Throw out/donate junk food. Don’t buy more. Ask yourself if your actually hungry before getting a snack. Often times I’m just bored or procrastinating. But ive found the most success with HARD REASONABLE RULES.

Example : 2023 was the year of zero alcohol. I did it for a year and gave myself permission to drink again after the year’s end. I didn’t. Stopped caring about drinking after a few months without it. I can count the number of drinks on one hand I’ve had since then.

Example 2: 2024 was the no Candy and no ice cream year. Candy was defined as “anything you could find in a Halloween bag”

Ive found a lot of success with HARD reasonable clearly defined rules.

Might need to search around for exact commands but the main thing is you’ll need the fdroid or source apk of termux for this to work from what I remember. So setup termux up on Obtainium or fdroid. Then inside termux pkg install syncthing should work. You might need to run the storage scripts found here https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Internal_and_external_storage You can move over your existing syncthing exported config files (remove encryption first before exporting) to ~/.local/state/syncthing and edit the config.xml file. Remove the lines for username and password. This will allow you to create a new username and password when you run syncthing in termux. It should open a browser window to http://127.0.0.1:8384/ which is the normal syncthing web interface.

Ive switched to running syncthing inside termux. Battery life has actually improved significantly. You need to manually start syncthing after a reboot though. There’s probably a way to start it automatically using scripts or an automation app.

Check out Termux and running it inside the termux terminal. It’s the same package as what you’d get from apt and battery life has actually been better compared to the android fork. Need to manually start it after a reboot though.

Modal editors in general are awesome. Currently using Helix as my goto editor

There was no mention of this, but if you’re dual booting (which I don’t recommend to anyone anymore) that might be causing the Bluetooth issue. Windows doesn’t properly “let go” of some Hardware when you “shut down” with default settings. This is because the default settings are to hibernate instead of properly shutting down. Linux boots up and the hardware doesn’t load correctly.

You might want to look into sunshine and moonlight for streaming from your PC to the steamdeck. It means your deck will only sip battery, fans will be whisper quite, and the graphics will be stellar, all for a tiny amount of latency.

Signal is also a great alternative to WhatsApp. Molly for the extra privacy focused.

In order for that feature to work, you need to give google permission to see who’s calling you and when activated (and possibly even when not activated) listen to the phone conversation. That data is going back to google servers for processing. Gemini is also feeding off of that data. If you’re concerned with the original post regarding WhatsApp data being fed to Gemini, why would you be okay with allowing google to listen in on your phone conversations, all for the small convenience of avoiding spam bots?

If you have voicemail and caller ID, just don’t pickup the call if it isn’t from a known contact.

If you’re also thinking that google isn’t collecting data without your consent, they literally just got fined 300+ million for doing exactly that.

A bit more setup is required but I love having a Wise (formerly TransferWise) account for the virtual cards and the low fee currency conversion.

I don’t believe that’s a pixel specific benefit but yes relocking the bootloader is best for security. The unlocking process is needed to install an alternative OS though.

For those on Pixel devices, check out GrapheneOS. If not CalyxOS or LineageOS

Its important that we have devices that we control. If your phone doesn’t allow bootloader unlock so you can install a different operating system, that’s a problem. Claims that security is compromised if bootloaders can be unlocked are just companies using a convenient excuse to maintain control over a device you paid for.