Now in my sixties and still CF. In my thirties the only real down side was the loss (largely) of friends who had chosen to have children so could now no longer come out to play.

But life was good, on the whole.

And still is.

Largely new friends. Interestingly those who had children later seemed to cope better with the balancing act between parenthood and socialising.

Similar in the UK. Ours is called Airwave and came in in the early 2000s.

https://www.airwavesolutions.co.uk/the-service/emergency-services-network/

Not so effective against the likes of YouTube allegedly.

She didn’t “pledge” to, but she didn’t seem adverse to the idea if it was the right person.

I still only buy phones with a 3.5mm socket.

Tusky for client. Lots of good medium sized instances (avoid mastodon.social). I’m on mas.to for a general account and mastodon.scot for a local one (both reliable, run by the same person).

I find https://gsmarena.com is the right place to start as you can search, among many other things, for phones with a 3.5mm socket.

It’s also why I no longer buy it. It’s a PITA to eat.