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As you would expect, it's about the time spent on the toilet. So using some anti addiction app, or not being addicted to your phone means you are good to go.

And sort out your IBS

This is more important than smart phone use, specifically after COVID.

"COVID-19 Pandemic Linked to Surge in Digestive Disorders"

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/covid-19-pandemic-link...


Why do they link it to stress and not to the virus? Personally, I still deal with major digestive issues, primarily acid and silent reflux, after getting really sick from the second vaccination. (I'm not ruling out that I could have caught covid just before the vax, though my test was negative.) Prior to this, I was someone who had never once experienced reflux. Never took a Tums, etc. Now I'm on PPIs (Nexium basically), seemingly forever. What makes me think the symptoms are not due to anxiety is that they frequently hit me when my thoughts are elsewhere and not stressed or I'm asleep.

>a Tums, etc

not all antacids are the same, so I reach for your "etc" instead of the Tum. the liquid antacids that contain an aluminum compound active ingredient (in the US, Mylanta and Maalox and buy the store brand anyway, always liquid tho) provide a pH buffer, which is to say they "calibrate" their effect to the scale of the problem at the moment and the effect lasts longer than simply neutralizing acid with a base. I find this is the superior middle way.

PPIs? I really liked zantac's "ranitidine" ingredient which got banned for some infinitesimal risk of cancer. great product. I do not like the way these others leave my tummy feeling (or... is that the cancer? :)

>Why do they link it to stress and not to the virus?

how about, risks from the vaccines were ignored as possible confounding factors and presto, a mystery condition emerges which can only be attributed to the time period


Over here, I'd say minicar or maxicar

I have used it recently, it’s now back to doing what it was supposed to, originally: Float objects into text.

Also a bank that thought it was a great idea to block all rooted Android users with a minor update to their app. Which is required to use their website. Fuck DKB.

FWIW, I don’t have any copilot buttons anywhere (checked Excel, Teams, Outlook), on 24H2.

Is it? They say it’s using Gecko + Mozilla Android Components. Which would probably make it similar to FF in many ways, but not a fork. I didn’t look further into it though (as I want FF, especially Mozilla sync)

You kinda get that with your own domain. I think that's the best you are going to get


Isn't losing your domain a huge risk for any common user?


Well if you have any issue with Gmail, you're screwed. There is exactly zero support there.

With a custom domain, you can find a registrar where there are actual humans on the other side.


Unless you use some sketchy TLDs, I've not heard of that


I've seen plenty of stories of people who forget or are unable for whatever reason to renew their domain names on time.


You are usually warned by email a lot of times before it ever happens. Make sure you receive them on devices and an email address you actually pay attention to. I also put an entry in my calendar a month before every renewal.

The funny part is you need an email address already to register a domain, at least during a bootstrapping phase. I have several domains across 2 registrars with renewals at different time of the year.


You can pay for your domain upto 10 years in advance. It's a frontloaded cost, but if you can do that (or even just 5 years), you'll have a pretty good buffer if you just happen to be busy at whatever time of year you need to renew. This assumes you still check up on your renewal yearly, but you'd need to do that anyway if you pay yearly.


Where I live, auto-renew is the default, and the annual fees automatically get debited from your credit card or bank account. The ToS of my registrar give a two-months grace period in case of payment issues. I haven't had to do anything manually in over 20 years to keep my domains.


FWIW, I frequently want the string length. Not for anything complicated, but our authors have ranges of characters they are supposed to stay in. Luckily no one uses emojis or weird unicode symbols, so in practice there’s no problem getting the right number by simply ignoring all the complexities.


It's not unlikely that what you would ideally use here is the number of grapheme clusters. What is the length of "ë"? Either 1 or 2 codepoints depending on the encoding (combining [1] or single codepoint [2]), and either 1 byte (Latin-1), 2 bytes (UTF-8 single-codepoint) or 3 bytes (UTF-8 combining).

The metrics you care about are likely number of letters from a human perspective (1) or the number of bytes of storage (depends), possibly both.

[1]: https://tomsmeding.com/unicode#U+65%20U+308 [2]: https://tomsmeding.com/unicode#U+EB


I reluctantly switched to only uBo because of uM bugs. But the UI/UX is just a huge step backwards to enable mobile usability.


I tried Zen for a while (1-2 months). It certainly has some cool features. But in the end, I returned to Vanilla FF and installed Sideberry [0] with custom userChrome.css [1]. It gets me 99% of what I used with Zen (tree tabs, workspaces), but without annoyances/anti-features (inconvenient url bar for editing, frequent UI changes, cute animations that ignore prefer-reduced-motion, performance, security worries etc.).

I’m relatively happy with my setup [2] now, what I miss most from Zen would be the 2-level pinned tabs (pinned per workspace, and globally pinned), and the design of globals pins (instead of a line on the side as in [2], it’s a grid at the top for Zen), but not even close to enough that I’d want to return.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

[1]: https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery/wiki/Firefox-Styles-Snipp...

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/v9a6VRw.png


A big hurdle for me is the lack of Widevine which for some reason not a lot of people mention: https://docs.zen-browser.app/faq#why-cant-zen-browser-play-d...


strange Spotify works for me in Zen out out of the box on the Flatpak version.


Only affects Mac and Windows


I did almost the same thing about 9 months ago. I am rooting for Zen despite currently maining with Firefox.

I have to have all the browsers and nightlies installed anyways, so I might as well personalize it to work best for my needs.

I imagine not everyone is like us, and something like Zen being zero config is a big deal.


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