AmbitiousProcess

our elected representatives refuse to do their jobs

This is under a post about elected representatives quite literally doing their jobs and suing corporations for doing this.

They might be couching it in language about it all being because of the "Chinese Communist Party surveilling Americans", but they're still trying to stop the practice.

the onus is on the user to protect themselves.

It's good when users can protect themselves. It's easy to forget that these companies design their products specifically to make people set them up how the manufacturer wants, and not all of them will even work without being connected to the internet.

The average person is not technically literate whatsoever. You're telling people to take personal responsibility for their privacy when they barely know how any technology works, and are surrounded by corporations who's budgets go towards finding new ways to convince people to give up their privacy in the most effective ways.

Every time I buy any piece of technology, seeing "smart" in the title makes me immediately look for something else.

I want a label printer. Not something that only works with a mobile app, not something that requires proprietary drivers and doesn't work on my OS, not something that can only be used with your specific software, not one that requires your labels with a special NFC tag to use, just a label printer that is just as compatible as any regular printer.

I ended up paying about a 5X premium compared to alternatives on the market for that, and I would do it again.

Received? GrapheneOS are the authors of their software, they don’t receive.

That's how this language is commonly used. "Received" is just in place of what you'd more commonly hear as "gets."

So for example, "Gmail gets new feature that allows users to X" Gmail didn't receive it from somewhere else, but Gmail got a new feature.

GrapheneOS "receiving" an experimental build is linguistically identical to saying "GrapheneOS gets new update that does X"

I agree the article is pretty badly done, but that part I think is fairly normal. Heard that used by all sorts of outlets.

Just after you wake up, for about 30-60 minutes, you're in a state known as sleep inertia. The CDC recommends not doing critical tasks during this period, but that could just be because it affects performance. They do also say that bright light can more quickly restore performance, which a phone screen most certainly is.

So, let's look into it a bit more. Granted, I can't find anything more than a couple psychologists saying this, so take it with a grain of salt, but it seems like it mostly does come down to you priming your brain for distraction, as was initially stated. You have the least amount of built-up fatigue when you wake up, but if you go on the app that is designed to take as much time and attention of yours as possible, then you are giving away your least-fatigued time of the day to social media, before you do anything productive.

The more things you do in a day, the more fatigued your brain gets, and the harder it is to actually get other things done afterward. On top of that, it can also just be a behavioral thing. If you repeatedly get on your phone every time after you wake up, you are telling your brain "waking up = get on phone," and not something like "waking up = get out of bed and brush teeth" or "waking up = get breakfast."

This can build a dependency over time, which then leads you to, as previously mentioned, taking the time you are least mentally fatigued, fatiguing your brain with high-speed flows of information, and only then actually expending the remainder of your energy on everything else you need to do.

Never had anyone download from any IA torrents I've hosted. I'd say only do it if it's something you have a reason to believe will be taken down at some point. Whether that be from government censorship, for copyright reasons, etc.