Thought of this in the shower after commenting on a post about securing boot partitions.
I’m not knocking on any of these things, only noting their similarity. When taken to the extreme, all of them seem to evoke a weird mix of paranoia and eager anticipation.
While I don’t have the internet go down super often. I do love that I can just keep watching, listening, or reading stuff when those moments happen (or if services pull them or physical options don’t exist). I have gone back to getting random things physically where possible as I find them (and have money at the time). It has been kind of fun to relearn how to rip things again.
Also like to joke with friends that those things (and pr0n) are basically currency if massive outages happen. Can trade media for help with small things if needed (and if the person wants something I have) and if I don’t have cash. lol