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Amazon ships the exact same fare of electronics. If it serves of any consolation…

If you have a laptop, there are small USB tv tunners available. If not, a smarphone can access a good deal of content. And depending on what country you are, you might have access to your national channels (open signal ones) over the net.

For the rest: Aaaaarrrr, me ladies! May the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster fill our sails and set our course for rich waters!

If you manage to have access to AliExpress, you can have it shipped.

When that is not an option, a big computer screen and a tv card.

Solution: get a dumb tv

You asked a question, I’m in the obligation of answering it.

I am aware that what I am about to write is going to make ne sound, to say the least, a bit paranoid but it is how I opted to navigate in the current computer crazed world, where personal convenience is a default argument.

I distrust anything I can’t have a certain degree of control over. I don’t use cloud services (it’s someone else’s computer, not mine), I don’t use Google Maps, Android Auto, Speech Recognition, backup services, etc. I also kneecap as far as I am capable to the convenience services in my phone and when I manage to get a phone I can load with a non-Google OS, I will. I do without and I am happy as it is.

Regarding passwords, I do not use password managers. At best, I’ll use my browser to store a few and even then only if its low risk accesses. The rest I commit to memory and paper. It doesn’t slow or hinder my daily life, I’m a functional member of society and deal daily with people that would consider me unbalanced if I told them the extensions I go to in order to preserve a small amount of my privacy.

I don’t evangelize. If it works for others, good for them. I does not for me.

You trust credencials to Google?

Because real dogs refuse the job.

Oh. That one.

Which one?

That had Monthy Python vibes.

Memes come and go too fast for that.

This is what I call a master class on starting a soft revolution: you take over a symbol of the opposite ideology, in the most outrageous and ridiculous way, make it known to all, and completely subvert it and deconstruct it, piece by piece, until it stops making any sense to its former self.

Somebody help get my ideas straight on this one, please.

To my knowledge, Bing and Google search engine are the default options available out there, to the point other search services relay service from those, give or take a few tweaks (DuckDuckGo, Startpage, etc).

Now lets remove those from the picture and what is left?

I read a post yesterday announcing Ecosia amd Qwant were joining efforts to build a fully european search engine (hopefully, yes, but I’m not holding my breath on it). Maybe that is an option. But what else?

At some point it just makes more sense to run emulators, like it is already done with the classic gaming consoles.

Ideally, we would get a push to release source after a given time, in order to have true conservation efforts.

7 Kingdoms had its source released and was almost instantly ported to run natively on Linux. And from someone who played that game as a teen and truly enjoyed it, I admit it’s not that much of a game! There are thousands of titles that deserve this attention.

Off the top of my head I can think of:

• Black&White
• The Punisher (this title was even censored due to graphical content)
• the original Starcraft and Warcraft
• Pharaoh
• Anno 1602 (I am aware a FOSS “clone” exists)
• Evolva
• Syndicate

I could go on forever…

Yes, please.

Whoever voted for that guy now gets to enjoy his (hopefully short) mandate and whatever “unforeseen” backlash they get from it.

All the rest get to cry and fight for the reestablishment of a democratic regime.

Don’t call it a hammer. It’s universal key: it can open what is closed, close what is open, loose what is tight, tighten what is loose.

If on one side I feel a good degree of enthusiasm to see Europe get off its ass and do something in the means of establishing more web services on european soil, on the other side I really don’t have much hope of seeing that much of a result coming forth.

Can someone remember StumbleUpon? It was more effective at listing and divulging web content than search engines.

At this point, I think having a huge listing of websites, where one could sign up their site or or have it signed automatically when then registering it, would be more efficient than relying on a handful of search engines.

Simple. Most FOSS are built for privacy and thus do not harvest data to send to some server somewhere in the world for whatever obscure reason. The data is locally stored on your device and stays and dies there.

No callback, no selling nor surrending data.

Personally speaking, I’d quicker have all data banks destroyed than surrendered to whatever purposes, if I ever decided to build an aplication that somehow compiled data.

It’s amazing, isn’t it?

Isn’t this an extreme security issue for companies?