I feel this is going to become more and more common across the world.

It is a chicken and egg problem.

The real root cause as you said is very likely down to individual’s media literacy and critical thinking skills. But the solution to educate everyone from ground up would be very costly and less efficient.

From an efficiency perspective, the government have to figure out ways to stop misinformation from spreading in short term. And hopefully, next few generation will have better critical thinking and analytic skills to online information.

I don’t know how they would draw the line between misinformation and first amendment. But hopefully, a competent government will see this as a problem and find solutions to it.

Thank you for writing this out so clearly.

People’s attention span has been decreasing since the introduction of social media, smart phones, and ease of access of information.

Imo the government should hold entertainers and public figures accountable for spreading misinformation. But this is hard to enforce and the root cause is people’s attention span.

Like the other commenter said. If you purchased it in the last two week and have less than 2 hours playtime, they will give you the difference no question asked.

You can try refurb NUC or mini PC on Amazon with N100 that you can find easily between $150-$200 range.

Why is this in self hosted?

I have tried and their documentation is too complex and incomplete for self hosting. Right now, for communication, I have mumble for VoIP and ngircd as an irc server.

It pretty much covers 80% of discord use case. I am looking for something that support video chat/screen sharing. Synapse is honestly not bad at all. But it’s too power hungry for my liking. I wish Jitsi could have better ux for average consumer. It feels too business like.

Mumble and Wireguard

Some of my friends are heading back to mumble because discord is getting too bloated with useless features.

Wireguard is to be able to access my local network when I am away.