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From ConsumerReports in 2014

A vehicle rollover is among the worst things that can happen to you on the road. Although rollovers occur in only about 3 percent of all serious crashes, they account for about 30 percent of people killed while riding in a passenger vehicle.

Yes tech and safety systems have improved in 12 years, and in this case the suv's passengers might have been fine, but I suspect rollover survival stats are still worse. That's not even taking into account how rolling vehicles travel farther while rolling, putting other people at risk.

That being said we're only talking about rollovers here. Head-on collisions are a totally different story when you pit an SUV versus a regular sedan. But those results are more related to the differences in front crash zone height. And that's only happening because car companies were allowed to categorize SUVs as "non-passenger work vehicles", avoiding safety and emissions regulations. Here's a great video taking about it from Climate Town

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.

Might need to search around for exact commands but the main thing is you'll need the fdroid or source apk of termux for this to work from what I remember. So setup termux up on Obtainium or fdroid. Then inside termux pkg install syncthing should work. You might need to run the storage scripts found here https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Internal_and_external_storage You can move over your existing syncthing exported config files (remove encryption first before exporting) to ~/.local/state/syncthing and edit the config.xml file. Remove the lines for username and password. This will allow you to create a new username and password when you run syncthing in termux. It should open a browser window to http://127.0.0.1:8384/ which is the normal syncthing web interface.

Ive switched to running syncthing inside termux. Battery life has actually improved significantly. You need to manually start syncthing after a reboot though. There's probably a way to start it automatically using scripts or an automation app.

on Bazzite noob calling for aid · c/linux · 5 pts · 282d

Long shot to try when all the other suggestions failed. If you're dual booting, you may need to disable hibernation on the windows side so that when it shuts down it actually shuts down and releases hardware attachments. Ive have network, Bluetooth, and USB issues when windows wasn't configured correctly to work in a dual booting setup.

There was no mention of this, but if you're dual booting (which I don't recommend to anyone anymore) that might be causing the Bluetooth issue. Windows doesn't properly "let go" of some Hardware when you "shut down" with default settings. This is because the default settings are to hibernate instead of properly shutting down. Linux boots up and the hardware doesn't load correctly.

Okay, "never would have happened" is an exaggerated statement. But you're talking about the headphone wires breaking. I'm talking about the USBC port on the phone itself breaking. I've never had a headphone jack PORT break. But Ive had 2 phones USBC ports fail from pressure on the plug.

I would much rather have the wire on headphones fail instead of the port on the device itself.

I've had this issue for years across at least 3 different phones, and probably 4 different sets of headphones. Mix of buds and over ears. Different brands.

I don't experience it much anymore, so I suspect its been fixed in more recent versions of Bluetooth.

No pace maker, no prosthetics, and I'm average weight. The Bluetooth tech was just half baked when it came out. Better now but I can still replicate the issue with older headphones.

I also experienced it a lot when walking around busy areas. Might be exacerbated by other nearby devices. No idea, but the point I'm trying to make is that removing the headphone jack from devices meant many people had to deal with this shit with no good alternative for years while the tech caught up

Not sure why, but BT experiences interference when in my pocket. The signal gets choppy when sections of my torso get in the way. Which is always when my phone is in my pocket. So I got USBC headphones/dongle.

On a bike ride, I noticed the audio was starting to disconnect. This happens often on rides and runs since the USBC plug sticks out a lot from the port and slowly wiggles loose. Except this time it wasn't loose. The leverage of the long plug on the short connector damaged the port. This never would have happened with a headphone jack. It has a strong connection that can rotate freely. Now I have a phone that can't charge or play music.

My next phone will be a sony xperia some they still have the jack and still allow the bootloader to be unlocked.