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Cake day: February 28th, 2021

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  • datendefekt@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow do I quit smoking?
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    3 days ago

    Just stop!

    But what helped me: often smoking is part of a daily routine or ritual, so mix up your routine. Take up a new hobby or take the bus instead of the car. Go for a walk after lunch. Giving up smoking is a big change, so don’t be afraid to make big changes. Get new clothes. Make new friends. You have discarded your old identity as a smoker. Still smoking? Doesn’t matter! You already want to stop - you’re becoming that person already.

    And don’t be so hard on yourself if you have a smoke now and then. Be conscious of what situation or routine triggered the reflex, and change it in future. If you have a smoke every few days or weeks, don’t sweat it, you’ve broken addiction as far as I’m concerned!












  • Both GNOME and KDE are first-class DEs in Fedora - stability is a non issue. You can install both if you want and select your choice at the login screen to just switch back and forth. The only thing you might want to keep in mind is that both have their own prpgrams, like file managers for example, so you’ll have two programs for the same task.

    Performance is a wash, really, with a halfway modern setup. Your browser will be consuming way more resources than the desktop by far.

    Compatibility is also a non issue nowadays, both implement the Freedesktop standard and are fully compatible with each other.

    I’m pretty sure that the installer is the same for all major spins.

    Hope you have fun with Fedora!






  • datendefekt@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.worldCelebrating or coping today?
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    4 months ago

    I was in this picture. One or two, maybe even three tall ones every evening, for years. And then I discovered untappd and drinking became gamified. A beer while watching TV can’t be alcoholism, right?

    For a while I’d been noticing things like a lack of energy and interest, bad sleep, being irritable and impulsive, and bad memory. After a while I had to take magnesium and other supplements. I just considered it all side effects of aging.

    Now I’ve switched to alcohol free beer since about 2 months and every day I’m surprised how much better the QOL already is. I feel fully rested, feel more confident at work, can remember stuff my kids talk about. For lack of a word, I feel more present.

    And that experience completely changed my opinion about drinking alcohol regularly.


  • datendefekt@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlGNU Taler is not your friend
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    4 months ago

    I don’t know how the technical implementation will work, but here is a post I found.

    The idea is that you transfer money from the bank to your device, just like withdrawing cash from an ATM. Transferring money from one wallet to another should be able to be offline.

    It seems like privacy is a priority, if only to satisfy privacy groups and improve acceptance.