Back in my day, there were no guides; except for books that had to be bought or borrowed, one learned by hacking code until it worked or, better yet, had a helpful person in the same room give tips.

After the internet came into being, there started to be guides, at first many were ok. Then people realized they could write slop and make money or get internet points or credit. So now here we are, today, with many horrible tutorials, some middling, some good ones, about to be buried by AI

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They are welcome to snoop around my small town infrastructure, which, checks notes, is hooked up by Chinese routers the last few years

There is no way I am equating using apps with nationalism. And I have yet to understand how the worst of the big business Chinese apps are worse for me than the oligarch’s here.

If anything, while both will sell my data hundreds of times, it may be safer to use the bastards that are not under the control of the collapsing government here