On two versions of debian on two computers I have tried to use wayland and both times I have had really bad graphical problems and lag/stuttering of multiple visual elements. I’m sure it is fine when it works, but my problem with Wayland is that for whatever reason, it just does not work on my systems.

Each time, this was on fresh installs of the operating system as well, so I have no idea why it doesn’t like me.

Thanks!

It looks like the app is not available in my country - there are some rip offs that claim to be similar but charge money. Might look to see if there is some APK of it out there that I can sideload.

That makes sense, thanks for that insight.

Thank you, all good resources and recommendations.

Fair enough. Surprisingly I don’t often drink sugared drinks, eat chocolate or candy, confections, chips, or things like that. Probably the mass of my calorie intake exists at an intersection between bread, meat, and oil.

I think my problem as far as that goes is really more to do with portion sizing. I expect if I reduce portion sizes for what I normally eat and begin adding more vegetables as a filler I would be much better off.

Thanks, yes this is certainly something I have to work on in conjunction with the exercise.

I have often drank coffee black so there is no problem for me there, and I don’t often buy sugared drinks. I can certainly cut down on alcohol as well as what I drink as far as that goes.

I know how to cook as well, so I will have to dive harder into the vegetable space to see what’s good there as far as new meals and correcting portion sizes. I could certainly be drinking more water as well.

Yes I expect that will be the case, but I am not discouraged very easily thankfully. My bigger problem I expect will just be making sure that I can form it as a habit, though other commenters have already offered up some resources which I think will help with that.

Thank you for the recommendation, I will have to take a look at this. I do like that you describe the contents as being straightforward. It is simple jumping off points like that which have always really helped me to learn and become involved in something starting out.

I think that is true. Another commenter sent that couch to 5k app link which is a 9 week program so I think it will be helpful in just making me maintain the routine of showing up. This is especially good for me as I tend to have a difficult time forming habits such as this. Given that this gym is just on a different floor than where my office is, I think that it will also keep me from neglecting showing up as easily, as it is very, very convenient to get to.

Thank you - yes I would like to work my way up towards running more outside, but I think I am going to be doing the treadmill for a while at first because I live in a particularly hilly area, which while walkable for me, would probably be a little too difficult to try to run on due to the grade. I think the gym has a bike or two and a rowing machine so I will look into those. Thanks for the information on the weights, I think they have some simple ones that make all of that doable. I am sure the tingliness will come at some point, but generally after doing exercise I mainly just feel sweaty and hot lol. Nonetheless, I will work toward that, thank you.

I am approximately 6’ and have not checked my weight in some time. I can manage walking a few kilometres up a respectable incline and do this fairly regularly - I also go hiking and camping on the rare occasion without too much trouble, but with that said I believe my general health is somewhat poor and I am at an age where I believe I should really start paying more attention to it. I am also fairly certain I have gained more weight than usual in the last couple years, probably due to changes in my metabolism.

My primary objective is to lose fat, and strength training can be rolled in in some minor capacity, but once I have lost some more fat I would not be opposed to more strength training. I am the kind of person where I do best where I am focusing on a single objective at a time, working to execute on that to the best of my ability, and then moving on to the next objective, which is why I really just want to focus on the fat at first as it is what is at the forefront of my mind.

The other reason why I want to focus down some fat first is because I am aware that for effective strength training, the dieting becomes slightly more complicated than a calorie deficit. I would like to buy high-protein foods etc to make that work better for me, but that generally speaking is not in the cards for me financially at the moment. From what I can see, losing fat is at least slightly cheaper than gaining muscle in that regard, so this is also a reason why I want to prioritize the fat first.

Having said all of that, I know very little about everything that actually goes into any of this, and as a person who will gladly nerd out on their own subjects, I am very glad that this is your topic to do that with and I will accept any and all knowledge you have to share regarding it :)

Thank you for the recommendations, I recall seeing someone else talking about that app and it certainly seems like a good jumping off point.

Indeed.

“If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear” was not first quoted by, but popularized by nazi propagandist joseph goebbels, so it never sits well with me.

Many people who say such a thing in reference to themselves also never seem to realize that it is only the case until something you have is made illegal or becomes the target of some faction, which could be in years, months, days, or hours.

If I had to guess I would say that your hobbies have a lot of tangibility while your paying job does not.

To make something with your hands and to see the result of it in front of you is a very human experience that is ingrained in us.

Many jobs today rob you of this. There is often nothing tangible to be seen from your efforts, there is only ever more work.

In the world today as it is, there will always be some amount of this. Running your own business comes with a lot of paperwork and tasks that you do not initially expect or know how to do.

Some of the saddest people I have seen are those who succeed in their business doing such a thing. They may make a lot of money, but are again removed to a corporate position in some capacity in which they are supposed to be some kind of “visionary”. This again robs them of doing the thing that they love to do, to deal with it directly.

There is a middle ground where you can keep doing the thing and make good money, but if very successful, there is a point in which you would have to limit your business’s growth in order to stay in touch with it. This is one of the reasons why a lot of people will sell their business and then go do it all over again with their capital - because they don’t just want the money, they genuinely want to be involved.

Of course, this is all assuming success. If possible it is best to test the waters. See what you can do in your spare time to get something rolling, invest some off-time in it, read about how to establish a business plan and how to incorporate as well as the pertinent tax information you will need to know and the cost of fees etc. If you want content creation to be rolled in, try building something out as a proof of concept, get it patented/copyrighted and then make a video demonstrating it and share it around to get a general feeling for what people think, and then act on what you hear.

Risk is a cornerstone of business, and the thing about taking risks is that you do not know unless you try - but you can work to try to improve your chances.

With this question asked, I’d like to build on it and ask what options exists outside the realm of google given their recent bullshit.

For those who know, tell me about the pine phone, fair phone, anything else like this.

When google fucks shit up in the near future, I would very much like to hold on to the ability to side-load apps using obtainium and f-droid indefinitely. Are the pine phone/ fair phone reasonable for this? What pros and cons am I looking at?

If they weren’t a dystopian, privacy invading nightmare and had more actual useful features rather than awful AI, and weren’t owned and controlled by an evil corporation, then I might be inclined to try them.

I’d love some example questions for this.

Thank you, this is really informative!

Couple things to warn you about as I understand them (take with a grain of salt, this is what I remember from reading about this stuff quite some time ago in school).

RAID is great, but if you are performing mirroring (RAID 1) in your RAID levels, it can be dangerous to do it on multiple SSD’s of the same size. This is because SSD’s longevity is based on how many writes they have in their life time - it is a set amount. This is also why larger SSD’s will typically last longer than smaller SSD’s.

The problem therein is that if you are mirroring data between 2 SSD’s that are of the same size, when one hits that lifetime write limit, it is likely the other will do the same in very quick succession, or at the same time, meaning that mirroring was not the best idea because both disks can fail at the same time. This is not true for something like a RAID 5, and should only be something to be concerned about if, again, you are using a RAID 1, 51, or something like that etc.

If for some reason you do want to do mirroring, then look at using spinning disks instead as their mean time between failure is wider in these cases, meaning you are less likely to lose 2 disks at the same time when mirroring.

Spinning disks are also a good bet if you don’t really need the speed of the SSD’s. They are cheaper for more storage and these days you can typically find some surplus seller who can sell you a lot of them for cheaper than what you would pay new or used for new spinning disks or used SSD’s, but you will lose a lot of read/write speed. Again, which one to go with depends on what kind of data you store and how you access it.

Also make sure you understand the difference between software RAID and hardware RAID, and the benefits and downsides of using each. Hardware RAID has to be supported by your hardware, but it is much faster when it is writing any additional data to other disks (like when it clones bits onto a second drive in a RAID 1 mirror, or when it writes parity to the disks in a RAID 5). Software RAID you can set up on anything even if the hardware does not support it, so it allows more chances to play around with what you want to invest in for hardware (you can use an old PC tower as a RAID NAS even if it doesn’t support hardware RAID in it’s BIOS for example, which means you don’t have to pay a lot for an actual NAS).

As others have said as well, you also want to buy more disks than you actually need (I like to have at least 2 unused disks on hand) for cases where you get a disk failure in your RAID array. Furthermore, like others have said, this does not protect against floods, fires, a meteor falling on your house etc - and so it is good to look into a way to make off-site backups on a rotating schedule.

For this, look up what a 3-2-1 backup is and how that works if you really want to make sure your data is safe.