I'm afraid this came across as an unfortunate and disingenuous response to someone's comment about privacy. A feeble variation of "I have nothing to hide" I'd say.
For the last part: Standard Notes, Joplin, jrnl, FS Notes (possibly), nvAlt (not actively developed) etc.
Not really. There ares some who do workshops/etc (I know some in Bangalore - Masterclass, Kaydo) but they don't really have much info online. Try talking to them. By the way if you are from there, there's IWST you might want to look at.
The tools and the wood - I kept trying but I couldn't really figure out a way to procure these easily and with some help in selection. Getting them from abroad would cost multiple limbs.
An openly racist, far right blog. By an author who has stated that he believed some races were more suitable for slavery (he also seemed to have no problem with slavery of course) and that some races have genetic superiority to have better IQs.
(Just added it since I thought you forgot mentioning it)
You have followed US policy making, lobbying and stuff like how a coccus of ultra rich people/execs are actually running the Govt from behind the curtain and all that. So when you read all that that usually means the groups do that to different parties i.e maybe one group does that to the republicans and another to the democrats.
(Now enter India)
This guy alone pretty much controls the Govt of India and its decisions irrespective of the party, more so with this current right wing Govt (they are like family).
If you read a bit, there are Govt decisions that look like this:
Let's say there are couple of shops in a village. One of those is billionaire's shop. This is a very famous village market among neighbouring villages. Business is good, especially at night (some famous fair/shrine or whatever). There's the huge high central light in the village square - this is the only light that keeps the market area lit. Now the village head decides he needs to shift the light to a better location so that it will be used even better, especially for the nightly shopping. Fair. Great idea! So he makes a declaration that the village assembly has taken an unanimous decision to move the light to the inside of billionaire's shop so that it is better for the villagers and all the shop keepers in the village. And the best part is the villagers cheer this decision and run after anyone who even has a doubt about this decision let alone an objection.
However if the next time this right wing Govt loses (which seems highly unlikely the way this party/Govt has consolidated power) he might be in trouble but I doubt that would be something he can't handle or hasn't handled before.
I have been coding for almost a decade and I don't think I have come home any day and felt like, "oh, today I will code this!". Nope. I always leave work at work - coding, studying, learning about work. It's not really a discipline, or an attempt to keep work and life separate. I just don't feel like it.
After work it's just reading, films, walks, sports etc for me. I used to get bothered by it seeing other people code and learn tricks, tools, and paradigms at home. Thinking whether I am in the wrong profession, or I am doing it wrong. But now I have accepted it as this is who I am.
I believe the Time Machine is a white elephant, a relic.
It ought to be able to do these things as good as (if not better) apps like restic, borg, backblaze etc : dedup, compression, unlimited versioning (at file level), integrity checks, granular search/restore, possibility to set a cloud destination (at least iCloud).
[It got long. I just thought I'd share an experience]
I worked in the company for sometime. Was visiting from their subsidiary in my country for some time. There was a young lady just outside the mobility HQ main gate camped every day speaking something on the loudspeaker. I didn't understand anything except that she was speaking in a very passionate voice and it seemed a bit broken too, a little pleading. No one would go near her or talk to her or take her pamphlets. Not the employees, not a TV crew, nor reporters and she was there everyday till afternoon from morning. I also noticed some photos there, among which some were in a factory worker's uniform (jacket, head protection etc). Though I could guess but I wasn't sure.
One day I walked up to her. She thanked me and told me in her broken English that her husband had died in a factory accident and the company was not owning it. What I understood was "they are not even talking to me". She had all the pamphlets in Korean, only one piece of paper in English which she gave to me and I was going through it. It would have been 1-2 minutes max and three guards basically swooped down upon me and pretty much pulled me aside while shouting at me that what I was doing was illegal and that couldn't talk to her in their broken English. They took the photo of my ID Card and told me "this is warning" and left me alone right there. By the day end I had received a call from my manager who asked me to refrain from getting into it. It was lunch break so when I went back to my office people were looking at my suspiciously. I was just out of college. It was a scary experience.
When the guards were pulling me away the lady was the only person protesting and none of other employees pretty much even looked at me. When I asked a Korean colleague in office that afternoon why everybody is looking at me like this and why no one talking to me suddenly he didn't say anything and remained silent and then softly "we only talk work, no personal". I guess people get conditioned. Even I didn't talk to her again. But I used to nod and smile at her and she always used to smile back.
I left the company after few months. No, I wouldn't say that was the reason. It's strange but I just can't bring myself to buy a company product till today. If someone asks me for a gadget recommendation and I find something decent in their catalog I do recommend that but I personally have not been able to get one myself since then. This incident stayed with me and whenever I think of the company somehow that woman's image flashes in front of me.
I faced the same problem (though my name is not at all very common). Banks, mobile companies never did anything even after I repeatedly told them on phone and Twitter (and have kept a record of it).
One day after I had received a person's bank, mobile statement and many other bills for few months I decided to call him (his number was easily visible in many emails) and inform him of his mistake. He turned out to be lawyer and he said he will "decide" what to do about it. And the next thing I know is he sent a carefully drafted email (as a legal notice) that I should hand over my email address to him without further delay and all that.
I didn't do that. I talked to a lawyer friend and he just told me to reply with a "G F Y" card. I didn't do that either. But that pushed me to finally move my emails to my personal domain as it was/is a Gmail account and if someone complained Google would have just terminated my account and I don't know anyone who works at Google.
Without a vaccine - wouldn't herd immunity just be letting the virus spread and then let Darwin take over, more or less?