I’m pretty sure i got the whole article:

Sweden has reached its target of fewer than five percent of the population smoking regularly – and is consequently considered “smoke-free”.

“It is an incredible development that a harmful behaviour can be reduced to this extent,” Mats Ramstedt, head of research at the Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAN), told the TT news agency.

For the first time in CAN’s surveys, fewer than five percent smoke regularly in Sweden, according to the 2025 annual report on smoking and snus habits, which means that the political goal for Sweden to be smoke-free by 2025 has been achieved.

The proportion of daily smokers dropped from 16 to 4.8 percent between 2003 and 2025, according to the new report.

“It is not just the proportion of smokers that has decreased; we also see that people are smoking fewer cigarettes. Given the health risks associated with cigarette smoking, this is obviously very positive,” said Ramstedt.

Smoking has been declining in Sweden since the late 1970s (for comparison: in the early 1980s, over 30 percent of Swedes smoked daily), thanks to broad preventative work, according to Ramstedt.

“The first and perhaps most vital point is that accessibility has been drastically reduced. It is both harder and more expensive to smoke today,” said Ramstedt, citing taxes and real-term prices rising by 45 percent since 2003.

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He also credited efforts made to deter people from starting to smoke in the first place, such as advertising bans, and to make it easier for people to quit.

Meanwhile, Sweden has seen a sharp increase in the use of snus in recent years – the small nicotine pouches popular in Sweden – a factor that the tobacco industry often highlights as a major reason for Sweden’s low proportion of smokers.

“One must keep in mind that smoking had already decreased sharply before we saw this rise in snus. In a way, that argues against it being a decisive factor in reducing smoking,” said Ramstedt, but conceded that more research into its role could provide useful insights. “My assessment is that there is a lack of studies proving this, and I would maintain that it is primarily down to preventative measures.”

My state is on here but it’s not my district rep. But fuck them anyway.

Ente and Immich are great for photos, although Immich is meant to be self-hosted (not sure about Ente). I use mailbox.org + Thunderbird email client and both support pgp encryption for emails, it’s awesome and only cost 12€ a year for the light plan (2G). People like Tuta but it doesn’t support 3rd party mail clients like Thunderbird. Maybe Proton mail.

I have a drive bay attached to my network that I’ve been using as my “GDrive” but I need to do an actual off-site backup location… You can self host Nextcloud for storage. I think I’ll use backblaze as a backup for my immich photos, all the other shit means nothing to me if it blows up cause I’ll just redownload it. You could also just encrypt your files with Cryptomator and then upload the encrypted files to Gdrive.

Yeah, I honestly think that initial “Hey, don’t do this” talk is better in advance. I remember getting my ass whooped for saying “Fuck” as a kid when I literally didn’t know what the word meant and my parent put the video on in the first place.

Educate your kids on what isn’t allowed in the first place. If they do something bad that you didn’t tell them in advance, then explain why the action is bad, not to do it again, and that you will be checking/monitoring for that behavior. Then you can at least be fully justified in any future punishments because you gave a warning.

Punishments for initial mistakes and unknown wrongs just suck, and they kinda stick with you 🫤

I distinctly remember my elementary school not being able to call my parents because their area code wasn’t the local area code but okay.

Phones should be allowed in schools, just take them before class starts and hand them back after.

I did do a scrub in the past when I had an issue with accidentally pulling the bay power cord a few months ago, but I genuinely forgot to run these weekly. I have no idea what trimming is…

You know, I literally just read about this in my textbook, but I’m trying to cram the last of my classwork for finals so I glossed over it.

Thanks for the reminder, time to set up that PIN…

Ungoogled Chromium my love. I’ve been using them for years now, both on Windows and Linux and I basically have no complaints.

For Android, if on Graphene you already have Vanadium! If not, Cromite is also pretty good since it has built in Ad-blocking.

I try to limit my Proton use to only their VPN, and after their comments I’m trying to decide between switching to AirVPN or doing my own VPN since I need portforwarding for torrenting. I switched from ProtonMail to Mailbox.org a while ago to not keep my eggs in one basket.

I think everyone highlighting the police is correct but also cherrypicking (for lack of a better statement). Like Tuta isn’t gonna go to jail for you either lol. All companies have to cooperate with the government in some form. I do agree that Proton should stop advertising like it won’t or that it’s failproof though. If they really cared, they would make guides on how to use their services in a way that gives little to no information to the police if demanded. And emphasizing that the email isn’t encrypted if the other user isn’t a ProtonMail account or using PGP.

I’m doing my part! 🩷🩵🤍 🦈

I just went to ebay and goodwill for my tech stuff. Goodwill is a tad annoying though cause their online shop is literally only bids, so have fun watching the price shot up in the last few days.

Or set up a listenbrainz.org account to get weekly recommendation playlist, check the accounts of people who listen to similar artists, and click through those addictive spider web charts that show you a bunch of artists who are similar to the one you’re listening to.

There’s also Rate Your Music, which I don’t have an account at but it still seems pretty good.

Yeah, I’m pressing X to doubt on this one because the website still only recommends Mastodon and Element, and the page literally talks about why federation and decentralized social media is vital to privacy and anti-censorship. They even have people in the forums talking about twitter frontends so you don’t have to actually go to the site. They even purposely try to avoid promoting their accounts on centralized media, the footer of every page only shows Mastodon, Matrix, Peertube, and Bluesky.

It’s privacyguides.ORG btw. Are you thinking of privacytools.io?

The point is to get an idea of the data that they absolutely collect. We can speculate all day about what they’re not mentioning, but we can safely assume they wouldn’t throw in shit that they don’t actually collect.

Privacy policies honestly are rarely worth reading. They are intentionally grossly encompassing, vague and unintelligible

Yesn’t. The whole point of this video was to go through a privacy policy and explain to people how to find certain terms and understand what they mean. It’s not hard to do ctrl + f and do basic keywords like “health”, “location”, “age”, “race”, etc.

Do I REALLY NEED this service? Because if ya do, it doesn’t matter what the PP says. And if ya don’t, just don’t do it. Assume you have 0 privacy, because 99% of the time they are collecting and selling every piece of data they can possibly collect about you.

Once again, that’s the point of the video. If you don’t need the service or determine it’s not worth the data they collect from you, then don’t download it. Congrats! You saved your data, which is what he wants. If you DO have to use the service, you know what kinds of data they’ll collect and you can go to the settings of the service or app to reduce what you give. No need to worry about user media being collected if you deny file permissions right? Hell you could go even deeper with apps like Exodus and Permission Manger X to figure out the exact trackers and permissions to disable.

The whole point of the video (and his channel in general) is to reduce the amount of blind ignorance going on with privacy. Knowledge is power, that’s why they hope people don’t read privacy policies. I now know what to look out for and how to reduce it. Would you rather sit in the dark afraid of what enemy you’re potentially fighting, or actually turn on the lights to see what it truly is?

My takeout had everything, even random shit I should’ve deleted forever ago lol. I’d just check for the most important pics (weddings, vacations, etc.) that you would actually be devestated to lose. You can always wait a month or so before deleting to verify your media transferred fine.

Really weird, I’ve never had a takeout download limit or issue; does it fail on both .tgz and .zip versions? Maybe try just outright downloading a few batches of pics at a time and then uploading them to Immich.

Like the other comment said, I did a Google takeout of my photos, then used immich-go to transfer them. Was pretty painless, got it done in a few hours, probs less if I was less dummy.

Here’s the guide I followed.

Yeah, but at least it’ll all be outdated and nothing new is added. And hey, maybe in the future we could get laws that force them to delete anything older than a certain date. Would leaving them there be any better?

Anki + Yomitan is the goat. Download some dictionaries of your target language, load them into Yomitan, and now you can search words on any website with selectable text and instantly make a flashcard out of the word. Watching a video in browser? Use asbplayer to load subtitles onto the video/movie and select the text from that too. Wanna watch not in browser? Use mpvacious with mpv.

Find yourself a card format you like and some cute addons (I use Ankimon [Pokemon]) for Anki so you don’t fall into that “it looks so dull!” trap because the SRS system it uses is no joke. I have years old vocab on there that I still remember, and medical students aren’t joking when they say it saved them.

I just love this app so much.

Short 8 min video of actually reading the Privacy Policy:

https://youtu.be/RJR59AGsO10