To clarify, the term news to me translates to an organization whose purpose is to interpret events that could otherwise be better observed by going to primary sources oneself.

I don’t pay attention to news sources.

I would consider major centralized social networking platforms to be equivalent to television today as it holds captive the masses in much the same way, but with even finer grained control.

of my brother before he lived alone in a cabin

Ask her what her favorite steam locomotive engine is.

Get upset when she gives the wrong answer.

Erupt into a heated diatribe about the necessity of good boiler design and make sure she knows why she isn’t allowed to be friends with you.

Yell something unintelligible at her son on the way out.

If she still comes back to you later, then you know you’ve found a keeper.

I nnn every day!

I meant to, but was rudely interrupted by a skeleton swordsman this morning.

My client is configured to reject all non-encrypted peer connections. It sacrifices some potential seeds but is worth the added defense in depth if ever my VPN fails catastrophically. Openvpn client to an obscure VPN service. All media gets passed through clamAV before being accessed.

While on the hunt for treasure, my browser is configured to send DNS traffic over Tor. All web pages only get to load HTML and images, and they (torrent sites) remain perfectly functional without anything else. DDG search with the old tricks ‘1080p’, ‘full’, ‘HEVC’, ‘x264/x265’, ‘ep0_/se0_’, ‘.mkv’ and so on.

I rotate my treasure chests between ships.

Settings templates with user.js are Firefox’s saving grace.

Best of luck on your 'nix journey.

I2P eepsite

If I threaten a politician to kill them

Implies that the threat itself is what kills them. Or that the intention of making the threat is that they will die as a consequence of receiving the message.

English is a Subject-Verb-Object language. What you should have said was:

If I threaten to kill a politician

Web browsers are beginning to feel that way these days.

Routers: anything supported by OpenWRT.

Apparently the ISP modem-routers being supplied these days have virtual assistants embedded (you vill use our spyware and you vill be happy!).

Banjo

His younger sister will be Kazooie

Whole home cleansing. They send a guy out quarterly who assesses each room and blows sage around hot spots. My home isn’t very active but I sleep better at night knowing that there aren’t dark energies in risk corridors.

Horses were domesticated some 6000 years ago. I feel so old!

You won’t do it.

Wow that’s a lot of effort compared to just blocking CSS and javascript with something like uMatrix.

Nazi: When somebody on lemmy says this, they aren’t talking about literal jackboot historical underlings of Adolf Hitler, but instead referring to anyone who isn’t firmly on the progressive side of the political aisle.

Tankie: I’m still trying to figure this one out. Apparently it’s not referring to tank roles in online games. It supposed to be insulting, despite sounding very laudatory.

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I had a Lemmy ambassador knock at my door yesterday