In fact, reality is not apparently basically rational. Why does anything exist at all? Surely, the trivial solution would be a simpler state of affairs. Why is existence not nothing forever? Why there exists anything instead of nothing (let alone you and me, in particular) does not stand to reason.

This is the correct answer if privacy is your priority. They’re not particularly cheap, however.

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I’ve done the same! It’s impossible to buy dumb TVs nowadays, but you can always prevent them from connecting to the network.

Chuck 'em in the garbage and get something that doesn’t break when you insist on privacy.

In my opinion! But, I’m going to be honest with you; if I have my way, I’m buying cheddarwurst over hot dogs of any variety every time. Once I discovered it was possible to buy dogs infused with cheese, I’ve never seen any reason to do anything else :-)

I agree that normal dogs are excellent starchy-meal augmenters.

Fair enough.

Thank you for the detailed response! I’m going to give it a try! This will be a step up from OpenWRT on a cheap router, I’ll bet!

If it is of interest, I actually decided to try Threema as a result of folks recommending it in this thread and like it a lot! Similar functionality to Olvid, but faster & more responsive.

Can a device like this act as my router?

I’ve been using Olvid for the past year or so. Works great!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/olvid/id1414865219

Make sure to get 100% beef hot dogs for a less disappointing experience.

WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE?!

Unraid is a great option for anyone, but beginners in particular. It does, however, cost money and isn’t open source.

Sorry, the video takes too long to get to the subject it claims to be about.

Love Yourz by J. Cole

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=6tjlU4w4fSo

It conveys the fact that you don’t have any life but the one you’re given and that you won’t ever be happy until you manage to radically accept your circumstances.

Can you please elaborate? I’m curious to know.

… will be eventually incorporated back into PRC

It has never been part of the PRC.

It can also be caused by prions. Mad cow disease is aka bovine spongiform encephalitis. I believe the word just indicates cell death in the brain which leaves regions of dead tissue.