This thread is kind of depressing to read. What a privilege it is to have supportive parents.
Makes me realize that I shouldn't put off having a quality phone call with my parents so much. There will always be more work, but there won't always be more quality time with them.
An Intel Atom notebook with 2GB RAM and 32GB storage acquired for $200 on Black Friday. Despite many attempts to optimize it, it was practically unusable 4 years in. If I had the foresight to buy a used ThinkPad for the same price instead, it could have been my daily driver to this day.
Also a faux leather wallet. The "leather" started turning to goo and powder about a year in. Some of my cards and my wallet photo still have some of those decayed fake leather bits stuck on the edges or rubbed in.
Agreed, but company does not provide us devices. Everything I've said applies to my second phone running GrapheneOS, which I am using as my work phone. I'm trying to avoid setting up and running Play Services just for nice-to-have notifications when none of my other apps require it.
When maximizing uptime, Debian is the no-fuss way to go.
Well said. LUKS implements AES-256, which is also entrusted by the U.S. government and various other governments to protect data from state and non-state adversaries.
The effort needed to neuter surveillance equipment in modern cars without compromising functionality is comparable to the effort of sprucing up an older car. Possibly biased from driving and maintaining a decades-old car. Is there a particular reason you prefer a modern car?
I miss print coupons. Hearing "get the app" or "there's an app for it" makes me flinch these days.
Wayland, but I'm patiently waiting for xfce to support it
yt-dlp. Too many options to remember and look up every time, but all useful and missing from GUIs when you just want to dowload audio or 'good enough' quality video in batches without re-encoding.
While nmtui is perfectly fine for the CLI-uninitiated, I sometimes wonder why the nm-connection-editor window doesn't provide the same level of functionality.
A metal 128 GB USB on my keychain next to the U2F key
16 GB Ventoy partition with:
And a LUKS encrypted partition in the remaining space with more documents and a backup of almost all of my photos.
Low-profile noise-cancelling earbuds. Lived with a snoring roommate for some months, don't know how I would've slept without those.