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Semi related rant:
Honestly with how the internet is right now, I hate it more than I like it. There are very few places I can visit on it for fun. Lemmygrad and Hexbear are like me refuges from the ever encroaching slop and neocities is the place to explore. Youtube is like the only mainstream social media that I still use, but if not for my addiction to it I think I would've dumped it long ago. Gotta keep trying to do so I guess.
Overall it's even more horrible to actually look for useful information, all of it fucking sucks whether it is SEO or AI garbage. And because the Internet is such a core part of computing, it's hard to imagine it without it... Like how the fuck else am I going to get software on my system? Yeah sure, Debian can packages from CDs, but that is a remnant from a different time.
I want to love the internet, and in the deepness of my heart I really do. But capitalism is making that harder every day. And another part why I'm hating the internet more and more, is because of how entrenching it is and how destructive it is to other types of media storage or presentation. Text, video, sound, games, it's encompassing everything now. Even digital media slowly but surely will stop existing on physical media, and that's why I'm creating and curating my own home archive library. Because I don't know when that one site finally goes offline, and when it does... I'll miss it.
It's not much, it's futile, maybe idiotic. But I love doing this. I love having my data locally, well preserved for myself. But there's just so much garbage, it's only a tiny curated set that I nonetheless love sharing with people, because I care about it's quality.
I'm very conflicted on how I feel about the Internet, just it, computers I love.
Actually, now that I've thought about the shit I wrote above. I don't think I really have an issue with the Internet, but with the World Wide Web. I need to think and read more about it.
The wife and I keep local backups of stuff too, 'cause honestly fuck this shit.