This. I seldom leave the house with an iPhone, and my Apple Watch with cellular is my primary "mobile" device. I want to leave the Apple ecosystem as my devices age out, and the one thing I would love to have is an NFC ring or bracelet to replace my Apple Watch.

No they don't.

They ask _for_ a phone number. It doesn't have to be yours.

I'm an inbox zero person... I keep even my personal notes to disappear after 2 days. For conversations 1 day.

> Having very frequent updates to bleeding edge software versions, often requiring manual intervention is not "stable".

I dunno. I have an arch installation that is maybe 4 years old, I might update every few weeks, and have only had one issue.

Any issues are usually on the front page of archlinux.org what the issue is, and how to fix it.

My first distro I booted from was Ubuntu 4.04.

As a fun weekend project in 2013, I stood up a weather station using Weewx and my RPI 2 with 1 GB RAM. I told myself if it ever crashes or the SD card gets corrupted, I'll just tear everything down.

Well, it's still running today on the original SD card. At noon today it processed its 1,055,425th record in the database.

Still, if it ever crashes, I'll just tear it down. :)

Sounds like you want it to crash really badly :)

Indeed. I'm not going to do anything to cause its demise, but when it does go, it is gone.

> cascading collisions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

How about Berty?

https://berty.tech/features

"Warning: the Android app (including apk) is currently unavailable for download and use due to an ongoing essential security update."

I usually ask if they poop with the door closed. We all know what you are doing in there, and we do the same thing. No need to hide.

Or, why do you get your mail in an envelope? I can see that it is your financial statements.

Why do you have curtains on your home? I can go to Zillow and see the interior of your house from years ago.

I think the better argument is (of course, a wrong one), "I trust that big companies won't share my stuff publicly".

Why is that wrong? In the vast majority of cases (at least in Europe) they don't. Now we have the GDPR it's even more difficult.

Finally. Someone in the wild that runs passwordstore.org

I thought there was only a couple of us.

A larger percentage of HN users were pass users when HN was less mainstream. Late adopters (of forums, technologies, etc.) tend to be GUI lovers because late adoption and a preference for GUIs are both linked to uninquisitiveness.