Dear God I hope so

Unfortunately for this horse, they would soon be found by an Electric Monk, a product whose function is to believe things.

Definitely for phones and laptops, this should be the first place they go.

🎶And every circuit board, all the plastic and foil
People act like only energy is reliant on oil

and thaaaaaat is how the world works, that’s how the world works! 🎶

That’s why after making pesto you make all things pesto for like a fuggin week or more.

It’s tough, because we’re about to enter an era where having old, still working tech might actually be a functional boon for a lot of people as the costs of new fabrication explode and the cost of a personal computer becomes nigh inaccessible.

I do think there’s a limit, however. I have several older devices that while they have 64 bit CPUs, they have 32-bit bootloaders. Thankfully, Ventoy seems to work well with them still in terms of being able to boot and function properly. But I do wonder if, considering the used market we may soon be sitting in, if all the effort to drop 32-bit support from modern Linux distributions could end up making that market more difficult when there’s still some decent-ish devices from that era to do some minor tasks, even if they produce a higher power draw.

To me, the overall power draw is a bigger deal than how old the processor is. If it’s an old processor but has a streamlined design that isn’t a power hog, then it’s still worthwhile. If it sucks up a lot of energy just to do some basic stuff, then it’s probably more costly than it is worth in terms of energy consumption. If you can’t find any more modern solutions, sure, use the power hog, but I do think the real future of computing is in low-power, high-latency devices as we head into a more fractured future.

Anyway, as for practical use, I don’t have a beefy server to run a lot of major services on or to have multiple virtual machines all running at once. I just use actual old machines for headless servers for small services that can fit on and not be overwhelming to these devices. I have a whole stack of self-hosted services on what amounts to (mostly) a bunch of second-hand equipment. Six server boxes, around 25-ish services with about 20-ish of them docker containers.

I mean, Ted Kaczynski’s actions were deplorable and unconscionable, but he wasn’t altogether wrong that to actually be able to make your critique of the system matter you had to be willing to build your own self-reliant systems and stop relying on a system that’s oppressing you while you participate in it.

He was too isolationist of an individual to understand that to have those self-reliant systems you have to build them with other people, organize with other people, you know, Mutual Aid. He disconnected from the system by himself and instead of building alternatives to the system he decided he’d rather bomb the system. I think making alternatives to the system makes more sense, personally, and has had a history of great success for example with the Black Panthers which were roundly vilified but were actually a mutual aid society that relied on building parallel systems for people who were excluded from the systems that existed that favored white people and disfavored minority groups.

It’s true, on some level you must find a way to disconnect and to begin to build our own solutions moving forward, which is how governance naturally organizes anyway. Governance from the bottom up always works better than from the top down.

It’s just waiting on other people to figure out that we don’t all have to be in this alone, we can actually be in it together.

Can we escape certain aspects of our system entirely? No, but we can continue to do our collective best to minimize our overall impact in re-enforcing the broken aspects of our society through building parallel systems when and where we can.

Yeah, food is still often shipped with petroleum based products even if they aren’t used in the product itself directly. I’m not even talking about the plastic in the boxes or bags as much as the tires on the trucks, the diesel in their tanks, the asphalt they drive on, as they criss-cross the country delivering food.

And not smoking tobacco. (Who knows what kind of side effects vaping have internally long term)

And drinking less.

And not stressing themselves trying to “win” at capitalism and instead give 25%, just enough to keep a job.

Doctorow tries to coin shit all the time and most times it doesn’t stick. This goes faaaaaar back in his personal history.

I just finished setting up Komodo because I couldn’t find other alternatives that seemed to fit my needs. I didn’t see Arcane amongst those ones I researched. Neat, thanks.

Open source FIDO2 keys, KeePassXC, and Aegis.

SMS 2fa has always been a bad deal

Look when I have had to tell a scumbag the same rules three times politely and they keep breaking them anyway…

I gave them chances. It is now my perogative to tell them exactly how fucking stupid they are and why and that I am sick of dealing with their loser shit.

If they can’t deal with escelating consequences they are fucking babies and deserve even further ridicule and isolation.

The reason we live in a shameless society is because we allowed these people to publicly be shameful without completely ostracizing them from society. They learned that they can be shameful and it doesn’t matter.

In early human tribes ostracisation from the tribe was basically a death sentence. Honestly insults are nicer than that.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

-Margaret Atwood

Don’t let stupidity turn into evil by worrying about it’s fucking feelings.

They have a job, being scalpers.

Literally all you have to do to be a scalper is have some capital to start with and to be a completely unscrupulous bastard.

And arguably even that is more than they deserve, but ya gotta stay employed somehow.

I’m from the era of the internet where caring about crediting people for fucking memes of all things was treated as unserious as it is.

Man, copyright has broken people’s brains.

Do you have any idea how expensive 40gb was in 2000?

Aqua Teen started airing in 2001 and I was grabbing the first season as it aired.

I couldn’t afford any other solution. I was lucky to afford a video card with s-video out.

is to run your own instance on a private network with federation turned off.

But I like talking to myself!

Giving me memories of not having enough hard drive space and using s-video and audio cables to record downloaded episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021 to tape from my computer so I could have more space to download more stuff.