This is brilliant: “automating yourself from complexity only means you add layers of somewhere else”. Need to tattoo this on my forearm!

Makes me sick

Oops. Correct 👍

Have a look at Proton and Tuta (used to be Tutanova)

Conveniently removed

Don’t you mean the Gouda stuff? 😉

Aren’t they all?

Legend 🤘

Thanks for reminding me of this. I did see the original post but, how soon we forget.

I heard a different take yesterday from Corey Doctorow that the real concern is global economic collapse!

Not something I’d considered, but I would say a frightening possibility!

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/

Are you using an endpoint in your country or overseas? I get massive variance when selecting servers further from where I actually live.

Sorry for your loss

Upright piano with the front panel taken off

Not a book, but Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies”

Seconded. And if you want to avoid the Ubuntu sh!t you can go for Mint DE (Debian edition)

Autism and depression is a good combination too

Breakfast of champions

The sad thing is that people will buy this shit

This … “Microsoft is a cancer sucking life out of everything it touches.”

Excellent reply