Onomatopoeia

Encrypted messaging is unrelated to phone numbers. That's an issue of using apps like WhatsApp (which I refuse to use), and a beef I have with Signal (part of why I really don't trust them).

Simplex doesn't use your phone number, why would it? It's not technically difficult to solve this, it's a business/social/political issue.

Apps have no need of your telephone number, not that it isn't hard to find anyway.

It's a tough call, I don't disagree at all with the concerns you pose.

However... Email is every bit as another data point for tracking you, and worse it's in the clear. Every email address I've ever used over the years is in databases with IP addresses, timestamps, locatiin/region data, last used, associated device ID's, etc... Plus any analysis from content that was ever done. Yahoo/Google, etc certainly know lots about the user of those addresses, even ones that aren't their addresses.

I'd happily use an encrypted system(s). I'd simply create multiple accounts, and isolate them in different ways.

For example, my healthcare org sends nothing through email except a notification that you have some kind of update. You then log in to their system to view the info. I do wish they'd develop an app for iOS/Android, it's a bit of a nuisance otherwise. In their defense, App dev with sensitive info isn't their forte, so at least they aren't opening that Pandora's box.

Storing web pages (single pages, no attached videos or anything) in OneNote is trivial storage. After 15 years now, my biggest notebook is 4 gigs or so.

Having it go into any other note taking app would work too, Notion, etc.

I want the text content, so it's searchable.

I've used ArchiveBox a bit, maybe I need to setup some automation into it.

I've used 12v coolers. They don't cool, at best they maintain temp, under the right conditions.

How efficient does it have to be? It needs to at least equal compressors.

Everywhere I've lived, it's never changed, for years (current is 5 years).

I guess it really depends.

I've been using email since it was text-based.

I think email for the average person is kind of dead. I rarely use it for personal comms, and it's more of a repository of receipts and the occasional password reset.

I reluctantly use it for person-to-business.

Work? That's not my concern. I use the tools that they manage.

Email is practically dead to me - it's not encrypted, and plenty of encrypted systems exist that provide equivalent, and in some ways, better functionality for personal use.

I wish companies would start embracing them.

Meh.

Not sure I agree. I get the sentiment, but garbage should be discarded.

Not doomed for those selling them.

People will just buy the next thing.

I stopped buying games when Call of Duty decided to no longer allow you to host your own. That was mtast game purchase, I refuse to buy any more. Turns out I have more time for other stuff now.

Lol, I hear ya.

Thanks for the Android app recommendation.

Says who?

I've seen plenty of small kids on wrist leashes since the 80's.

Also, there's a vast difference between a kid and even a dog, when it comes to autonomy - your goal is to slowly develop a kid's autonomy so they can be independent. Some kids/circumstances can be very challenging to negotiate safely.

With dogs, you have to do the reverse - condition them so they'll want to defer their autonomy to you. And with some dogs, even with the best, most capable trainers in the world they'll still dart after that rabbit or whatever catches their eye.

No.

Most people have no idea how to present information, this on top of the average person being able to read about 4x faster than someone can speak. I regularly play podcasts at 1.5x-2x. There are perhaps 3 people who I'll watch on YouTube for information, only because they show how something works and the video format is useful for the subject, and I still often play it at 2x, or just skip through all the nonsense.

99% of video presentations are garbage to me.

As for entertainment, books and video are different things. Video will always have the influence of scriptwriters, director, producers, actors. You're watching their interpretation of a story. Sometimes this can even be a good thing when they highlight something you may not have really noticed. Often though, it comes with the baggage of someone fundamentally altering a story.

Peltier is horribly inefficient though.