Who subscribes to anything anymore, besides basic services/utilities.

2179????... For anonymity, I'm not posting the actual numbers here.

You were a very early adopter.

My GF was 1403????

OLED. Can still use modern advances in practical tech. Can still have open source, modern kernel linux, modern ram and low power 3nm chips. Just keep all the tech simple and clean of marketing and addiction. All the good, less of the bad.

Just one open source free platform would be fine. IRC with modern protocols for pics and video that can be viewed in the chat app of your choosing. Keep it simple, or add backgrounds. Mini chat boxes, or transparancy. Basic low resource use, or heavy, you decide, same open cross app platform.

I still know my ICQ number by heart, and a close friends too, who is lower than mine by about 50k. 140... and mine was 201...

Haven't used em in about 25 years.

But then I also still know my childhood phone number.

ICQ, IRC, and Livejournal.

Not Amish, LoTeK!

Kinda depends.

My parents divorced when I was a baby.

My mom is probably doing fine. She was fake and selfish and none of the rest of us talk to her, my immediate family that is. All her fam, parents and siblings, were across country and kept in touch rather surperficially. But she always has local connections and worked two jobs and got her finances in order at 40 and bought a house and is now retired. And probably doing fine.

My dad never did well. He was the opposite, wasn't greedy, worked as a chef at Denny's for 14 years, always had a lot of deep connections and loving friends he helped out and us kids treated like family. But he basically only ever made ends meet, so that he could afford space for us kids in his apartments and be reasonably comfortable.

But after us kids became adults, my sis and him would loan each other money back and forth to cover bills in a pinch. They did that a lot.

He only really got on his feet after his mum passed and left him and his bros some cash. But he moved into the desert, away from everyone, and his health has never been great, and he's going blind, and working as an in-house aide to others worse off then him, and he can barely keep his lights on, let alone afford to get the treatments he needs, or ever retire.

My sis is married and seems to be stable. She, like my dad, moved around a bit, with her husband, after her kids left the nest. She was too much like my mum so I don't keep in touch, but I haven't heard anything about her struggling in many years.

Like my sis, I am married, and I think that helps a lot. Having a two income home. I'm a home owner, we, me and my spouse, are both on track to retire, barely, and we are managing alright otherwise.

It's not great. And we all about break even. But I think if my parents had stayed married or just shared a house with each other and us kids they woulda both been retired comfortably years ago. Instead they struggled with one income about equally to how we now struggle with two.

So, it kinda depends.

Statistically its highly unlikely we're the only intelligent life in the universe. He believes the numbers.

But has any intelligent life visited Earth? Obama doesn't know, but there are no aliens at Area 51.

You can't classify a non-fact.

Trump huffs martian paint!

Many people get tired of having to charge rechargeables. Even if they are happy with the vibes, they generally want to go back to a plug-in when they can.

The best would be one that vibes harder when plugged in, but can be unplugged and used for a good 25min, minimum, sesh... And also be water resistant.

That way I you can run plugged unless for some reason you don't want the cord or the danger of using it plugged in near water.

Basically covers all the bases.