Besides kit cars or deliberately older designed cars like a Morgan Stanley, what modern cars have no driver tracking? The only one I’m aware of is the Slate EV.

I thought its discussion of how much Civilization focuses on conquest, colonization, and combat over most other systems, to the point of it becoming a bit ridiculous if you try to go pacifist, was interesting. The year it was written didn’t seem a detriment.

I think that sounds like a damn solid plan, personally. Not sure if the GrapheneOS devs would go for it. The lead dev (who I think stepped down, so may not be a factor now) had some strongly negative opinions towards a Linux phone due to all of its security holes compared to Android, but like… It’s not as if those things couldn’t be addressed like you describe. It would just take time.

Mobian is Debian designed for phones. PostmarketOS is another project doing the same thing, but with an alpine Linux base.

It’s also pretty awesome that nowadays 4, 5, or even 10 year old computers are still totally viable to use for most use-cases, which would’ve been unheard of back in the 80’s and 90’s when hardware had such giant leaps in speed every few years. I’m loving that we finally have some longevity with hardware, and that Linux is able to actually extract that longevity from the hardware in spite of Microsoft’s efforts to cut it short.

What profit incentive is there for bots that don’t interact?

I always figured they trigger ad views, which financially benefit Reddit itself.

The Cheeto is definitely a cult of personality, and I suspect it will be harder to rally all conservatives behind his replacement. Cult leaders dying can solidify a cult if done correctly (Scientology), but it’s also quite likely that it dissolves.

Neocities encourages static 90’s style webpages.

That seems high, are you sure that wasn’t for one of the higher clocked models? I built my PC in 2004, and according to this article, the lower end models were $170.

I can’t quite remember what I paid, I feel like it was less than that, though. I might’ve gotten it on sale from Tigerdirect.

Accounting for inflation that is probably still a bit high.

The Athlon 64 was pretty affordable at the time, I think. Good little bugger too, was able to use it right up to 2013 before YouTube videos became too sluggish.

Geany is a great, lightweight FOSS editor that totally respects your privacy, and supports all if the languages you mentioned, plus many more.

Enshittification will come to all proprietary apps sooner or later.

It doesn’t necessarily need to achieve mass adoption, it just needs to get to a ‘good enough’ point to make it viable for those who are willing or desperate to get away from big tech.

Linux still has plenty of people giving reasons why they won’t switch, but it’s now finally viable for many, including myself. I just want mobile Linux to get to that point too, even if there’s still rough edges.

We rapidly need to switch to Linux Mobile. PostmarketOS and Mobian are the two most promising projects, and I would highly recommend anyone reading this to donate to them if you have the means.

Both projects directly use your donations to hire developers to build and polish the critical essentials to get this alternative viable as a daily driver.

And the UAW’s planned general strike.

https://may1.uaw.org/

Agree 100%! For others reading, here’s a good article on the merits of dual-carding.

When I tried it a few months ago, I found that documentation was very sparse. It was difficult to even find out all of the things they had modified from either standard fedora or bazzite.

And while the reviewers complain of it being sluggish in a VM (not a good real world test IMHO), I too found it to be slower than a standard distro.

I like the ideas from uBlue, but they seem to have far too many projects to properly polish and support each one.

The problem is there absolutely is many, many wrong paths to take, and we have to learn from past attempts to avoid their mistakes. Notice how the arab spring movement, while initially promising, ultimately failed to prevent a new authoritarian regime from taking hold in most of those countries.

There are going to be different prescriptions from all political ideologies, but most of them can be dismissed to narrow down the possibilities.

• Right-Libertarians will advise we privatize everything and remove regulations - Doesn’t work. Creates the conditions for Neo-fuedalism and capital dominating every aspect of life.
• Moderates/Social Democrats will suggest we can reform our way out of this by voting for the right people - Didn’t work in Nazi Germany, didn’t work in Franco’s Spain. Due to corporate capture, they ultimately cannot resolve the issues that cause people to foolishly shift toward fascism in hopes to escape those issues.
• Marxist-Leninists will say we just need a revolution with a Vanguard party - Doesn’t work. Results in extremely unfree authoritarian states like the USSR, North Korea, and China’s CCP. Basically state capitalism under the guise of socialism in name only.

That leaves the Libertarian-left/Anarchists. We have evidence that their methods result in pretty sweet outcomes, they just have never survived very long due to the whole world usually being against them.

Okay, so what do we do to in our case? First off, avoiding a civil war or extreme violence is vastly preferable, as the alternative has some big downsides. The best non-violent method we have at our disposal is a General Strike, which directly targets the machinery that fascist states rely on. Combined with mutual aid networks and civil disobedience, it has a rather good chance of preventing a fascist takeover with a minimum of violence.

The alternative is straight up revolution, which requires the participating population to be educated on a shared vision, methods to organize, and how to avoid centralizing power structures or cult of personalities which lend themselves to co-option by the above mentioned groups.

If the law would lead us to fascism, then the law must not be followed. They will come for us regardless of if we follow the law or not.

That’s why mutual aid organizations are essential. They operate outside of the legal system, so can’t be directly targeted as easily. If you or anyone else reading this have the time, please consider joining your local mutual aid group. That could be Food Not Bombs, a different group local to your city or town, or even your local church if you’re in a rural area.

If you don’t have one in your area, start one! Here’s a little guide on how and where to find likeminded folk to start one with: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451