If your antenna is strong enough, you can pick up a lot of lower power devices from a long ways off.

This is problem with platform lock in. Be it discord, X, FB groups, Reddit. Communities form and then fragment as the members who realize there are better open options leave.

The users of the web have enough desktop and laptop cpu cycles to spare for passing a few decentralized messages around without killing battery life or performance. We don’t need these experience degrading/dehumanizing ad platforms to underpin our internet. That’s just a narrative peddled by companies who aim to make obscene profit on top of their already obscene profits.

My uncle bought a used car built in communist east Germany. He always emphasized how it was built like a tank to last. Capitalism is great and all, but it promotes waste. Companies have an incentive to make products that fail and need to be repurchased. Planned obsolescence is fine if it was only about people craving something better. As it stands, it’s more of a forced switch with breakable parts.

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This is why we need more websites to adopt secure client side scripting.

JavaScript may or may not be it, but the web needs to be reachable/archivable. It should also have attribution, but that’s a tangent.

You should read a clockwork orange.

Right, so fork it and make BTC Lite.

BitCoin was the progenitor of those projects and rapidly gained value after strong usage (aka utility) and the ensuing scarcity. So you like BTC?

Then you like Bitcoin too, since it pegs them.

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If all they do is web browsing and office, why not try Linux Mint first? It’s not as big of a leap as it used to be.

Straight Debian with Cinnamon.

I think nuance goes out the door when tens of thousands of innocent civilians are butchered in the name of defense. Hamas is bad, that doesn’t excuse Israel’s actions.

I used to use brave before they were soured. Ther BAT token disappearing from my account was another nail in the coffin.

It was an example. Lossless formats exist.

Take it further. Convert all of your data into forward or simple formats. Don’t encode your images as gif, keep them raw. Store word docs as markdown. Don’t use proprietary formats (duh).

Linux will be around for a long time, which is convenient. Everything is a file, that counts, right?

Also be thankful for VMs and the push towards distroless containers.

This right here. Disney and Nintendo get no more of my hard earned $$$. These companies create iconic products and they get paid for it. All of the DRM anti-consumer over-reach is where I draw the line though.

Good luck determining who is driving.

I’m imagining etch-a-sketch plan routing.