Keep it up. Don’t let FOMO loosen your standards. If people acted like this to you in person, you would avoid them. Do it online as well.

Sadly we interact so much online that the bad behavior of social media is now informing people how to behave IRL.

Yep, these definitely won’t get hacked

https://youtu.be/T6fO3xYJR30 it’s my Cadillac Hour

Email is never private, even with encrypted email, headers give away metadata. HOWEVER, Tuta & Proton are not scanning your emails to market shit to you and train AI. That’s the main advantage.

That’s great. Canada has very strong credit union adoption. The US is often more predatory. Banks can put people into minimum balance type accounts and fee you until the account runs dry. Not all, but some do. If you live in a rural area, you may not have many options. There’s a host of reasons. https://www.fdic.gov/household-survey

A surprising number of people don’t have a bank.

My spouse didn’t get it until she watched Meredith Whittaker’s SXSW talk. I just wasn’t eloquent enough. She admitted I had made the same points, but not as well. Show people that video. https://www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP-JOg

“natural monopolies” should be state owned.

Those sports teams and events are using Facebook because they want your data.

Self hosted stuff will collapse without you. Bitwarden has a family plan with survivorship rules. You can also share passwords easily. Also, Google and Microsoft accounts also have survivorship rules you can set up.

Unfortunately your less cautious cohorts can reveal much of this about you as well. Privacy is a deep rabbit hole. Do what you can, try to educate your peers.

Also, link to the original post: https://mstdn.ca/@Linux/114899148717382605

I thought this was mandatory for a New Yorker his age?

Tried to persuade him. He’s an adult son, so I wouldn’t force it on him.

Grandma’s using it just fine though.

As more people learn bazzite just works, it’s going to grow. If I hadn’t rescued my son’s windows license he would have switched.

Don’t worry, Ohio has proven to ignore it’s court whenever it wants.

Time to sprinkle DRM magic on every Windows application

They purchase a huge amount of guns. You would think that they would have the ability to return the entire batch directly rather than resell them.

Causing problems so they can offer the solution - Central Bank Cypto Currency (CBDC).

Replying to give you an extra boost. If your courses are remote or have online exams, you may need to install spyware onto your computer. I’m re-imaging my wife’s computer this weekend because of it…

I bookmark subreddits and read them without logging in. Every time I feel the urge, I’ve got a hurdle to cross before I can type anything. Then it’s immediately a “fuck it” moment and move on