 🤪

That’ll show’em.

I’m surprised I watched the whole video. Haha. Mildly interesting. Maybe slightly more than mild. 😁

It would be a huge undertaking, but a Fitness and Health tracker / aggregator that could replace Google Fit and the likes.

I really can’t bear how Google, Apple, Samsung, and all these big companies are the primary holders of our most intimate information. I’ve put some measures in place to limit who gets what, but it would be a huge boon to be the sole maintainer of my own info.

The problem is that the various apps and devices which report data won’t immediately support syncing with a FOSS upstart…

The app I use for grabbing my weight and BMI can only sync with a few other apps. The app I use for calorie and diet tracking can likewise only sync with a few apps. They happen to have Google fit in common, so I use that as an intermediary to transfer weight to the calorie/diet app. All my steps, exercise, and sleep stay in Zepp, separate from them all.

It sure would be nice to have one service/application to rule them all and a secure method of storing one’s own personal information without having to give it to the tech companies. Sure, use one of the many cloud services but encrypt all the data so that they can’t steal it. Yadda yadda.

One can dream.

“People think that when you’re mentally ill, you can’t think straight, which is insulting,” she told the Guardian. “I understand the fears that some disabled people have about assisted dying, and worries about people being under pressure to die… But in the Netherlands, we’ve had this law for more than 20 years. There are really strict rules, and it’s really safe.”

She embarked on intensive treatments, including talking therapies, medication and more than 30 sessions of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). “In therapy, I learned a lot about myself and coping mechanisms, but it didn’t fix the main issues. At the beginning of treatment, you start out hopeful. I thought I’d get better. But the longer the treatment goes on, you start losing hope.”

After 10 years, there was “nothing left” in terms of treatment. "I’ve never hesitated about my decision. I have felt guilt – I have a partner, family, friends and I’m not blind to their pain. And I’ve felt scared. But I’m absolutely determined to go through with it.

Honestly and genuinely, I’m glad to see all that she has put into this decision and glad the state is allowing it. Now she doesn’t need to cause further pain to others through a traumatic suicide and she can gain the peace she’s been longing for.

Each day, so many lives are snuffed out of existence without a second thought. She has given this an incredible amount of thought, time, and work.

Rest in peace, Zoraya. 💜

P. S. There’s thousands of live today that want to live. They don’t want to die. And yet their lives are taken away in an instant. Perhaps we should focus on saving them rather than making someone like Zoraya feel even worse.

Last I heard, Paramount ditched the show. And I just confirmed it’s no longer on their service.

Is Netflix really going to be showing Prodigy again or was that just added for fun?