Kanary definitely looks good - although they are US only at the moment (rules it out for me unfortunately). Thanks for your insight!

I’m not really adding to the conversation with this but wanted to share anyway:

I can’t disagree with you on that, you’re absolutely right - I suppose my read just gives the author the benefit of the doubt that it’s not ‘better AI’ that we deserve, but a better internet (i.e. with no AI whatsoever).

Personally I read it as a general “demand better”, “don’t accept crap wrapped in gold” as an offensive principle against (de)generative AI. Perhaps I’m inserting my own positive spin on their words, but it seems to me that their point is “don’t let the hype win”; if these companies are pushing AI, forming dependencies on bad tech, then we need to say “not good enough” and push back on the BS. Deny the ability of low quality garbage to ‘fulfil’ our needs. It’s not a directly practical line to be sure (how do we do this exactly?), but it does drill down past “AI is bad” to a more fundamental (and arguably motivating) point - that we, all of us, deserve better than to drown in a sea of crap and that’s still important.

Recommendation for Posteo - best email provider I’ve used and it’s ridiculously affordable.

I really like Neocities - highly recommended for a personal website.

Oh Arcanum is a great pick!

And you’re right, Fallout’s not exactly forgotten - although it was a cult hit at the time, and I’d argue the original still is in a way.

I’d heartily recommend Fallout 1, with a less enthusiastic recommendation for Fallout 2

I personally use Zathura, it’s minimalistic and uses VIM bindings.

But if you want something feature-dense, with a way of organising your library, eReader integration, file converting and more, Calibre is pretty amazing (and the actual reader part of Calibre is quite nice to use in my opinion).