It skips the step where you have to sift through a bunch of results and determine “is this what I was looking for?” and “how does this apply to my specific context?”

Right: it skips the part where human intelligence and critical thinking is applied. Do you not understand how that’s a fucking problem‽

Looking up a list of resources that you then evaluate yourself is very categorically different from getting an “answer” from a bot.

What does that have to do with anything I wrote?

If boycotts actually worked, we wouldn’t have these sorts of problems in the first place.

“Just don’t buy it” is a cancerous thought-terminating cliche, not a solution!

These product descriptions are likely being generated by the delivery companies themselves without the knowledge or consent of the restaurant owner.

With computer stuff, you can do even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

TL;DR: your documentation and your shell script (sequence of console commands you run to accomplish the task) can be the same file.

(Dunno what kind of chemistry you do, but you may have already come across this concept in the form of Jupyter notebooks or something like that.)

While I’m at it, I’d also like to mention Ansible and Git, for when you really want to keep good records and have a reproducible setup. Don’t worry about them immediately as it’s probably too overwhelming to learn all at once, but keep 'em in the back of your mind for later.

Honestly, I don’t think it’s possible to get by just trusting any particular guide without developing at least some actual understanding of the concepts underlying what you’re doing. The field is just too wide and rapidly changing for any source of info to be authoritative (and stay authoritative indefinitely after the guide is written), so it’s super important to develop the skill of looking up multiple different and possibly conflicting approaches to the task, thinking critically about them, and then synthesizing your own approach that works for your specific situation.

Considering how few references there were in the post

Why use many words when few words do trick?

Buy military surplus equipment, I guess?

That’s because Ace Hardware is franchised. It’s essentially a bunch of small businesses that use the same branding.

Not economic decline; spiraling inequality. Which is even worse, in some important ways.

Could very well be. I’m using OpenWRT and basically did the bare minimum to get it to work.

It seems high as Lemm.ee had 1k daily active users for the last week.

What’s the count from the week before the shutdown announcement?

Yeah, it’s only anecdotal but I feel like hobbyists like us, who do slightly unusual things without nefarious intent, who are the ones who get hit with these sorts of issues the most. For example, I’ve noticed that some websites start throwing captchas at me or even just straight-up refuse to load with 403: unauthorized errors because I have my router set up to load-balance across two Internet connections. (At least, that’s my guess as to why it’s happening.)

Check the part about misinformation.

What Linux infrastructure? The wikis and torrent links?

Package database mirrors (i.e. the things you’re downloading from when you install new software).

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Unless there’s a miracle, it would be:

4 consumer are relegated to DRM’d-to-Hell-and-back smartphones

And that’s honestly why this story isn’t the good news it appears to be. An entire generation growing up used to (or rather, used by) locked-down devices designed for consumption is a goddamned disaster!

To be fair, not considering unicode support a priority is a pretty damn English-language-centric attitude.