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An airgapped machine is certainly going to be most robust from external attack, but even then you should probably encrypt your files to ensure privacy should you ever discard, or otherwise lose control of, the storage media.

An encrypted partition may be sufficient, but your journal entries will still be “plain text” when it is mounted, and so you will be able to read them without extra effort. If you want to make it so that once an entry is written it is encrypted and can only be read with deliberate effort, you could use GPG encryption.

First generate a key pair with a really strong passphrase, and store it on a USB drive. Then import just the public key onto your journaling machine and store the USB drive somewhere safe. With just the public key on your machine you can encrypt files, but you can’t decrypt them. Ideally you’ll set up your journalling tool to only write via GPG, but if not, you can just encrypt each entry after you write it.

As to what journalling tool to use, I like VIM, although I know not everyone gets on with it. You can have it start up with a template ready to go, not write temporary files, and save via GPG so the plaintext never hits persistent storage.

Actualy, the axe is just a symbol, like a badge of office, and the punishment will actually just consist of the gentleman in the hood coming up with a diss track mocking the prisoner. The basket is there to catch the inevitable tears.

• You still have the extra bloat in memory.
• it shows a lack of focus on core issues rather than adding “cool” features.
• Can you actually trust that switching it off will disable it in every place they’ve incorporated it, not just now, but also in future?

There are undoubtedly other issues too.

That’s a very good point. The problem with your average hip flask is that it’s really quite small, which means there is really not much space inside the flask to work with. The mechanism that springs to mind is the same as you find in a twist-up stick deoderant. Namely, you have a twistable knob on the base of the flask, which rotates a screw which runs up the centre of the flask. Mounted on the screw, inside the body of the flask, is a plate which, due to the geometry of the flask, can’t rotate, and will thus be forced to move up and down. Whilst ensuring the reliability of the seals may take some experimental work, this woild allow the user to retrieve the soup simply by twisting the knob, thereby compressing the soup, causing it to exit via the neck of the flask.

Ok, you start by fabricating a funnel that screws to the neck of the flask. It’s a bit of time on the lathe, but you only need to do it once.

Attach the funnel to the flask, and fill it with you soup of choice. Then place the entire contraption in your vacuum chamber and pump it down, slowly, to the lowest pressure it’ll manage. Don’t go quickly, or the soup will bubble out of the funnel, unless you made it particularly deep. Once you’ve evacuated the flask, and let the soup settle back down in the funnel, bring the pressure back up. At that point, the vacuum will suck the soup in to the flask. Once you’re back up to ambient pressure, detach the funnel, give the flask a wipe, close it and go about your day with a loaded soup flask.

Simple really.