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A growing underground of American coders is deliberately making their workflows harder — killing autocomplete, ditching fast machines, and blocking the internet mid-session. They call it discipline. Silicon Valley calls it insane. They don't care.
From 2012 ThinkPads to PowerMac towers that predate Instagram, a surprising number of Americans are running decade-old hardware — not because they can't afford an upgrade, but because they've decided the upgrade isn't worth it. Meet the people keeping old machines alive, and ask yourself why the idea sounds so radical.
A quiet but determined slice of the American public is done with data harvesting — and they're doing something about it. Degoogled phones, open-source firmware, offline-first hardware. This is what 'going dark' actually looks like in 2025, and it's more accessible than you think.