Operazione: Vita Gentile

This contains bits of my life I would rather not have saved in running memory. I hope some of the things in this list can be inspiring or useful to you \()/

My cell phone number was ported to Google Voice to remove the dependence on my phone. There is currently nothing on my device that can't be accessed from my computer.

This provides the Freedom to have any cellular plan or provider I'd like. Currently I pay $10 USD/month on US Mobile. The only thing I require is cellular data.

Postal mail is delivered to a Private Mail Box (PMB). All letter mail is automatically digitized and viewable from a website.

The service I use is US Global Mail. The service costs $30/month and eliminates the stupid letter-mail I receive. All that was required was a change of address form be filled out with the US Postal Service.

I order packages using a different name to avoid those packages being delivered to the remote address. I can use the Chrome "Secure Shell"

I SSH into a remote server running TMUX and Emacs. All the applications I use I've built into Emacs. I love this system and it makes my digital life very simplified.

I can use the Chrome "Secure Shell" extension to access my Emacs session through my web browser. Copying to the clipboard is handled by using OSC escape sequences via clipetty in Emacs.

I don't want to be reliant on ANYTHING to be okay. Everything I can get rid of or make more intuitive I will.

I only need SSH and any computer to be at home. It doesn't matter what I'm wearing, where I am, the devices i have access to.

My phone I utilize as a tool. I have a portable monitor that runs DexMode. From there I can access a fully functioning web browser (Brave) and terminal for SSH (Terminus). I use a bluetooth portable keyboard. The entire system can be powered from my one phone. I can still access my encrypted drives through my USB-C doc and file manager.

I used to use a Librebooted FDE Thinkpad X60 as a daily driver. This sucked and the only web browser that effectively worked was Tor+NoJS.

Now I daily drive a Thinkpad X220 with Coreboot. If I did want to be anonymous I would use Tails Linux. Otherwise I would use Whonix or ordinary tor.

I like Google! Mail labels are technologically a really nice way to lay my emails out. All of my emails get physically stored in the Archive (folder for unlabeled items). They then get labeled for the inbox and my other "folders". I use filters to automatically label all different types of emails with color coding.

I like the idea of my label views being nothing more than tags and queries. It makes more sense than moving files between folders on a disk.

I've since moved all my files to Google Drive and integrated the calendar into Emacs using the Google Calendar API and org-gcal packages.

I don't have good memory. My brain is an unsorted library and it performs just well enough to recall patterns. All of the things I learn and feel I write down into my org agenda. This integrates with my Google Calendar AND my Emacs email client.

Anything I can't risk keeping in RAM will be written to disk. High performance brains with low capacities/optimizations need a lot of organizing to be okay : )