A very very quick selection of decisions that Google and Apple made that were counter to what experienced usability and UX experts recommended.
SwampNet is a collaborative project started in 2023 to bring alternative and autonomous communication systems to Bvlbancha | New Orleans and across the Gulf South.
Convert any laptop and most chromebooks into a writer deck. A device designed solely for writing. No distractions. No internet. No apps. No games. No social media. Just writing.
Suggestions on how to avoid leaving a trail of where your printed material was printed.
EU-based alternatives to various tech products. For anyone interested in hosting their data outside the US for obvious reasons.
Nifty little zine doing as labelled.
Came highly recommended to me on Mastodon for building a PC.
A list of VPN, DNS, CDN, email, etc service providers outside the United States.
Want to move to Android but fuck the Goog, ya know?
A zine outlining the history and usefulness of RSS.
A nifty little comic explaining the Luddite movement and how it applies to our current techno-hell.
A pretty good guide to picking second-hand laptops.
I thought that it might be a good idea to have a local (well, on my local network) copy of Wikipedia, and some other bits.
A quick clear guide to making the most of Signal's protections.
Broadcast a digital library of challenged or banned books with a portable anti-censorship e-book server.
What I learned about trying to run my own cloud from a few weeks of trying to run the whole dang thing myself.
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
Place to find refurbished phones, laptops, and tech.
Maybe my next phone? Need to research more.
A site selling different dumbphones currently available.