Yup, Jordan was right, they want you to rent everything.

get a dumb phone, a CD player, and check out books, movies, music, and games from the library as my entertainment?

Totally valid idea.

Ever considered browsing gemini pods? It’ll be like surfin’ the web in the 90s, quite a few rabbit holes.

Does anyone else feel this way? Have you found ways to reconnect with technology?

Occasionally, yeah. I’m on the linux-selfhost-etc path and intend to stay on and amplify it. I see it as a little personal challenge and not as a tide to hold back (although it is).
I also ensure i’m not on my smartphone 24/7 and prefer the outdoors or hanging out with friends.

Yes.

The guy has two gofundmes right now:
TJ Sabula is a patriot!! at almost 481k
Support Ford Worker TJ Sabula during suspension at 330k
Guy’s almost scoring a million!

Why do both have “donations paused”?
More importantly, how can one be sure the money will actually go to him?

This shit is spreading, you’ll need it for your fellow compatriots.
I hope i’m wrong.

480k and counting

Eh, replace socialism with a dictatorship and that describes the current administration.

Oh i wasn’t even going into the “rip-off open source without giving anything back” territory, quite a lot of tech companies are guilty of that.

After air gapped uranium processing centrifuges were wrecked with an errant USB drive,

I’d forgotten about stuxnet, quite the (technical) feat.

It is a misconception that you cannot do encryption with ham radio.

Encryption: read the comments - in some jurisdictions you can’t (legally).
Affordability: in some parts of the work it’s expensive to get a ham license (required by law).
Ease of access: that one’s subjective, fine.

Imagemagick’s not to be scoffed at either.

The ffmpeg of imaging.

GIMP can do […] video fx and animation.

Sounds like feature creep to me tbh.

The “losing money” argument is the same they use against media piracy.
Oil piracy though, no biggie so long as it’s a big government doing it.

This means that it’s really hard to get rich building free / open source software.

Red Hat, Canonical and others disagree.

you need to learn about how insecure all of those are.

By all means enlighten the idiots. Start with meshtastic’s weak encryption.

it isn’t really adding anything that can’t also be done on ham.

Encryption, affordability, ease of access.

our local mature club

You meant senior citizens or content?

I can only speak for the US, but our electric grids and production are supposed to be air gapped for critical infrastructure.

Do oil pipelines count? 'Cos Colonial got hacked and everybody thought they were airgapped.
I think some water facility was too but no serious values were changed - 'cos and admin preferred to sit comfy at home.

I wonder if that fancy bed company that saw it’s beds freeze 'cos no AWS ever sold to hospitals…

Props to the wheelchair-bound well-endowed dude if he needs 2 hands to properly jizz.