The comparison is more apt than appears at first glance. The debates continue, but attacks by the Sea Peoples, or war, is only one of the hypothesized contributers to the collapse. Others include: a pandemic, environmental shifts caused by a volcanic eruption, and drought.

What does this have to do with technology?

Unironically better to use Chrome than Brave. They’re both spyware but at least you’re not actively deluding yourself about privacy with Chrome.

I don’t need it to be super durable but the plastic screen is still a dealbreaker for me. Wonder when we’ll get something better that’s foldable.

I think the “Fediverse is hard to join” thing is a myth corporate are pushing. I signed up for Mastodon and it took me 1 minute (mostly because I had to open up my email to verify it); same for lemmy.