Caught my shoelaces in my bike chain trying to avoid a shitty driver who almost ran me off the road (I did successfully not get hit by this idiot and eventually got him to realize how bad he was fucking up, yay).

Tired of this bullshit and am probably going to convert my bike from chain and derailleur to belt and hub like I have on my Priority Folder.

Carry an air horn, just for occasions like this.

Sure, there’s been talk of banning encryption as well, but practically speaking, that would be an unmitigated disaster in terms of security alone.

Technically possible? In the strictest sense, sure I guess?

Practically speaking though, it’d probably be a mess to manage and likely trivial to circumvent for anyone with a little knowledge and an IQ above room temperature.

Circles are awesome, fight me!

A server rack full of servers, dropped on the monster like a cartoon piano.

Who is this “we”? I still use it, never stopped.

What’s this from?

It’s like the whole world is collectively shitting the bed.

You could use Ublock Origin to just block the notification element: You will still receive messages of course, but you won’t see the notification pop up so effectively, they might as well not exist.

There might be other fancier ways of doing this, but that would be a relatively simple way to effectively do it.

Only on subscribed coms with NSFW blocked, same as reddit.

Kinda sounds like you might like Mastodon then.

That seems more likely but we won’t know for sure until they tell us.

I would not take a laptop backpacking, but if I had to, I suppose I’d probably try to use something small and ARM based to get better battery life (but, more likely, I’d just use a phone instead which is smaller and waterproof).

It kinda depends on what exactly you need to do though. Can you provide us with more details? What do you need the laptop to do?

What kind of backpacking are we talking here? Going into the wild for weeks or months at a time? Going on a little vacation through cities in Europe?

All of the good chefs were busy being honored?

We used encyclopedias, first physical, then virtual.

Also, there was the public library (which was, and still is, awesome).

There’s definitely regulars I recognize, but still plenty more I don’t.

breaks bottle and waves it around menacingly

Sales cold calls are spam, 100%.

Fedia.io is an Mbin instance if you want to check it out