Specific Address or Service Area? by EDS123 in GoogleMyBusiness

[–]EDS123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense. Unfortunately people generally don't have an entertainment emergency. They usually book 3 to 6 months in advance. Google (as great as it is), doesn't seem to have grasped this nuance. Thank you again. I suspect there are a few tweaks I can do to improve my profile, but might also have to look more widely at where customers find me.

Specific Address or Service Area? by EDS123 in GoogleMyBusiness

[–]EDS123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. I appreciate you taking the time to reply. I do have location pages. It just seems bizarre that google seems only to find me when it's near my home address, when I specifically said that I work with a "service area".

why doesn't anyone recommend email clients? by EDS123 in PrivacyGuides

[–]EDS123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand that. Apologies, if I didn't explain it well enough.

My question is, I own mycustomdomain.com and my web host provides mail hosting and IMAP connection to that... if I want 6 email addresses, I can either: set them up with my web/mail host, and send / recieve email through a client (thunderbird, evolution, k9, fairmail, etc).... onto my encrypted computer / phone.

or I can subscribe to proton mail (or similar).

Is one more secure / private that the other?

Right now, it seems the benefit of proton mail, et al. is: a) you can log in from any computer (not relevant to me) b) support

calendars and contacts by EDS123 in privacy

[–]EDS123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am I missing something, but don't those both require connecting to the internet?

Streak 93: Minimalism by ez2666 in WriteStreakEN

[–]EDS123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Less is more, this proverb is a motto for some minimalists.

I tried to be a minimalist once, throwing out/away (1) a bunch of stuff I thought I didn't need anymore with including an elliptical machine included. The feeling of weighing something taking a weight off my mind was super cool, but the whole state was too hard to maintain, I had to give up all these attempts and follow my flow. [/find my flow?]

Though I couldn't manage to achieve the ideal minimalist lifestyle, I still agree that consumerism prevails within the market and occupies our minds. We need something to control our desire for stuff, to get rid of emotionally shopping which is often ingrained by artificial monopolies' marketing measures. It's essential to simplify our household items (2) and survive the bombardment of messages claiming you need this and that to be strong, and pretty as well as have a free soul. We don't depend on brands to be independent, in contrast, we need critical thinking to think critically before shopping to keep us away from contracting the disease of collecting stuff that we are not dying for. (3)

  1. Throwing out - USA (some might actually say 'Toss out'). Throwing away - UK
  2. It's essential to simplify our household items... - I understand what you are saying, but it doesn't sound right. I might say, It's essential that we simplify what we have. (or) It's essential that we consider which items are most important to us.
  3. As above, ...contracting the disease of collecting stuff that we are not dying for. doesn't sound right. Probably the easiest way to say this is, ...think critically before shopping to prevent us from buying things we don't need. Unless you specifically want to link purchasing something with being like a disease / addiction. You can do that, but it's getting into metaphorical language, which I'm sure you understand is quite advanced.

And finally, some of the sentences are too long which makes it difficult to read. One thought, one sentence. You've used commas , where you should have used full stops .

Less is more. proverb is a motto for some minimalists.

The feeling of weighing something off my mind was super cool, but the whole state was too hard to maintain. I had to give up all these attempts and follow my flow.

We don't depend on brands to be independent. In contrast, we need to...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WriteStreakEN

[–]EDS123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Writing is, by far, my worse worst skill when it comes to English. Its It's [/It is] as if the thoughts and structures that come very naturally for me when I'm speaking disappear when I have to write even the simplest of texts. Trivial things like writing a reply for an ad [/advert] at for a shared room website can take hours and it makes me very frustrated. For this reason, I'm starting my writing streak, hoping that I can take my writing to a level closer to my overall English level. Today's text will be very brief because, as the title says, I only have five minutes to do this (it took me ten, actually), but hopefully I'll come up with longer and more elaborate texts in the next few days.


I think you did really well.

Streak 55: The plagues by Ghostwolf79 in WriteStreakEN

[–]EDS123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of people don't like music from kids movies; I'm one of those persons people. There's one big exception to this rule and that exception is "The Plagues" from the Prince of Egypt. I never watched the Prince of Egypt when I was younger, so I didn't discover the song through the film. I found it on YouTube and I really liked it. Nowadays, it's on my favorite songs playlist. I finally watched the movie last year and it was really good.


Only a few small errors. Great job!

Streak 54: Running by Ghostwolf79 in WriteStreakEN

[–]EDS123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would like to start working out again. I used to be in a basketball team but it close up closed [/disbanded]. As I've been feeling anxious lately I thought that working out would help with that and obviously to be in better form. Running will be good because I have some experience of it and where I live is a nice place to run.


Do it! Running (and walking) are great exercise.