Just host a bare git repo.

Not to mention permissive licensing legally allows a project to go closed-source, effectively rugpulling its userbase, with no recourse.

I keep pushing this as an example, but imagine Bluesky corporate closed-sourcing ATproto and paywalling third-party and self-hosted PDSes once they run out of VC funding and need to start turning a profit somehow, since ATproto is permissively licensed rather than being copyleft licensed, they could do that.

By contrast, copyleft licenses ban this type of rugpulling and GPL3 calls out and bans tivoization (what RH does with the RHEL EULA) by name.

the government can’t control them

• They can use signal jammers to take them out pretty easily.

How soon before the Iron Firecurtain drops and the Fourth Reich blocks the entire internet and locks you into a state intranet like China and NK do?

GOS just partnered up with Motorola/Lenovo a couple days ago.

And KeepAndroidOpen lists them as a contact…

Walmart already locks their computers and other pricey tech up in cabinets for anti-theft reasons.

Good thing LibreWolf exists.

Yes, I’m referring to Rubio.

Says the person whose country is actively undermining civil liberties and enabling censorship on their own people. And how soon before this extends to US citizens too?

KeePass.

Age-gated vids are login-walled full stop, and I won’t be surprised if the rest of the site gets login-walled at some point too, in addition to the implementation of DRM so you can’t download YT vids anymore, nor use alt clients.

Use one of the few Invidious instances that still exist while that’s still an option, although I have a bad feeling this sorta thing is screwing with Invidious too because I’ve had a few streams corrupt when skipping through the vid before.

Grayjay is also an option, while it’s still an option.

ActivityPub, which Mastodon uses, is genuinely decentralized, and ActivityPub itself is ran by W3C, an international standards organization, while Mastodon is ran by a nonprofit, meanwhile both Bsky and ATproto are ran by a private corporation, ATproto is still semi-centralized, and since ATproto is ran by a private corporation, assuming the VC money runs out and Bsky corporate needs to start to profit somehow to stay afloat, there’s nothing stopping them from closed-sourcing ATproto (as rugpulling of this sort is legal in permissive licenses like what ATproto is licensed under) and starting to either push ads in it, paywall certain features of it, or both, for example.

Blacksky actually managed to completely split itself off from Bsky corporate infrastructure, but what if Bsky corporate gets hostile against that?

Or even PeerSuite for that matter, moreso if a PeerSuite session is additionally ran through an anonymous protocol like I2P, assuming that’s possible. I mean, PeerSuite doesn’t require an account, doesn’t use servers, talks through encrypted WebRTC channels, and doesn’t leave a paper trail by default, coordinating protests is a perfect use case for it because people could start up a session to plan said protest, and then close the session without a trace when they’re done.

If you can find one and have the cash and skills to do the mod, find an older iPod, such as an iPod Classic or iPod Video, and then SD-card-mod it and flash it with Rockbox.

Those older iPods still have a really good audio section even by modern standards and operate completely offline; Rockbox just ‘unlocks’ them, as it were.

Also, USB-C-modding them would be recommended as well in order to ditch the proprietary cable.

You’ll brick some functionality if you try, along the same lines as ScoffingLizard recommended, get a Linux phone of some kind or barring that, at least seek out an unlockable phone that’s supported by LineageOS.

And generally dedicated cameras outperform phone cams both due to having a larger sensor in the case of SLRs or mirrorless ILCs, but also due to having swappable glass with actual optical zoom and manual control as an option.

Wouldn’t that efficiency thing largely depend on what silicon you’re using though? Like, for example, if you have an old AM1 board sitting around, those are 25W APUs and shouldn’t use anywhere near that if used as the base for a router.

Meanwhile if you’re using, say, an AM3+ board and an FX-4300 for your router, the FX-4300 is a 95W part and more likely to cost more to run by contrast to, say, the Athlon 5350’s 25W on AM1.

the megacorps stand wayyy too much to lose here and would fight tooth and nail to prevent anything like this.

• The megacorps could just bribe their way out of it like they do every other form of legal scrutiny.

So even the enthusiasts would rather, or are probably going to be forced to, give up their custom-built PCs, which they can do whatever they want with and run whatever OS and software they want on, for locked-down black boxes they don’t even own anymore, even possibly to the degree where they can’t even install their own OS anymore, so no more Linux or BSD outside of some niche hardware? That sucks.