• pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    Wait, hol’up, please tell me it’s because of some socioeconomic reason, not because everyone around you just defaults to phones and tablets. Please.

    • Phantaloons@piefed.zip
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      13 hours ago

      The… second one.

      Entire fam and friend circle is okay with paying for things. They have no sense of privacy to remove, and believe any alternative would be too conveluted for a bunch of mobile users to reliably depend on, and they’re complerely right.

      With zero computer experience, there is no way out. The learning curve is a sheer cliff.

      Nothing, not even TOR or i2p would help, their entire OS is backdoored, as is anyone’s on stock software.

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        6 hours ago

        Oh that’s easy, unless they’re rich. Costs are gonna keep going up and at some point they’ll start asking questions about cliff climbing. 😄

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      15 hours ago

      When I moved from the Midwest to Los Angeles, CA c. 2013 it was a bit of a culture shock to learn that almost no one had a computer.

      I still don’t know anyone who owns one that doesn’t have to work with one.

      And it is totally about phones and tablets. I don’t even think the kids learn to type in schools anymore.