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New comment by parag0ne in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

parag0ne — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:58:54 +0000

Will you still be able to support Pixel phones for a while in tandem? I purposely bought a 9 Pro XL once I heard about your woes with the 10. Now I feel slightly obligated to buy the Motorola release to show my support.

On a slightly unrelated note, many years ago you completely changed my viewpoints on security. This was before Copilot integration. May I ask if you still recommend Windows to pair with Graphene?

New comment by parag0ne in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

parag0ne — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:35:45 +0000

Not OP but I'll share my experience. For me, I have to quit caffeine for those to even become an option. Otherwise I get my short burst of productivity then everything shuts down after and I don't want to do a thing, everything feels "impossible" or like it doesn't matter at all.

Things like journaling / breathing / etc calm the nervous system while caffeine stimulates it. I would say caffeine is counterproductive to those practices.

New comment by parag0ne in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

parag0ne — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:48:09 +0000

Agreed, anyone that already struggles with something like this should quit caffeine. My life is so much better off of it, but I struggle to stay off of it because I'm addicted to the 2hr productivity boost vs the all-day steadiness when you're not on caffeine. Things that improve for me were: No sense of urgency for every single thing. Significantly improved confidence. Word things better and speak better in general. No hard crash later in the day. All my scattered thoughts become cohesive. No more random heart palpitations.

All of these likely got better due to the overall effect of decreased anxiety and not making ADHD worse. I'm not myself when on caffeine. Nikola Tesla quit all caffeine/other stimulants for a reason.

New comment by parag0ne in "Removal of Deepin Desktop from OpenSUSE Due to Packaging Policy Violation"

parag0ne — Thu, 08 May 2025 02:45:00 +0000

That surprised me too. It's strange to see one of the most well-known Linux names to suggest adding an unreviewed repo that contains known security flaws in official documentation.