Not to be a spoil sport but rating how good it bad ANY genetic material is always feels icky to me. If we want to fully move away from eugenics, we need to stop its narrative even in case of garbage humans like musk, too.

gedit gang

When I was a teen it wasn’t the government I was afraid of, but digital devices were just as likely to be read as paper. What I did was keep anything I needed to be private at school, work, a friend’s. Is any of that an option? Would a super old laptop with a fresh OS that you never connect to the internet be safe in your home?

Very good attitude! You sound like a great and supportive spouse. I’m lucky to have a partner like that, too. Love back from Switzerland ✨

That sucks, didnt know charging by the minute was still a thing at all in some places.

Anyone who uses Facebook messenger as their only messenging app will need to text or call me. Fuck that. I do, however, use WhatsApp and discord for work and uni group chats. If or when that’s no longer the case, people who only use those will need to text me, too.

I’m curious, what do you do when you have the flu or covid or the like and are too sick to shop? I mean, I know some places have affordable grocery delivery, but in places where that’s not the case?

That’s a city thing, people only really do that if the shop is on the way. You’d still usually have a supply of cans, pasta, rice etc. either way.

Thanks for th write up! It was very helpful, I was feeling super off about it because, like I said, im autistic, and I do also have some complex trauma. It was especially upsetting because my autism is literally what I am. It’s important to my identity in a similar way and as much as my gender identity, for example. And trauma is something purely negative that I wish I wouldn’t have gone through.

What does kind of make sense though is how trauma can exacerbate symptoms, such as being easily overwhelmed with seemingly innocuous situations.

You got a source on autism coming from trauma etc.? I’m autistic myself and have never heard of autism not already being present at birth.

You seem like a great parent! I’m personally leaning towards giving them dumb phones once they have to take public transport to school, for the convenience of them being able to inform me when they miss the bus or want to have lunch at a friend’s. But who knows if or when I’ll even have kids, lol. Maybe things will change in that time.

When I was kind of strapped on cash, the 2016 iphone SE was the most best choice by far. The android phones I’d had before that usually cost a similar amount and they all broke in less than three years. But that 290€ bad boy lasted until I lost it in 2023. Shame they’re no longer making those. But I guess the silver lining is that people don’t make fun of me for having an iPhone anymore.

My highschool PCs had XP for as long as at all possible. They switched them to some beginner friendly Linux after. Way to go.

I’m Austrian, we still call them Palatschinken. The extra thin ones are called crepe and the extra thick ones are called pancake, just like the French and English term, respectively. Palatschinken are somewhere in-between.

You could literally just save a copy to your desktop before you’re going to do something sensitive.

Not a solution to all your problems of course, but the only way to buy something and preserve your privacy is to pay cash. Everything else will get your info to someone. Lots of good suggestions for lesser evils here for when you have no choice but to shop online.

What about the libre office version?

I’m currently working with some code that partly was written in the punch card era.

We’re almost like coding siblings lol

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