i mean this is all true of them

idk i don’t chalk it up to a “just me” issue

FairPhone 5 and my family member uses whatever comes at a discount every other year when “their previous phone breaks down” (always software issues only)

oh you’ll keep Erich Fromm - Escape From Freedom on your bedside table forever then

about how authoritarian characters are similar across governing systems and why. also exploring why capitalism brings such characters up as a default

Aesthetics of Fascism

cis-men’s bodies have always been fetischized, alienated from, under fascism. metallized men.

exactly this. i say PIR - Private Information Retrieval

offline everything, no middlehands

condition “the industry” as these are called to change the RND departement - live without dependency on fuckers

yeah okay well your watchparties are increasingly going to get worse until you too hit your threshold: such is the business.

the rest of the world uses a VPN like MullvadVPN and qBittorrent to “digitally back up media we’ve already bought”. without ads, in better quality, without telemetry, without serfdom-subscriptions. you may like AI offloading your decisionmaking, but keep doing it and you will be codependent on authority for choosing anything in life. what do you want in a cozy moment away from work? it frustrates me to read people are too anxioys to begin to do otherwise and accept the way things are. that’s a rant in return

have a nice day, i won’t make this into a chain of replies.

this is some form of cultural tending to fires of knowledge in eachother right here

never forgetting where things came from

christmas was halloween before christianity separated the two

i don’t share the assumption that LineageOS doesn’t run on any phone, welp

last i checked it runs on phones from every brand ever

learn magic tricks. walk up to someone with an unsuspecting stance but a glimmer in your eye: they either look or ignore.

move your arms gently yet dramatically in large motions to bring attention to your hands being held comfortably at a distance from your chest.

perform the magic trick.

smile.

you are now connected to a conversatinal partner.

idk thats fallacious assumption of knowledge and generalizing i feel uneasy to let go unchecked.

most people talk to are intimidated and confused about mobile operating systems. by your assuredness i assume you use Linux and are cynically pragmatic about “non-tech savvy users who are fucked anyway” /my bias speaking

imho a video of a phone teardown to physically remove front camera & microphones & what else the person don’t feel a want or need for together with the overview that shows the beginning-to-end of the brief process assures people they can take the plunge into governing their own digital tools.

you’re not the state, just a person online, so not aimed at you, but i find others deserving of positive encouragement. leaving the door open and lights on to people wondering if GrapheneOS & a Pixelphone is the silverbullet or if stock android is as good as LineageOS (edit: yes, even on the phone held in their hand right now, or found about to be sold for 20$.)

people keep bringing up buying a new phone for thousands of non-dollar currencies. . .

consider this: pick a trashed phone out of the literal trash and 2nd hands around high-income households, look at ‘teardown’ videos like me, use a screwdriver to unscrew fromtcamera & whichever other component (Bluetooth, GSM, GPS, gyroscope, …) & install LineageOS.

ah shite! =(

• StartPage, Mojeek, SearXNG, YaCy
• hyperlink surfing “extranets”, as you would WikiMedia WikiPedia InternetArchive FediVerse posts etc.
• webscrapers like Monolith etc. for offline PIR and just as you say convenience of having it all there

i look forward to reading what you come up with, because i am still kinda at the theoretical stage with keeping such a knowledgebase.

edit: i keep thinking a plaintext document of information is way simpler to deal with than webpages. at what point is information posted online preserved in it’s “original” form? just dumping this FediThread into a plaintext file or a folder of plaintext files with names being ‘hierarchy•postID•username’ or something so it is presented self-organized.

OP is ¤, 1st rank comments are ¤a ¤b ¤c and 2nd rank comments attached to comment ¤a are ¤a-a ¤a-b ¤a-c and 3rd rank comments attached to ¤a-c are ¤a-c-a ¤a-c-b ¤a-c-c so on. this then lists itself in a self-organized way, given all ASCII & unicode characters are provided in order. not just a-Z… because that would limit size of posts to take on.

ofcourse more difficult and complicated solutions like selfhosting webservers and managing ports and databases exist… not that i grasp the necessity for so many services.

be a stickler for rhetoric, i’ll say it how i see it when i read something wack.

idc for the continued argument about whichever topic you threw in there - open borders? so i’m dropping that. nothing personal, don’t take offense.

an assumption that i don’t mean fascist is ‘godtycklig’ here, the meaning is worth clarifying forever though:

fascism is the cultural uniformity of people as enforced by fearmongering and discrimination against marginalized groups of freethinkers by the sacking of the state apparatus for wellfare (education, healthcare and care in a broader sense) and direct communication between populace & governance (rn the situation antagonistic bothways with apathy from voters towards parties and detachement from party leaders who flaunt wealth in Gatsby style… in the 1980s the swedish prime minister was interviewed by literal children about the nuclear question and there was no denying even such journalists interviews & airtime.) Fascism occurs when capital institutions are situated above state apparatus (privatization of government, to begin with this occured most prominently from the IT sector in educational systems being digitized then other parts of wellfare and now collective traffic is at the whims of overpaid & underdelivering tech companies pandering AI features that break critical digital infrastructure for the first time in me family’s lifetime… that is a footnote for future reference, but not for any continued discussion in this thread.)

my sources are three generations around a family dinner table, friends and guests for the past decades.

now i’m closing the discussion from my end, but i am glad about getting some anecdotes written down & shared online =) ✌️

we are sparsely populated and have the world’s best agro-forestry policies in place. alot of room for improvement, like Lübeck style forestry…

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyggesfritt_skogsbruk

https://www.skogsstyrelsen.se/globalassets/mer-om-skog/skogsskotselserien/skogsskotsel-serien-11-bladningsbruk.pdf

still collective traffic is in chaos from AI scalpers urging services like AI reading of bus- and trainstops. since the pandemic. unbearably bad pronounciation and insane costs. for the first time cameras are put up in public spaces and immense amounts of private security guards are patrolling. on collective traffic’s budget cost. no income, just expenditure for worse services. because refugees and racist politicians appealing to a “social media” radicalized society of sleepwalkers. yes, nordic country has sleepwalkers. safe big wellfare bubble. people still await Olof Palme’s return. that’s what right-wing fash propaganda is appealing to: the old socialist wellfare ways. yet it’s ironic and insincere.

https://www.sustainabledevelopmentindex.org/time-series

for anyone reader’s interest: here’s an insider look into what the graph tells of the Nordic countries.

the reason all of Nordic countries were at the top was because after the 2nd world war we held the world’s highest class-mobility. to create educative children’s shows was the highest social status among artists. to go to ‘folkhögskolor’ was the norm. none of this wellfare was funded on a war-machine but high taxes (think 1/3 is taxes on anything) and Keynesian economics (think tax the rich, make being a worker into a social status symbol, reward loyal workers with a middle-class life like lifelong income stability and luxury goods like free vacation homes from the workplace. as thanks for loyalty. we called eachother “SJ barn” if we were children of a family working in swedish national railways, it became a status thing and a league of it’s own to work generationally for a workplace. strengthens bonds internally.)

now coming off of seventy something years of charismatic “left-wing” party leaders, our prime minister was assassinated in an alley one night in 1986. Olof Palme was dead. public shock. no one wanted to believe it.

i am at first glance surprised the chart shows Sweden peaking into net-neutral climate emissions per this index in 1993, because after the assassination we had the weakest government in Sweden’s history, but at second glance i am not surprised. it was the culmination of almost a century of “left wing” politics. Sweden was riding that wave before the unorganized “right-wing” realized opportunities in this weak government’s place. the following decades for Sweden was and has been increasingly cold “right-wing” politics. it took thirty years but now austerity politics has defunded and cut down the wellfare system to be on the level of efficiency of other countries and our climate politics is at the lowest it’s ever been. there is no political courage and no party politics: only individual politicians managing perception, vainly, in polls. Sweden is a polar opposite today in political government than in the wake of Olof Palme’s assassination. we see that reflect in the worsening emissions. i’d go on to say sweden is less diverse today when racists in government go out to say “we"ll pay you tax money to go back to where you came from, immigrants”(!!!) compared to our 1970s 1980s when television quota was “every fourth child shown on children’s television must be representative of marginalized people in swedish society” so we had a quota. americans cry about DEI whatever. we had that in the 70s 80s while educating about Iran Iraq and children forced into labour in chinese factories and breaking toxic gender stereotypes of “brutal boys” and “gentle girls”. read the documentation from someone who was there in the television inddustry: Malena Jansson - när bara den bästa TV:n var bra nog åt barnen. (when only the best TV was good enough for the children.)

USA to the west, Russia to the east, nordic countries in the middle - especially Sweden led that way. Olof Palme was everyone’s favourite prime minister.

as for Norway… they began drilling oil… once oppressed by Sweden & Denmark since just after the viking ages, suddenly financially strong and independent. it was good for them and they’re deserving of freedom from their colonized oppressors. i know there is more sea-based wind-power in norway these days than anywhere else and that the oil rigs are kept up to the highest scrutiny for pollution filters in the world. still, a stronger nordic economical union would lower that need for them to drill.

idk what happened for Finland to drift into emitting so much pollution. my educated guess is increased military tensions at their border to Russia since Olof Palme died. the european peace agreement between nordic countries and Russia was named after Olof Palme. thirty years later only scandals and tatters from the dropped ball that was de-militarization and peace activism on state levels. these states used to hold other states accountable peacefully while leading by example. it used to be that this one part of the world enforced other parts of the world to follow suit. now no such standard exists. our literal government handed Greta Thunberg over to Israeli torture themselves. i am not surprised if the current Prime Minister enjoys that and has paid any money for humiliating footage of her from the five days she was kept there. five days of swedish diplomats walking away from their in-person interviews with her and downplaying the degree of torture to family members through their teeth. Ulf Kristersson (of “the Liberals”, a party formerly named the Christian “Democrats”) & Jimmy Åkesson (of the Sweden “Democrats”, formerly of the literal youth nazi party) are crooks just like Nixon & Reagan & Bush. Not like Trump level.

welp They are not my politicians. nordic countries are at an all-time authoritarian & short-term-profit crisis after thirty years of weaker political leadership. i’d say we didn"t enter the network era gracefully, as per Manuell Castell’s terminology, after being the world’s finest states in the service era.

are you right in the head?? the first link you send is to the racist shit the most fascist government in nordic state’s history are up to - “our” politicians are out on the streets beating up refugees without getting smacked some sense into.

i’ll reply more when i see what other links you’re sending

no lol

utopias are integral to motivating cultural shifts

dream of universal basic income, get political efforts toward subsidized wellfare and paid parental leave

nordic countries show this in a hundred years of history books from five countries