I just wish we’d go towards the light, already. Craig & Jobeth are still around, so maybe they can help.

What’s wrong with America?

It’d be FAR faster & easier to list what’s not wrong.

I’d tell you to go back to sleep, but you’re obviously already dreaming.

What next? She begins building CRUISE MISSILES?

If she’s aiming them at the Right people, I’ll give her support, too!

Who’s buying when the brand is being shut down? Never mind the firmware lock.

I’d ask for a ZIP Drive disk, but I’ve had a few SD cards give me the equivalent of the “click of death,” so I think I’ll go with your idea.

After they spent a million times that trying to use China for all the cheap labor they could get. What makes these morons think they’ll get any different result elsewhere?

Hopefully they stay there with them. That kind of guy wants a slave, not a partner.

“Now I know my ABCs” (title pulled out of my ass from the song) - learning to read at all is the biggest impact of all.

This is the umpteenth story about the obvious recently. How about you just shut up and prove you’re serious?

Anyone “with common sense” wouldn’t even think such a thing, let alone utter it. Much like everything else about you, your understanding of the term “common sense” is quite suspect, Herr Slusser.

With AI, all things are possible. Therefore I’ve given this post both an up and down vote.

Which is why it’s happening now, under a President who’s far more criminal than leader. By the time America regains some sanity (assuming it can), all those profiteers will have taken the money & run, leaving America so broke it’ll take generations to recover.

Shallow assholes who couldn’t be bothered to learn what they were voting for because they were too easy to whip into a frenzy of self-righteous team-driven political self-destruction will finally start feeling the full effects of their stupidity, yet most will still never admit what fools they are.

I’ve been depressed AF about this for so long I’m almost numb. I wish I could truly stop caring enough to go all the way into “don’t GAF anymore,” but that’s not who I am. I’m old enough that there’s little hope for a better life for me at this point. Hopefully, maybe for my kids… eventually.

Probably comes from the new owner blocking anything that could even vaguely be considered “woke.” I assume any actually halfway-decent script will be too emotionally deep and evoke feelings of empathy that oligarch control freaks fully disdain.

The endless pwn that everybody needs.

Older straight cis male here, so pardon me if I screw something up. Genuinely trying to help, but I admit I still struggle with old programming.

Also, I’m not some security guru so confirm my technical suggestions for yourself.

That said, my thoughts:

• Try not being so specific as to when you’re leaving. “Soon” is useful enough without reducing the possible time frame to well under 10% of the possible dates for anyone who might somehow be cyberstalking you. I’m no opsec expert, but it seems to me that you should try being as vague as possible, whenever possible.

• if you’re not planning on completely wiping your phone, consider setting up an app like the FOSS app Oblivion, which can wipe your phone under certain conditions similar to the person who made the news in the past week.

• Alternatively, I’ve read you can set up an alternative profile as the main one on your phone - using it for a bit every day for superficial shit to build a genuine-looking usage history. I’ve never done this, so I can’t help much here. If you do this, and they question why there’s so little history (if they even get to the point where they can read it), tell them your old phone broke & you bought this used to replace it.

• Also turn your phone off completely no later than upon arrival at the airport (the sooner, the better). I’ve recently read that an encrypted phone is thoroughly & completely secured when first turned on until you unlock it for the first time, so it will be unreadable to any three-letter agency no matter what tricks they have unless they have the unlock code (which you should probably also change the night before to give the phone time to process/perpetuate the change).

• I presume you’re gonna go appearing as the sex your body currently most presents as to minimize potential unwanted attention.

Sorry I can’t be more help, but hopefully I’ve mentioned something you didn’t know or think of. Much luck!

Somehow that seems safer than staying in the USA.

It was a joke, but my bad for not making that clear.

Obviously enough do give a shit, or none of us would have to be dealing with his crap.

I’m sure the initial idea was, but they probably didn’t want their first impression to the world at large to be a negative one like this. First impressions matter most, and they should always be positive. The later shit that just reminds people you exist can sometimes be negative without causing much problem.