Preflight_Tomato @ Preflight_Tomato @lemm.ee

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Yes! It’s not so much the work itself, but the mental effort tied to it. After a couple weeks of repetition something becomes habit, that mental effort is diminished.

For most people, big breaks in habits fall apart fast, while more gradual changes stick.

For example, many make resolutions to get fit, and start a bunch of related things. But since none of it is habitual, it requires mental effort to do consistently. Soon, something else important requires that mental attention, and the plan falls apart.

The successful ones aren't special, but they created one, little, achievable metric to hit:

1. “Subscribe to 2 science-based fitness influencers and watch their content regularly”.

Because it was easy, it became habit. Then, they chose another simple thing to build on:

2. “Change evening commute to pass by gym”
3. “On Tuesdays, go into gym”
4. “Learn proper form for one excercise”
5. “Bring a protein shake”
6. etc.

Each of these is so small they don’t really feel significant at all. And they're not. The important thing to understand is we’re all lazy. The real challenge isn’t getting yourself onto a diet or into the gym, it’s designing your habits so that the diet isn’t “a diet”, it’s just what you eat. It’s designing your life so that going to the gym requires less mental effort than not going.

I could write a lot more about this but it's already getting long. Atomic Habits is a good book on how to design your habits and habit chains, if you have the time.

There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread, one thing to note is that too much change too fast is a recipe for failure. Whatever you do, make sure it’s manageable. For each change, ask yourself whether it can become a permanent habit for you. This is the only way to sustain it enough to achieve your goals. It could help to write down good ideas, and try them one week or month at a time.

What was the book?

Ok, that's what I'll do. Thanks so much for the info! 😁

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It is not propaganda if it is true.

Something can be true and propaganda. If reporting is misrepresenting a situation using purely true information and events, then it's propaganda. It's misrepresentation that makes something propaganda, not truthfulness.

Note: This is not a comment on whether I think Lemmy/Al Jazeera is doing propaganda.

The world if metric began in base 12:

I have a friend who argues that "it's just as good, there's no difference really". Then we go camping and have to do a unit conversion on how much water to boil and it takes 2 minutes and a phone calculator.

I had to check the math because 1 m² being 2300 kg while 1 cu ft at 143 lbs seemed crazy, but with the volume difference it's all correct.

Thank you for putting in the effort 🙃

You can translate those QR codes into the base seeds that were used to generate them. Then you can just save a text file with all those seeds. I've done it using a phone camera to open to a web browser and extracting the seed from the translated URL, but IDK if it can still be tricked into opening the code that way.

I hope this unasked for advice helps.

Oh yeah that’ll do it.

iMessage is encrypted in transit by default when talking to other iPhone users, and 95% of my contacts use iPhones. That is the ONLY reason I use an iPhone.

Only when they leak or get thrown out. If they’re still working they’re not leaking, but maybe drawing more power than needed.

I read it from a Lemmy user who said they ran a business network and that’s the distribution they saw.

Thanks for questioning that. I couldn't find a wider trend number and it was a bit irresponsible of me to repeat it assuming it applied everywhere.

I read recently that ~90% lots of malware comes through ads, so it’s a really great security help as well.

It’s not a net loss. Renter’s pay can be used for maintenance or equity or anything else. Since houses don’t depreciate in this market and maintenance costs are not even close to rent, the landlord only gains.

Good and interesting question. I bet you could test it by using static (high entropy) as a background vs the control plain color.

You can't independently verify without source code. Will it be published?

Most just don’t know how to properly file their W-4 to not have taxes withheld in the first place.

How do you do this? How do you calculate what to personally withhold and pay? Is it simply calculating through the income tax?