God the ramifications of this are honestly terrifying and I'm not even a US citizen.

It's the one time where I am glad to have a slightly unusual name.

Honestly it's so nice. I ended up buying lastname.tld so now I will always have firstname@lastname.tld even if I change provider because I can just point the domain to whatever provider I like.

IKEA is therapy

[Insert Tom Scott Video Here]

Leah has said some dumb stuff but I think this particular separation from the GNU project was the correct decision. The dogmatic no blobs approach wasn't working, it is better to reduce/minimise the binary blobs and support more devices imo. Don't agree with their previous actions though.

Not entirely the case anymore. Libreboot switched to a blob reduction policy in order to support more hardware. Hopefully this will bring things forward quite a bit over the next year.

The hardest choices require the strongest wills

IT DISGUSTED ME

I'm in a similar situation. Finding a good installer is tricky. I'm in a terraced property so similar there as well because there's very little space to install an air source pump. In an ideal world everyone would have 27mm piping but in my case I could get away with less and some better insulation. Sure it might not achieve the maximum efficiency possible but I'd hazard it's at least a better than our current boiler.

For now though I'm probably going to stick with the boiler with an OpenTherm stat to keep it running low. I'll try and bump up our insulation and hopefully things improve in a couple of years when the boiler gives up the ghost.

Golden dogs are best dogs

Same. I just didn't have any use for signal after SMS removal. Yes I know SMS is insecure but I was stuck. Either you use a separate secure app and magically convince everyone else to use it whilst falling back onto a separate SMS app anyway (for those who don't use the encrypted app). Or alternatively you just have to use a mainstream app like Google Messenger with SMS plus RCS.

At least when signal supported it I could migrate family to signal and then our communication would be encrypted and they could still message everyone else over SMS. It meant a large portion of my messages were encrypted. After SMS removal everyone I had on signal just quit so there was no one to communicate with. Trying to get people to use multiple apps was like herding cats.