My go to is counting backwards from 100. I typically time the counting with my breathing, and I try to slow my breathing. Most nights I’m usually out by the time I hit 80. If you find your mind wandering, try to bring your thoughts back to your Breathing. I started doing this after I had been meditating for a while, so it felt fairly natural. If you’re new to meditation, do some basic meditation training to get the idea. Most meditation trainings start with learning how to focus on your breathing.

Easy solution, just delete the Patreon app from your phone. There’s really no need for it anyway, just use the website.

Been using it since before public release. I loved the news reader mode. It was so clean and simple. The news curation algo is solid. I will miss Atifact.

Mine is named Connecting… My guest network is Reconnecting…

Whoogle is great. https://hub.docker.com/r/benbusby/whoogle-search

Cats, both domestic and feral kill between 500 million and 4 billion per year. More people need to keep bells on their cats if they let them outdoors to give birds a chance.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cats-kill-more-one-billion-birds-each-year

I think the reason you stated is probably the main reason for most of the hate. I’ve been a Nord user for years and have no complaints. However, I am currently considering switching to Firefox VPN because I want to financially support Firefox development and that’s one of the best ways to do it.