Because of Daddy.

I’m just thinking if you got nicked and didn’t have a chance to reboot into an encrypted state, or otherwise the device was compromised outside the house.

Y’all aren’t worried about having a tunnel into your (likely questionable) servers, on your mobile devices?

I don’t even understand anon’s point. Use Nintendo DS in public?

Fighter of the Night Man

Same, though often I think it’s just a subconscious defense mechanism.

Can’t beat a Fjallraven Kanken Laptop 15. Additionally, I would suggest investing in a generic backpack organizer insert. My Kanken carries around my full “tech bugout” kit with lots of room to spare, which includes but is not limited to:

• Thick-ass Dell Rugged 5430 + power brick
• Hiby R4 DAP
• Koss Porta Pros
• Shokz OpenComm2
• Garmin GLO2 GPS
• NESTOUT 15000mAh bank
• Field notebook + Majohn A2 Retractable + Uni Kuru Toga Roulette
• An assortment of other goodies, such as screen wipes, a few sets of nitrile gloves, disposable masks, etc.

The not-compressed-to-death version of the pic was ever funnier, because you could see the emotional nuances on her face.

EDIT: you’re welcome (PS the image context is fake)

Hey Alexa, what is the constitution?

She only wants one thing, and that’s my legs.

insisting on the former feels like textbook UnitedStatesOfAmerican exceptionalism.

I suppose I wouldn’t know because I’m not American, I’m American.

EDIT: I mean honestly, no one living in the greater North or South Americas would say the above while speaking English. This whole thing ironically smacks of a first world problem a (perhaps self-hating) American (or at very least Westerner) came up with. All the rest of us surrounding their country know our identities.

When there’s another nation called the “United States of [something]” then we can talk about “the US” being difficult and aloof terminology.

I named two examples, a country and a state. But I’ll leave you to pick and choose and be super smart and progressive.

US? US what? United States of Mexico? United States of Matsya? If we’re being difficult and aloof just to be difficult and aloof, lets really lean into it. When you say “US” it could be a number of places.

Yet it is virtually never used that way in modern times, and if someone said “American” you’d know exactly what they meant.

I’ve heard them called “Americans” before.

Just say

GAY

Knock yourself out.

Grok

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