i am paying for my privacy. or, i am refusing to sell out my privacy for any amount of money. and i disagree that it is expensive. the difference can't be more than 10-20%. that's worth it for me.

It's not clear you're actually buying any privacy. The cameras they have in stores will be used for tracking customers soon anyway, and not having a tracking identifier associated with your transactions make you stick out like a sore thumb.

camera tracking is illegal in many places, and while my shopping may stick out, it still can't easily be tied to my identity. i only pay with cash too. the only place where i use cards is on ATMs.

yeah, i'd like to know that too. i have a oneplus nord running /e/OS and i am quite happy with it. in fact it's probably the best phone i had so far performance wise (i got it refurbished at a very good price which may have something to do with that though)

are all starlink connections routed through the US?

don't they do local downlinks? at least for countries they have an agreement with or where the infrastructure is available?

What does it matter where they are routed through? You think your Starlink service in Germany is beyond the control of Musk or the US government?

i misread the parent. i read it as depending on the US internet but they meant depending on US regulations. so yes, it doesn't matter for the latter.

I think Musk cares about revenue more than pissing off some random customer in Germany. As long as you don't stand out from the crowd, he'd rather have your $40. Use a VPN to be sure.

Until the us government says to withhold service or to tap the line.

Musk is a subject of the US president. Like all American CEO’s he has to pay his tribute and jump when the president’s law enforcement says to.

If you don't stand out, and use a VPN, they can get nothing. If they cut your service, well, you can switch back to DT, crap as it is.

No. My endpoint is in Berlin. Which implies there is a EU based major downlink somewhere.

Who owns and controls starlink? A local downlink dish or a US defense contractor?

is there any FOSS based webmail and/or IMAP that supports tagging instead of folders?

i use supmua (which inspired notmuch) which like gmail uses tags instead of folders. i could not go back to a folder based system. but i am really missing a webmail interface that works with tags.

what's your exit strategy? if i got a letter like that i'd either be out switching jobs at the first opportunity, or i'd ignore it until i get fired for refusing to comply, while hoping that disaster strikes before that happens, or maybe just hoping that noone notices.

it very much depends on how prepared the parents are. if you or your partner grew up with a lot of siblings you have plenty of examples from your own childhood to draw on that make things easier.

i didn't have that, so i struggled, especially in the beginning, not because it felt hard, but simply because i didn't know what to do. the mechanics are easy to learn, feeding, changing, sleep, etc, but beyond that i simply had no examples to draw on. but i was able to compensate that with continuously being aware that this is what i wanted. i chose this adventure, and i was not going to despair over making that choice, nor would i regret it.

but we were also lucky, and our kids were not fussy and slept well. they got plenty of breastfeeding because nobody told my wife when or how to stop and she didn't complain, so she stopped when the kids were ready on their own.

i was self employed for most of my life, and that freedom was always the primary reason. to be able to simply not work when i didn't feel like it, without having to ask for permission, to be able to take time off whenever the family needed it, travel whenever i want, work where i want, etc. these are all things i would not want to miss. you get a lot of that from remote work too, which is why it is so appealing.

but i combined that with a low budget lifestyle. i don't need to work 80 hours. depending on the rate, 10 or 20 billable hours are enough. with family. it's a lifestyle. and you choose how to live it.

it also depends on whether everyone is treated equally, or whether some are treated worse or better than others.

yeah, the reviewer completely missed telling us about the first one and what effect the second one had on it. i'd also like to see a few repeated reviews because the utility of a baby changes drastically once they can walk and speak and express a will of their own. i found it very difficult to engage with my own until they reached that stage. the smiles that the reviewer seems so excited about did nothing for me.

the berne convention copyright defines inalienable authors rights that can not be sold or taken away from the author. the author of any copyright works always has the right to identify themselves with the work, and therefore your suggestion is not legally possible.

I am not a lawyer, so can't propose the best way to implement this, but the Berne convention contains provisions for "anonymous and pseudonymous works", see Art 15.

but that's only at the behest of the author. it can not be made a condition by the recipient, but that's what would be necessary if the goal is to prevent abuse of contributions for self promotion. the author can always deanonymize their contribution at any later point. right to self promotion is a core feature of copyright law that can't be circumvented.