I will hold my breath and cross everything! The UK ministers have a nasty habit, especially in the last 15 years, of giving it away for free when aligned to the Ministers personal interests. Bent AF in Northern terms.

They also still use WhatsApp for their wider connections, but still, progress.

It’s what I did 5 years ago. All family and friends now on Signal.

I used to teach medical statistics to post grad doctors in the UK. One of my examples was the drop in HRT use in the 90s with UK newspapers reporting a doubling in cancer risk. That was also a relative risk, with absolute risk remaining extremely low. Both the all cause mortality and the absolute measures for quality of life were such that more women suffered and died as a result of the headline scare story.

Not an antivax article exactly, but the title alone will create concerns. Whilst it mentions 1m saved lives, it doesn’t identify the significant number who avoided long term harms resulting from COVID infection. Finally, the article doesn’t even attempt to advise the tiny proportion of people who develop the adverse effects.

If you are sufficiently wealthy in the US, you can afford what we have as routine in Europe, which is healthcare. In the US, there are many who cannot afford insurance, and even with insurance, the policy is unlikely to cover your needs, especially for anything other than acute care.

Thanks really to the chap who similarly brought it to my attention. I use it in the car and at work.

If you’re on Android, try InnerTune via FDroid. No subscription required, easy to find music. It has reasonable recommendations for music, but not the same standards as Spotify. If you buy a DAP and microSD card, or a mobile phone that takesmicrSD cards. After that, just download any and all music you like and play anytime, anywhere without neededing a data connection.

Plays flac. Hopefully the player will be able to output to external DAC bypassing Androids resampling machine (in the future).

Oooops! Seriously, why apologize if you can draw robust comparisons that withstand fair scrutiny?

With Chinese phones, we have no real way of knowing where the spyware is. It may may be baked into the main OS, the added apps or other. Your safest bet would be a new ROM. ADB requires knowing which apps to pull out and unless someone has identified them, you’ll largely be guessing. Debloater will only remove what it knows about, so better than nothing. Whatever you do, I’d suggest something like RethinkDNS, or Netguard. These type of apps can go a great job of locking down anything that tries to connect to the outside world. It’s easier than it sounds, you simply select and allow at all the apps that you want to have connection.

Summary New ROM or ADB or Debloater plus, RethinkDNS or Netguard or similar.

I try for minimum 3 for fast or slow uploads. Generally my max is 5. It depends upon the total number of concurrent seeding files Slower torrents, I’ll just leave seeding. Some may still be below 1 after a month. If they have such low use, I can afford the small bandwidth and data impact.

Yes, of course, we know he isn’t saying it to us, but to his home audience. Especially the ones living in Palestinian homes.

Hold tight! That trickle down money is on the next train!

After decades of funding and supporting extremists that then create international deaths, poverty and humanitarian atrocities, the US still believes that they can make that strategy work.

Yup! The absolute best days of adventure and awe.

The lowtech option is to connect your device physically. I do this in hotels and at home. USB C to HDMI output. Connection cables are relatively cheap, and easily long enough for most use cases.

For flac albums, try galxytorrent2 or RUtracker.

I tried to watch this video. Wow It’s dumb. All speculation, no science. Perhaps it’s a spoof that I don’t appreciate.

If my date had a long beard with soup in it, I’d think that she wasn’t the one for me