“My wallet is stuck! Here, I’ll just give you my pants!”

Or something along those lines

What a fine impression of a stupid person!

I’ve never tried it, but I think it’s when you invest and your funds are doing well, but you never actually cash out.

As far as I can tell, yes. I signed up for the free tier before paying for the service, and the worst I ever got was a banner here or there advertising their paid service. Proton encrypts all your data with your password, so they literally can’t access it even if they wanted to. The only info they have on you are things like when you logged in and your IP address (and I believe they’ve turned that info over to law enforcement when required, like any legitimate company would have to do), but their servers are in Switzerland where there are better privacy laws.

I’ve been using Proton Mail for a while, it’s been good for me.

My namesake doesn’t last terribly long…

Regular height, but it was on the ISS.

Million Dollar Mon.

The reviews on this are worth reading. You might get some interesting recommendations after reading them, though.

Probably stock up on some tech hobby stuff that I can’t get in brick-and-mortar stores (SBCs, maybe a PinePhone or something).

Yeah, that’s my plan. I usually end up with a couple of flatpaks (or AppImages) for the things that I need up to date, but otherwise just go with most things from the repository.

I was thinking of switching away from Arch and back to something Debian-based. I’ve never been a big fan of flatpaks (I have a background of not having fast internet or much storage space, it’s just stuck with me) and I never used the AUR anyways.

I mainly tried Manjaro to try the bleeding-edge life, and while I do enjoy having more up-to-date packages, I do miss being able to install DEB packages. I think I might try Debian testing and see how that goes.

Good to know! I was considering switching back to Debian or Mint, maybe LMDE. I’ll look further into it. Thanks for the tip!

Manjaro for my laptop, Mint for my HTPC, and Debian for my servers.

ETA: we’ll get there when we get there

Ah, we’re not quite adventurous enough to grow our own, but we buy the raw ingredients (aside from plantain, which grows wild where we live).

My wife and I have been experimenting with making our own. So far, my favorite is chamomile, lemon balm, elderberry, and a little stevia.

I tried a new one last night that might take the lead with some tweaking: nettle, lemon balm, ginger, and cinnamon. Gotta get the proportions right, but the combination was pretty good.

As others have mentioned, there are no good BifL options. Based on what I gather from your post, your best option is probably getting 2nd hand devices and following behind by a few years. You can probably keep a 3-year-old device for 7 or 8 years (which is ages in the smartphone world), then “upgrade” to another 3-year-old device at that time.

For this, I’d recommend something popular like a Pixel. They have a number of options for alternative OSes (Graphene and LineageOS are both good options) and they’ve done well for me as long-term use phones.

I’ve bought my last couple phones on Swappa, and I’ve had no issues with any of them. Sold one on there too, and they’re pretty vigilant (they manually review posts before they can go public).

I have a Bose Mini Soundlink. It’s held up for years and years.

Only one of those will meet the tolerances.