Elon: “and I took that personally…”

lol, as one does

Matrix and Xmpp are good for that sort of thing. Maybe there’s a way to export your notes.

She hits that level of being so polished, she resembles a clown, to me. I dunno, man. Too glammy. Not enough dirt under her fingernails.

I suggest Matrix/Xmpp over any of it, but good luck getting anyone’s lazy friends to register to use anything. Signal and similar messengers have easier onboarding.

Signal: “I’m right over here, guys! Just click on me, install me, tell your friends. Hellooo!”

I just don’t like the model of it. Quick, jabby posts without much banter, and most of the news here makes it there anywyay.

Those who don’t will have to take brown-town to the shower nozzle.

reaches the 200,001th bend

snap

Damnit!

There’s two ways this works out.

1. Trump’s regime doubles down, never backs out and holds firm.

Basically, you’re fucked. Chinese goods stop flowing, medical devices and equipment stop coming, tools and utilities stop being restocked. You’re on your own. Welcome to Thunderdome.

2. Trump’s regime keeps this going until the backlash forces them to give it up.

Then we capitulate to China, end up paying more overall but not an impossibly high figure for our items and life goes on… only a little less swimmingly.

My bet is on #1. Stock up on ammo and food, road warrior.

That idea go any further on the something other than “get shot and dragged into a van”?

I degoogled for the first time two days ago aaaaand, it’s actually way easier than I expected and actually, dare I say… fun?

Fun in that I have new apps to try, all over the place. I spent that whole evening combing f-droid for everything I need and got it all sorted out.

SMS? Backed up

Contacts? Backed up

Photos? Syncthing’d

Passwords? I’m a card carrying Keepass user.

Music? Pulled down my streaming service from Aurora and it just works.

Email? Thunderbird’d’d

Cloud? Mini PC’d and NFS’d

Google? Gone and not missed.

…they need encryption backdoors? I was under the impression 99% of mainstream social media sites would willingly give sensitive information up for free without any hassle.

You’re lucky they’re selling it to you at all.

Time to cut it up into 4-6 different companies that will all collude together anyway.

“Normal man” gets a new phone

accepts 6 agreements from 6 split companies

Same result, different road.