For the uninitiated

This level of effort is probably geared more towards those who create the torrents, not those who consume them.

Assuming you put everything important in home, that is…

It’s the quickest way to prove to yourself that you know what you’re doing… Most of the time, anyway…

I think they meant “all of this is what might happen next”

But yeah even then social media will still continue to somehow have an ever increasing number of “users”

I sympathize with this. People on the spectrum already have a hard time just living, then they have the extra hurdle of having a hard time communicating their hard time. It feels very human to want to hide the struggle, it makes you feel more like you belong in the world and that you are just one of the other billions out there being “normal” and doing “normal” things. That’s a longing that I’ve felt, but I’m fortunate enough to not have felt it to the degree your father seems to have. I hope you and your brother find a way to get through to him.

I personally go for “wizzywig” but to each their own.

I mean, it’s just like collecting baseball cards. Just because I enjoy collecting them, doesn’t mean I inherently have to jerk off to them more than the next guy

Emacs really can do anything huh

I’ve been propagandizing since grade school

You can’t leave purgatory at will

This is the approach I use, not sure if it’ll work for your use case but I can assure you it works for at least a few users. It’s all sort of manual set up but from your comments it sounds like you’re just doing this for friends and family and not on an enterprise level. I admire your efforts!

First off, I have a purelymail account on which I set up domains and accounts for each user. I have mine set up so user1@anydomain.com all goes to the user1 mailbox (and user2@anydomain.com goes to the user2 inbox regardless of domain, etc.) but you can set up some pretty complex routing if you want - and if you know a bit of sieve there’s even that. Purelymail handles the actual email sending/receiving so I’m putting a lot of trust in them, but it seems like they have a good track record and I don’t think I could do better on my own. Plus they’re dirt cheap. My big concern with email is always deliverability. Anyway, you’ll see this is all set up in such a way that I’m using purelymail now, but I’m not tied down to them.

Second, I use this image (linking to the repo and not the docker hub version so you can inspect the Docker file for opsec reasons. In my set up I build it from source because I have a couple modifications) which is a dovecot IMAP server + getmail. This is python getmail not go-getmail and not fetchmail. The repo itself has some pretty straightforward instructions but the way it works is basically that users inside the docker container each map to a mail directory. So each user’s credentials is actually a Linux username and password within the container. I have mine set up so it’s like user1, user2, etc. (which confused my users initially because automatic set up forms are never set up this way) but you could set it up however you need. Then, there’s a Cron set up to run getmail which you have to configure yourself within a cron.d folder that you mount on the container. For mine I have it configured to use POP3 so that when it gets stuff off purelymail it’s automatically deleted.

Finally, you just set up your mail clients to use this IMAP server and purelymail’s SMTP but if you know how to set up a forwarder you can always have it relay through purelymail. Purelymail even has the ability to relay emails to your SMTP server.

You might just be asymptomatic or immune. Congrats!

Use emojis for extra brevity.

🏭🌊👎. 🧼🌊👍?

I think that’s what they were saying. For those, it is likely indeed malice. For friends and family, it’s likely just stupidity or ignorance.

It makes everybody else happier, too!

I’m pretty sure if you double click a .deb it opens in Discover (or whatever the app store thing is called) and from there you can install it.

Depends how you define it but Annihilation was pretty good. Also Altered Carbon though that’s a series

Lemmypunks represent!

And they aren’t even the same memories. “You” just thinks they are, but every time “you” remembers them they’re slightly different because you don’t remember the facts of the memory only whats important to “you” and “you” is constantly changing.