Why not trade the illusion of digital control for actual peace, get a dumb phone, a CD player, and check out books, movies, music, and games from the library as my entertainment?

You can do this, while also choosing to use some self-hosted services or internet-services that work for you.

$20 is not a lot of money but there are people who can’t afford it anyway

Then they can’t afford a phone or monthly service plan or really any communication devices at all.

Unless you live in an overpopulated area it will be pretty hard to find someone else using that kind of device

Literally designed for rural areas with poor cell service.

it don’t have a real application

Wait the real application that I use to communicate with and manage my node doesn’t exist?

supposing someone make a business and start deploying the system for money

Yeah except this tech is already used with all kinds of smart and IoT devices.

Meshtatic radios are very cheap, about $20. It’s one of their main drivers of their popularity.

To use these kind of devices you need at least two people using it.

🤣🤣🤣 A communications device that requires a receiver and a sender??? Oh, how useless!

There’s over 300 meshtastic radios in my area.

So… just like… KDE?

Not that it is designed for it but it is a similar workflow and should be familiar to Windows users

Ha, my system is exactly identical! I really have no reason to upgrade, besides maybe 5950X/5900XT for more cores for compiling software (I run Gentoo on it).

My 6900XT is a slightly-cheaper-than-6950XT frankenstein with the 6950XT full chip but 6900XT clocked VRAM. It’s so efficient. The fans don’t even spin for some games. There’s nothing it can’t play at max settings, but I’m also rendering at 1600x1200 (or less for specific older titles) on a CRT.

I think I must have got it on sale or a very low point. Definitely was a nice upgrade! I had been non-seriously looking at 5950X or 5900XT as a sidegrade but I can’t really justify that cost for something that is not a substantial upgrade, and now they seem to be totally out of stock anywhere I look. Oh well!

True, however TLS does not encrypt the hostname/IP address of the servers that you are connecting to, so your ISP can monitor the servers you visit. A VPN provides an encrypted tunnel for your traffic, so your ISP can only see that you are communicating with the VPN server. However, the VPN provider can see the hostname/IP of the servers in order to forward the traffic to its destination.

Ideally the VPN provider does not monitor or keep logs of the connections, but this is not always the case. A VPN offers privacy from the ISP or from other clients connected to the local network when using public WiFi.

It can also provide some level of anonymity, because the server that you are connecting to will only be able to see the VPN IP address connecting to them, instead of your home IP address. It is possible to still be identified by other means besides your IP address, like using cookies or browser fingerpinting.

Way too late

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I imagine there would be regulations preventing one single individual billionaire from pre-purchasing 40% of the global supply of RAM.

Lol what?? 5800X3D was like $250 when I bought mine. I wouldn’t say it was cheap but its defintely not a “money is no issue” kind of number.

Edit: alright rereading your comment, you were probably talking about people who want to buy a 5800X3D right now with today’s price, and not just anyone who was ever in the market for 5800X3D-level CPUs

Nah, the printing press doesn’t threaten the water supply.

It basically already is

Why wouldn’t it?

There are times I can be “sucked into” a book. I’m in there, seeing the story like its real. I forget about everything else momentarily. Very jarring when my concentration is broken, and suddenly I remember who/where I am.

Also once had the classic “dreaming in code” when stuck on a programming project in school. Words can’t properly describe the experience, besides I was dreaming in code. I shot out of bed and immediately typed up the working solution to the problem I was stuck on.

Not a deepfake; not misinformation; not trying to disguise itself as an authentic, serious artistic work; not an ad; not taking your job

Just a simple meme that was once a dream

Buy one (you now have 1 stuffed animal), get one (you now have 2 stuffed animals)

4 pints (16 ounces) priced at $5 each

https://archive.org/details/epstein-pdf