In my former job they kept telling me (well ordering/demanding is closer) to use MS office, I held on to LibreOffice. The usual 'we have complex documents" excuse yet no one ever noticed my rebellion.

Sounds like hairpin nat issue.

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/nat_reflection.html

disclose whether a contribution was made with AI but do not require them to do so

How is that good? “You should, but if you don’t … nothing happens”

responsible use

Completely subjective and therefore absolutely meaningless when setting up rules/guidelines

own data and hardware.

As do I. I truly believe that’s a requirement in order to be able to say you have backups

a different continent

Impressive. I thought I had it good with my backup’s two countries away (700Km, bird flight). But I do realize it could still be you live just a few meters apart ;)

To me backups in the cloud are no backups. I could never physically get to the disk and someone else controls my account.

My 1st backups go to a NAS (with encrypted raid disks) in my garage that is 35 meters away from my house. The 2nd backup are encrypted files (encrypted disks are not practical, it’s a challenge after power-dips etc) to a storage at my daughters place. That second option goes via my own vpn which also gives me the opportunity to go out on the internet there (convenient for some tv shows my wife wanna see)

But… but… and I quote:

A few MB, not hours.

Ukraine attacked Ozon’s warehouses

Where is the Ozon-warehouses-bingo-card? (Asking for a friend)

sammy hagar : I can’t drive 55

Sure, go ahead irritating me when trying to use your service. Pushing me to log-in is THE way to drive me to other services. They have nothing to offer that’s worth/can justify logging in. nothing.

No, not really. Downloaded some free books once, bought one too. I can get e-books from the library, there are many free projects and I use it to read stuff for learning purposes. So not using the store, but happy with the e-reader itself.

Also downloaded and installed koreader. It’s great because you can keep using both, koreader and stock firmware. Although I admit that stock is just fine for most of my usage, but I love that kind of projects

My kobo (10+ years old) has an browse option. Tried it, it kinda works but it’s kinda slow. An e reader isn’t built for browsing, e-ink is perfect for reading but slow for everything else. So I use my phone for browsing and my e-reader for reading. Since wifi is practically always off and it has e-ink display, the battery lifetime is staggering. That’s how I want my e-reader to be.

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Yeah, everybody collects data, but verifying it, cleaning up, deleting old stuff costs more than a few “misplaced” text’s. So many just keep going with it. And who knows? maybe not the property mentioned, but you might have another place to sell. Or pass the message on to a friend. Even misplaced texts might lead to a deal profit …

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gain valuable battlefield experience.

how are they are gonna transfer the dying and the being dead experience back to North Korea ??

Ugh, how is my phone number even connected with their house?!

It probably isn’t. More likely, she is tied to the house, you are still tied to her in some (out-dated) database

Then I also missed the memo that said we have to be available 24/7

(24/7 availability only happens when I’m on stand-by for work. That is less than 6x a year, for one week, on a separate phone and they pay dearly for me carrying it around )

I usually leave my phone at home when I go out. If I have it with me, everything but the phone ringtone is in silent mode. So unless I get a call I’m not notified on anything. I’ll look for message etc whenever I feel like it.

Nothing sucks. Sure, modern life seems to be build around them, but there often is another way. We managed many many decades without them.

It’s great living your day just here and now with whatever surrounds you at the moment.