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@crrdlx might need a new hosting service for his bots. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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We can have a talk about that ;-)
Let's set up some Discord servers first :-D lol
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Maybe you can recommend hosting servers (VPS in particular) that are both affordable and reliable. 🤔🧘‍♂️ I might use one of your recommended ones for my testing !INDEED! 🤓😏

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Affordable is of course a very broad term ;-)
But I'm mostly using:
https://www.hetzner.com/
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https://www.scaleway.com/en/
Pretty pleased by both of them actually.

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I !HOPEd to see hosting providers that accept Hive or other cryptocurrencies as payment, or at least those that I haven't explored yet. 🤔🤯 Thanks for listing (some of) the providers that you use though! 🤗😅

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The only one that does accept crypto./Hive that I know of is Privex, and I'm not hearing good things about them lately (not using them myself).
I also use two local hosting providers, but they are quite expensive (easily 3-4x the other prices, so I don't see the need to recommend them :-)
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I think that the VPS and dedicated hosting plans on #Privex currently look expensive !INDEED. 🤔🤯

Anyway, I mentioned #Privex to @tydynrain on a comment half an hour ago, where I said that many people on Hive hosting their Hive Witness nodes there or on mainstream hosting providers is generally discouraged. 🤯🤓😅

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That is indeed an issue... way too many people are using Privex, which means that when Privex is under attack, half of Hive is down. Which is why I spread my servers around, geographically where possible, and over different providers, to keep things as decentralized as possible. I also don't use VPS, but bare metal, with full access to everything, except physically touching the hardware (although that is almost virtually possible...).
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Maybe you would like to rent out your bare metal servers to people by splitting them into multiple VPS. 🤔🤯 That way, you could recoup some (or even all) of the costs of renting those servers, while being able to help other people rent servers (especially those here on Hive) with lower costs (and some of your assistance). 🤗🧘‍♂️😎

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I could do that perhaps! Would need to get my Sysadmin experience back from the back of my head, but it would be possible! Not sure if there is a lot of interest in it though. There’s already someone on Hive doing that if I’m not mistaken… (privex)

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I really think that @savvytester would be one of those who would be (very) interested in such setup! 🤯 A #Privex VPS seems too expensive (already at $7.49 for a VPS with 1GB RAM, 25GB SSD, and 1 core). 💸🤓

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That is indeed not cheap… I’ve will give it a thought! But it won’t be something for the next coming weeks though :-)

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Please take your time preparing a VPS plan for @savvytester. 🤗 Please take your time typing your comments too, as what is evident on I've will on that comment. 🤣😂

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Yes indeed, I should take more time for those things :-) lol!!! What a mistake to make, right? :-)
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You can think that Hive would benefit from more VPS providers (which accept Hive), and your reasoning is not that you are better than others like what you said on your Hive Witness promotion post, but that people on Hive can benefit from multiple choices !INDEED. 🤔🧘‍♂️🤗🤓

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Yes, that is right indeed… More choices means more freedom…
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Looks like I have encouraged you (slightly) more to have your own (mini) VPS hosting service here on Hive !INDEED! 😎😆😅

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Yes you have :-)
But it is not in the top 5 of my priorities at the moment :-D
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I would assume that it is within the Top 100 of your priorities at the moment though. 🤔🤯🤣😂

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You assumed right ;-)
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Looks like while my guess on my previous comment was accurate !INDEED, it can still improve (a lot) in terms of precision. 🤔🤯🤓

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I noticed that it's one of your comments where you were unable to reply to someone's comment (which happens to be from @savvytester) under it. 🤯😅

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Totally weird, since I clearly remember having replied to that specific comment… It must have gone lost, bad connection or something…
Anyway, replied now :-)
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Even I (and sometimes @savvytester) notice that when I replied to roughly 30 comments (either on a day or two), about one or two of those comments didn't actually get published. 🤯

Anyway, I also replied to your comment there. 😅

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And I replied to it too now! :-) Yeah, I love Ecency for fast and easy use, especially on the iPhone, but it does have its flaws here and there :-)

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Perhaps when you notice that the #Ecency frontend encounters significant technical issues that makes it hard for you to use, you already have a good alternative already in place! 😎😏

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Anyway, you might have forgotten that the BEER token tipping bot doesn't want to see more than one bot command on the same comment with the BEER token tipping command, and that the LUV token tipping bot has been disabled by its owner/operator for almost 2 months. 🤔🤯🤓

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Well.. You can't even believe all the things that I have forgotten in the past 2 months ;-)
The !BEER command did work in a few cases yesterday though...
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The BEER bot sometimes appears drunk with too much BEER though, which causes it to fulfill BEER token tipping commands on some comments despite such comments having a myriad of bot commands. 🤔🍺🍻🤯😆😅

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I think it is using a (hardcoded?) list of bot commands to search for, which is not yet fully up to date with the current set of bots...
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The official comment from the BEER bot operator literally says use the BEER command only alone and don't mix this with other "!" commands. 🤔🍺 That means it does not matter what the bot command is, but if a word starts with an exclamation mark, then it will be assumed to be a bot command by the BEER token tipping bot. 🍻🤯😅

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That's what the doc says, but not necessarily what the code says :-D Don't know though, I haven't seen either :-D
I do know that I sometimes use !BEER, without really thinking about too much of the details, and often it just works :-D
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Whenever @savvyplayer (or I used to before) wanted to tip the BEER token, they would first make sure that there are no other bot commands on any of their comments with the BEER token tipping command. 🤔🍺🤯😅

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Indeed, I remember it as well. No idea what changed. Or didn’t change, on their end.
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You are a master in complicating things! :-D
I was referring to the !BEER tipping bot ;-)
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Like I said ;-)

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@savvytester is taking a lot of time just to think of a good reply to your comment there, so I would say "okay" here on their behalf! 🤯😆

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Sometimes "Okay" is the best answer :-)
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And perhaps not answering is also sometimes the best "answer" !INDEED! 🤯😅

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My answer on this answer has been redirected to /dev/null for infinity ;-)

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But before your answer got redirected to /dev/null (an infinite number of times), it got published here on Hive first. 🤯🤣

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Double redirect ;-)
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I assume that you mean that the answer you had to @savvyplayer there got redirected to two places - both here on Hive and to /dev/null with the "double redirect" on your comment there. 🤔🤯🤯😅

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Yep, I figured. You sure set the Discord servers up quickly, you had it done even before I went to bed! I wrote a post about them today. We still have to add channels. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Two new things on the todo list: Think about channels & read your post :-D
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Indeedy, and I saw that you already did one of those! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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That's what I (and @savvyplayer) wanted to suggest to crrdlx, though I could only imagine how much more expenses he would need to prepare for if he decides to change his VPS. 🤔💸🤯🤓

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Yep, I know, and up until now Bjorn has not changed anyone to host their bots. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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The phrase "has not changed anyone" sounds deep indeed. 🤔🧘‍♂️🤯

It seems more efficient in terms of cost and monitoring to have many Hive bots hosted just on one server (borniet's server on this case). 🤓🤯 Since token tipping bots can stop working for a few minutes to several hours at a time with only very few tippers noticing (especially if the bots catch up to missed commands as soon as they resume working), it won't matter much if many bots are squeezed into a single server. 🤯😅

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Yep, many bots on one server makes it a lot easier. 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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Your "autocorrect" made me think unnecessarily deep regarding the Bjorn has not changed anyone clause. 🤔🤯🤣😂

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Nope, no deep thought at all on that one. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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I think that you mean that you didn't think deep about what your "autocorrect" has "autocorrected", and that you don't necessarily mean that I wasn't thinking deep from my previous comment. 🤔🤯🤯😅

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I've gotta say, that sentence is not very easily understandable. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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I edited my previous comment to make it easier to understand (by you as well as other readers) !INDEED. 🤔🤗🤯😅

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Good, that's always helpful. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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You might tell that it's for the benefit of "future digital archaeologists" too! 🤔🤯😆😅

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Indeed, and I'd say that's the second most important reason to make comments easily understandable. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Your comment there made me curious about what the "third most important reason" is to make our comments here on Hive more easily understandable, the most important one being that the person on Hive we are talking with understands what we really meant with our existing comments here. 🤔🧘‍♂️🤯🤯😅

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I hadn't actually thought of a third important reason, so good question. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Maybe that "third important reason" will come up naturally as we continue our conversations here on Hive !INDEED. 🤔🧘‍♂️🤓😏

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Perhaps so, and let's see. 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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Maybe you and @savvyplayer getting noticed by others (not in a negative way) is a good reason, though I know that @savvyplayer would appreciate badges and achievements (such as on #HiveBuzz) more !INDEED. 🤔🥳🤯😅

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Perhaps, and I generally appreciate it, unless I'm overwhelmed with too many people noticing me at once. I'm sure. Well, thankfully most are not difficult to acquire. 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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Some people enjoy getting noticed a lot, and some of them don't care whether the attention is positive or negative, which is weird. 🤔🧘‍♂️🤯🤯😅

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I am thankfully not one of those people. Fame does not interest me one bit. 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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I wonder if you becoming a comedian (even for a short amount of time) ever crossed your mind !INDEED. 🤔🤯😅

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Nope, not once. While I can be funny at times, doing so in front of people is not something that interests me. If I do anything in front of people, it would be to educate and teach. 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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Some people say that knowing how to be a comedian (not necessarily being one) helps in education (especially when teaching young people) !INDEED, because he/she knows how to enliven and capture the attention of people while teaching/informing. 🤔🧘‍♂️😎🤓

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Yes, indeed, and I agree, humor is very useful in teaching. 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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I read some people say online that being an extrovert is an advantage for teachers, especially when teaching younger students. 🤔🧘‍♂️👨‍🏫👩‍🏫🤓

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I can certainly see that, since extraverts recharge from their interactions with people, while introverts recharge from taking quiet time to themselves. 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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I don't usually see the word "extrovert" typed as extravert, but it seems that how you typed it on your comment is still valid. 🤯🤓

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That's how I learned the word, which is the correct psychological term. 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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It looks like someone has to dive deep to determine which of the terms "extrovert" and "extravert" is "more correct" !INDEED, since both appear in (online) dictionaries. 🤯🤯🤯😅

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The former is more common in usual American speech, whereas the latter is more common in usual British speech. The latter is also the actual psychological term used professionally. 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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Perhaps I have read too much personality websites (that aren't run by mental health professionals, very often according to the authors themselves). 🤯

Anyway, you might want to read my related post from 4 years ago. 🧘‍♂️🤗

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Hehe...perhaps so. Yikes, I read your post, and that is a sad situation indeed with your friend. Unfortunately, most doctors create more problems than they help. Very few have any idea how to actually help people to heal. What became of him? 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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Several months after I published that post, he's basically stuck with looking for a job where he can utilize his college degree, get a good salary, and where his employers and colleagues would be kind to him. 🤔 However, when he has episodes (in terms of mental disorders) such as being very distrustful of the people in his workplace, he will quit his job soon after even if (he admits that) his colleagues and employers said or did nothing bad to him. 🤯 There's also the problem (also after that post) about him wanting to finish his master's degree program for which he already failed some academic requirements, but that's another story for now. 🧘‍♂️

I !HOPE that you also read the comments in the comments section there (such as those from Peter, Zoltan, and Ahmad). 🤗

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Ah, I see, and that's unfortunate. I imagine that it's not easy for him, or those around him. I didn't have much time last night, since it was already late, so I didn't read the comments. I'll take a peek now, though. 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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In my experience, just talking to him by reading his messages (and listening to his calls) and giving him useful advice as a form of (social) support almost doesn't help him. 🤯 I know that the only people who can really help him are his family members (definitely) and professionals in the field of mental health (depends on the consultant). 🧘‍♂️

I wonder what the results of your "comments peeking" are though. 😅

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Ah, yes, I see, and I'm sure that's a bit frustrating for you. Yep, that's probably true, especially family,

When I went to look at the comments, I realized that I had apparently already read them...lol! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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He has the habit of sending me the very same messages that he already sent me weeks or months ago, such as the problems that he continues to experience or the questions that I already answered him. 🤯 He even tries to remind me of what I said before that "things change over time", such that he expects me to change my response to the same messages that he sends me over and over. 🤯 I wonder how he remembers certain statements from me but not others, and then use them to pressure me into trying to help him again (in a different way). 😐

Since you have read those comments, you might want to either talk about them on this conversation or reply to them directly. 😏

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That sounds like an extraordinarily frustrating experience. You have more patience that I'd likely have.

Well, yes, I could, but I don't have a particular reason to do so at the moment. 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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Someone reminded me (for another problem, not necessarily regarding my friend here) that even the most patient people (in general) can (and will) still eventually run out of patience (if pushed hard enough). 🧘‍♂️🤯

It's okay if you don't want to talk about the comments on my post (yet). 🤗

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Indeed, that is quite true, as much personal experience has proven.

I appreciate that. I just don't have much to say about them is all. 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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I've been working on it. There always seems to be little things popping up.

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Hello, my friend, and I figured. Yes, I certainly know how that goes. @borniet could likely host your bots without a problem, as he does for the ALIVE and BBH tipping bots, as well as the tipping bots for the MMB Project. This conversation thread made us create three new Discord servers, one of which, HiveTippingBots, is for tipping-bot owners and operators, to help improve and speed up communication between them, and to help give support with broken bots. You're welcome and invited to join. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Let's !HOPE that @borniet won't be away from Hive for too long whenever at least one of the Hive token tipping bots of other people's #HiveEngine tokens encounters a problem! 🤗

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That's indeed always the hope. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Better yet is for you to learn enough programming to effectively maintain the Hive token tipping bots that you co-created with Bjorn before he gets another "extended vacation" !INDEED! 😎😅

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As a short-term strategy, that would not work so well, long term, maybe. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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It looks like you are referring to the "teach a man to fish" proverb !INDEED! 🧘‍♂️🤓

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No, I was referring to the fact that it would take more a fair amount of time to learn the relevant coding languages well enough to be able to assist, so I'd be a poor choice in the short term. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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There's the saying that "the first step is already halfway towards the goal", so I wonder if you are already "halfway" towards being a good programmer by starting to learn programming. 🧘‍♂️🤯🤗

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Nope, not yet. I haven't allocated any time to it recently. I'm not sure how to navigate it without ending spending way more time on my computer, since I already spend a huge amount of time staring at my screens. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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It would be very hard for you to learn programming without staring at your (laptop) screens. 🤯🤯🤯😅

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Exactly hence my hesitation in really diving into learning to code, and in multiple languages. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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I remember reading some articles online about blind programmers using accessibility tools to still develop (good) apps despite their disability. 🧘‍♂️🤗

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Well, that's helpful to know if I go blind from staring at screens so much. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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I don't think that it's practically possible to go blind from staring at (computer or phone) screens too much, though spending a lot of time staring at such screens will definitely cause eye strain (and also other health problems) !INDEED. 🤯🤯

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Perhaps, but I will say that my eyesight is much worse now than it was a few years ago, especially in my right eye. I do my best to change my focus a good bit. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Let's !HOPE that you can still have your eyesight restored (with as natural means as possible)! 🤗

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Thank you, and that is indeed my hope. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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