(under construction)how to retaliate against the death of technological innovation ⁽⁠⁽⁠◝⁠(⁠ ⁠•⁠௰⁠•⁠ ⁠)⁠◜⁠⁾⁠⁾

for a few different reasons, over the past several years (I ditched ordinary smartphones in 2021) I've begun living like I'm trapped in the late 90s to early 2000s and it really helped my mental health and confidence so I want to share some tips and tricks. I actually don't have a computer at the moment (woooo poverty) so I might have to wait til I'm at a library to go into detail. (⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠)

(main reason is physical chronic health stuff because modern apps and devices are not accessible at all and cause physical deformity to ny hands and break so easily, being basically homeless my entire adulthood but ofc nostalgia and convenience too ! the downside is I've become increasingly socially isolated, but connections made on social media are often so fleeting anyway.. it might help you find out who your real friends are. I'm thankful that a couple of online friends i made like a decade ago that abandoned smart phones too managed to reconnect with me)

step 1. 

• make offline backups of all media from your current social media accounts onto physical hard drives, usb sticks, microSD cards, CDs, whatever is easiest for you to get your hands on. cloud services are not permenant or reliable ! 
• (optional) deactivate accounts and ensure you bave backup methods to log back in just in case you lose access to a 2fa method or get hacked (if you don't want weirdo scammers to steal your username, just private everything). 
• unfortunately companies like meta are so corrupt they're going to keep your data forever anyway so might as well keep copies for yourself too, there are free programs and scrpts that can fetch every url and download automatically but I don't know which is safest and still works as I did this before AI crawlers became a massive problem 
• (probably obvious but while backing things up, do not use services like archive.org as bad actors might dig up ancient posts to call you cringe or take things you said as a child out of context or data mine info or images to train AI models/plagiarism machines)

step 2. 

• get a flipphone or other keitai denwa!
• choices are pretty limited especially thanks to telcos blacklisting a lot of the good ones where i live but if you still need online banking, smartphone apps, google play services, tap to pay, etc the freetel retro mode II and Cat S22 are good options 
• download j2meloader for the authentic old-school mobile gaming experience 

reccomended software 

• I try to stick to open source/FOSS as much as possible! it's usually more reliable and not profit driven 
• Ukagaka (SSP) + Ukagaka for Android (optional but much more versatile and lightweight than modern AI agent crap, it's really fun to build your own personal desktop buddy and they can be used as mp3players as well) 
• foobar2000 (Android and pc), winamp
• newpipe or pipepipe (for YouTube, SoundCloud, niconico, bilibili etc on Android)