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All of these machines make for decent Linux laptops. I picked up an EOL Chromebook for $35 last year and installed Debian on it. Decent little machine. Not terribly fast but very useable.

BitTorrent. I only need to share a file once and it could potentially reach millions of people. It's old tech now but it feels like magic to me.

Those people we fired should have to starve to death.
~Elon, Probably

See this is good. The more the fediverse grows the more people find out what us old users have known for years and years:

You don't need to rely on large tech companies. The web is for everyone.

In my head I see them clipping the RSS off. One of the "reasons" for the price hike was to keep AI bots from scraping the site and I assume RSS is one of those ways?

• In cars knobs are better than touch screens.
• VR was a gimmick 20 years ago, VR is a gimmick today.

I kinda have the opposite response. I've been a mostly open source guy for the last 20 years so when I see what kind of half baked proprietary tools people buy I'm always shocked how much money mediocre software costs.

I don't use Google very often anymore, more of a DuckDuckGo fan. However using ChatGPT has become my goto for quick howto stuff. A lot of web searches will load clickbait articles or dead end forums. Using GPT I often get a strait forward guide built for exactly what I need.

F-Droid is where I get 90% of the applications I need however banking and public transit apps are almost never open source. Once in a while I will buy a game or app that is developed does something that I can't get from the community.

This is a bummer. I actually used Aurora to download my paid apps. I would buy on the website and login on my degoogled phone. Now degoogled users will have to just pirate apps they want. So much for supporting small developers.

The fediverse is the future of the web. Reddit has been a massively important part of the modern web experience, but it looks like their pursuit of profits will begin to diminish It's usefulness. Lemmy is slowly filling that void for me. Hopefully it continues to grow and fill that void for others too.