Programming in particular, though fun, has always been kind of a piece part job. Aparently easily out sourced, and now easily automated. I say aparently because out sourcing and off-shoring turned out not to be that easy. We are now going to find out about AI.

One reason I did not go into IT 40 years ago was this reason. I went into the physical sciences and engineering and had a fine career. I was wrong then about IT it turned out. Who knows now.

Smart home type stuff is with minor exceptions a total nightmare. Bad security, bad privacy, and bad longevity. Just no. There are some of these things that just don’t work without connection back to the mother-ship, or at least lack major features. Generally it is recommended that if you do have these sorts of things, put them on a separate network at least.

Absurd! No home appliance should require an internet service. More enshittification.

Lookup alternatives at alternativeto.net. Signal is probably the best but there are others. Problem with chat, both people have to use. F-Droid is a good resource too.

I would not call FOSS a cult any more then unions or the civil rights movement.

You could install a hot mount SATA drive slot too if your using a workstation. I actually have 3.

Fairphone maybe.

You could say the same thing about cults. A lot of the MAGA movement. A lot of religion. Similarly how a lot of scams and other disinformation methods work. We do not try very hard to stop those things.

Yes, there is that.

No but if you have a contract with a providor you pay for, those are the terms. For example Google free servicies they mine data but their paid services they do not. Sure e2ee is better but transport encryption is good.

I use my ATX case I have had since 1998 and an ATX mother board. I generally go AMD and use one of their best lower power processors. Last was an 8 core. I added SATA hot swap bays.

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Time. I think I will at some point unless I buy and flash a Linux tablet first.

It is complicated. There is land out there that is not suitable for agriculture on one hand so free range grass fed might not be that bad, but herd animals produce methane too which is a powerful greenhouse gas. Then there is the whole question of eating meat from live animals as well if one cares about that and synthetic might be a way around that. Then of course the whole eco footprint issue. It would be interesting to know more.

I am thinking on the margin. Might be better to reduce meat rather then replace with synthetic meat.

Once one has done that, compare what is left including synthetic.

Google is promoting MTA-STS. MS is at least testing it and some others. Proton mail might support, check. I use NameCheap shared hosting mail. They support incoming but not outgoing.

Sure it is clear inside each org but secures between. Nice because you can secure in your org by contract. Not as good as e2ee of course.

In prinxipal fine. In fact I would like to understand the resource intensiveness of the supply chain and health effects. Wonder if vegitarian is better direction for example.

There is an advantage of using a provider that suports MTA STS. This is Strict Transport Security and forces at least transport encryption.

There is an advantage to use a provider you pay for too and at least claims not to read your email.

It is also nice if they can host your domain and have good delivery.

Edit: I meant MTA STS not SMTP STS.

Is there a reason to not just use du? Or use either and just look at certain trees? Or just get a bigger drive so it does not matter?

ASUS Tablet. I like it. Probably will replace with Linux tablet at some point.

In US, had French and Latin, plus of course English.