It’s easy to understand, when the phone accidentally drops on concrete from >1m of height there is a great chance of shattering the glass. It happens to millions of person, myself included, no matter the care it’s an accident that can cost 300$ to repair. 10$ the screen protector is worth it. I guess you’re lucky !

When I was in my early 20s, I used to instinctively pressure non-drinkers into drinking as well. I did it because the non-drinkers ruin the fun for me. They don't laugh as much or engage in banter. They're timid and lack the drinker's adventurous spirit.

The pressuring usually worked though.

When I realized that I was hurting those people by pressuring them into drinking, rather than stop pressuring them, I stopped inviting them to social gatherings that involve drinking altogether.

I'm so interested in this topic, for a weird reason.

Since I was a kid, I've thought I was "prone to migraines", and ascribed various triggers to them - sun exposure, heat, physical exertion, mental exertion, etc. I'd get a migraine sometimes after a long hike on a weekend - and also a long business meeting entirely indoors in an air-conditioned space.

Only when I was around 35, did I figure something out. All these situations lead to me getting dehydrated without any obvious accompanying feeling of thirst. Hiking all day will do it - walking around an outdoor shopping mall on a hot afternoon - or sitting in an all-day business meeting focused on the work at hand and forgetting to drink. And all these situations lead to a migraine - my only "migraine" trigger is simple dehydration, nothing more complicated.

The weird thing is, it took me a long time (decades) to put this together, because I just figured that I couldn't be dehydrated if I wasn't thirsty, and I had no association between "feeling thirsty" and getting a migraine.

I get what I consider normally thirsty in other circumstances, but somehow there's a failure mode where my body doesn't warn me. So now I just remember to chug lots of water (and electrolytes) if I'm exerting myself even if I don't really feel thirsty, and I can systematically avoid triggering migraines.

Now that I understand it the association is quite clear and obvious in retrospect.

People have this weird idea that you must drink a certain amount of fluid per day or be reminded to drink every so often. Like no, if you need water, you will be thirsty. If you feel the need to drink then drink, it’s not complicated.

I'd say there's a reason we've moved to daily contact lenses over re-usable ones, conveniently in a ~monthly~ 28-day pack!

There's obviously bound to be 'medical' and comfort reasons over disposable ones beyond the disposable society, but the cynic in me can't help but feel that research into longer-lasting more-comfortable reusable contacts would be taken through to market in preference to a more profitable cheaper-made daily product.

I don’t like passkeys. Before my process to login was:

- open website

- if not already logged in, log in to 1Password

- autofill password

- autofill TOTP

Now:

- open website

- if logged in to 1Password the Use Passkey usually shows up

- if not:

  - log in to 1Password 

  - choose use passkey

  - this almost always does nothing

  - choose “use other method”

  - choose “password”

  - autofill that

  - now there is another dialog to choose the 2fa method, choose Authenticator 

  - autofill that

Passkeys would be great if they actually made anything simpler on a computer. They work fine on the phone but that’s not where I spend most of my time.

aesthetically original, avant-garde, and bad.

Great recommendation. The second and third books leave something to be desired, in my opinion, but no other sci fi authors I'm aware of are as good as he is at what he does. His sci fi speculates about biology and ecology, and extrapolates outward from them, the way most sci fi speculates about technology and society.