I feel like you’d like this guy’s routine! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c1wkx1V1qHY

“Good enough is perfect”

Credit cards for anything over £100 online, for the built-in fraud protection - https://www.moneysupermarket.com/credit-cards/guide-to-credit-card-protection/

Knew that he wouldn’t persevere with it - very forward-thinking!

If it was Ender’s Game, you might be better off starting with book two…

Professionally installed wired networking? The more detailed pre-purchase survey?

Similar to how more people have heard of Lockerbie than any other Scottish town of 5000 people.

Similar with “get up, Trinity” from The Matrix’s opening scene.

Your last example reminds me of someone editing Wikipedia to list Ronnie O’Sullivan as the winner of the World Open, about 20 minutes before the final match finished.

They were right, and anyone would agree that it was all-but-certain, but it hadn’t actually happened yet.

This computer.

That was so insane - “we need a unique number, let’s just use the MAC” - it was like people didn’t even think through any of the implications when making ipv6 address schemes.

Similar with the address proposals that ignored the need to minimise the size of core internet routing tables.

Substitute Chaos Bringer to really give everyone flashbacks

Main menu theme, Myth II Soulblighter

I like it here, from RimWorld.

Today you, tomorrow me

Satisfactory.

The good news is that everyone is going to be experiencing that for the first time again in about a week’s time!

Thomas Midgley Jr. (leaded petrol, CFCs, lots of deaths at the “ethyl” factory)

Wikipedia can also be useful to find software - e.g.:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_vector_graphics_editors
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_development_environments
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_player_software

or look at the Wikipedia page for whatever you want to replace and see if it’s in a category such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Audio_editing_software_for_Linux

You can even do this with things that aren’t software, e.g. Homebase -> UK home improvement stores -> Screwfix.

It might be a trope by now, but when you mention “rich tourists and digital nomads”… have you read For The Win?

When Cory Doctorow considers this question, … His character, an archetype of the subcultures you mention, voiced by the most cyberpunk author you ever read, chooses a cargo ship.

Looks like the main options are the things you’ve already ruled-out:

• Lowest impact travel: passenger on a cargo ship.
• Zero-emissions vehicle: £6000 trip on a sailing boat, but any normal-sized boat is going to expect everyone on board to take shifts.

Maybe you can find a “tall ship” that’s big enough to have passive passengers (example), or pay the small boat to bring a higher ratio of paid crew to let the passengers sleep.