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This is brilliant. Thanks!

Can I suggest making a Github/Gitlab/other project out of this? Reason being because those platforms typically offer Atom feeds folks can subscribe to for updates.

I don't have any specific advice, as no one solution fits all. What I can point you towards however is some resources that combined have helped me to re-evaluate my relationship with these tools.

Cal Newport's books and podcast [1], Humane Tech's Ledger of Harms [2] and their browser extension recommendations [3].

[1] https://www.calnewport.com/ [2] https://ledger.humanetech.com/ [3] https://www.humanetech.com/take-control

> I can’t describe what a breath of fresh air this is compared to how bad modern smartphone music and streaming apps have become. It’s also nice having a dedicated player that isn’t inundated with notifications and other modern distractions. Separating out ebooks to a dedicated tablet worked the same wonders for my anxiety.

A place for everything, and everything in it's place.

I've tried a handful of fad diets, and nothing stuck until I learned of and developed some habits around calorie deficits.

Use a BMI calculator to figure out where you're currently at and where you might want to be. A good one will tell you your maintenance calories and the calories you should target to lose weight.

Invest in a good kitchen scale and make it your best friend.

Use an A5 notepad and rubber-tipped pencil to count calories daily. Food, drinks and all. No more than one sheet per day is a constraint that works for me. Use a highlighter to reflect and identify your mistakes at the end of the day.

Be militant about portion control. Use the advice written on boxes for cereal and the like. Measure your milk portions with cereal and any hot drinks too.

Another tip is to replace treats with low calorie alternatives. Hartley's sugar-free jelly is magic!

In the UK, folks typically weigh themselves in stones (st). I prefer weighing myself in pounds (lbs). When looking at the scale every other morning, it takes weeks for 21.00st to become 20.00st. Weighing yourself in pounds seems more satisfying. May be the same for kilogrammes to lbs too.

I use a few spreadsheets. I took the numbers from the BMI calculator and created a spreadsheet with three columns showing how much I would weigh at particular dates in the year if I maintained -1lb a week, -1.5lb a week and -2lbs a week. It shows that I could reach my goal by next year - and that's incredibly motivating. Weekly weigh-ins going into a line graph with a trendline helps too.

The trick is that I don't feel like I'm on a diet. The food hasn't actually changed all that much. It's just that I'm now mindful of the portion sizes and learning to say no so that I hit my daily targets.

Beyond issues of privacy, this is a nice quality of life fix for folks pursuing digital minimalism.

> Also our team is not experienced with developing pure native apps, just React, ReactNative and JS.

If you can get away from the Electron requirement, then perhaps Microsoft's React Native for Windows & macOS is an option?

See https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

For non-commercial stations in the US, I can vouch for WBAI and WUSB in New York.

> Edit: Ooh, almost forgot: http://i.imgur.com/2sCYFvh.png Ubuntu has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

You can disable this feature by opening /etc/default/apport and editing enabled=1 to enabled=0. Then stop the service with "sudo service apport stop" or reboot.

You can then selectively enable it again when you notice a reproducible bug or use ubuntu-bug to report bugs against packages.

There's a great collection of podcasts here: http://hackermedia.org/ and here: http://www.thelinuxlink.net/

The 2600 family of shows: http://www.2600.com/offthehook, http://www.2600.com/offthewall and the Hackers On Planet Earth conference archives: http://blip.tv/2600magazine/rss

Security now: http://twit.tv/sn

This Developer's Life: http://thisdeveloperslife.com/

The Linux Action Show: http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linuxactionshow/

Techsnap: http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/techsnap/

Ubuntu-UK Podcast: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/

Free As In Freedom (The Software Freedom Law Show): http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/