If you're using a computer, you're part of the system.
However freedom is good, and yeah I think open source is the future. Technology has always been about building one idea on top of another. Programming is an excellent environment for this, but only if the source is available. Even obsolete code is useful because you can find useful algorithms in it.
But the real core of the issue is that we are reliant on ISPs to route our data. You can write the most amazing anonymous browsing system, but it's pretty damn useless if your ISP can cut you off because they don't like what you're up to.
Sadly the internet is not decentralized enough. Hopefully sometime in the future we will have a means of sending packets without relying on an ISP to do it for us. The most obvious method is a mesh of wireless computers. That would be completely free. Slow as shit but free. Unfortunately wireless is not at the point of being able to transmit at the required distances.
install gentoo
stop paying for utilities
stop using banks
stop using botnetmobiles
stop using self driving cars
stop using loyalty cards
stop using cards period
stop using JS
install water buckets
install furnace
install wireless cracker
install wiretaps
download gentoo updates and web articles while out and stealing internet or from libraries / cafe
download wikipedia
>>3791 >www.kiwix.org
>is protected by Imunify360
>We have noticed an unusual activity from your IP 109.70.100.27 and blocked access to this website.
>Please confirm that you are not a robot
a ripoff of cuckflare that even copies the idea of blocking IPs for no reason
"Off the grid" means hunting, fishing, farming, building and training. How are you going to free yourself with free software with no electric grid around, lol.
>>4030 use generators or solar power or other meme technologies. off the grid doesn't mean "no electricity"
but most (((free software))) is cancer anyway, so if I went off the grid I would use computers as little as possible. Unfortunately I don't have any money.
>>4032 Yeah ok. Then you need a decently large piece of land, a good pickup truck, and lots of building materials, and lots of random useful tools, equipment etc. Can't go running to the shops because I forgot to obtain some random thing.
Being off the water supply network requires water collection, purification and storage facilities. Hardly cheap.
Being somewhat self-sufficient is one of my major goals in life. However, I'm a student at the moment, so none of that shit is happening for another 4-5 years.
>>4033 off the grid=wilderness faggot
>decently large piece of land
>pickup truck
>building materials
>random useful tools, equipment
>shops
>water collection, purification and storage facilities
hardly a man you are, you would make a good braunhemden though
>water collection, purification and storage facilities. Hardly cheap.
reverse-osmosis filters cost less than $200 for a full set. That is not expensive. Sure there are larger and much more expensive units but you don't need them for 1-2 person household. Also you can use gray-water systems to reduce the amount of water you use. (like using water from a shower to flush a toilet etc.)
Is free software the answer? I believe that anti-surveillance techniques will be the best and most meaningful way to achieve liberty on the internet.