to save your tabs in case of a crash or for the “restore tabs on open” option

you can disable that or reduce how frequent it is in firefox about:config, but on chromium too bad

Not currently and publically at least. They’re feeding your messages into an LLM, https://twitter.com/DiscordPreviews/status/1790065494432608432 but that’s not as bad as training one with your messages

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this isn’t true imo. not because it was never the case, but because nowadays arch is so easy to use it’s a perfectly normal thing to do, “i use arch btw” isn’t a shocking statement

the gluten free vegans of the computing world are NixOS users

if anything, turning off the phone during those 8 hours would be worse, as starting back up takes a surprisingly high amount of battery. but inbetween shifts it’ll likely help to turn off the phone as long as you are sure you won’t need the phone at all during that time

as one of the other comments mentioned, enable airplane mode to save a good bit of battery. while there is an app meant to help in simmilar scenarios, ForceDoze, it’s annoying to set up and requires some quite nerdy stuff.