For small businesses word of mouth works.

I know of a couple of pizza places that doesn’t advertise at all. Instead of spending $10,000 a year to pay someone to drop menus in mailboxes, they spend more on quality ingredients. Word gets around that they make good food.

I have items for home and work:

Most of the year, my work gear is stored in the shed so I have all of these duplicated in the house.

Drills - a fullsized drill at home and a mini one for at work mostly to drive nuts and bolts.

Hand tools - screwdrivers, bits, wrenches, box cutter.

Headlamps - a small AAA at home and a AA at work.

Clothes - Like most people, I have dedicated work clothes.

AA batteries

Phone chargers - Home, car, and work. I also have multiple battery banks.

Headphones - an older corded pair at home and newer BT ones at work.

It’s my understanding at a Cold Play concert they make sure the audience knows they could be on camera. This is a place you don’t want to be while doing something you don’t want to be known to the public at large. I haven’t been following this story beyond the man getting fired from his job.

Hitler

1/3 of my day helping mom in the kitchen - glad to do that.

1/3 of my day helping dad with his laptop - this was fuckin annoying because there wasn’t a damn thing wrong with his computer to start with.

Yesterday he wants to distro hop because Linux Mint doesn’t have a ProtonMail app (Why this is suddenly an issue after using Mint for a month is beyond me).

He decides on Fedora 43 Workstation. Easy enough to do except neither of us can enable the third party repos.

Next, he tries Fedora Everything (I never heard of this one). Dad found it too complicated.

This morning he is back on Mint and using a browser to access Protonmail. But now the laptop will not charge. This takes most of the morning and afternoon for him to solve. By this point I really couldn’t care less.

Thanks.

November 5 is a reference to Guy Fawkes.

1984 is a nod to the book.

I always enter November 5 1984 for any site that needs it.

Crap is awesome

Or the boringroom but that’s probably any room he enters.

Kill’em with sarcasm. LOL.

Superstore = Stupidstore

Microsoft = Microcrap

Google = Goofle

Kraft Dinner = Crap Dinner

Windows OS = Windoze

X = Twitter

Canadian Tire = Crappy Tire

I no long hate Christmas but many years ago I was a cleaner in a shopping mall food court. The food court was on the second floor and right below was a 40 piece brass band playing Christmas music on the weekend. The rest of the time the mall had the sound system cranked full. People had to yell as loud as they could to place food orders at the restaurants.

To the day, I still don’t like that music.

DarkMatter2525. He used to talk about religion a lot but lately his content is political.

Not sure if PapaMeat qualifies as longform with videos from 25 to 40 minutes but he covers a wide variety of topics.

I personally see little wrong with using hardware past it’s EOL date if the user knows the risks. Braxman wasn’t informing his customers and selling phones that were years old as if they were brand new and still getting security updates.

No worries.

No need to remove the post … I used to watch Braxman when I first started my privacy journey. Once I was exposed to enough sources and points of view, I realized Braxman is full of it.

Braxman is a con-man. I haven’t checked out his store in a while but he used to sell EOL Pixels with GrapheneOS.

I prefer The Hated One, Privacy Guides, Techlore, and Side of Burritos.

For legal issues affecting privacy in Canada I watch Law Bytes Podcast and Privacy Lawyer.

I would have to surrender too much privacy and pay far more per month to use a dumbphone. No E2EE messaging and tracked by cell towers all the time (I use VoIP over wifi). When I’m out the phone is in my pocket 90% of the time. I take it out to check my shopping list or look at the store flyer.

My parents were changing ISPs and we were told by the guys doing the connection that a cell phone number was necessary. We have been with this ISP a few times before and a cell was never required (we change when the other company has a sale).

I was the only one in the family with a cell at the time.

This happened a short time after I started degoogling so I had no problem saying no when someone asks me for personally identifiable information. I asked the tech “I just got home from work, what would you do if I wasn’t here?” and “Not everyone has a cell phone, you must have a procedure for those people” He seemed dumbfounded by my questions and refusal to hand over a cell number.

Bud kept insisting, I kept saying no. He caved and used Dad’s email address.