Because there is no way to know if Tor is running or not. The only way is to start the proxy and see what the lib returns.

Yes I am using Graphene

Are you on Graphene? The Tor in the background is a bug on the OS that is not sending the app pause event so Tor keeps running.

If you have Orbot running, Amethyst will always use Orbot because the Tor lib does not allow a separate Tor client.

But the Tor lib is designed as a Proxy server. Any app that embeds Tor creates a proxy that any other app can use. There is no way around it right now.

It always keeps a Tor connection running when the app is visible to load pictures, images and videos with .onion addresses.

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My engineering job pays well, has great benefits, is often not too stressful.

But goddamn is it mind-numbingly boring.

A lot of people look down on blue collar work, which I think is misguided. Especially for skilled blue collar work (and most type of work does benefit from skill/experience).

Basically, there’s a popular notion that it’s objectively better to be a CEO than a plumber, or an engineer than a barber, and that’s pretty off base. So it’s not that they criticize blue collar work in any overt way; it’s that they assume that that people in “lower” jobs would all want to be in “higher” roles if they had the choice. A technician would want to be an engineer. A janitor would want to be a CEO.

There are a lot of studies on job happiness and one of the most consistent correlations is that people are happier when they get more immediate feedback. Like if you cut people’s hair or fix mechanical issues or wire up electronic boxes, you often resolve things in minutes, hours, days, or weeks depending the specific task, and with progress along the way, so you get that quick feedback loop where you see the positive results of your work quickly and tangibly. Nothing lingers, unclear and vague.

And for those jobs, often when you’re outside of work hours, you’re truly out. You don’t have to think about it. You can fully devote your focus elsewhere. There’s not some major thing hanging over your head, other than sometimes financial stress or indirect things.

Now, obviously jobs with more complexity and compensation and scale give people other benefits. More material comfort and safety, more power to impact the world at scale, more public prestige, etc. and for some people that’s important for happiness, and for others it is not. And the cost is that it’s generally highly competitive, rarely if ever turns off, and usually comes with much slower and more vague feedback loops in terms of seeing or feeling whether your work is making things better or not.

There was a time in my life where wiring up electronic boxes was really satisfying. Each project had a practical purpose but then also was kind of an artform since I wanted it to look neat for aesthetic and maintainability purposes. I would work on these things like a bonsai enthusiast would sculpt bonsai. And then eventually I would design larger systems and have technicians wire them instead, but for some of the foundational starting points I’d still set up the initial core pieces to get it started right. I wasn’t thrilled when I realistically had to give that up when I moved into management for a while.

I have a housekeeper clean my house every couple weeks. She’s a true pro; she used to clean high-end hotels for years and now works for herself cleaning houses. When we travel, she can let herself in and clean our place, since we trust her.

She doesn’t speak much English, but her daughter does, and that daughter recently graduated college.

Notably, she consistently sings while she cleans. She could listen to music or podcasts but doesn’t. She just sings every time she cleans. I can tell she’s generally in a state of flow while cleaning. She’s good at what she does, and it’s kind of a meditative experience involving repetition but also experience to do it properly and efficiently and then a satisfying conclusion of leaving things better than how they were found. Turning chaos to order.

Last year she was hit by a truck while driving, and had to be out of work for a few months to recover. When she came back, we just back-paid her the normal rate for those few months as though she cleaned on schedule, so she wouldn’t have any income gap from us. Full pay despite a work gap. She was shocked when we did that. We weren’t sure her financial situation (I assume it’s pretty good actually based on her rate), but basically we just treated the situation as though she were salaried with benefits even though she works on a per-job basis. Because skilled, trustworthy, and happy people are hard to come by and worth helping and maintaining connections with.

If I were to guess, I honestly think she is a happier person than I am on a day to day basis. It’s not that I’m unhappy; it’s that I think whatever percentage I might be on the subjective mood scale, she is visibly higher. I experience a state of flow in my work, and my type of work gives me a more frequent state of flow than other work I could do, but I think her work gives her an even higher ratio of flow.

Anyway, my point is that optionality is important. While it’s true that some jobs suck and some jobs are awesome, and financial security matters a lot, for the most part it’s more about how suited you are for a particular type of work at a particular phase in your life. And you’re not defined by your work; it’s just one facet of who you are among several facets.

Find what gives you a good state of flow, pays your bills, lets you save a surplus, and lets you express yourself in one way or another.

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I swear I replace our LED bulbs that are supposed to LaSt FoREvEr AnD UsE No EneRGy more often than we replaced our incandescent bulbs.

I legit think the shift to more expensive LEDs (which means they take way more energy to make, which means they are more wasteful, NOT efficient) was nothing but a big political grift to force people to buy bulbs with bigger margins that weren’t having the growth they needed. So they used “green energy” to pad their pockets.

I swear there is no political action whatsoever that isn’t a racket.

It is truly nothing but bootleggers and baptists. A marriage between the scammers and their fools and nothing more.

it wont be what it was, it will be alot more but also a bit different.

Cashew isn’t a seed, its closer to a nut. Technically Its a drupe which is a type of fruit.

Plants have developed clever ways to disseminate their “offspring” and fruits nuts and seeds are vastly different in this regard.

Oily Fruits like olives & avocados are tasty to get animals to help disperse them. Nuts are technically fruits so same kinda method.

Seeds on the other hand are VERY different. They use toxins to discourage animals from foraging them. Some Birds have adapted but mammals generally haven’t.

Manufacturers then use detergents to neutralize and remove the bad tasting toxins (bitter) and they also boil the seeds to reduce the oil out further damaging the oil. Cold pressed flax is good for example but it’s expensive to produce in large quantities so larger companies that need a cheap filler buy things like canola oil instead because its cheap and people don don’t immediately get sick from it. Its a double whammy though. Firstly its rancid already from heating it AND its got many toxins that cause inflammation.

No oil is good for you after its been heated past its smoke point but the delicate fats (omega-9) in seeds are damaged from any heat.

As a general rule cook with omega 3 and as the temperature goes down, use omega 6 and avoid eating a lot of omega 9.

Heres an example: Smaller quantities of sunflower are okay because they’re loaded with other nutrients and minerals that are hard to het in out diet but don’t heat them just eat raw. If the seed came from a fruit like a pumpkin or sesame fruit you’re good to eat more of them just remember that heating them fucks the oil up.