You can get an entire kick ass 2/3 year old mini PC with everything included for the price of a single RPi4, let alone 5. And you don’t have to buy any kits or expansions to get full functionality.

Oh and that mini PC will have at least 2 - 3 times the specs of the RPi. It’s just not worth it anymore to buy Pis.

Stallman is proven right more and more everyday

Nature is extremely resilient and adaptable. Life has survived entire mass extinctions and come back flourishing

Exactly. Chat Control being rejected is a minor victory unfortunately. There are VERY powerful actors and organizations behind the scenes for these policies.

I think they realized chat control wasn’t going to work, but do not abandon the watch post, they will be back with a different approach.

Governments are inherently authoritarian. Just give it time enough and greed and corruption always surface

Thiel and the Heritage Foundation

It definitely is. And it’s not incompetence or illiteracy, it’s the powerful and government institutions coming after all things privacy, anonymity, and autonomy. I had this gut feeling in summer 2024 that they would eventually attack and functionally ban desktop Linux, BSD, GOS, and other privacy tools. I just didn’t know how at that point.

They’re locking us into their systems, their rules, their information. I implore everyone to look deeper than surface level analyses. If you think they pirated all the information on the global web just to train their AI, you’re missing something. It’s deeper. My theory is eventually, they will lock all hardware and networking to gather information from their sources, and only their sources. They will hold back real information and access to it, while feeding us only what they want the populous to think.

They want us enslaved to them, in body, in mind, in “spirit”, in every way. The rich HATE us and genuinely want nothing but the absolute worst for us. Do not deceive yourself, these people are unimaginably evil and cruel. They want to hunt some of us for sport and feed the enslaved remainder us their delusional version of reality.

This is an attack, it is intentional, it is determined, and it is not stopping unless we stop it.

Also Brave just straight up blocks ads by default across the browser. And it’s a damn good one too

Nanoclaw just came out. Super cool project which isolates the agent in a container, which if you want, you can also put into a VM as well.

Just leave out the ethnic part and you’re right. White billionaires will happily work with Chinese and Russian and Arabic billionaires to fuck over everyone else. Yes, most billionaires are white and there is absolutely an aspect of deep white supremacy to the system in the West, but they just don’t give two fucks about color of skin as long as you have money and power.

That’s why people should use a browser that blocks those trackers.

And yet it has some of the best fingerprint randomization techniques. Down to some insane details. And before you say, just use the Tor browser for that… I do. But that is a different type of resistance, uniformity. Which is great for some use cases, but randomization also works even better in other situations… Eg, personalized browsers with a few extra extensions and customizations.

You can buy second hand! Backmarket, Ebay, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist.

Fascism. The only thing that matters is power and deception.

Nope… This is a person actively choosing comfort over morals and over actual safety.

GrapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS,…

It’s still Android, but it’s built off the open source base of Android.

Nothing will. They’re moving us onto techno feudalism. We won’t earn anything and we’ll be wage slaves if they’re merciful to us, otherwise most people will be in camps and dead, unless we stand up real damn soon .

They’re actively moving away from the bottom 90% of consumers, it’s just not worth it anymore and maybe once it was worth advertising to us, but no longer. The top 10% owns 93% of stocks and control at least 55% of the market revenue as of early 2025, probably closer to 60-65% now, after tariffs, layoffs, and the nonexistent recession We’re all imagining and definitely isn’t real. /s

Do we do cake day comments on lemmy? Whatever. Happy cake day!

I always have my “smart” TV disconnected from internet, and I run my media viewing through the steam deck in desktop mode, but any Linux computer will work just as fine. Then I employ some high sea villainy and boom, set to coast.

Oh I absolutely agree. LLMs are not going to achieve AGI, not even close. I don’t think this AI will replace us, but the ruling class want it to so badly. And they’re looking for ways to develop AGI as quickly as possible or something like it. Still, in the background of all the chatbot noise has been real development on drone ai technology, mechanical robot advancements, and other machine learning.

The reason the wealthy are fine basically burning money to continue developing any form of AI is that they are so excited and ready to hunt us for sport. These people HATE us for just existing in their presence and on “their” world. They don’t care that OpenAI is a money furnace, it has already allowed them to get many of us hooked on AI psychosis, poison internet discourse with propaganda and disinformation, and steal trillions of creative works to hoard and eventually control all information. I think some of them are dumb enough to believe the bs about llms becoming advanced ai ready to replace all of us. But even if not, they still have gained so much out of it.

Still, don’t let yourself believe they’re not working on every possible means to develop ASI/AGI. The fact that we even still have a say over labor and can threaten that against them, is anathema to them. We should be slaves or dead. And we are running out of time to use that labor bargaining chip, after that is gone, only manpower and physical numbers are left, and they control all the militaries and firepower…