Fuck yeah! Finally we won't be the overlooked generation...just like how our parents overlooked us...
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Plus credit cards were not as ubiquitous as they are now back in '83. Credit and debit cards facilitated online shopping greatly.
Explain to me how crops of any appreciable size are being grown in the shade and harvested around solar panels? This sounds like feel good baloney to me, but what do I know. I only spent several years as a teen while growing up on a farm and currently homestead.
Uh, it's far worse. That's a mere 9k transactions. According to https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_transactions_per_day 12/3/23 had about 71k transactions. So bitcoin is using 7x the water that all the golf courses in Utah use. So in one day Bitcoin used as much water as Utah golf courses use in a week. Low point for this year was around 19k transactions. So still 2 days worth of Utah golf courses.
Can you show us on the doll where it touched you?
If they find your coded diary, they are just going to torture you until you reveal how to decipher it if they have even a remote reason to suspect you. Everyone thinks they're a tough guy until they're waterboarded or they have their fingernails or teeth pulled out with a pair of channel locks. Everyone breaks under torture. The idea that someone can last until they're killed is a Hollywood fantasy for action films.
The idea that governments are going to expend valuable resources like learned individuals or AI to crack some individual's code is just Hollywood thinking. If you're a suspect, the government will monitor you. If you do anything to make them up their suspicion, they will bring you in. They aren't going to spend untold amounts of money deciphering every suspect's diaries or writings. They'll just torture it out of you, either physically(fastest) or mentally.
And let's just put this out there - if some desperate person fingered you for being whatever, having anything written in code is as good as being guilty to them. You will not return to your previous life. At best you'll be released and monitored till the government tires of you or it falls. The latter is no guarantee it will end. Just because the government might be replaced doesn't mean that those taking over will view any more favorably. After all, if you were deemed to be a security threat before, what makes you think they won't take that to heart. Once deemed a security threat you will always be a security threat, even to those who you may identify with.
I think you're overestimating what governments like this have. What is more likely is that the government will just snatch up someone who knows the the made up language, torture it out of them, and then go from there. Far less resource intensive than having departments to decipher coded language.
You can run the android version or use the Linux VM. Neither are great but are workable. Unless they've changed it recently, you can also dual boot them and run Linux off an external drive.
I'd honestly say skip the Chromebook, get an older used laptop that is known to be fully supported by Linux, install a lightweight distro, and off you go if all Grandma needs is a web browser. Older used laptops are usually far better powered than a cheap Chromebook for the same price anyways. Plus it fights e-waste.
A further option is to do adblocking at the router or through the computer's own networking system or something like a Pihole. These all come with their own pros and cons.
Not by a large margin, though.
Drive Offensively! Time to mount a surplus .50-caliber machine gun on my Chevy.
What the old internet did was keep your interests partitioned. You could be a well respected Pokemon fan while at the same time being a beloved member of a local white supremacist group. Without the partitioning people are more likely to allow themselves to be seen as who they are as a whole. By social media enveloping multiple interests and people not wanting to maintain a separate identity for each interest, you get people who share a great recipe but are known to be a huge misogynist. Call me crazy, but I'd rather know more about the person I'm getting information from. What they do beyond a shared interest informs me as to how trustworthy they are a person and whether I want to support them and be associated with them.
Repartitioning the internet is not a solution. I keep seeing it touted as the rose-colored glasses nostalgia that it is. This example is no different. I feel it all boils down to wanting everyone to sit around their own campfires where they can sing kumbaya together while ignoring the ones who are wanting to strip others of their rights. The history of humanity is our steady stripping away these partitions, not putting them up.
Wow. it is rare you see such a severe case of head-up-my-own-assitis in a single sentence. Seriously. Then you come in here acting like your farts don't stink and look down on everyone who does reply and disagrees with you.