It’s one of the opening events of the Summer of Ludd, a weeklong series of talks and activities like how to flirt and date offline, mending, and learning to fight against data centers, all focused on getting people off their phones and into community.

Somewhat paradoxically, I hope they film and post these somewhere so that people like me who can’t afford to travel can still benefit from the knowledge. Like, I know how to flirt and date offline (actually don’t know how to online) but am too neurodivergent to understand where is appropriate now beyond bars (since I stopped Honky Tonkin’ that is), mending is useful af and I could use improvement over my current skillset, fuck a goddamn data center, and I struggle to find cool things/events in my community now that everything is on facebook (beyond nature, but nature is a solitary pursuit and not conducive to meeting anyone besides other stoners, not that I’m complaining too hard but I don’t only like other stoners.)

I’m somewhat of a luddite myself, but still recognize the value of the internet in spreading information (like posting the videos of those talks) and communication (which is just packet radio assisted by infrastructure, really).

A dude I know lit off a smoke bomb in the school bathroom “back in the day” and almost got me charged with Arson (I ain’t no goddamn snitch).

Point is that isn’t new, it has been a “bad idea” since the 90s.

Go with the old classic “ketchup packets folded up under the feet on the toilet seat” instead. Less criminal.

Yes, but I’d still prefer not to have to spend the like ~2h reinstalling and replacing my files.

That said this seems like a pretty low stakes trial which is why I’m looking at it first. Worst case a reboot (or recovery through live booting) should fix most issues, I think, if I understand correctly. I don’t plan to autostart the docker container so if it fucks my system up a reboot should put me back to normal if starting it breaks my sys right?

I do have some old laptops and an unopened router waiting for me to figure out openWRT. I could install some linux OS (deb?) on one of those and use that for docker, get off my ass and install openWRT on the router, and then use that to connect both devices (and I’d have to figure out which to hotspot but that is easy), if that’d be significantly safer for my daily driver. Then I’d have to figure out how to point my browser to that too though.

Thank you! I’ll check out the docker docs before I try spinning this up as my first trial run!

Same here lol, I will for sure!

Awesome, thank you for the help/info! This seems like a good first step, I’ll try it out!

Awesome thanks for all the help and info, I’ll definitely check it out! I think this will be a nice step to help teach me these concepts and get me to the other projects!

So I have an interest in self hosting things in the future (nextcloud, chatmail), but for now I’m scared of opening my network to attacks, and also I don’t have a network right now I just hotspot from my phone when needed and torrent things at my friend’s house.

That said how would I go about using this? I’m guessing something to do with docker or porteus (maybe? The other one that wasn’t vulnerable to that recent thing), then when I want to check out X website I just “spin up the docker container” (still not 100% what that means but I’ve heard the verbiage), hotspot the pc (for now), and run it through the program? Am I understanding that right?

Sorry I’m so green, gotta start somewhere! I feel like a grandma calling an Xbox a “Nintendo” haha.

Does anyone know how to download content off those weird Roku channels? I’d like to download a bunch of stuff off of one before they (I assume) shut it down.

Well humor is subjective, but beyond how I feel personally, uhhh yeah people do it all the time and it never gets called out as body shaming or any such thing, nobody cares. Bald, fat, ugly, small dick, all are fair game, especially if you have at least one other undesirable trait. Andrew Tate is balding, Trump is fat and has a little dick, anyone who has a large vehicle also has a small dick, anyone who owns guns has a small dick, the British have a small dick, etc, it’s everywhere and everyone else seems to love it.

By far. Such a disappointment.

And Fallout 4 was the same, fight me (probably not you “fight me,” I bet you agree based on your TES opinions.)

Honestly I’m inclined to agree with that, and that’s my problem with it. It shouldn’t be the most interesting part but since everything else was so boring it ended up that way.

The major disappointment was that after III and IV had such rich lore and worlds, but by V they must have fired the guy that could write. Having seen what they could do vs what they released was just sad.

Not even just “they don’t adapt,” Skyrim’s side quests might as well not exist they’re so damn boring. “Oohhh a race war” who cares I want to steal cool and varied stuff!

The expansion helped for sure, Shiv Isles.

True though it was for sure smaller (unless you ever tried to “no fast travel” rule yourself then you’ll find out how big it is real quick lmao), but (and I concede Morrowind is just better, it just is there’s no way around it), but while Skyrim was large, effectively “who cares” because it was empty and dull and drab and gray. Cyrodiil is smaller but it’s absolutely gorgeous and vibrant throughout (even in the snow covered regions so that’s no excuse.)

Furthermore, my fundamental issue with Skyrim is the quests are just…dull. The main line is ok (Oblivion’s was better and Morrowind’s better still), but the side quests are abject dogshit, and the side quests historically were my favorite part. I stole a goddamn Elder Scroll, I snuck past every Ancestor Moth, I became the mother fucking Gray Fox, and in skyrim “hey you remember that same dumb silver vase you stole from one dickhead’s house? Steal it again from another dickhead’s house. Gray Fox? Whodat?” I loosened the bolts on a man’s stuffed moose after sneaking through his crawlspace to avoid his paid security, and got a bonus for it, and eventually became The Speaker. In skyrim “go kill that guy. Cool do it again.” The most memorable part of The Brotherhood in skyrim was from oblivion, by Lucian Luchance’s ghost.

I’m gonna be real, I kinda didn’t like skyrim and don’t think I’ll get 6. I’ll replay the oldies. My only real complaint with Morrowind is beast races can’t wear helmets and boots (I understand “human ones wouldn’t fit” but think given their existence in-lore it would make sense for them to have seen humans wearing them and gone “hey let’s do that for our shape.” I do however accept that the Cats and Lizards might still not though, Argonians being newly freed and technologically behind, and the Kitties need their claws but should have helmets, even if only leather.) My only real complaint with Oblivion is I wish they’d have left a bunch of shit from Morrowind like crossbows etc.

So is Oblivion, though in terms of “better” it belongs in the middle spot it happens to occupy numerically as well.

Though tbf “underage people sharing nudes with each other on snapchat and looking at porn” doesn’t necessarily mean you have to kill the children immediately, you can give them some time.

Besides, it’s “you have three months to create and implement code that tracks the ages of all your users and all activity across all apps for the ones under 18, and then use that to stop their cameras from working when nudity detected, and stop their messaging services when nudity detected, and stop their internet when pornography detected.” I don’t think we need the follow up “lethal force engaged” just yet, but you never know they may start blowing up computers like Mossad’s pagers when a kid googles “boobies” soon enough.

But can it be social if there’s no other people? Can one “socialize” with AI?

Depends highly on the city/town, not everywhere is super active 24/7, some cities do sleep.

It also can’t be cleaned off as fast as paint, and costs more to replace.

Or

Put a fucking bullet in it. Or ~100. Birdshot should do nicely.