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You lose a heart every mistake you make in lessons, to regain them you do a practice session, or wait and they regen over time... like health in a videogame.

I'm guessing you pay for duolingo? Or maybe it is different on smartphones, idk but it has had hearts for a while.

This sounds way better, it really is annoying to fail your daily lesson and then have to go do practice to keep your streak intact. I regularly fail grammatical gender in danish and can't bother trying any harder so this is nice.

This is about voting in an election... essentially voting for who will be voting on your behalf for the next x years.

I don't get it honestly, If you aren't actually voting on actual decisions yourself. If democracy isn't a dumb idea, then that is how it should be. The moment someone else is deciding things for you is when it makes no sense.

But even then, if we did vote on everything, someone else is still deciding what the voting options are. And the rest is being decided without a vote by other random people nobody voted to elect.

Giving you an extra vote just for the electing process isnt really going to improve the democratic system.

The part about having multiple profiles open at the same time... reminds me of the official multi-container firefox addon which lets you open persistant private window sessions as new tabs in a regular window... among other powerful things. With this new profile method it seems each new profile spawns another firefox instance in memory which is kinda bad in my opinion.

i slow charge it overnight as well, it takes like 6 hours. i think that has kept the battery in a good shape

still use my 2015 galaxy s6 every day

nothing has been repaired or replaced on it, same battery also

i was curious how long it would last so i kept using it. i run it in low power mode with screen dimmed. it only sees wifi, no actual phone calling. a lot of apps dont work anymore for it, but it plays videos fine, lets me take notes, and i can browse the internet so thats more than enough. fdroid app store is helpful to find older versions of apps that work

Not even porn algos, regular algos provide a feast for those people. Tiktok, previously musically, youtube, it is all filled with questionable underage content. The worst part though is that if you are into such things, it recommends more to you, and other similar users history and activity gets recommended to you, thus distributing the content. It is no different from how these algos learn you like mountain biking or gardening.

I mean for reducing e-waste, repurposing old motherboards in a laptop equivalent of a pc tower. Not so much brabd new motherboard alternatives you can put in it. I thought the point of repairability and user servicing was to reduce e-waste by making your device last longer. It just seems strange to me.

It is a carbon-carbon battery right? Calling it just paper... when normally a battery name refers to the electrode or electrolyte chemistry is kind of confusing.

I remember making the carbon inks was expensive but they must have figured it out for it to beat lithium now. Everything shown still looks like sample sheet batteries, no other form factor, roll, tube, stack, etc. Curious if the power density is sufficient that you can stuff those into existing lithium cell sizes or if you will need sonething larger.

Just don't use apps and dumb entertainment on your phone, stop installing new things, uninstall everything unimportant. Keep it for authentication, email, important things you need access to while away from your computer... everyone knows this already because it's common sense but self control is hard