Go to an electronics recycling center and get a retired thinkpad (or 5). Once they’re decommissioned by corporations, they wipe the drive and send them off to be recycled.

That only works until they find a leftist who is armed and fed up with their shit. Then they take the pine box challenge.

What’s a good VPN service? Is Proton still good?

Last I heard, torrents would leak your actual IP. Has that been fixed?

AI has already stolen everyone’s work. The internet is officially a free for all.

I can’t wait to get a hold of a bunch of cheap TP Link routers. Those things run OpenWRT like champs.

I did it a long time ago. The best time to change was 5-10 years ago. The second best time is now.

It’s time to de-Google, de-amazon, de-Microsoft, de-apple, etc.

Just those crotchety old timers who currently gatekeep the code base.

I borrow them from my library through the Libby and Hoopla apps. If I want to support the author, I’ll buy a copy through some other means. Directly from them, if possible.

We’ve already seen a few crotchety old timers who don’t want to add rust to the Linux kernel.

At some point, a complete rewrite of the kernel in a memory safe language would be prudent. Unfortunately, the dinosaurs will have to go extinct before that can happen.

Except that hard wood has long since turned into coal.