Because driving a car is not a transferable analogy. For the last 70 years we've lived in a society where everyone has a car and knows how to drive. Get your license is a right of passage for most teenagers. Unlike driving, there is not an abundance of people around that normies trust to teach them how to install an alternative OS for their phone, especially when the cost of getting it wrong is to brick the thing.

That's actually one of the issues. There are plenty of resources out there, and it's not actually that hard to find. But when people are unsure, they don't know who to trust and who's recommendations to follow. But people will trust people they have some sort of relationship with, even if it's very thin. Friend of friend stuff. So when someone you follow recommendeds something it has a lot more weight that Google's search results.

Its a nice dream but unfortunately the cameras remain, and every car driven inside the M25 ring road gets checked. If you haven't logged on to TfL and registered your car, even if your car is compliant and doesn't need to pay any ULEZ charges, then you get fined. Any diesel cars older than 2016 are non-compliant which is why so many tradesmen are pissed. Godspeed to the Blade Runners. They're doing gods work, but for the sheer scale required to defeat this beast, it is not nearly enough.

There are plenty of normies out there, me included, who are interested in what is possible and concerned about the power of corporates and government. But we aren't techies. We don't have the technical skills and confidence to start doing things like wiping the OS off my brand new Pixel phone. Many consider just moving off the Apple ecosystem to be a big step. Many of us would take the steps to take personal security and privacy if we had the support necessary. Obviously we can't go and ask Google how to jailbreak their phone, and no one really knows who to trust on the internet. That's why NOSTR is actually such as cool thing, because we can start to find people that are trusted by our network. So don't be too high time preference. They normies will come, and the knowledgeable will continue to make being sovereign, private, and secure easier. I look forward to when trusted contacts can recommended dedicated AI Chat bots which can personally walk people through things like setting up a BTC node, a LN wallet, an independent phone OS, etc. People want to be doing these things. They just need a guide.

Nice. I was up there this morning.

Hey, anyone have recommendations on a good alternative to airtags? I left the Apple eco-system and have no intention of going back.

For Australians, who will be marching on 31 August? I'll be marching because I'm sick of the govt and the media gaslighting us. Housing isn't a supply issue. We're pumping half a million people into this country every year, way above other countries. It's my children that now need to compete with an extra half million people every year for a home, a job, medical appointment, a seat on the train. They quality of life for our children is going to be lower than ours was, and our politicians do not care. It may achieve nothing. We may prove to be in the minority. But it's the only opportunity to peacefully tell them what we think. What they do with that is up to them.