That doesn't mean buy the most expensive thing. if you rely on this thing to get you through the day, get yourself something of quality. Do your research. Often times, buying the more expensive thing now, can be cheaper in the long run.
Secondly:
Use mental health professionals. Go to a therapist, psychologist, or anyone else trained to help people mentally. For years I advocated for my employees to seek help. I built work schedules around their appointments. I could tell that it help or productivity as a team.
I did this for years. Finally, this year, I went to see a therapist myself. I've been having depression problems for a while but I never took my own advice. Now, just 4 months later I'm doing way better. Not perfect, but I can tell I've made very good progress.
Buddhism. I first learned about it when someone was discussing whether it's a religion or a way of life. They specifically mentioned that it doesn't necessarily prevent you from being Christian (which I was) at the same time.
3 years later and I disagree with that statement, to a certain extent. You could choose to ignore the "supernatural" parts of Buddhism and just learn from the lessons. But I think the more you learn, the more it just kinda makes sense.
For instance, buddhist believe in "re-incarnation" but there's a lot of debate about what that is. I prefer death and rebirth. Which I interpret as: I'm a different person than I was 10 years ago. The old me died and was reborn as what I am now.
Other things that I like about it:
it is encouraged that you have skeptisicm about what you learn. I'm fact, you shouldn't just accept it because without questioning what your being told, you can not come to a true understanding and belief.
The lessons all revolve around how to be a better person. How to achieve nirvana through your thoughts, actions, views, etc.
Many of the principles were first introduced when buddha was alive 2500 years ago. Today, psychology studies have shown that many of them really do have long lasting, extremely beneficial effects. Think meditation and mindfulness (not necessarily invented by Buddhism, but popularized by it)
For me it really resonates. A lot of the things I care about are discussed. From mental health to treating life with respect to the environment to forgiveness. I also don't find much hipocracy.
Oh boy. I love Niagara. I've used it one every phone for quite a few years now.
Two of my favorite features are the ability to tuck widgets into folders. I use the system ui communications widget in my messaging folder to take me straight to my most used chats.
When you connect to bluetooth, it automatically pulls up a now playing widget (it's hidden when bluetooth is disconnected) and pulls up links to my music/podcast apps. It's so dynamic and highly customizable.
Not great logic saying that Germany would have. But he does have a small point. A lot of our reason for developing it was because we thought Germany had been working on it. Our development started before Germany had been defeated and we had reason to believe (via espionage) that they at least had collected the materials needed, and had scientists familiar with the physics. After the war, we discovered that their program was no where close to actually making a bomb. We probably could have, and maybe should have stopped once Germany fell.
I blame apple for this. They are using imessage and the green bubbles as marketing to get people to buy their hardware. So it's either you talk to people with iPhones or you use sms.
Meanwhile Google has been trying to get apple to use RCS for years. I would be curious if RCS and iMessage are susceptible. I didn't see anything about them when I glanced through your link.
I'm reading the frugal wizards handbook for surviving medieval England.
It's a part of Brandon Sanderson's kickstarter project.
I guess it's a scifi/fantasy.
I'm only a few chapters in so far, but I would reccomend it. Brandon always writes good books and this was born out of writing a private novel to his wife during covid.
He wrote four books actually during that time and the first was Tress of the emerald sea. I finished that one earlier this week and it was amazing. Highly recommend. It's a classic fantasy trope with a good twist. If you can get a copy, you should.
Huh. No crackling at all? That is certainly weird. Sometimes electrical things that are acting weird, start just working correctly again. Usually when I see something like that's it's a physical problem not electrical. Think about it like rust in a switch, you move it a bunch, the rust falls off and the switch works again.
So my thought is that you got water, or more likely sweat, onto the actual speaker. Which then hydrolocked the driver. Maybe the water finally dried out and the salts dried, cracked and fell out when you finally tried it again.
That's a total guess and I have no way of proving it.
My wife and I have a large collection of books, 2 wall to wall bookcases. It's a lot, and we've also donated a lot of books. We buy them all the time. And no, we haven't read all or even most of them. We've probably, collectively, read about 50% of what we have.
We read a lot, but we don't view books as just something to read, but also something to collect. Much like some people collect and display coins or figurines, we collect books. So we also have a lot of very nice leather-bound, 1st editions etc.
We have toned down our spending the last two years or so because money is a little tighter than it used to be, but we still buy collector editions and support Kickstarter campaigns.
My guess, the internal wire likely has an open in the copper somewhere. But since it's wrapped in rubber, the copper wires are still near each other. So it's working right now, but I'd bet if you wiggled the wire it'll cut out again.
Oh damn. I never thought about adding the extra two pieces. That's good. Thanks.
Just to add some extra detail for others. The router bits have bearings that ride on the template. The bearings prevent you from cutting farther into your final piece but cuts everything else out.
I have a small table router. I find that holding the router by hand results in some wobbling and therefore imperfect cuts. Because of that I can't clamp the pieces together. So, I bought some industrial double sided tape that works extremely well.
Oh my god! Thank you. I just made my post about those exact same two gripes. Its so rare to see people complain about it and I really don't understand why.
Yeah problem is that is usually works. It work often enough that you get used to it. But then an app comes along that doesn't use it and its infuriating. Android has ALWAYS had a os based back button, so implementing gestures means they just work.
I used the iPhone 12 mini for about a year before I gave up and went back to android. Some of my thoughts:
I don't actually understand your comment about apps being easier to find. There is no way to organize them alphabetically. You can't choose which folders they go in. It's only "easier" because people default to searching for apps. Which is very annoying to me personally. My GF does it that way. But I really don't like it.
I am a little jealous of IOS widgets and the ecosystem. While I haven't tried a pixel watch yet, the apple watch is absolutely amazing and it's the only real reason for me considering to go back.
My two biggest gripes is that there is a serious inconsistency in their apps. I never hear people talk about it. But some apps, have their settings inside the actual apps. Other apps are you tied into the apple settings app. Most apps use gesture navigation. Some, especially older ones, don't react to it and still rely on a back button in the top left. Which was a good option when the phone were sub 5", but not anymore.
Other stuff, while the ecosystem is great, being locked into it is extremely annoying. Not being able to put a torrent app on the phone is annoying. There's still a lot of things you cant do.
Maybe I'll buy the iPhone 16, I seem to try it out every 4 or 5 years. But I doubt they'll fix anything other than the back button, because no one really complains about it.
Oh boy. I'm not the kind of person that rewatches shows, but I've seen Yu Yu Hakusho 3 times and HxH twice. Both of them are just so excellent. I had no idea they were by the same guy. That's awesome
Don't buy cheap daily use items.
Shoes Mattress Car TV Computer
That doesn't mean buy the most expensive thing. if you rely on this thing to get you through the day, get yourself something of quality. Do your research. Often times, buying the more expensive thing now, can be cheaper in the long run.
Secondly: Use mental health professionals. Go to a therapist, psychologist, or anyone else trained to help people mentally. For years I advocated for my employees to seek help. I built work schedules around their appointments. I could tell that it help or productivity as a team. I did this for years. Finally, this year, I went to see a therapist myself. I've been having depression problems for a while but I never took my own advice. Now, just 4 months later I'm doing way better. Not perfect, but I can tell I've made very good progress.