Yeah, if I was a demon, I'd probably invest in surveillance, private prison companies, and whatever companies supply law enforcement equipment.

Ain't broke and I can't be bothered to update. Not accessible publicly either. It also runs some software with very specific and brittle dependencies and I don't care to risk breaking it. If distro is EOL (probably is) then it'd be a pretty time consuming getting everything set up again.

Yeah, IDK. I'm still in gold and dunno what to switch to. Gold will likely fall with stocks if we go into a recession, which I think we will (on the other hand if they print tons of money, which is likely, that's positive for gold). I don't see anything I'm comfortable with switching to yet.

I have enough money (for now). Divested from all tech during inauguration funding news, invested in European defence companies, and then just gold because all the crazy uncertainty about everything. Still made pretty good gains, but not as much as if I stayed in tech.

When something doesn't work. I.e. when an app update causes incompatibility with a service. I think I have one server that's a few years without an update (distro version may actually be EOL for all I know).

I don't invest in these companies on principle. I ain't going to fund the rise of fascism for stock gains. That won't help me when I'm shot dead or in a camp.

Not in the same way. There is still some anti-eviction resistance that goes on today. It's rare and never successful in undoing evictions though. For the most part, I think the US is too individualistic, and the methods of preventing and breaking solidarity too refined for broad action to be successful. I imagine that during a depression, most desperate people would rather join the feds to feed their family by committing violence against others. Even now, ICE received 150k applications in a single week, and people aren't anywhere near as desperate as they'd be in a depression. The government would have to basically collapse, and even then we'd probably end up more like the poor countries ruled by gangs and warlords that dangle the possibility of escaping poverty in exchange for extreme violence.

Labor solidarity decreased under Hoover, and only started increasing under FDR with a lot of government support. I'm skeptical we'll ever have free and fair elections again, so I don't envision a pro-union government anytime soon.

I have even used it to write a message to a friend who lost their son to cancer...

Dystopian.

You can plug a PC into a TV and even use Xbox and PS controllers if you like. Can have the PC auto start Steam in Big Screen mode so you'd seldom need to use a mouse+KB (trackballs or keyboards with trackpads are best in this scenario). Nothing wrong with console gaming though (well, besides supporting all the non-free software, locked-down systems, and shit companies; but most games you likely play are these as well).

Web components exist.

Kagi, DDG, and Google Search don't use frontend frameworks. Anything that cares about being optimized generally won't.

IonQ's timeline doesn't look realistic. Perhaps IBM's is; idk anything about this space. I see it's been 6 years since quantum advantage has been demonstrated, but nothing useful has been done yet. Hard to speculate on timelines when the tech is still in its infancy.