better to keep track of a ton of torrents and seed the ones that go completely dead

us food safety gore

day trading has more tax

And cache

There are way more companies who want to text-mine user content than there are blind people using the internet to read my content.

Not perfect:
But here are some ideas.

• reddit (tor)
• wikipedia (tor)
• certain niche direct sources (tor)

More ideal ideas:

• certain specific private source (maybe tor). Not reliable but high quality.
• large collection of raw links ( requires labor, skill. And yields imperfect results )
• searx ( mainly to share with friends and as a fallback. it is a pretty great premade metasearch engine when selfhosted)
• ready-to-go foss searchengine implementations. (Limited in scope, requires decent amount of “labor” and time. Requires setup phase and light maintaining. Extremely high quality results. Optionally invest money in various ways to supercharge. Perhaps recruit collaborators)

other stuff:

• creating private collections and bookmarks
• not using internet or using rarely or using in cautious way. Or not using www.
• focusing on distracting self with hands-on projects.

What am i actually using at this point? (Nothing is set up currently!).

• Sometimes i use tor 70% of the time. Sometimes i use tor 30% of the time.
• very frequently non www .
• duckduckgo when needed. [Often] without visiting the links
• niche sources (2, …)
• reddit

*this isnt perfect! but i think overall i think i dont spend much time traveling to websites for info.

Historically:

• searx
• searchengine
• dabble in scaling.

Future:

• selfhost
• scaling
• further isolation
• IRL
• other stuff. such as creating new solutions.

There is certainly room for immediate improvement here.
Im just lazy.

I dont need the internet as much as the internet needs me.

how do these two birds interact in the first place?

i have heard it suggested that it could be national goverment who did this. so that means it could be israel, america, or china, etc .
i view this as potentially very well funded governments vs ordinary people. we never stood a chance.

i used luckypatcher a long time ago. it was cool how i could remove ads from certain apps.(leaves big ugly red X)

zsh if you can survive configuring it

i think the concept of “donation” is a relevant piece of this puzzle.

you can run tor on it

"New data published by Canadian broadband management company Sandvine reveals that cloud storage, YouTube, and other apps have taken over. "

flatpak is about permission:
https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal

the fact that gtk, qt, firefox pull in a hundred deps is their own problem.
not a problem per se…

ask software to install itself twice and it becomes noticable how enormous the code is.

rfc didnt seem so bad to me. but im a hobbyist

can anyone recommend a tool to parse xml?

[a killer cantaloupe has entered the chat]

thats kinda true. (even excluding gemini lynx user like myself) comps and phones have reached overkill for most users. therefore sff is totally fine for most users.
truth is… only reason i dont have a bigger pc is that i want flexibility to move apt if my landlord raises rent. thats literally the only reason.
otherwise i would have dual socket, 8 sticks memory, full sized gpu, etc.
i dont mind not having all that. although, it could be used for something… currently it would be used for nothing.

i dont think alot of ppl need a super small comp. it comes with disadvantages. harder or more limited upgrades.

my guess is: quadrennial lenovo usff/sff . the intel nuc is nice&easy to uprade the limited set of parts for ultra longterm use.