bobs_monkey

Indeed.

Where to start.. my ideas are focused on being located in a small remote town, so this may not be directly applicable. I've been friendly with most everyone I've met here since I moved here, and as such have coincidentally made friends in areas of key importance. I'm fairly certain that this wave of bullshit cannot be fought right from the outset, and so my initial plain is one of wait. We locally have a plan to first and foremost keep our water sources available. Our town is entirely dependent on wells, and we have contingency power apparatus ready to supplant a loss of utility power. We've have a number of 2nd homes up here that have solar systems in place, and my buddies in the local power company and I have the necessary inverter/charger equipment ready to make regular 12v car batteries for a storage system with the local grid ready to keep a basic electrical system functional should we need to isolate the system. There is an abundance of wildlife up here that we don't need to worry about food supply, and many people are already growing their own veggie gardens via hydro. We are geographically benefitted in that we can withstand a ground assault from unfriendly forces. In the event that were lit on fire or bombed, my close group and I have escape routes both to the both and south that do not depend on mapped highway systems (with the military at the southern border, north will likely be the better option, we just better hope that we don't have to make an escape.ove in winter). The rest, I dunno.

If not wanting to format my machine every year to keep it from bogging down makes me a terrorist, well, shit.

I mean it makes sense. Both M$ and Apple (and Google with vanilla Android) are quite surveillance-centric, it only makes sense to try to keep the population under a watchful eye to stay ahead of any potential challenges to their authority. They hate the thought of people doing anything digitally that they can't keep tabs on.

Hate to break it to you, but those are baseline minimums for being a decent human being, not a contingency plan to actively resist fascism.

Lol ok bud. Sounds more like a concept of a plan.

They were great for light scratches and buffing out blemishes, it came with this solution spray and the wheel was basically just a buffer pad that wiped center out while rotating the disc. But anything beyond a light scratch was pretty much DOA.

Ok, what are YOU going to about it? You've stomped your feet and pointed your finger at just about everyone else in this thread, what's your plan?

Nor is my 2010 Jeep, or my 2020 Ram, though I had to search for a long time to find a truck that didn't have any form of internet connectivity, and I've got Bluetooth firewalled for good measure.

I get you. DRM is absolutely ridiculous in implementation, but I've just kinda accepted it as it is what it is, and then promptly veer around it. Like I'm not opposed to paying my fair share for something, but I have zero sympathy for greedy executives that arbitrarily raise prices or pull other anti-consumer bullshit to make the imaginary line go up, especially on old digital content that is long past it's profit peak.

You say that like a lot of us care lol. I choose to interpret DRM as disco rave music.

I'm hesitant to even loan books out to people, I really don't want dog ears or page 46-47 stuck together with ranch dressing or ranch dressing.

I made quite a bit of money off people in my HS parking lot with one of those disk doctors.