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Torrent trackers are the closest I’ve found to an old-web style community. That and hn

If I could pay with Monero I’d get an account. I like what I see but don’t like the possibility of my ID being tied to my searches.

Looking at it from a different angle, I don’t like the more wordy suggestions.

> convict…person who is/was incarcerated

> senile…person suffering from senility

Before I hit send I try to make my writing clear, concise, and full of meaning. I do it in the hope that the folks on the other end read and understand me.

Swapping one term for a slightly longer one won’t be a breaking point, but sentences like:

> I went to visit the incarcerated person suffering from senility

build up cruft that you don’t get with something shorter.

> I went to visit the senile convict.

Maybe they should punctuate the article as Orwell did in his rules for writing:

> Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous

Thomas Paine published common sense anonymously. I think there needs to be a way to publish anonymously where the people are.

As the sibling comment pointed out, it is SO much easier than it was.

I hopped back into it about 3y ago. I’ve got a NAS running on my local network with sonarr to snatch new tv shows and radarr for new movies.

In practice, if I decide I want to watch a movie I can reliably pull down something high quality within 2-10m (depending on how esoteric it is) and then be watching it on our tv.