Your MENSA card has shipped.

https://youtu.be/T6fO3xYJR30 it’s my Cadillac Hour

Email is never private, even with encrypted email, headers give away metadata. HOWEVER, Tuta & Proton are not scanning your emails to market shit to you and train AI. That’s the main advantage.

That’s great. Canada has very strong credit union adoption. The US is often more predatory. Banks can put people into minimum balance type accounts and fee you until the account runs dry. Not all, but some do. If you live in a rural area, you may not have many options. There’s a host of reasons. https://www.fdic.gov/household-survey

A surprising number of people don’t have a bank.

The backend of any service is “trust me” even if it’s FOSS. Tuta has blogged about this

Welcome to Michigan. Come buy some cannabis. Signs every where

My spouse didn’t get it until she watched Meredith Whittaker’s SXSW talk. I just wasn’t eloquent enough. She admitted I had made the same points, but not as well. Show people that video. https://www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP-JOg

“natural monopolies” should be state owned.

There’s plenty of p2p, decentralized and mesh radio tech to get excited about.

Those sports teams and events are using Facebook because they want your data.

It’s still relevant. I always hand my passengers a pistol before disembarking.

That I spent years developing proficiency in my language and expanding my vocabulary to get accepted, only to be told to write simplified English in journalism school. Then they doubled down in my business classes to write for a 6th grade education and those who don’t speak natively.

Self hosted stuff will collapse without you. Bitwarden has a family plan with survivorship rules. You can also share passwords easily. Also, Google and Microsoft accounts also have survivorship rules you can set up.

Unfortunately your less cautious cohorts can reveal much of this about you as well. Privacy is a deep rabbit hole. Do what you can, try to educate your peers.

Also, link to the original post: https://mstdn.ca/@Linux/114899148717382605

I thought this was mandatory for a New Yorker his age?

Tried to persuade him. He’s an adult son, so I wouldn’t force it on him.

Grandma’s using it just fine though.

As more people learn bazzite just works, it’s going to grow. If I hadn’t rescued my son’s windows license he would have switched.

Adding this for extra absurdity: going in no one knows, no one at all, how much your fees will be. Prices are negotiated between the insurance companies and health care providers. Until they send in the billing codes, pray they get them right, get proper authorization (from insurance, not your doctor) then go through with the treatment and finally issue a bill, which gets processed by the insurance company again - at that last step then and only then do you get a surprise bill for your share of the costs. It can take months. For a stay like yours, it would be anybody’s guess.

Simple procedures planned in advance, you MIGHT get a price, but that will almost certainly miss things like incidental costs or direct fees from doctors or other practitioners who all invoice separately.

It depends on your insurance. You might hit a deductible and only owe a few thousand dollars, or you might be bankrupt.