It's by design.

Once upon a time, the USA had a strong middle class. Billionaires got taxed heavily, and our public schools were the envy of the world. Well funded and produced a lot of great students.

But educated people are difficult to control and even harder to dupe. The GOP realized that if they can gut public education, the masses will become malleable again. Meanwhile, the children of the rich can continue to go to expensive private institutions for their own education. So the rich stay educated, and the poor's go in the gutter.

The uber rich in India are doing ok. It’ll probably be like that. A caste based society

I’d like to see AI sit thru a 90 min retro

Come join us in https://lemmy.zip/c/endeavouros

You have to start somewhere...feel free to start a thread

Done! New updates from Endeavour are now bot posted

I'd be done with new games. Time to bust out the N64 and SNES, fire up some rom hacks on my everdrive.

Retrotink makes boxes that scale them for modern tv’s. Check em out, highly recommend

Oh most perfect! ty Rick !

I think Krita is more natural if you come from an Adobe interface background, but YMMV

That’s a great idea. I’m new here so not 100% on how to spin up a bot; but will look into it

“I think the fact that everything is scarce is fantastic for us”

Little does this joke of a man understand that it’s not all about him.

Windows 11: The worlds premier Sloperating System

The left hand side is whenever I rice a fresh install. The right hand side is whenever I have to edit /etc/fstab

You're correct OP. I think the difficulty of modern times is multifaceted. A lot of other comments here speak to various parts of it these days, but I want to add one I've noticed related to this issue.

Pre mid-2000's, technology worked for us. If you look at the hayday of tech (1980 thru early 2000's), it seemed like every tech innovation was aimed at the consumer. The tech got better and we did too. The tech worked for us.

Nowadays (and I think I can see all this turning course around the time of the 2008 collapse), tech is not for us. The consumer has become the product, and tech is built around working through us instead of for us. Manipulating us instead of helping us. It sucks.

I have no doubt that if the washing machine was invented today instead of like ~100 years ago, they would be the size of car, and only installed in corporate offices. You'd have to go to an office to get your clothes washed. Consumer-level washers wouldn't be a thing. They'd tie it to work like healthcare. It seems like no one is interested in making quality consumer devices. The consumer devices we do have are designed to become obsolete quickly without any repairability, so you buy another fast (i.e. all modern cars).

So yea, I think when you add this on top of everything else, it help explains what is amiss with life today. My 2c

Privacy is about reducing your footprint, not erasing it. We're not spooks. If you use the internet in any kind of capacity, for content, or shopping...there will be some kind of record of you. You just want to reduce it.

Get rid of noscript. 99% of the internet needs javascript to work. Stick with Librewolf or some kind of Firefox based browser using UBlock Origin. If your super strict Librewolf settings are breaking certain sites, ease up on them until you find it tenable. You don't need Tor. Tor has always been slow.

Get an extension called Privacy Badger.

Two things you should do that wasn't mentioned in your OP:

1. Manage your own DNS. I use Technitium, but AdGuard and PiHole are 2 other options that do the same thing. Managing your own DNS is a big privacy win especially when you're not on a VPN.
2. Buy a domain to manage your email. Using the same email address on different accounts is a big privacy issue. Companies hash emails and pass them around. So if you use your email address for an account on Company X site, and also on Company Y. Y can send X a hash of your email, and they can see that you have accounts on sites X & Y. And then boom, serve you ads related to them.

If you have an domain associated with an email, you can create addresses at will when you make accounts. So in this scenario, you'd have [email protected], and [email protected]. The hashes wouldn't match. And if you only use that email for that one site, you'll never be cross-referenced.

you would. the alternative would be a vpn when you're on the go

travel router. I use this one. Though the right travel router will depend on your home network configuration.

Thanks so much! Great info. I had a question - can I group communities together into a custom feed? I can currently view all subscribed on my Home feed. But if I have , for example, 6 news communities, can I group them into a single “MyNews” style feed?