@Maker_of_Things (but now it is a joke and not an actual anxiety trigger) (luckily we can laugh now)

@Maker_of_Things yeah that all makes sense. It *is* important, after all. It was just rather fun watching it turn into a comedy after having it fuel several days of needless anxiety every week for years. Hubby walking in after work and looking real smug "I beat your dad to the trash bins today" was just so strange and funny and such an *experience* all its own lucky for them, they have all their trash to themselves again now. Sometimes hubby still tells me it's trash day.

@Maker_of_Things my hubby got thoroughly sick of trash day and began to sabotage it by doing everything earlier and earlier, beating my parents to it, having the entire thing taken care of before they even started asking, so that they didn't have a chance to start scrambling and doing their anxious dance around the house 2 days in advance. As a cherry on top, he and Dad started trying to race each other to get the bins put out, resulting in some absurd trash can espionage. Quite silly by the end

@Maker_of_Things I'm so sorry you had to deal with racist bullshit yesterday. I know I can't make it better, but maybe I can divert you with a tale of our former trash day ritual? When we lived with my parents, they were retired and Trash Day was sacred because they didn't have hobbies and so Trash Day was a weekly holiday where everyone was reminded at least six times and pestered and re-reminded and everyone got in each other's way and it was this whole obnoxious thing. ->

@samuel @rysiek not that I'm defending Proton handing over what data they have, but what they've done on their mail side (as far as I understand) would theoretically contain a lot more data than their VPN side, and I'm guessing that's why it's on the list. From what I've read, they don't store the data from your browsing history, and I'm pretty sure that has been verified to be true, so they have nothing or very little to hand over to law enforcement. Some VPNs track you to sell your data.

@akareilly he did this whole mansplain thing and it felt like deja vu after having dealt with a whole lot of internet tech bros who do not understand the needs of normal people, much less disabled folks, and who tend to forget living in a rural area is a thing. So I'm just sitting here waiting for him to start realizing how many things he's going to have problems with over time because he jumped off the high dive before taking smaller steps and seeing how hard just that much was.

@akareilly I'm still waiting to find out whether my partner (who just gleefully degoogled his phone and then slammed me for not having done so when my disabilities are the reason I cannot) had technical issues with his solo appointment with our couples therapist last week. Because, as I'm sure you know, most medical software requires chrome or a chrome based browser. I'm not sure if his fancy new firmware will let him install Zoom or not. >