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.

I’m guessing the use of AI is partially contributing to this drop.

Question, do you have a gaming desktop? Could you just get a less powerful laptop and use sunshine and moonlight?

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.