Jesus

Congrats on the new paper weight!

Buy a cheap (used?) SAS controller. No big deal.

Actually I’m thinking of Phantom Secure. They built phones to go along with their app services.

No, it was built by three-letter agencies and used to spy on cartels and others.

Isn’t that the one that they built on their own?

I’m sure there are older ones, but this one looks like someone left a few weeks ago even though it’s from the 1890’s. You can walk into it after a medium hike. There’s still soot in the fireplace.

https://californiathroughmylens.com/eagle-cliff-mine/

The really old stuff from the native Americans might be around but I’m not familiar with it.

In the dense bushes across from the post office.

Gotta find it, install it, update it occasionally etc. cloud services don’t need that.

Counter-point: why would want to own and maintain something like a computer? I want a simple device that take no thought and can be replaced with zero effort.

Things like that have existed. There are Reddit communities that are flooded with obfuscated comments that are used for communicating with bots. There’s probably one in the fediverse by now.

Ha ha, the formatting alone is worth the upvote. Best of nominee right here.

VPN and any other encrypted app traffic has telltale signals. You might not be able to decode the content, but you can see who is talking to who, how often, how long, how much data, etc.

My firewall, Palo Alto, and my dns service, Cisco umbrella, has no problem identifying people using VPNs on my networks.

VPN usage is simple to detect. I don’t know how SA deals with it. If it’s like China you may get throttled considerably and “raise flags”

I never had issues with SK but it’s been a minute. I doubt it will be an issue.

SK is a non-issue. I personally wouldn’t step foot in SA though. I don’t think they block vpn but they will ruin your day if they think you’re possibly related to a known objector.

SK would only be an issue if you have reason to believe they would be interested in you for some reason.

Teeth.

That still happens.

US, Mojave desert, SCE. Got solar and battery right before NEM3.0 and prices jumped. It’s saved me thousands although it will be a few more years before I break even.

Eyes I guess. Every once in a while a random stranger will comment on them. Usually cashiers.

“I thought you were an asshole at first but after getting to know you you’re one of the funniest nicest people I know” got that a few times. It’s not really a “stand out“ observation but it’s an odd characteristic. I’m not very proud of it.

And people like me.