A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers…

There are plenty of distributions without systemd — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_distributions_without_systemd

I’ve only recently branched out from router defaults…only reason was that I wanted to VLAN off my home network, and mostly just so [Home Assistant-controlled] smart devices can’t talk to the Internet at all.

As a social construct, I like that I can be anywhere in the world and know that around noon is probably an appropriate time for lunch, etc.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039 NYT not the only big outlet doing “actual journalism” — not sure about WSJ’s profitability quarter to quarter, but I don’t think they are actively sinking.

And of course: opinion side of any paper is NOT news, regardless of your alignment.

My work phone is nice (~$700 new?), so I use that for camera when possible.

My personal phone is an entry level “free” phone. Through Google Fi, and for this one you pay up front, with bill credits for the next year (I think?) which covers the cost — so basically I give Google Fi a $200 loan where the “interest” is a cheap phone. No complaints, it’s not premium but it works.