a life with no social media and phone, having more DIY, Punk, hacking style and stuff, how is that possible in current years? my ideas are having so low or no use of social media, using Linux or BSDS, having a custom rom at phone (or dumphone) and using alternative sites like image boards, IRC, old/niche forums, going to punk gigs and raves, learn music instrument, learn about cybersec, download music and movies, piracy in general, dress alt, make a personal webpage, using less javascript and using alternative’s to crapitalism.
often recycled or street found materials if you’re in a city. you can go a long way these days with the shit people don’t see value in anymore. I have a wall of dormant computers, I paid for maybe 2 of them in the ~20 years I’ve been collecting and scavenging them.
that said the newer shit, middle-gen raspberry pi type arm boards etc are fucking fantastic for low power devices. certain types of old android tablets and phones are especially useful for repurposing as control interfaces. when stuff breaks I take it apart and salvage shit. I just launched a street-found nano drone that had been discarded because of its dead battery using a logitech wireless keyboard’s lipo into my wall and broke a prop because I was being careless. but it was funny so it was worth it. the personal self defense drone project will continue lol
the real battle is in the mind. do you really want to do something COOL in CURRENT YEAR and not document it, monetize it etc. Obviously yes, but my point is there’s a lot of implicit pressure to be visible, to gain recognition, to make money, etc that make the hegemonic platforms attractive and fighting those base impulses is fucking hard when money is a potential (if, tbh, unlikely) outcome of joining the masses in the walled gardens.
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