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IT’S HARD NOT to look at your phone during the evening time. We use it for so many things and that means it’s usually the first and last thing we look at every day.
Yet if you’re going to bed and trying to get some sleep, looking at a screen will ultimately disrupt your sleep pattern.
Ultimately, you’re better off putting it away or turning it off as you’ll get to sleep faster, but if you have to (or the habit is just too strong), there are one or two things to help ease the problem
Smartphones & tablets
The obvious option you have at your disposal is to reduce the brightness on your phone. Accessing it for any of the major OS is relatively simple although you can go a step further with some.
For iOS, there’s a low light option hidden in accessibility settings that can be quickly accessed once you have it set up, and is the best way of achieving this outside of jailbreaking your phone.
If you’re an Android user, you have two options. You can get Dimmer which offers the same functionality or you could download Twilight which replaces the blue screen with an orange hue.
Laptops/PC
We’ve spoken about F.lux before, a programme which changes your screen’s colour temperature from blue to orange, but it really is a great way to reduce the strain on your eyes.
Available for both Windows and Mac, the change occurs based on your location, providing a certain tint during the day and during the night, the latter having a more obvious change and ultimately easier on your eyes.
If you have a replacement, use it
As mentioned before, it’s better to just avoid screens altogether but if you can switch to something like a Kindle for reading, even better. This is scant consolation for those who might use their phones to play games or watch videos, but getting to sleep would be a little easier.
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Is Charlie Flanagan still TD Ah here I give up
This government has managed to get the lifetime of their own government out of the Commission on the Defence Forces. It was lauded in the beginning as a template for change. That was in 2019. The public and others were invited to make submissions in 2020, With the report due for release that December. December came and went, and the report was finally released in february, the Govt sat on it until making the obvious decision to accept the recommendations of LOA2 in July, but with an implementation group who would report back in 6 months. We’ll not go to LOA2 right away though, we’ll do it in phases, increasing defence spending in increments equal to the cost of One military aircraft per year.Here we are now almost June 2023, with nothing substantial achieved apart from a few more high paid civil service posts filled.
Tanagan would have us fighting under the Union Flag if he could. Does anybody really care what he says in this day and age?
Ireland should be a respected neutral country with an army capable of defending the country. Personally I would like weapons that could kill lots of people, this would deter even the worlds biggest countries from invading us.
@Brian Boru:
Nukes…
@Gerry Dornan: whoopee cushions. Can you imagine Putin sitting on one?
Maybe he should get the black and Tans to help out
I’m surprised at Cathal Berry. He should know the one person that will slow this process down to a crawl on that committee. Waiting to appoint a Head of Transformation (there must be a civil servant due retirement)someone who will then appoint someone and hey presto it will be election time. The Sec of the Department was put there for a reason. To make sure Defence is treated at a snails pace. Give nothing to the Military at all costs. I have never seen a Secretary of the Department do or introduce anything constructive EVER. Thats why they are kept.
So the chairperson in charge of a committee for implementing modernisation after meeting 6 times says that a head of transformation is due to be appointed but that other measures are delayed because of the IRG group publication which delayed the development of an implement implementation plan, and that the establishment of an (enquiry) and development of the terms of reference for it and potential interface on both of those and ensuring that the implementation plan is comprehensive also delayed. Please read that back and realise why so much goes at the snails pace mentioned in the article
We should arm and uniform our new Irish brothers, that would be great for everyone.
So the notoriously thin-skinned Flanagan, who was rightly demoted after the last general election, is mouthing off again…
Yawn!
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@Real Chieflice Trump MAGA 2024:
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