You can have a Linux running on a raspberry pi, but you have to build the device yourself. That’s my solution.

GenX here. Never actively used AI and have no intention to ever start. I don’t need it, I have my own intelligence.

When these data centers go bust, there’ll be a flood of hardware to the used market which will crater demand on new stuff. These companies couldn’t shoot themselves in the foot harder.

Then stop pushing updates to Windows?

Don’t forget Microsoft

I view anarchism as a philosophy and lifestyle more than a government or system. Whenever you thwart, resist or defy authority, you are engaging in anarchism. This can’t be a system because it is a negative. It’s a response to power. What you are asking for is egalitarianism, and there are many kinds of egalitarian governance structures that have varying degrees of success. Ostensibly, the US is egalitarian. In practice, not so much.

Be cautious, you are talking to potentially thousands of strangers after all. But the point of social media is to be, well, social, so you have to share something personal to have it be worth someone else’s time. We’re here for connection, don’t let the corporate fascist panopticon steal that from us because we’re too afraid to be genuine.

All of these Big Tech companies are slimy fucks actively working to enslave humanity. There are no good guys. I puked in my mouth watching Tim Cook fawn over Trump. None of these people have a shred of decency. Fuck Apple. Fuck Google. Buy a paper map.

Sometimes you have to change your VPN location to get newpipe to work.

I don’t see how Mississippi or the UK think they can issue laws on sites hosted outside their jurisdiction. That’s just mind boggling. The onus is on the state to provide age verification, or make their ISPs do it.

Then don’t use the apps? Do your banking through the browser.