Not a complete filesystem-level solution. But I'm pretty happy with KeePass for sensitive stuff.

Using the KeePassX client on Linux, with the .kdb file on Google Drive.
KeePass2Android on our phones. We have a secret key not stored on Google Drive, and a passphrase to unlock that. Haven't had any trouble with the automatic sync of the .kdb back to Google Drive after making any changes.

If encfs works fairly well on Linux, what's stopping you from getting http://linuxonandroid.org/ working on Android and mounting your encfs file in a full Linux chroot environment? Then on Windows just run a Linux VM that exports a Samba share of the unencrypted files.

The other thing I've always done since forever is just use my phone / internet kiosk to VNC+SSH back to my home PC.

"Your mileage may vary" ... just a disclaimer in the way of a bad car analogy that someone else may not necessarily get as much out of the experience as I did while politely implicating that it may have had more to do with their driving style.

Oh, I dunno, I haven't regretted making tax-deductible membership contributions to educational stuff run by our evil government, such as:

* National Parks Annual Pass - usually pays for itself within 4 visits, and always provides the best experiences our country has to offer.

* Science Museum Annual Pass - this is typically a state-funded thing, but the passes often have reciprocity at science centers across the country. Some are more amazing than others, but all are great places to take kids on rainy days.

* Smithsonian Institution - yeah, more useful if you live or visit near the nation's capitol, but these museums house or nation's treasures and make them free for all.

Can't really go wrong with any of these, all are staffed by amazing, capable, motivated, and certainly underpaid US gov't workers. But of course, YMMV.

That's pretty impressive, I always enjoy your posts and hope I'm half as awesome as you when I get to that certain age (though it's not actually that far off nowadays).

What percentage of income do other people spend on directing support to charity? I always feel woefully inadequate since we only do maybe a few hundred dollars per year, which comes out to fractions of a percent of our joint income. OTOH, we feel like we're pretty frugal with money and don't really waste anything... no entertainment budget for movies or Netflix, eat out cheap just a couple of times a week, maybe one vacation per year, and the rest goes to mortgage and utilities and education activities for the kids, as well as some minimal token amount for 401k and 529 savings plans.

I hear Muslims are more or less required to donate something like 5% of their income to charity, so I wonder what that says about my prospects towards society if I'm only puttering around at one tenth of that :P

It's not terribly selfish to be good with money, so you can better help people who are not.

At least max out your employer match contributions to your 401k plan. Then make sure you can get your employer to match your donations to your charities.

If you can itemize deductions, then the money you donate to causes you like will also reduce the money that the IRS gets from you to let Congress fund stuff you don't like, such as wars abroad or corporate welfare or welfare queens or whatever ticks you off. Unfortunately the primary way to be able to itemize your deductions is to have a big mortgage payment on your home, since interest you pay to banks is deductable enough to get you out of standard deduction territory. Pretty sad how entrenched our government is with the financial house of cards.

On the flip side, once you have over $100k in your 401k plan you may be able to take a $50k loan out of it to pay down your home loan if your plan allows it (supposedly not many do but they're out there). Then you pay back the interest to yourself instead of the bank, so it's good for those times when the stock market isn't performing very well.

Also, if you marry a K-12 teacher or you are one you can usually deduct a small amount of classroom supplies from your fed taxes and some states.

Good luck, and keep your tax deductible receipts!

Yeah, pan handlers may be good at looking sad, but its actually fairly lucrative. A common fallacy is that poor people "need" money more, and your buck would go further helping them. Unfortunately, many people are poor because they are bad with money. Many pan handlers will blow their take on drugs or alcohol, or splurge on a stay at a motel when they could easily afford to use that amount of money to make rent and groceries if they had the budgeting sense.

I wish it was easier to find ways to help people... I would look at supporting the social services workers, or supplies for teachers in schools. Even in fairly good neighborhoods there are usually always low income parents that need regular assistance with books and field trip payments and stuff like that.

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I support public education; I married a teacher

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Is there a good reddit area for slashdot refugees to have tech discussions?

The only other alternatives I see are http://arstechnica.com/ (though the discussion engine is pretty limited and somewhat heavily moderated), http://theregister.co.uk/ (doesn't seem to spawn many useful conversations somehow), and maybe http://fark.com/ (good discussions, but but pretty light on tech coverage in a pretty basic discussion engine)