Better not be American, bas! That's enough to bring FBI to your door. Also, he belongs in jail, not dead.

Hearing the exact wrong part of the conversation, and then making a horrific assumption and spinning off into zany misunderstandings instead of, just, "Hey, what did I just hear?"

There are a lot of problems, but there are a lot of things we aren't worrying about now, either. AIDS was killing millions, and there was no treatment. The Satanic Panic. People were exposed to lead and asbestos everywhere. Duck and cover drills in schools for when the nukes went off. I mean, we're all scrambling to figure out how to stop climate disasters, but then they were scrambling to stop some nutter on either side from pushing a button and ending the world! Where I come from, they still took kids away from their parents for the crime of being Aboriginal! Things change.

I choose to be optimistic. All through the twentieth century, overpopulation and mass famine were looming spectres, and better crops, phosphate fertilizers, falling birthdates all led to us not really being that worried about that. Read Stand on Zanzibar.

Crime rates are down all over the world.

The inequality? 1920's. The FTC and the EU are (finally, IMO) taking big tech to task for their monopolistic behaviour. It's moving slow, but there is starting to be the political will to address the challenges.

Things go in cycles.

Did it?

The real question: What old strategy game?

I really like the Firefox Multi account containers extension... It keeps my school stuff out of my shopping stuff, and my banking stuff separate. I keep all Google products in their own container.

I want to give you the internet equivalent of a firm handshake. This needed to be said, thank you for being the one to say it.

Does it give you anything? Can you select safe mode or nomodeset from the grub menu, or do you get no grub menu at all? I almost pulled the trigger on a used getac system a while back, but couldn't justify the cost. If you get it working, please tell me how it goes under Linux!

Breakaway charge cable for my phone! They act like those old MagSafe chargers for Mac, and when I'm clumsy, instead of a busted off charge port, no damage! I also have curious cats who can test gravity without wrecking my phone.

I am in school, and make heavy use of Teams and Office, and do just fine in Linux! 365 on the web, Libre Office, and Teams in a Flatpak. My instructors can't wrap their heads around it. I'm the only one in my program! (IT, no less.)

Amazing! 16 years with Ubuntu, and now I know!

I thought that dogs were boys and cats were girls. No idea why.

Its funny, my niece made it to like 8 thinking that aunts were adults and uncles were kids. She had one young uncle, and me. Called me "Auntie Phanto." I still haven't lived it down.

Wait... Someone explain things to me!

They have a web presence. They resell a lot of stuff on eBay too, and have a store.

Only, like,half. Hehe.

We have an electronics recycler in my town, and most of my stuff comes from them.

He was the worst! Zuckerberg levels of pseudo-humanity. Of course, he got promoted up and away.

I had a Pebble. It rocked, it died, nothing has ever been as good. sniff, sniff

Ugh. There's a book about how to be a better boss, and one of the things it says is that adding a mild curse to otherwise normal speech will convince people you are being sincere. My boss read it.

"Well, this damn job isn't going to build itself!"

"Aw shit! Lunch is over! Back to work!"

It was so awful.

This is actually a real problem... A lot of digital documents from the 90's and early 2000's are lost forever. Hard drives die over time, and nobody out there has come up with a good way to permanently archive all that stuff.

I am a crazy person, so I have RAID, Ceph, and JBOD in various and sundry forms. Still, drives die.

The two things that popped into my head are Immich and Nextcloud. I think Nextcloud is generally more useful, but Immich is more specifically targeted at Photos. As for how to synchronize it... Syncthing? Personally, I hate setting up Syncthing and so I don't really use it myself anymore, but once it's set up, it really does take care of itself. Poke the computer once a month to make sure it's still alive, and you're set.

You could probably host Nextcloud at one site and just have a client computer at the next site set to auto sync everything.

Been running NextCloud for a while, not for photos, but for just general Google Drive replacement.