I've known people that have done that. They were very poor, and never stayed very long at their jobs, so nothing ever happened. As a mass organized thing, it could be an effective means of civil disobedience (Thoreau famously refused to pay taxes).

An EU embargo of the US (including banning "services" like tech) would likely crash the US economy (probably the EU economy too). I think the EU will just allow the US to do whatever it wants though, with the wealthy just bribing all the important politicians and ramping up propaganda to promote far-right ideology.

I think many of those in power (politicians + ultra-wealthy) are trying to purposely mirror the Nazis; using similar rhetoric and actions. They view those tactics as successful to achieving their goals (trying to suck up all the world's wealth and power).

I've taken an interest in Hyphanet recently too. It's kind of like an ancient precursor to IPFS (large distributed filesystem + encryption and some anonymity built in). Not many users as far as I know, but I like the idea of it; being extremely censorship resistant (but has all the downsides that entails).

Gotta watch out for tracking identifiers in the URLs too.

It's definitely possible. I've heard the film industry does do this with theatrical releases so they can determine what theater a copy came from (and determine the seat it was recorded from by the angle). I don't really share images/video anonymously though, so don't think about it much. When I rarely do, I try to check for and strip metadata.

I've done this in the past with Raspbian and the official Steam client, and set up Steam to launch in Big Picture mode, and used an X-Box controller to control it. Problem was my PC was old, so games would peg my CPU and give me bad latency due to poor encoding performance on the PC side.

I think it's like SecondLife or Metaverse for kids. I saw a short video about it, where kids were being exploited for labor. E.g. some of the kids had managers, forcing them to crunch creating and promoting content for Robux, or whatever it's called. Also saw an interview with the CEO, where he said he'd be open to adding adult content to the game (which is sus considering the problems the game is having with predators). I've also noticed the game is rated for teenagers on the Play Store, but I'm pretty sure it's targeted toward younger kids.

Peertube, but requires taking care of monetization/donations themselves, and possibly needing to run their own instance(?). Discovery sucks (I think Peertube may be anti-algo similar to Mastodon) so they'll have to take care of promoting themselves as well.

I think Nebula is a creator-owned platform, so very hard to get into. I've also seen that their privacy policy is not good.

All the crazy colors and styles originally happened to sell "self expression" because the culture was becoming more anti consumption. Advertisements for most things used to be more matter-of-fact, then they started focussing on manipulating emotions to sell more shit. I guess now the culture is more pro-consumption and status-obsessed, so conformity is what sells now.

You can buy cheap Chinese walkie-talkies that can transmit on ham bands. Yagi antennas are directional antennas that can be used for triangulation.

The fantasy tech didn't really bother me, but the pacing of the show was too slow for me.