Congrats!

Depending on your situation, most of your issues can be avoided by not owning a smartphone. It’s extreme (by today’s standards, at least), but it does work. I ditched my smartphone back in 2017 for a cheap flip phone. I can find spare parts on eBay easily. My car is older, so there is no SaaS crap in it. If I need to keep in touch with someone, we can use SMS, call each other or meet in real life. I use a Linux laptop for banking/browsing the web and I keep a physical GPS in my car in case of emergency.

and I agree with you. Privacy is pretty much gone already.

Canadians: First time?

I’ve noticed this too. Most of the stuff on Reddit’s frontpage has an angry undertone. Anger = Engagement.

I keep a GPS in my car in case of emergency, but I try to plan my trips ahead by memorising landmarks on OSM. As a species, we are losing our navigation skills.

How much of a PIA is it to install Linux on a Chromebook? I’m looking for a small laptop and Chromebooks are the perfect size.

Linux Mint’s software manager is not bad.

Do you know where that tight little ball in your lower abdomen should go? Down the shitter. You don’t have to internalise it. You are your own best friend.

My homies: Marcus, Seneca and Epictetus.

Same here. Mandrake 8.2 was a buggy mess, but I have fond memories of it.

That was one shitty database application lol. I guess the programmer hadn’t thought of using pagination.

The UI was dope. My drug of choice was Netbus 1.70, though.

Netbus 1.70 baby

Frankly, I don’t see this a a problem as long as the software is up to date and the hardware is sound. I bet there are thousands of SPARC servers out there processing data 24/7 since 1995.

I have been using a flip phone since 2017, but I’m considering switching to VOIP since I don’t use my phone much anyway.

TRS-80 Colour Computer 3. I have a real TRS-80, but I use MAME for assembly programming.

This is really cool. I’m trying to teach myself 6809 assembly.

I use rtorrent and it’s pretty straightforward.

They are probably very young. People get less extreme in their views as they grow older (usually).

• https://inteltechniques.com/podcast.html
• https://watchmanprivacy.com/podcast
• https://darknetdiaries.com
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/firewalls-dont-stop-dragons-podcast/id1213366517
• https://www.modemmischief.com
• https://player.fm/series/canadian-prepper-podcast
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-down-collapse/id1534972612
• https://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/
• https://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes
• https://100wattsandawire.com/podcast/
• https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/9jnhv-2f03b/Learn-Russian-|-RussianPod101.com-Podcast
• https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/bu3w8-77163/Comprehensible-Russian-Podcast-|-Learn-Russian-with-Max