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Good luck ignoring social media nowadays. Whether you use them or not, you live in a society that does use them and you are impacted by its consequences.
And good luck trying to buy a new television that isn't "smart". Even cars are getting like that.
haahha ive been runnin BBs's since the early 90s, and currently running a fully federating fediverse implementation of mbin. im not scared of running social media stuff. doesnt mean i cant ignore garbage tech like any VR.
and i only buy retail displays that dont include an onboard OS. they cost more, but theyre always worth it.
cars? my 1980 toyota celica aint goin nowhere. i can rebuild the 20r in my sleep.
i hate some of the new tech, but im also not afraid to completely work around it. you do you though
That's the problem. Even if you want to be a Luddite, you have to do all the work for that yourself, because the entirety of society will be trying to pull you in the other direction :-/
Say you want the only computer you use to be an 80s computer: you can't, because everything is online now. And society has since removed the adaptations that it had back then to an computer- and internet-less world.