Do this, and also set up syncthing to one-way-sync to a family members computer, or second computer off-site. You always want 3 copies of data, 2 different formats, one of them off-site minimum.

That already happens domestically with large players. See Amazon and basically every small business out there. And we don't even get a bunch of jobs for it, because Amazon has mastered the use of robotics to minimize job production.

Hah, I'm totally making an assumption here, but I'm willing to bet you're the type who tests the temperature of the room by saying something mildly political like this, and then if things go well, you've successfully hijacked a conversation - and if they don't, you just back off and pull the "it was just a joke, I was being funny"...

Unfortunately you backed yourself into a corner here because the "it was just a joke!" doesn't really land well when you're trying to inject politics into a conversation that has literally nothing to do with them. I know I'm kinda hard calling you out here, but I'm just saying - it's not a good look.

It's okay to simply be wrong and admit it you know. Much more honorable as well. Being silly with a political joke, is still being political.

Tariffs on something from China doesn't get paid by China. It gets paid by the US consumer.

And I don't mean that like "China pays the tariff so the end result is a higher price for the consumer"...I mean, literally, China doesn't pay it. China sees no difference in the cost of importing things to us. Nothing changes for them.

Not if they "win".

If they're successful on a large enough scale, nobody will hold them accountable. That's the big problem.

Cheating almost always gets caught and punished. But in this case, if they cheat so hard that all of their cronies are put into position - then they win, and they won't ever be punished. This doesn't serve to make them LESS bold, it only serves to make them MORE bold. Because half-assing it this time leads to punishment.

Not everything has to be political my guy.

I still have my 6T; and was told by others that OnePlus kind of fell off, and the guy running the Nothing Phone essentially had the new phone that was the spiritual successor to the Nexus line of devices.

That's always been what I've chosen - the most stripped down, AOSP-like version of a vanilla phone that I could get. I don't need all your AI bullshit, I don't need a bunch of tie-ins with Google services. I just want a device with the proper radios for good service, and enough Android to be able to use the apps that I want, without anything getting in the way.

Honestly, I might just go back to Motorola after this. They had some juicy little features, like twisting the phone to turn on the flashlight - but it was all still stock Android for the most part. Their devices were always pretty solid too.

I don't think I've ever actually seen a price that high at my local Goodwill. Coats only go up to like $16 here.

I still have rolls of Solutech at the shop :D

Public wifi? Almost everywhere because security protocols changed, and captive portals don't work on a lot of modern hardware due to DNSSEC

I wonder if they know that "pause indefinitely" has a word they can use. That word is "Stop". Qualcomm has stopped supporting the device. They have stopped producing it. Not "paused indefinitely".