To be honest: If you don’t have the deeper technical knowledge to implement some secure form of forum / BBS or something like that and if you are dependent on the advice from strangers on the net and LLMs AND you are currently living in a nation where something like that may lead to an “accident”… just don’t. A warzone isn’t the right place to learn to fight.

The ENTIRE modern civilization? No. But the western world is surely in decline. If anything, i would place my bets on Asia if i would make a prediction which region will dominate the world in the next 100 - 200 years.

There is no competition in my area, I either have 100 MBit Starlink or… well… I can climb on the next hill to send an Email. Welcome to rural Germany.

In this case i would lose access to Starlink and be confined to the very very shitty internet connection i had before. Sooo… no, his companies can stay.

Is your reality the one where they didn’t imprison Trump?

THIS Windows user has used Linux and BSD sytems for ~30 years and still manages a fuckton off Linux servers as his dayjob. The thing is - and it is a somewhat inconvenient truth - that Windows 11 has evolved to a point where it works just really, really well when used on dedicated hardware.

And Powershell is simply the better scripting environment, this is a hill i will gladly die on.

Sitting at the beach of the Baltic sea in early spring or late fall when its too cold for the other beach folks, kept warm by my decades old leather biker gear and a bit of whiskey.