If they're less tech inclined they should use YUNOHOST. Its a Debian based distro thats been around for years. They've got preconfigured packages and everything is done via the webUI. Theres no reason to involve an LLM that frequently gives outdated and bad information.

Yeah you said that, until a doctor hand you a handwritten letter.

"Telling people to use an LLM to figure out how to X is like telling a 16yo to play GTA to learn how to drive" is my new catchphrase, thanks internet person (I presume person, could be mistaken....)

I am and probably always will be a tech enthusiast, but as time goes on I find myself more and more looking for old technology to avoid planned obsolescence, anti-repair bs, telemetry & tracking, lack of consideration for quality of life....

This is not how things were supposed to be. But this is how things will be if we don't do something about oligarchs and certain CEOs.

I get the idea, but I am kinda stuck on the letter writing bit. They do know that the post getting delivered is kinda built on middlemen right?

Weren't those a thing to admire? Chicken scratches on the ground could be more readable.

Luddites got a bad rap from capitalists. The Luddites were not anti-technology, they were against technology destroying people’s jobs. Their whole thing was destroying industrial machinery and sabotaging factories because they were replacing human labor without any alternative in place for the actual people. Hundreds of thousands of people were turned off the land, unemployed, and starving because of greedy capitalists trying to not pay for labor.

If the same people were around today, they’d be trying to blow up AI server farms.

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I'm going to take a risk and say you write faster than you type

I have a very hard time believing this. From some quick googling, it seems that experienced writers can do 40 wpm, which is really slow in comparison to an (even an inexperienced) typer. Also, typing has no risk of being unreadable, unlike writing (e.g. doctor's written notes).

and reaching for a pencil is quicker than launching a program.

Maybe if your computer is really slow.

It was a long time ago I watched an DVD, but I very clearly remember some of them having unskippable ads.

Why self-host messaging when there are so many good options?

Big tech does have consent. They hide it in the TOS that hardly anyone reads.

Technology can develop in various directions. This is exactly what it looks like when technology is developed for consumerism. Buy more now, it doesn't need to last, stimulate the economy. Rent what you can, everything else as a service.

Those things can feasibly be better. I pay the delivery human with anonymous cash once I've got my order. The store has my stuff ready to go right now. The taxi is right here and they're unionized.

Can't dispute file sharing though, analog copies suck.

All my friends chat over our self hosted matrix server. There is always a way.

i wonder whether we will have to seize the means of computer chip production as well ...

I must be imagining all the Governors in the northern states begging us Canadians to start visiting again. Voting with you wallet does work if enough people get on board.

i think these a microprocessors though? no internet access for them.

You’re asking the wrong guy. I don’t think it makes sense either even if I’m a (moderate) self-hosting guy.

I've been wanting to convert my life to "off grid tech". I have a nest camera i bought in 2016. So it's pre Google. Starting about 6 months ago, Google told me unless I allow them full 24/7 access to the cam then I can't use it. A product i bought almost a decade ago is useless unless I let them spy on me. Fuck you Google.

So anyways, off grid tech. Home surveillance on my own local server protected with physical data and VPN. No more streaming, pirate everything with local server. No more Google or Amazon anything. Music? Mp3. Email? No Gmail, maybe Proton or something. I'll do all banking through home desktop through VPN. Etc, etc.

I hope to have all these things achieved by 2030