Don’t engage with them. It’s a troll account.

I generally agree with you, however your argument does add some subjectivity to the maybe and no sections. I’d add that while not every situation can accommodate a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle, in 2026 the vast majority of people have the capability to change to a non-meat diet without any detriment to their health or lifestyle besides social ostracism of unaccepting peers depending on where they live.

Good point. Why should we treat animals like slaves then?

I totally agree with you.

I wish more in the tech industry were able to see how these issues are all related to the leftist struggle.

Unfortunately, I think you’re projecting a bit. He’s had interviews stating that he has issues with “both” sides, so from what I can find he seems centrist in his views. Also, he’s now a part of FUTO which has hosted him as a speaker alongside others with alt-right tech personalities.

From my perspective, I think he fits the burned out IT professional archetype that is tired of all the BS today, but as far as activism I think he’s pretty much only focused on right to repair. Anything beyond that seems to not be in his scope of interest. But to be honest, I would be happy to be proven wrong.

I’ve found NewPipe to be a good YT alternative for Grayjay.

Which lies are you talking about?

I mean, to be fair, I’d also like extra daylight when I’m done with work to just enjoy life more. But I’m sure this isn’t what Republicans are concerned with given all of the other policies inflicted upon the populace.

Also, a 4 AM sunrise seems way too early for me.

Do you work on software with graphics? Otherwise, you could probably virtualize or use a separate computer for work software. It’s just good practice to separate work from life anyways.

Solution: don’t run hosted services on your edge appliance.

In OP’s case, I’d use the RPi for the OpenWRT router and the miniPC for any relatively small hosted services I need. That way you can keep your services in its own DMZ away from your IOT devices assuming you have a smart tv/roku/firestick or other random likely vulnerable devices.

Network segment everything you can, but at the very least, I’d keep your services off of the device that is separating your LAN from WAN.

How did you know I was avoiding the 96 things I should be doing and instead walking in circles thinking up more things I could be doing?

Good point. I’ll update my comment.

That’s probably okay for mild fevers but if they get progressively worse then you’re risking them permanent brain damage.

Here’s everything I know about this whole thing:

There has been a lot of research into the subject but there’s also been unreliable data that is being used to intentionally misrepresent what has been found (hence the correlative vs causal relationships).

So the current well agreed on science is:

• All current fever reducing medications (and most other medications) are correlated with detectably increasing the chances of a child being born with autism, including Tylenol
• Having a fever while pregnant is correlated with increasing the chances of a child being born with autism well beyond the level that Tylenol would pose
• So, strategically using Tylenol would be the best way to mitigate all risks. Which is also what was the general recommendation was prior to this DoH announcement.

That’s if you are using a file to store additional data. Also JPEG and other lossy formats can have all sorts of artifacts that may (depending on the size of hidden data) seem typical.

What I thought they were referring to was encryption at the filesystem level which doesn’t require file blocks to be contiguous, allowing blocks to be interlaced with the hidden data.

You’re right, it is pretty common to do that but there’s always the chance they just cancel the discount around renewal. If you have autopay then you probably already committed to the new price before you realized what happened.

I looked on the website. This is actually an “early bird” special price that is ~80% discounted. So after a while, it’s going to be $162/year and $310/2 years.

Matrix’s encryption algorithm was broken for a while and when it was fixed it it took app devs years to migrate to the new requirements. It still might even be the case for a lot of them, I haven’t looked in a while.

SimpleX should be secure AFAIK though, but I’ve heard that it may not be able to scale well to larger user bases. It seems everything has pros and cons.

There are ways to successfully circumvent Google’s tracking methods. It’s all based on how much you care about being tracked and how much convenience you’re willing to give up.

I would say it’s likely related to ColorOS or Play Services (or both) tracking something behind the scenes and feeding it to your ad profile. You’ve done a lot to try to reduce your fingerprint but it sounds like it could be something harder to track down.

Have you considered switching to another version of Android that uses microG to reduce Play Service permissions or another phone with GrapheneOS? That may be the next option unfortunately.