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When you read the room and see how much of a failure modern technology is, you got to back to basics. This is those that are dependent on smart technology and such.

Relevant links:
Relevant links:
https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/your-tv-is-secretly-watching-you-heres-how-to-stop-it
https://uslawexplained.com/terms_of_service
https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/federal-car-surveillance-mandate-2027-nhtsa-dadss-privacy-2026/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/text

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Singer: 1-800-474-6437
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madarao (4 weeks ago)
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Computers and the internet are not the problem, and abandoning them is not a practical solution. There is an entire movement https://www.fsf.org/ dedicated to providing people with access to computer software that they control. Hardware is a little more uncertain but not as big of a deal depending on what all you're doing with it. You can get by with a computer that's decades old most of the time, and if you can't you can usually hack the firmware of newer computers to remove any glowy bullshit from their chipset.

I have a degoogled phone with messaging that I self-host, a car from pre-2014 without a remote shutoff switch, and my computer runs a software environment (kernel, GUI, libraries) that are entirely at my whim. I got rid of systemd a couple months ago. There's nothing on my computer that lets anyone besides me tell it what to do. I have Blu-Ray cracking software and I have backups of everything I've ever played, watched or listened to ready to copy again and again.
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madarao (4 weeks ago)
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@SkibidiCoffee honestly i can live without youtube, i know quite a few people who do. I choose to continue using it (with AdNauseum + no paid plan, just to spite the AdSense system) since it's not as aggressively infectious as something like discord, but i don't really miss out on much without it. invidious has never worked well for me, I just use yt-dlp or one of its terminal frontends if the youtube site with all its ads is too much. I'm glad that "embed ads into the video thing" seems to have been scrapped, but i'm sure google'll wave that out there again sometime soon...

while we're on the topic, always save shit you watch online if you like it, and keep them organized. i'm always surprised by how suddenly some videos will just disappear and nobody will have backed them up. that stuff is our history
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SkibidiCoffee (4 weeks ago)
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@madarao I mean with vidlii and also how much content gets dumped on rumble and odysee and bitchute I probably could live without YouTube while still having my internet habits mostly the same. I remember a time when I fully quit YouTube for a few days in like march 2023 and just watched everything on odysee and it was fine since alot of YouTubers just dump their shit on odysee as a backup Incase they get banned off YouTube.

I already use vidlii way more then YouTube like even just refreshing the vidlii pages and looking at my friend's channels to see any updates or new videos I can spend hours just scrolling on vidlii and looking at channel pages and reading comments. Like I spend more time using vidlii then watching YouTube unless you count shorts then maybe it evens out but long form YouTube I use vidlii way more
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SkibidiCoffee (4 weeks ago)
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Main concern I have is that video itself as a medium. You need a harddrive or CD or the internet with the video and a PC/phone to access it. Like with books. You can just look at it to consume but video you always need other technology to access it so it's way easier to lose. Even vhs tapes you need another device to access it.

Only solution to this I can think of is actual film because you can view the physical frames of a video on film without any equipment or electricity or you can make a simple projector that's easy to make to view it. Like I imagine historians in 2300 would have a hard time accessing our vidlii and YouTube videos because they don't have the devices that could read mp4 files meanwhile books. As long as they aren't damaged you can view them thousands of years from now perfectly fine if they stay in good condition
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SkibidiCoffee (4 weeks ago)
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Honestly if the whole internet became id verification even vidlii i think people should just start having underground clubs where they share info by talking but also newspaper and maybe CDs for music and videos.
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