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(1) Autodidact with khanacademy.org.  The best website on the internet, this project eclipses all other endeavors financed in Sal Khan Valley combined.



(1) Install the Mozilla Firefox web browser.  On every networked device - laptop, tablet, phone - set then maintain this application as default browser.

(2) Install Firefox extensions uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.  These add-ons disappear spam banners & video advertisements that haunt other apps.



(1) Install a fresh linux operating system on old computer equipment.  Start with an outdated laptop and also either a SD card or a USB stick.  Flash any linux OS image (for example, `ubuntu-##.##-desktop-amd64.iso`) onto the SD card or the USB stick with a program like balenaEtcher.  Direct the old laptop's BIOS to the SD card or the USB stick and then format & encrypt the laptop's disk with a fresh password-protected install.

(2) Install ollama and four models.  Connect to a wifi network with the old laptop, open one terminal window & install ollama, open four more terminal windows (ctrl+alt+T) & run one `ollama pull` command in each window, and finally permanently disconnect from wifi & reboot.

    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

    ollama pull gemma3
    ollama pull llama3
    ollama pull mistral
    ollama pull gpt-oss

(3) Engage in question & answer with algorithms, unsurveilled.  Verify no internet connection on the old laptop.  Open four terminal windows, type each `ollama run` command into one window.  Use ctrl+shift+C & ctrl+shift+V to copy & paste inquiries into four large language models, offline.

    ollama run gemma3
    ollama run llama3
    ollama run mistral
    ollama run gpt-oss