Hardened Firefox, here I come.

I really hope the GrapheneOS team succeed. Custom ROMs are reason I’m really into tech today. Coding, FOSS, Linux, etc. all that came from rooting my dad’s HTC phone back in the day. Google shouldn’t cannibalize its children.

As much as I to be optimistic, I doubt this will pass. So long as Wall Street is still a thing don’t expect any sort of regulations. Continue to buy second-hand, OEM unlocked phones on eBay.

Hackers are the only saving grace in this increasingly dystopian world.

Best ways to circumvent this:

1. Buy a pre-2000s car. Sure, cars were going high tech before but this was long before IoT became a thing.

2. Ditch the car all together and get into to cycling and e-bike culture.

We will miss you. We won’t let those corporate egomaniacs take over.

I don’t want Congress raising our nation’s children. They always use their “protect children” dog whistle to cause panic and yet get nowhere. Parents should really stop asking the government to raise their children for them.

Couldn’t agree more. Nothing replaces the feel of holding a book.

“My engine is augmented”

The shit you must see on a daily basis. I hope everything is going well for you.

Even then I’ll still pirate

In the first forum post, the user having the same problem as I didn’t have base-devel installed and presumably neither did I. I go to intall and it returns this error:

archlinuxfr.db failed to download error: failed retrieving file 'archlinuxfr.db' from repo.archlinux.fr : The requested URL returned error: 404 error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)

The second forum suggest that I have to compile ZMusic. I do that and get this error:

fatal: destination path 'ZMusic' already exists and is not an empty directory. mkdir: cannot create directory ‘ZMusic/build’: File exists VGM/GYM: Nuked OPN2 emulator will be used CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message): Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing: PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE) Call Stack (most recent call first): /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:600 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE) /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:99 (find_package_handle_standard_args) thirdparty/fluidsynth/src/CMakeLists.txt:157 (find_package)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! make: Makefile: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target 'Makefile'. Stop.

Tried it. Everything was good until it returned a couple of errors.

First:

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message): Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing: PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE) Call Stack (most recent call first): /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:600 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE) /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:99 (find_package_handle_standard_args) thirdparty/fluidsynth/src/CMakeLists.txt:157 (find_package)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... -> Failed to install layer, rolling up to next layer.error:error making: zmusic - exit status 4

Second: Same as the first one

Third:

==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies. -> error making: gzdoom-exit status 8 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required: zmusic - exit status 4 gzdoom - exit status

I’m trying to reduce my car dependency and go car-free eventually but If I had to buy one more car it would be a pre-1995 Toyota pickup.

If there’s one I’ve learned after being on the internet for 17 years, it’s this; you can throw an entire mountain of evidence at a conspiracy theorist and they STILL won’t believe you.

Use Invidious/yewtu.be instead of Youtube itself

Switch to either Brave or Librewolf

Use archive.is (or archive.ph) to view websites locked behind a paywall or email block

Tell friends and family to share said content in person

Fear not my friend! We can take back the Internet by refusing Big Tech’s services.

I’m glad that last week I decided to ditch Youtube proper and use the Invidious frontend instead.