I like your style!

They don't need you. They own 50% of your 20 (currency unit) monthly sub to ChatGPT.

Probably 1+ 6t (that's before it was merged). No bloat nice phone.

Or my old BlackBerry before they stopped bothering to test anything and rested on their laurels. I miss the one place portal everything posted its notifications etc. Android is awful for that.

I like my Pixel 7 Pro (current phone) but I have to have a launcher on it because their home screen sucks.

Can I suggest joining "the Toastmasters" https://www.toastmasters.org/ . I found it very educational. I learned that was rushing to fill the "dead air" before I had fully formed my thought (read:sentence).

All my "um"s and "er"s disappeared. You will be fine.

I agree with you.

Traditions take time to evolve; and also to dissolve.

Nothing is devoid of global politics.

Up-voted for the apposite Satre ref.

I don't think that you can. Downloads is 'protected' location these days too.

If you're using something like Syncthing, you can't connect a Syncthing folder to it.

They controlled interest rates like Nigel Lawson, mentioning a blip after jump-starting the economy, slashing tax rates in the eighties and setting up a election win. Inflation hit mid/late-double digits because Lawson didn't want to raise interest rates with the election looming.

The only thing I applauded Brown for was the delegation of the inflation control brief to the BoE. And now we're back to the inflation roller coaster that we were.

Political control of interest rates vs independent control. You'd think they'd be different.

FFS.

People also believe that there's a god that changes water into wine, walks on water, .. too. People believe all sorts of stuff, weird or not.

Worry about things that you can do something about or explicitly react too.

Echo you completely. Race to the bottom.

Thank-you.