Before or after the MAGA movement called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage? Just saying, it really does take a lot for the hardcore MAGA types to actually change their minds on this stuff.

If you weren't already prepared (see other comments) then assume every credit/debit card you had saved in your Google Wallet/Apple Pay has been stolen - That's one reason people snatch phones while unlocked and try to keep it unlocked.

Also assume any payment apps you have installed are now compromised e.g. Venmo and similar - that's another reason people steal unlocked phones and try to keep it unlocked.

The above assumes you did not have any additional passwords/locking in the apps themselves beyond the phone's screen unlock - I purposely

You may be able to remote lock the phone after the fact if you get to a computer or a someone you know with a phone on them to get online and initiate a remote lock.

Think you would likely have to scour garage sales and used buy/sell sites for one of those ancient portable mp3 player devices. I remember the old iRiver devices did support FLAC natively but that was before 128GB storage existed so no idea how something like that would behave when you stick in a 128+ GB SD card into it.

The other tricky part is that something that old/used may have a worn out battery so any device with a built-in battery may not stay on for very long.

The other comment makes a good point, starting out you should focus on anything that https://www.rockbox.org/ supports since that'll give you FLAC support. (besides the Archos, apparently it is impossible to play FLAC on those https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/WhyRockbox.html).

Ah possibly. My first impression was that the board of directors was finally done with this guy's shenanigans, but then again they stuck it out this long so it's probably something else that finally got the board to cut him loose as you say.

Good riddance, though I wouldn't be surprised if he heads over to the White House and gets selected as an appointee in the current administration.

Have you ruled out the Google Pixel USB-C earbuds? Those work well for me and the design is nice and simple. I'll probably keep using them until they break one day (like you also have mixed feelings about bluetooth).

Remember seeing that Google was going to phase them out eventually but they still seem to sell them at least for now.

Should be okay as long as you didn't give the instance any of your other information (e.g. email during signup, etc.) and the Lemmy instance itself allows logins via Tor. You may also want to avoid instances using Cloudflare, it often blocks Tor connections so loading pages can be hit-or-miss.

Just saying it's okay for basic privacy, you'd likely need a different solution if you're actually being targeted by governments/organizations/etc with access to your ISPs and ability to backdoor your equipment.

OTOH if you're already on a VPN I don't think you need to go through the trouble of adding Tor to that mix.

(I'm on Tor right now)

What if I logged into my Lemmy account outside of Tor without a VPN one single time?

Strictly speaking that means your Lemmy account is now compromised, time to go create a new one over VPN or Tor or however you prefer to browse.

I've definitely re-watched old Adult Swim stuff. Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021 in particular. (I need to include Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law in that mix)

I'm kind of in the same boat, thought I'd be programming but figured out early on that sitting at a desk coding for 8+ hours a day just wasn't my thing. Turns out I'm happier doing all the other IT grunt work e.g. setting up servers, backups, dealing with the network/wireless/firewalls, even provisioning and supporting user desktops gets interesting.

Left my apartment window open once when going out, came back that night to find a pigeon just sort of wandering around. It clearly had no idea how to get back outside.

Took me a bit to corner it and catch it but I did manage to get it back out the window.

Twitter/X was easy for me, as soon as Musk touched it I closed that account. Wasn't too active on there anyway.

Still on Instagram but planning to close that soon. Facebook is a bit trickier with all the older friends/family on there that probably won't move elsewhere. Then again most of the friends/family I see regularly already stopped posting/commenting on Facebook so there's a lot of dead accounts on there.

Left Reddit during the API exodus.

https://www.wikihow.com/Wrap-Luggage-in-Plastic-at-Home

MISUNDERSTOOD INSTRUCTIONS, CAN'T BREATH.

Would notice immediately when I go to work, too much of a strange coincidence for most of my office to be missing.

Plus I guess you're saying they still exist? So it would be sort of like being in an office full of ghosts still going about their day, I'd keep seeing invisible people answering calls, printing stuff to the printer, etc.

PS - This is all assuming I make it to work, just walking to work in the morning would be a disaster if I keep bumping directly into invisible people in my building, out on the sidewalk, etc... so most likely would notice something is wrong long before I make it into work.

Certainly changes that scene in Deathly Hallows

"No, you should do it."

"Me?’ said Ron, looking shocked. ‘Why?"

"Because you got the sword out of the pool. I think it’s supposed to be you."

Never did that on purpose.

In fact it wouldn't even had occurred to me to try to do that speaking spanish - The school district I went to growing up is about 60% hispanic so most of the teachers knew at least some spanish.

I just tip the amount I would have tipped if it was something paid. In practice that only happens to me in bars if the bartender gives me a drink on the house and I'll always tip in those situations. Always tip your bartender :)

Could probably launch my own line of bagel chips (or bagel crisps), I'd never need to buy the main ingredient.

If you're self hosting services on your own network it's often easier to use a domain rather than have to keep up with home IP address changes. Same if you need to set up some sort of remote access into your network.

Also useful for email, you'll have infinite amount of email addresses you can use on your own domain. Plus if you ever need to migrate to another email provider you simply point your domain to your new email provider, you never lose your email address this way.

There is also social media that you can use your own domain to show you own your account. e.g. seems to be common at Bluesky.

Tends to be around 4 per week, I'm just one person and eggs are usually a weekend breakfast thing for me.

But.. I also try to budget meals to be close to $1, so I might just stop buying eggs if a dozen get to $6+ (around me they have been in the $5-$8 range for now)