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  These things are for the nasty little surprises, more relevant for the proprietaries, but not useless on linux. They're for the unknown unknowns, and that's a good thing. The next supply chain vuln might bite you, and opensnitch *might* let you know.

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  Titanium multipurpose carabiner, ruler, wrench, bottle opener, flathead screwdriver. Handy for like $5 a decade ago.

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  I'd argue that most things that are currently in the crosshairs for exclusion under age verification are also harmful to at least a third of the adult population and to society in general. Actually maybe that's just for profit algorithm based social media and / or mass scale surveillance and personal information gathering and advertising. The point being, if you're going to make a case for something being harmful to kids, you need to also make a case for it's being OK for adult...

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  Usually not, maybe later, shame and whatnot (substitute drug use for a realistic comparison). ETA I did tell (feel free to guess what, you're probably wrong) when my kid hit the twenties, and gave relevant hints along the way so it wasn't a surprise, which were not delved into by kiddo by their choice. But it's a personal choice (medical issues aside) and extremely personal in it's implementation and down to cases. This is personal morals, not societal ethics. Back off (not OP...

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  digging on Magastan!

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  Hmm, just had a thought about getting this sort (meshtastic et.al.) of thing adopted more widely. People generally don't need the full speed of their internet all, or even most of the time, they mostly buy a speed they can afford that makes their big downloads (e.g. games, updates, perhaps streaming) more tolerable. If a mesh system could aggregate a bunch of users connections they could probably buy cheaper plans knowing that when they need it they can have the speed. Anyone knowledgeable...

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  All in, so effective at pushing renewables. Relatively small pain now, less extreme later. What's this MAGA crap ?

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  Deal !

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  You may see insanity, I see home.