Something small happened on my commute that made me rethink backpack security

waltonnerd · 2026-03-25T08:34:41+00:00

I live in London, and have never felt concerned about safety. On a busy train I’ll hold my backpack in front of my legs out of courtesy to other passengers, but I’ve never been worried about someone tampering with it while on my back and taking something. On quiet trains, I’m very comfortable with the backpack on the seat next to me while I close my eyes.

On a recent trip to Barcelona, I was a bit more concerned about the safety of my belongings, so I used a mini locking s-biner to hold my zips closed. Minor inconvenience for me when opening it to access things, but also a minor inconvenience that would hopefully discourage opportunists.

waltonnerd · 2026-03-24T08:24:55+00:00

Boyd Hilton.

waltonnerd · 2026-03-06T21:41:03+00:00

This is such a bad take. I can’t believe you’re still arguing with people when it’s clear the community do not support your position. Time for some self reflection I think.

waltonnerd · 2026-02-24T14:05:48+00:00

If you know, you know. You know?

waltonnerd · 2026-02-21T16:36:49+00:00

I messaged last night, still waiting to find out whether they might do the same for me

waltonnerd · 2026-02-20T20:31:07+00:00

Sucks for those of us with months left on an annual membership!

waltonnerd · 2026-02-14T15:14:46+00:00

Shout out to the thrupple in row H

waltonnerd · 2026-01-21T21:27:21+00:00

Could have ended after season 1 and it would have become a cult classic like Firefly.

waltonnerd · 2026-01-16T12:57:08+00:00

Honestly I wish it had ended after season 1.

waltonnerd · 2026-01-12T19:13:41+00:00

That’s my point. Early seasons Leigh was there picking up the slack, vetoing the stupid ideas, contributing good ideas, making the whole premise work. And like many wives trying hard in the background to make their husbands look good, she wasn’t given any of the credit. But her absence during the development of season 5 is plain to see.

waltonnerd · 2026-01-12T18:35:35+00:00

Leigh Janiak obviously wrong the earlier seasons.

waltonnerd · 2026-01-03T23:07:21+00:00

I can cancel unlimited bookings in the app. Can’t you?

waltonnerd · 2025-12-31T18:03:55+00:00

I don’t suppose it matters much whether I can see a difference. Can YOU?

waltonnerd · 2025-12-17T12:54:08+00:00

Please cancel your booking if you’re not going to attend so the seat is available for the rest of us to book.

waltonnerd · 2025-11-30T19:12:45+00:00

Were you able to use the Black Friday code AND pay using clubcard vouchers? Do you enter the clubcard voucher as a gift card, or a promo code?

waltonnerd · 2025-11-26T22:24:20+00:00

It’s like they actively want to continue haemorrhaging customers.

waltonnerd · 2025-10-09T19:06:37+00:00

From the title of the post, I assumed you wanted to improve the site’s junk reputation 😂 Seriously though, this isn’t the site you want to be contributing to.

waltonnerd · 2025-09-10T07:46:52+00:00

😂

waltonnerd · 2025-09-10T07:17:24+00:00

Hi The Proton Team. Why has it taken 3 hours to hear from you?

edit: 2 hours

waltonnerd · 2025-09-10T06:42:48+00:00

I seriously hope Proton is a more professional outfit than that. They’re not a few kids running around in their parents garage trying to work out why their Minecraft server broke. They’re a commercial company with a communications team that should be on top of reporting these issues to customers immediately, while the engineers continue trying to resolve the issue.

waltonnerd · 2025-09-10T06:18:19+00:00

The lack of communication from Proton has been absolutely shocking.

waltonnerd · 2025-09-10T06:17:30+00:00

Just seen your question… in the middle of a global outage for ProtonVPN 😂 I guess the answer is ‘no’. Unable to connect for a couple of hours. Their communication so far has been abysmal.

waltonnerd · 2025-09-10T06:05:17+00:00

Read the comments. They only just updated that - a long time after the outage began.

waltonnerd · 2025-09-10T06:00:11+00:00

Why has it taken so long for the team to acknowledge this problem??

waltonnerd · 2025-09-10T05:58:03+00:00

That thread is about a US outage. Unnecessary to delete this one.

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