Yep, I’d hope for good new projects where their founding principles are about being against these things. Some people say if you dont like feature X then compile your own distro, which I dont think is a realistic solution for everyone.

Ive always kept an offline copy of anything I cared about, if anything asks for my ID in the future I am definitely doing without or finding an alternative, mass noncompliance is important.

In this scenario I would hope the community takes development and distribution “underground”, but even if such a solution existed it would probably no longer be interoperable with the rest of the worlds locked down garbage.

Sucks though, it’s only a software update away from being national.

Well said. A lot of the freedoms we enjoy are a use it or lose it scenario. For example a business is more likely to stop accepting cash if only 1% of their customers use it, so I still use it even though I would often prefer my card.

Vintage audio equipment. It’s purpose built without gimmicky features, high quality, high performance, and built to last with discrete components and service manuals. Really it doesn’t have to be vintage, but it’s usually the old stuff that prioritizes these traits. I usually play local files (mp3/flac) over a bluetooth DAC but vinyl is fun once in a while. The same living room system gets used for movies and whatever else too.

Great ones, respect.

Same with my car. I think it’s more important than ever to learn how to fix things. “Buy a new one” is becoming less and less viable for certain types of products if you value longevity, privacy, independence, finances, sustainability, etc.

Probably the rock in a shoe trick as well if that’s actually a thing.

You may have bought an expensive camera, and spent a good amount of time honing your skills, that doesn’t mean I’m paying you $6000 for 3 days of work.

I’m not entirely upset at this. It seems like any advances in computing and network speed these days are used as an excuse to collect more data and make software more inefficient. Also from a global warming perspective, if you’re into that, it may be time we start looking at things from a sufficiency standpoint rather than efficiency.

Aside from how the phones actually compare, I think it’d be good to show there is a market for a factory graphene phone. I want companies to see the difference (financially) when they start taking privacy and other pro consumer ideas seriously.

Always good to learn sewing or find a friend that does in this enshittified world

I had the same experience, haven’t gone there in years because why would I pay more than double for the same quality of food as their competitors?

I often add the word “forum” to my searches to help get some actual human discussion instead of ad farming AI slop articles. Seems like the only way to figure things out these days.

I’m leaving any platform that tries this without a second thought. Already left discord. Left reddit and joined here with the account requirement (even though I have an account, just hate the principle).

Suspects picture looks AI generated

Not that I totally trust my phone’s OS, but do you think bluetooth and wifi MACs are discoverable when they are toggled off?

Much appreciated, this is the mentality we need on here

We gotta start getting active in our niches on here

You also don’t have to either? Weird thing to be triggered about.