nostr:npub1g0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msp3tvm4 A salary would look great now. Self employment was a big cut from peak corporate wages & not just 8 hour days. Balance came in free time to travel, work elsewhere & learn new skills. Health insurance expense was enormous prior to retirement, about 33% of my earnings. Federal taxes for Social Security & Medicare were on you & 15% not 7%. Taxes ~50% of gross.
nostr:npub16xfqjdlukvd5y92fm7qwyqerluqkhcl3xxgumty5wezk9zpud4gswxe0sv When Apple started deleting RIPed MP3s without asking and replacing with their DRM Equivalents without asking I thought of rage quitting it for the more FOSS Android. I did a one week experiment. I had a pretty good UX. I went to look at the data vacuuming between the two. Even with me manually opting out of most of it I was horrified at what Google was doing. I bitterly went back to Apple hoping that one of those Linux phones that were “coming soon” would meet minimum sufficiency. That obviously never happened and I don’t think ever will.
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Anyone looked at a PinePhone? They run Manjaro Linux and other versions ~$200.. Have a PineBook Pro notebook for several years just to have a machine w/zero personal info.
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Learned slowly how white my upbringing had been. Black school classmates 7 years. Then travel to where I was the only white face. Living & working with people of African and Indigenous descent made a huge change ‘71-2.
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nostr:npub1ps962s9y4xl4ku3jg0ng5glr3hten67tc23cgew52llufs5nkqvqgntfz6 Nah. That's not harsh enough. No more well done steak or fast food. nostr:npub1tjlc3v3efzj5vfwst3qhf9walmuvttw3e9r3hlt44tjh9hws6h0qkrjcnu nostr:npub1z04ya9m78swlfrpdpykzzccwkkj96yqpnqzge9nn9qfr0zqgshpq8n0mxh
nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx nostr:npub1tjlc3v3efzj5vfwst3qhf9walmuvttw3e9r3hlt44tjh9hws6h0qkrjcnu nostr:npub1z04ya9m78swlfrpdpykzzccwkkj96yqpnqzge9nn9qfr0zqgshpq8n0mxh Someone had suggested Riyadh. My thought was Sochi.
