• I know that I know nothing.
• Perfection is killing you.
• A book a day keeps the haters away (ok, I made this one up. Still, quite a good advice and a real fine way to spend one’s time)

I’m using Waterfox: privacy respecting and AI-free fork of Firefox.

Don’t put anything personal in it. That’s what I sued to do using my iPhone and what I still do now, using an Android.

• Qwant is ok. It’ snow my default, I used to use the US Kagi (which I loved but being US…).
• Vivaldi is a fine browser highly customizable (it’s my chromium-based choice), and they’re not pushing AI at all.
• Waterfox (a privacy-respecting , non-AI fork of Firefox) is my default browser. IT works great and its fully compatible with uBo.

I don’t judge persons (because I’m not in their head), I look at their actions.

Also, I tend to steer away from the ‘good’ vs ‘bad’ (persons, thoughts, sexuality, religion, and so on) that were and still way too often used to hurt people one doesn’t like or agree with.

Nothing special. I was just one year older. I never was much into birthday and I’m now many, many years older than 18 ;)

My parents are throwing me a huge party, my dad’s idea, of course, and it’s nonnegotiable

It probably is negotiable but it may happen the stakes are too high. Hard to say without any context.

I threw my dad out of my first home the day he came to visit. Right after he started behaving like he used to when I was living under his own roof, I asked him to stop. He did not. I explained him I was not living at his place anymore and he was my guest and he should stop now unless he wanted me to show him the door. He persisted. I grabbed him by the seat of his pant and drove him out, shutting the door on him. It was not nice and it did not end in the most respectful way but it was still a negotiation ;)

I would love to see a majority of people stop considering ‘new tech’ as the magical wand/solution to all their problems, and see them stop considering ‘new tech’ as a necessity in their lives. Whatever their age.

My favorite is when someone tells me that they are too old to learn about new technology, or that they can’t use a device because they aren’t very tech-y. No, you just refuse to learn.

Beware of that kind of shortcuts, they often can be very wrong.

Also, do you think old people not wanting to use whatever new app or service is more of an issue than younger people not be willing to not use same app or service?

:)