Daniel @daniel@campduffel.social

Just signed up for RonPaulCurriculum.com
I have no idea if I'm getting a good deal yet, but thought the risk might be worth it. I will update on my findings. How crazy am I?

@Citizenzibb@fosstodon.org @maxamillion You're not wrong. I think the devices you want are coming or can be MacGyver'ed together. The real problem are the ecosystems that have become pervasive throughout society and the world. Even if we get the devices we want, it will be, "Play by our rules or you get cut off" from the vast majority of the net and businesses who are all in on these ecosystems. It's what is happening with these cashless businesses and credit card companies. My money is no good?

@Floppy Here is Tolkien reading it!

@maxamillion a Linux tablet with enough horsepower could do a lot, especially if connecting it to keyboards and monitors was easy. Still would want a NAS of some kind.

Hot!

One of my favorite underrated movies, and in light of recent events maybe a little appropriate. When I used to hang out with my grandfather as a kid doing Ham radio, he really taught me the value in communication. Nowadays we take it for granted, Fediverse included.

FYI, Paul Harrell has a great YouTube channel if you want to educate yourself on firearms.
https://youtu.be/cdxKZzRi-JI

Just woke up from a crazy dream where @Gargron had set up a James Hallidayesque competition on the Fediverse and me and the friends were having a great time...then Heidi woke me up🙂

"The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse."

R.I.P. Russell Kirsch

@Citizenzibb@fosstodon.org I think he did design and launch some satellites one episode...

@Citizenzibb@fosstodon.org Maybe our good friend Elon can beat them back a little with Starlink! People like him are our best hope of getting out of this mess.

@jonah One thing I liked a lot about Ronald Reagan was that he tried to educate himself and tested his beliefs before just spouting them off. Regardless of where you stand on his other policies, I think that was a good one.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011WADF12/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_Q1mnFbD556AV4

@Citizenzibb@fosstodon.org I've been backing Purism and Librem 5 for a while now. Not sure if it will amount to much, but dang we NEED some options in the mobile space. It is a high barrier of entry space and I think they're doing as good of job as can be expected for their size. #Purism #Librem5