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How Adopting a Cat Can Change Your Cleaning Habits
Within Frank’s first two months at home with me, I bought and disposed of four litter boxes, each with their own awful, messy litter. I wanted to be a good cat mom, so I kept buying every kind of organic, nonclumping litter I could find online, only to grow tired of stepping on pieces of it all over the apartment…
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Habits to Keep Linux Resource Usage Low
Linux is great at using your computer efficiently, but sometimes you might find yourself on a slower or older machine. How can you make Linux work better with lower performance? 1 Use a Lightweight Desktop Environment One way to keep Linux resource usage low is to choose a lightweight desktop environment instead of KDE or GNOME. They’re fine desktops, but…
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TikTok’s Best and Worst ‘Winter Arc’ Rules to Build Better Habits Before January
There are a lot of terrible TikTok trends out there aimed at self-improvement, but even though everybody is making fun of the Winter Arc, I actually think it’s a good one! In the Winter Arc, you promise yourself you’ll stick to your fitness and self-care routines during and despite the end-of-year chaos. My only caveat: Make sure you choose rules…
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You Can (and Should) Modify the Pomodoro Technique to Fit Your Work Habits
We may earn a commission from links on this page. The Pomodoro technique—so named for the tomato-shaped timer its originator used to track his own work schedule—is widely considered one of the best productivity techniques out there. That’s why I’ve recommended it a lot in the past and why it regularly appears on best-of lists of productivity methods. It’s simple:…
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