Just an FYI for others: you can have sleep apnea even if you don't snore; in the same vein, if you snore,it doesn't mean you have sleep apnea. For instance, my partner started snoring once he became overweight. He did a sleep study, which confirmed no sleep apnea.

But if you suspect sleep apnea, get a sleep study asap. It can cause various health issues such as diabetes, heart issues, high blood pressure, etc.

I would guess most, if not all, Slavic languages use some form of the homophobic slur in that way. Even if you're not homophobic, it's so widely used that sometimes you don't think about what the word really means.

Source: am Central European Slav.

People need/want/are used to active sync. For that one either needs a true self-hosted solution and/or a service that requires opening port(s) on the firewall/router, which most people either have no idea how to do or can't due to ISP lockdown. Self-hosting can very quickly turn into a 2nd job and not everyone wants that. Or they have no required techical knowledge and no desire or time to learn. Plus, you still have to set up proper backups, even if the service is just running on your desktop. Unless, of course, you're fine with a single point of failure.

On the topic of mail hosting, as someone who works in IT and self-hosts a whole stack of things: I do not ever want to self-host my email. Personally, I was considering just getting another domain for email and switching backend services as needed, but I liked the package Proton offered, so I chose that instead. I might need to rethink that domain option, but at this rate, soon no backend service will be safe from fascists and/or AI.

Yeah, I don't get it, but to each their own I guess, lol.

The last two are pretty standard in Europe, I'd say. But the first one I've never heard of.

I only saw parts of it and yet it haunted me for years. I found it genuinely terrifying and fucked up.

I always bring up this story when talking about (bad) teachers. Once on my way back from school on public transit, I saw a teacher grading essays. They give this one essey an A, then close the notebook, check the name, open the notebook again, cross out A and write a B. Obviously I don't know the backstory, but I was still looking at it in disbelief. I'd definitely been graded lower based on how the teacher liked me. Even on things that should be objective, like science subjects.

From my experience most teachers shouldn't be teaching. Some downright hate kids. I had one who admitted she didn't manage to get into medicine, so teaching biology was the second best. She definitely shouldn't have gone into teaching.

My elementary school literature teacher loved my creative writing and always left a note on my assignments, encouraging me to continue. Then in high school my literature teacher consistently gave me lower grades because she didn't like my wiriting. Completely killed it for me. To be honest, I don't know how she could even be a literature teacher, because the creative writing she loved from other students my friends and I agreed was unimaginative garbage.

In the 12 years of mandatory education, I can count on one hand the good teachers who made me interested in the subject. And I've had well over 24 teachers in a wide range of subjects.

YMMV. I like the weight, but not for sleeping. I toss and turn a lot and wake up sore and uncomfortable.

I'm not autistic, but I can definitely relate to overthinking and using earbuds without music. I guess there's a decent amout of overlap between autism and ADHD.

I noticed the cat only when I realized which community this was shared in.

I wish the people at my company were like your mother. Instead, they freak out about the smallest of changes in the UI of the same application. God forbid they have to move to another application entirely. Had a user freak out their application wasn't licensed and they couldn't use all functions anymore. Turns out they just managed to somehow hide the toolbar with all the options... These are people anywhere from 20 to 60 years old, btw.