I was expecting this to be about slashdot.

PGP/GPG is much easier to use these days than it was in the 90's. Plugins exist for many mail clients that do the heavy lifting in the background.

Friends and family are surely tired of my tinfoil hat, they just do not seem to care about their privacy. Many say the "I have nothing to hide" line.

Slower photons in fiber optics means a slower, more relaxed pace for my web browsing.

... the oldest goatse in history.

Excellent! It took me straight to The Black Hole game. Thanks!

I should have added: If you are serious about your security, move your samba service inside to another box. Keep this machine as a device to move packets securely.

OpenBSD. Feel free to look at the others, just don't get distracted by shiny bells & whistles and GUIs and the like.
OpenBSD does what you want and does it very well.

I'm sticking with OpenBSD. At least with that OS, features are well thought out and not jammed into every release because "it's teh l337!"

This is about OSX mail, not iOS mail.

I have ten servers for which the 100 millisecond accuracy of OpenNTPD is perfectly fine.

That's nearly a tenth of a second!

I guess the Perl-loving neckbeards at /. were right all along.

Theo de Raadt for no other reason than he is Theo de Raadt.

This is all from memory, but as I recall, the actual problem is in the solder manufacturers are forced to use for ROHS compliance. It is less flexible than the old lead-tin solder of the olden days.

that NSA has known about it and been exploiting it whenever possible.

We have refillable Keurig coffee cups and grind our own beans. Our own setup is virtually trash free other than the empty bags of beans.