Your MENSA card has shipped.

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.

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

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

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.