There's probably a few more to be added there now.

Ralph loop in a docker container, bullshit removed.

Anti-slop, using AI to try to make it as simple as possible.

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But saying that "annoying" is a very cold understated way of describing Google's actions.

I'm in awe of the work this guy has put in. Google I would hope amongst their developers would recognise that this is an important useful project.

The developer himself it appears could handle the negative comments but they clearly ground him down [1]:

> The few euros I receive in return for what's being offered and the fun of developing things are no compensation for the thousands of questions I answer every month, for unfair Play store reviews and for stress about unclear Google requirements.

Note: the stress comes from the unclear Google requirements.

If you do have any access to the Play Store (you're one degree of separation closer at least) then please ask them to find out what's going wrong.

FairMail is a really good app.

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It still works great even if there is no further development. I much prefer it to the K-9 email client.

The main thing I love is that it blocks all images by default whilst still keeping the email readable.

I did something very similar, steadily played more and more, got more competitive and ended up dedicating way too much time and money to it.

Similarly the only way I managed to quit the first time was by quitting everything. Discord, uninstalling the game.

At the point I quit I actually had to make a decision - go along to the local chess club for the first time to try and make some real friends in the town where I'd moved to, or play a competitive game with my game team. I picked the chess club and I'm glad I did.

I even went back to the game after about 6 months, through one friend I made. I got very competitive again and won the lower tier of the biggest competition they created in the game (our team got something like 900 euros of in-game prizes).

However again it got too much and again the only way out was cold-turkey.

Personally for me there is no 'healthy' amount - and your personality sounds similar. Plus with these competitive games they make it so that there is no healthy amount, if you want to compete you have to spend lots of money or invest unhealthy amounts of time.

I've stopped completely now, I occasionally chat to my old team - they're still playing. It was a useful escape during a pretty depressing time.

In the end I value the friends I made, which I don't think I would have made any other way, but I'm glad I've stopped.

You have to write your thoughts down because you'll have so many you'll forget them.

Buy a bunch of lovely notebooks and coloured pens and write all your thoughts. Your thoughts and how you write will change over time.

I did nothing but write in my note books under the heading 'Thoughts and Feelings' for 10 years or more based on some advice a therapist gave me a while back.

Also going to see a therapist is fun if you have lots of thoughts. They're like a 3rd party interested in psychology who is paid to listen to your thinking out loud. Sometimes they can listen to your random collection of words and thoughts that pour out of your mouth and find a kernel or thread that runs through it all.

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