Whoops, you’re right. Sorry, my Canadian is showing. Tbf, American politics has always been a necessary thing to know about here.

Anyone think it’s weird the Republicans would choose an animal associated with Africa and the Indian subcontinent?

And people wonder why I hate our species. Thanks for confirming it, I’m going to go get hit by a freight train because we are doomed.

And both of you are being fucking assholes on the internet. This is what I hate the Fediverse userbase for, shit like this. Ffs, shut up!

Fact is, Windows is being purposefully turned into a surveillance tool. Fact is, Linux sucks.

The former is undeniable, and EVERYONE should be using Linux because of that.

The latter is true because it took me TWO DAYS to set up Linux Arch and most people who own a desktop PC are professionals using it for work who don’t have two days to set up an OS or search for one that has minimal setup.

But let’s assume Arch Linux is being used for the other main Windows use, for gaming. If that’s the case, buying one means you value time more than money, and if you’re building a gaming PC, you value getting what you asked for over ideology.

Any other Linux OS is subpar for gaming except in niche scenarios where you’ll be on Steam and only Steam.

In short, we’re fucked. We can’t use Windows or Linux. Fuck Microsoft, fuck Trump, and fuck both of you. GO AWAY.

Oddly, GPS is something I trust more than modern alternatives. GPS might be USAF’s doing, but they specifically made it open use and self-locating. While modern smartphones, unfortunately, have a shitton of snooping with GPS, the concept requires no such transmission: Your GPS device triangulates it’s own position based on the signal strength of the orbiting satellites, and displays a marker on a map.

Meanwhile, several American corporate competitors exist that, and the Chinese GPS-ish system also, requires internet to determine location based on data that should remain private.

Well, it’s exactly that in technical terms, yes. Somehow, “complementary games included (subject to limited-time redeemability on a monthly basis) each month you subscribe” is not as marketable from Amazon as from Humble Bundle. Privacy is becoming serious business now that things outside the gaming industry are becoming… a game of chance? Eh, whatever, I’m not here for politics and this seems like an okay way to buy GOG titles.

The Broligarchy: “Everything.”

Me: Squints Pours glowing demon tanning lotion on ground

Trump: “You dare dispute my rule?! And you would have these… mongrels… come here to die?”

Open Source Metaverse online. Launching Anti-StarLink missiles…

Warning. FOSS Metaverse alternative launch detected.

The Broligarchy: “This was not how it was supposed to be…”

Me: “Times change. But war, war never changes.”

…

“We will never be slaves. But we WILL be online. For the Open Source Metaverse we deserve!”

Anyway, hopefully that’s the real future in some sense. The metaverse is, technologically, in a state resembling 1995’s World Wide Web. We can stop the changes that made social media happen the first time, but that comes at a grave cost of it’s own… Zero tolerance for interference with the FOSS paradigm. This means no censorship even for the most vile of content, and no government authority over online activity ever again. It also means we have less than 150 years to become immortal because having children inherently puts kids at risk of sexual exploitation, so everyone - literally everyone - must be made infertile permanently to make that impossible.

Life extension is actually plausible, and omnispermicide would make denying it a war crime. That is the only fix I can see, but all of you would never pay it. That is why I stopped writing; every goddamn story and society at large championed “anti-escapism” in 2017 and onwards, and I will NEVER forgive you all for that. Fuck reality. I Have No Truth and I Must Dream. I want to die because I hate you all.

I did all of this and it didn’t fucking help.

GIVE ME BACK MY INTERNET, THE INTERNET BEFORE SOCIAL MEDIA, OR I’LL HATE YOU ALL FOREVER! FUCK REDDIT, FUCK THE FEDIVERSE, FUCK EVERYTHING YOU BASED THE MODERN INTERNET ON. I WANT A PLACE WHERE I CAN BE MY REAL SELF AND I WILL KILL TO GET IT BECAUSE THE REST OF YOU ALREADY FUCKING HAVE THAT.

You missed a category.

Child Safety

It is impossible to prevent information taken without the approval of society at large from being uploaded online, as privacy is guaranteed. This means CSAM is a regular occurrence. Tracking or blocking the content based on any factor whatsoever is impossible.

This includes information most people are not comfortable with being held back only by the potential of a NSFW tag and censor.

While your child is no longer liable to become a disposaperson officially, as they would in a world without privacy, children find themselves completely insulated from society as black market trade of human slaves rapidly grows, with children sadly fetching a higher price and becoming regular targets for kidnappings.

Unable to keep up with the inevitable arms race, parents become increasingly desperate. The need for privacy, now a liability, either collapses to pressure or doubles down.

If it caves to political pressure, congratulations. Your children are doomed to be disposapeople. I agree, a world with no privacy is a dystopia and that will happen if a backlash is successful.

If it doesn’t, society moves to reclassify children as slaves because no effort is able to protect the naive even if their naivety is just innocence that arises from lack of adult traits. The black market is either too powerful to stop, or the very same cause of it’s existence guarantees that absolute privacy means potential normalization of the sexual exploitation of children to an amount proportionate to the efforts made to stop the exploitation.

Oh, and politicians will still buy your kidnapped kids to be slaves on a private island because humans can’t be trusted as individuals any more than corporations, government or religion.

Now you know why I hate you all. No matter what, none of you care about any child and you never did. All you ever cared about was feeling like you were a good person for following society’s expectations.

The only way this ends is with Autosovereigncy, or in layman’s terms, “we have to build the UnMatrix - the Matrix but minus the people farming and with us able to create our own worlds in it - and trap ourselves in it permanently separated because reality is a monstrocity that should not be”. If that’s even possible. The fact it’s probably not means reality is predisposed to be as painful as possible no matter what we do and I refuse to let anyone delude themselves into forgetting that just so they can preach about whatever they consider a solution.

And no, this isn’t Nihilism or Misanthropy. Even a Nihilistic person is selfish. Misanthropes think machines or nature are better. I’m well beyond that. I’m an anti-ontonomist, I desire the cessation of existence. I don’t care anymore, as long as whatever happens kills everything, I am happy to light 10 more fires every time someone complains that Rome is burning.

Eh, I’ll take it if we’re talking about actual donkeys and not the Republican party of the US. Did you that, in lieu of a dog, a donkey is a perfect way to protect livestock?

I’m serious, a predator should think twice; A donkey can grab a cougar’s tail and literally beat it to death by using the wildcat as a living flail. Very protective.

That’s fair, just realize some of us are tired of online pessimism to such a degree that an AI - telling me there are in fact potential solutions and to keep trying - is actually good for our mental health. I only use Perplexity for research and musings that I sometimes post here to be discussed, not to completely replace human interaction on the Fediverse.