I know someone who’s atc. He described it as “very very slow Tetris, but when you misplace a piece someone dies.”

Cloud services in general. Tech used to all be local, regardless of what it was. Everything cloud would blow the minds of people from the 70s. Though, we all know the tradeoffs these days

He could do a cover of that AI “we are Charlie Kirk” song as his encore !

Any solution would involve the wealthiest in society making slightly less money. Therefore, it won’t happen.

Oh that’s easy - the Zanclean flood.

What is now the Mediterranean sea used to be a land mass full of grass fields. A few million years ago, the Strait of Gibraltar gave way and hundreds of millions of cubic feet of water poured in. It’s debated how long it took to fill up the Mediterranean. Could’ve been weeks, could’ve been decades. But for whatever period it was, it’d be nuts to sit there and watch it all unfold.

I’ve had a ridge for years and it’s held up very well. I recommend blue loctite on the screws, with that it’s been pretty much invincible

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Opening line of the Constitution. Pretty sure anything bold could be applied to safe, clean drinking water.

I heard of people using it on hobby projects.

Don’t know of any firm using it in production. Node.js never really had scale issues that needed addressing.

I’ve moved more towards deno recently. No real desire for bun on my end

It was a replacement for node.js and npm that was supposed to be faster and had other things built in like minifying and bundling iirc.

I’m an AI coding minimalist…like it for some tasks like creating unit tests and other tedium.

The bun saga of having AI do everything has been a fascinating horror show. Excited to see where it goes.

My fear is that this will change. We already saw LG load malware via windows when connected. So in theory future devices like Roku and Apple TV could act as a proxy for the tv.

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The dollar is collapsing

That’s a quarter of the whole world’s broad money. From a single company? GTFO Anthropic

you would. the alternative would be a vpn when you’re on the go

travel router. I use this one. Though the right travel router will depend on your home network configuration.

Privacy is about reducing your footprint, not erasing it. We’re not spooks. If you use the internet in any kind of capacity, for content, or shopping…there will be some kind of record of you. You just want to reduce it.

Get rid of noscript. 99% of the internet needs javascript to work. Stick with Librewolf or some kind of Firefox based browser using UBlock Origin. If your super strict Librewolf settings are breaking certain sites, ease up on them until you find it tenable. You don’t need Tor. Tor has always been slow.

Get an extension called Privacy Badger.

Two things you should do that wasn’t mentioned in your OP:

1. Manage your own DNS. I use Technitium, but AdGuard and PiHole are 2 other options that do the same thing. Managing your own DNS is a big privacy win especially when you’re not on a VPN.
2. Buy a domain to manage your email. Using the same email address on different accounts is a big privacy issue. Companies hash emails and pass them around. So if you use your email address for an account on Company X site, and also on Company Y. Y can send X a hash of your email, and they can see that you have accounts on sites X & Y. And then boom, serve you ads related to them.

If you have an domain associated with an email, you can create addresses at will when you make accounts. So in this scenario, you’d have companyX@mydomain.com, and companyY@mydomain.com. The hashes wouldn’t match. And if you only use that email for that one site, you’ll never be cross-referenced.

You’re correct OP. I think the difficulty of modern times is multifaceted. A lot of other comments here speak to various parts of it these days, but I want to add one I’ve noticed related to this issue.

Pre mid-2000’s, technology worked for us. If you look at the hayday of tech (1980 thru early 2000’s), it seemed like every tech innovation was aimed at the consumer. The tech got better and we did too. The tech worked for us.

Nowadays (and I think I can see all this turning course around the time of the 2008 collapse), tech is not for us. The consumer has become the product, and tech is built around working through us instead of for us. Manipulating us instead of helping us. It sucks.

I have no doubt that if the washing machine was invented today instead of like ~100 years ago, they would be the size of car, and only installed in corporate offices. You’d have to go to an office to get your clothes washed. Consumer-level washers wouldn’t be a thing. They’d tie it to work like healthcare. It seems like no one is interested in making quality consumer devices. The consumer devices we do have are designed to become obsolete quickly without any repairability, so you buy another fast (i.e. all modern cars).

So yea, I think when you add this on top of everything else, it help explains what is amiss with life today. My 2c

If OP can wait, GrapheneOS is partnering with Motorola, but those phones won’t be available until 2027.

I’m splitting hairs a lil bit - you’re pretty much correct. Minors are not citizens, so they don’t have rights. Minors are wards of the State. They under State protection, and as such don’t have the ability to forgo that protection, until they turn 18.