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 **Houses and shelters** are the easiest issue to solve, given the hot tropical climate. No heating or heat isolation is needed, houses can be very simple, built manually only from wood and [stone](rock.md). It suffices to have a roof protecting against rain and a few walls allowing some intimacy and personal space, although [privacy](privacy.md) is not really a thing here, even sex and defecation is commonly seen in public, it's a natural thing. No door locks are needed of course. The sea, caves and natural pools and waterfalls of sweet water in the jungle allow some calming on very hot days, and they serve to maintain hygiene as well, we need no showers or toilets in most houses.
 
-We do also have **[computers](computer.md) and [electricity](electricity.md)**, mainly thanks to sunny weather and solar panels, however everything's extremely scaled down compared to what a normie is used to, we have to use electricity sparingly and plan a bit -- we intentionally want to minimize use of batteries and being [dependent](dependency.md) on electricity overall, so we rather try to find [lower tech](low_tech.md) ways where possible -- as an example we learned to play desktop [games](game.md) rather than multiplayer computer games. Some are also exploring ways of making computation without electricity, with pen and paper, [mechanical](mechanical.md) computers and so on. Where we need an electronic computer we only use ones with very low power consumption, like [raspberry pi](rpi.md), and [good software](lrs.md) so that a small power bank keeps it usable for several days before needing a recharge. Some buy old laptops and phones in Normieland and then try to repair and [hack](hacking.md) them to be of use to us. [Arduinos](arduino.md) and [open consoles](open_console.md) are quite a popular choice. We absolutely NEVER make use of any consumer type desktops with power hungry [GPUs](gpu.md) and similar stuff. There is not a single instance of a computer running [Windows](windows.md) or [Mac](mac.md) on the entire Island -- in the few cases where it appeared it was destroyed immediately, then taken apart for spare computer parts. We also don't have constant access to the **[Internet](internet.md)**, at least not yet -- although we might be able to set it up, the consensus is we simply don't need it OR want it anyway, we're even much happier without it. We CAN access the Internet through [data mules](data_mule.md) carried to Normieland -- it's a high delay, low bandwidth way of Internet access, but completely sufficient for email communication, updating git repositories and downloading sites for offline browsing. Important information from the world can reach us through radio, [AM](am.md) broadcasts have very long range, so we get the news (at least those who decide they want to hear it -- many don't). We don't really need anything more. We share data freely and have many websites and other resources downloaded, on disks or simply printed out on paper so that we don't even need electricity to read them. We have quite large libraries of books, especially [encyclopedias](encyclopedia.md) and books containing useful practical information, but entertainment is important too.
+We do also have **[computers](computer.md) and [electricity](electricity.md)**, mainly thanks to sunny weather and solar panels, however everything's extremely scaled down compared to what a normie is used to, we have to use electricity sparingly and plan a bit -- we intentionally want to minimize use of batteries and being [dependent](dependency.md) on electricity overall, so we rather try to find [lower tech](low_tech.md) ways where possible -- as an example we learned to play desktop [games](game.md) rather than multiplayer computer games. We face challenges that we're trying to find solutions to, for example that of humidity which is not friendly to electronic devices. Some are also exploring ways of making computation without electricity, with pen and paper, [mechanical](mechanical.md) computers and so on. Where we need an electronic computer we only use ones with very low power consumption, like [raspberry pi](rpi.md), and [good software](lrs.md) so that a small power bank keeps it usable for several days before needing a recharge. Some buy old laptops and phones in Normieland and then try to repair and [hack](hacking.md) them to be of use to us. [Arduinos](arduino.md) and [open consoles](open_console.md) are quite a popular choice. We absolutely NEVER make use of any consumer type desktops with power hungry [GPUs](gpu.md) and similar stuff. There is not a single instance of a computer running [Windows](windows.md) or [Mac](mac.md) on the entire Island -- in the few cases where it appeared it was destroyed immediately, then taken apart for spare computer parts. We also don't have constant access to the **[Internet](internet.md)**, at least not yet -- although we might be able to set it up, the consensus is we simply don't need it OR want it anyway, we're even much happier without it. We CAN access the Internet through [data mules](data_mule.md) carried to Normieland -- it's a high delay, low bandwidth way of Internet access, but completely sufficient for email communication, updating git repositories and downloading sites for offline browsing. Important information from the world can reach us through radio, [AM](am.md) broadcasts have very long range, so we get the news (at least those who decide they want to hear it -- many don't). We don't really need anything more. We share data freely and have many websites and other resources downloaded, on disks or simply printed out on paper so that we don't even need electricity to read them. We have quite large libraries of books, especially [encyclopedias](encyclopedia.md) and books containing useful practical information, but entertainment is important too.
 
 Internet to us is mostly replaced by our own island "[network](network.md)" -- network in quotes as it's more like a shared repository of files; we rarely use true computer networks, people have their own computers that keep their personal files locally, and we exchange data with others using physical media such as USB flash drives, CDs or even paper. Instanteneous exchange of data is rarely needed and so the infrastructure would be an unnecessary burden, we live slow lives and the Island is small enough to hear someone shouting if something gets urgent -- of course, we do have wifis, but they simply waste power (and possibly cause [cancer](cancer.md)), so we keep them turned off. We sometimes use analog radio to talk over longer distances, but not for computers. Our shared repository works like this: we have a total maximum size allocated, currently 16 GB (enough to fit on a cheap USB drive or SD card), out of which only a small fraction is currently used -- the size limit may be increased in the future, but having the limit in place helps us select only the important data, AND keeping the data small is extremely important for freedom. Small data is easily backed up, it can be searched quickly even without indexing, the storage is cheap and it will fit on more media and computers, will be copied quickly, can be transmitted faster, with lower bandwidth etcetc. It turns out that once you remove [bloat](bloat.md) and only extract the important, you can fit most of what you need into extremely small space -- from most websites and books we extract only plaintext, we store images in right formats and minimize their size (many images can be stored in [vector](vector.md) formats, black and white or even 1bit, low resolution is mostly sufficient) and so on. Anyway... in the repository majority of space is allocated for common, general files -- these are files generally useful to everyone, highly organized, well named, tagged and added by consensual agreement. This includes for example downloaded websites, software, [books](books.md), digitized works of art, but also files we collectively edit, e.g. discussion files or software source code. And then there are directories of individual people -- everyone gets his own directory, like an own "domain", with relatively small space allocated, where he can share whatever he wishes without asking others: basically an equivalent of a personal website. This space is relatively small but it's absolutely sufficient; bear in mind that anyone can store many more data on his own personal computer, here we are talking only about SHARED files. [Intellectual property](intellectual_property.md) doesn't exist on the Island, so to us everything is [free](free_software.md), we don't need any [licenses](license.md) or [waivers](waiver.md) and we can treat even [proprietary](proprietary.md) data from the Normieland as public domain; however for the sake of people in Normieland we still separate free and proprietary data and use [public domain](public_domain.md) waivers for our works -- we still attempt to be helpful even to the people in the lands of intellectual slavery. Maybe you are now asking where we keep this "internet" of files. It's distributed, i.e. we keep it everywhere, people walk around with with disks and SD cards where it is stored and they have stored it on their computers. The only challenge is synchronization, but that's usually pretty easy: if someone happens to have a new file, or a newer version of an older file, he simply rewrites it, and that's basically it. There are no "safety" mechanism to "protect" directories or even "[encryption](encryption.md)" of files, there is nothing to hide, you can see anyone have sex in real life if you want, so no one bothers about "[privacy](privacy.md)"; there aren't really any [trolls](trolling.md) either: if someone starts rewriting other people's files or just destroys stuff, others will likely stop exchanging disks with that guy :-) And we have literally dozens of backups of the whole repository all over the island, so destroying something would cause someone just a slight inconvenience of having to ask a friend for a new copy. In a good society things simply are simply solved by default.