JoelJ

Cool, I just installed Thunderbird and am giving it a go.

I would totally read that book

I'm all for getting into old school tech, I even like to browse neocities.org on occasion just for the hit of nostalgia for the old web rings. I never got into newsgroups though, and I'm wondering what reasons you might use that instead of something like Lemmy, Mastodon etc?

Apart from the piracy side, I know all about that already lol

This is the kind of alarmist media that cripples people with anxiety and leads to learned helplessness. We want to be giving people hope for change, not taking it away.

This is fucking amazing

I like the idea of calling it ex-twitter. I came up with the idea when I was having a shower.. Hang on.. there's a community for that! brb

Exactly! Although I find dishwashing detergent dries out your skin a lot more, so I wouldn't try using that lol. Shampoo has a pH closer to your skin than a bar of soap, so is really quite well suited for it.

My guess to the biggest reason not to do this is safety - if somebody is being electrocuted, you want to be able to pull the cord out of the wall as quickly as possible to maximise their chance of survival.

I just buy cheap $2 bottles of shampoo and use it for my whole body. Cheaper than shower gel, and I've been doing it for over 5 years with no problems. It's all soap, right?

been with windscribe for 5 years now on arch, it works great. There's only a CLI app but it works fine

I'm sorry? I don't understand why you'd think I think that? This was like hundreds of thousands of years ago, so whatever their skin colour there would have been plenty of time for melanin levels to change since then

Maybe, but studies have shown that Africans don't have any Neanderthal DNA.