Without food, just shy of 24 hours. Slept around 12 hours after almost pulling an all-nighter, then never got hungry enough to get out of my room until late in the night. Was groggy all day, didn't feel hungry for several hours, then it nagged for another few hours until it gnawed at me and I couldn't do anything without thinking about food. So I ate, surprisingly only took a normal-sized meal to satisfy the hunger.

I've gone without water or food for about 9 hours at a time on several occasions. Mostly just makes me lethargic at the end. But the most memorable time was when I went on a trail with a couple friends for about 4 hours. It was the middle of summer in an arid climate and I realized I forgot to bring water about an hour in. Was very parched and heart racing by the end, but didn't bother me too much. Then chugged about 3x 500 mL bottles as soon as I got back in the car.

First and easiest thing would be doing as much of your work offline as you can. Avoid uploading to Google Drive or starting documents on G-Suite, except where practically unavoidable, I'd imagine:

• Group projects
• Assignments published to Google Classroom with no alternative submission options (print, email, etc.)
• Official correspondence through school-provided Gmail

If your school district distributes Chromebooks,

• Do you have / can you afford your own laptop?
• Does your school allow personal laptops to connect to their network, or allow having one at all?
• Are there situations where use of your Chromebook is mandatory and could force you to carry two laptops?

If you have your own computer, only log in to your school account in a separate browser or browser profile. And of course, if you are in the market for a laptop, consider used and refurbished options instead of whatever pre-made e-waste they are selling brand new for $200.

For sure, if some research institution were motivated enough. I won't speculate if it's happened in secret, but cloning a sheep brings us pretty close to being capable of cloning a human. I would be more surprised if 30 years since the cloning of Dolly, we haven't advanced to the point where the only thing stopping us from cloning humans are ethical concerns.

Got Debian with MATE on a couple of my computers. It's easy on the eyes and easy on system resources. I like that its file manager lets you expand folders so I have that installed on my XFCE machines too.

Every day I feel more justified in keeping my 1990s car running.

(I'd also like to walk or take public transit, but the infrastructure here is car dependent)

I can attest that having full control over a mini PC feels great compared to Android TV, if you have rather niche media consumption habits. Someone in my family had below their TV a laptop hooked up to an external drive full of local media, a DVD drive, and a crappy Android TV box only ever used to play YouTube videos. Replaced it all with an old SFF PC, put GNOME with 175% scaling on it, with a mini wireless keyboard to control it.

But as others have commented, a Linux setup falls apart as soon as you want to watch the mainstream streaming services.

Questionable behavior sure, but could you provide a technical explanation as to why the information presented on madaidans-insecurities, etc. is problematic?

Stuck with Google Workspace at work. Fortunately, it's tolerant of me not being reachable 24/7, so it's all confined to the browser on a work laptop. I like to think that I'm free from Google's services in my personal life, though I still haven't been able to give up YouTube yet. At least I'm never signed in.

Also, one personal Google account created ages ago. I've completely gutted it and haven't logged into it in recent memory, but idk, I can't be bothered to delete it either.

Knowing that Google isn't peeking over my shoulder on my GrapheneOS phone is very freeing. I wouldn't ever be comfortable using a regular Android phone again.

I will admit, I miss the smooth graphics of Virtualbox. It's quite evident with dragging windows around or playing a video inside a VM. Don't want to touch Oracle stuff anymore though. Anyone here manage to get that working on virt-manager?

The way I've seen people around me use the dryer, for sure. High heat will ruin clothes more than anything else, especially if it continues to run after everything had dried out.

Back in university, we had timed dryers that could only do either high heat or tumble dry low for an hour. Rooms were too humid and cramped to air dry. Of course, I wasn't going to spend more money waiting for low heat to do its work. Clothes came out bone dry and metal zippers scalding hot. Only the large towels held up, everything else noticeably faded and thinned over a couple years.

Night and day difference once I got my own place with a condenser dryer. It takes longer, but everything is just dry enough at the end of each cycle. It's also a bit smaller so I have to air dry parts of larger loads, but either way, my clothes have held up much better ever since.

In matters where the judgement of the courts cannot be trusted and I would be jailed either way, I'd rather have the option to wipe my phone.

Between 2 and 3. I'll show off my Linux setup to friends and preach to the choir, but I won't rub my choices in the faces of people who use other distros or operating systems.

Any hidden screws or seams to pry? Is there alternative firmware for it?

If not, I'd imagine your only options would be physically crippling the bluetooth module, porting something like OpenWrt to it, or getting a router that doesn't force Bluetooth on you.

Because hamburger menus do not belong on any screen larger than a tablet

Linux Mint is your best bet. Intuitive for new users without any flashy features to get in the way.

All said, temper your expectations. I did this for a couple of my folks and the Linux partition just sat untouched until I next visited (and presumably thereafter). Despite updates for their existing Windows 10 ending. For an unfortunate majority of people, they don't really care until their browser stops rendering pages, no matter how you proselytize Linux.

If you are passionate enough and have some money to spare, get a used laptop (240 GB SSD, 8GB of RAM, 3rd Gen i5 at a minimum), preferably enterprise-grade (Latitude, ProBook, ThinkPad), clean it up, and pop Linux Mint onto it. Your folks can then experience Linux at their leisure, side-by-side with their existing machine at no risk. No fussing with boot order menus, which I have seen confuse computer science graduates.

I am familiar with a child abuse victim who feels this way. Not like actively seeking it out, but they wouldn't regret it much if it came to that point.

But I'm not personally qualified to comment on it. If it's becoming more than a passing thought and starting to bother you in everyday life or causing actively homicidal thoughts, it's a good time to seek professional help before it gets you into trouble.

If you are in the US, take a look at Fidelity or Vanguard. They haven't required the use of a smartphone app.

Using a phone with Android 8 isn't best practice for security by any means, but unless you are being targeted or going around downloading shady apps, it's more likely it will run into app incompatibility issues in the coming years than anything else.

For sites where I'm making a low-value, one-off purchase and never coming back, I'll use a pseudonym alongside a prepaid gift card, or failing that, a privacy.com virtual card. Not quite a sustainable strategy with eBay or Amazon, especially if the package needs a signature, so I'll just use a privacy.com virtual card and supply a P.O. Box address

Mostly accepted that it is the way it is for these things. If the privacy-friendly option is giving up a few conveniences, I'll take it. But if it's keeping me from reaching certain goals, I'll tolerate a compromise. I don't think I'm being targeted either, so it's all tolerable in my personal threat model.

I did once while abroad. None of the shoe stores had the style I wanted in wide, so I went on Amazon and found a pair which reviewers tended to say fit well. Particularly that the listed size matched their expectations when they tried the actual shoe on. Ordered the size I thought would fit me and it did in fact fit me perfectly. It lasted about a year until it started leaking at the glued seam, which to be fair, wasn't too disappointing for a 48-Euro no-name pair.

Granted, that was for men's hiking shoes, can't really speak for finding good high heels online. Other than for that one-off occasion, I've only shopped for shoes and clothes in-person.

One less possible data point for tracking

Also not invested enough in my profile to bother

Reinstalling GRUB in chroot so it 'registers' with the BIOS when cloning an install of Linux