Short question: how would they enforce that? What if I use some obscure messenger that nobody has ever heard of? What if I simply use telnet
or netcat
to send messages to other people?
Short question: how would they enforce that? What if I use some obscure messenger that nobody has ever heard of? What if I simply use telnet
or netcat
to send messages to other people?
I like how angry they is about this, because I relate to this.
I get that online services cost a shitton amount of money to operate,
This is verifiably just false.
How much does food cost you a day? Maybe $25, depending on what you buy.
How much does operating a 1000-user lemmy-instance cost for a day? Around $0.0003 per person per day.
Trust me I did the math on this one. Internet services are not expensive. Internet corporations just try to extract a lot of money out of you.
Emotional relationship vary wildly, and I repeat wildly across different cultures worldwide.
It would technically work, yes.
But also, you’re wasting a lot of storage space that way, especially if you do it often. You really only should backup your home directory, it contains all your data. You can simply re-install the rest from the internet.
Same with people who say solar panels can’t ever work. They haven’t tried them in the last few years.
For real what is it with them, where are they even trying to go with this?
Edit: I mean the Israel army. What is their end goal?
And in the middle of it, there shall be tumbleweed.
I guess a part is that science seems to meticulously avoid the question “why do we live”, in a non-technical way, in a way that actually gives people a sense of meaning.
That and mental inertia, i.e. some things change very slowly.