It’s much easier to put up barriers against physical items than it is against digital products. If the administration doesn’t want a U.S. citizen to buy a BYD car, it’s fairly easy because you can make it difficult to import, difficult to get insurance on, etc. But if the U.S. wants to stop you from using Chinese AI, that’s a lot harder because code knows no borders.

They were made on the asteroid and then flew themselves to a spot between the Sun and the Earth.

They were basically smart machines.

There’s this science fiction book, and I’m blanking on the name of it right off hand, but there’s a harvester that attached itself to Ceres, the asteroid, and made octagonal solar shades to freeze the Earth.

The reason I bring it up is because if they detected radio signals too close to them they would fold in on themselves and direct a high energy beam of sunlight towards the target and vaporize them and so the ships would communicate with patches that were basically QR codes on the outside of their hull and the other ship would take pictures and be able to transfer data that way.

I want to say they were using the equivalent of high refresh rate E-Ink screens.

Yeah, fair enough

I have a dumb phone that works on 4G and uses voiceover LTE for its calling, so you can still use a dumb phone.

Just because the underlying network is 4G or 5G doesn’t mean you have to have a web browser and all the smartphone stuff.

Ram prices would still fall since other countries would not ban it and would put less stress on the current supply that already exists.

Yeah, I am the only mesh core client I am aware of in my local area as well, but I still leave it up just in case, as eventually I know that I will start seeing things.

I know that the density is improving, as when I first started looking at the map in late April, I calculated the mesh core density to be 1:207,000 and now its 1:153,000.

As that density continues to improve, you and I are both more likely to see things show up.

Try meshcore. It’s true that it’s a smaller network with fewer users, but it also lets you do 16 hops instead of 7, so you’re more likely to be able to get a farther distance.

This is true, and why we need to start building up the mesh networks before this happens.

And that is why we need networks like Reticulum

Almost everybody who’s not you, lol You and I are basically the exceptions to the rule

If you’re running Linux, you’re probably not going to be affected by number four.

There is a song from a musical called Avenue Q and the line goes, “the internet is really really great, for porn. I’ve got a fast connection so I don’t have to wait, for porn. There’s always some new site, I browse all day and night, It’s like I’m surfing at the speed of light, for porn.”

So you are likely already experiencing most if not all of the above issues with the clearnet.

Correct. Monero would be untraceable.