[MaxBarraclough]

Not quite. It's possible to live in the modern world using only Free and Open Source software. Stallman does this, but I think he's pretty much alone.

[boogies]

Wikipedia says there are ~350,665 Old Order Amish (apparently in the New World? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish#cite_note-Elizabethtown_...).

[est31]

This is not an exaggeration. Nowadays basically anything you buy that uses electricity also has chips included for various purposes. Those chips of course run proprietary software.

[MaxBarraclough]

Sure, but I'd meant live in the modern world in the sense of living in tech-enabled society, rather than just living in the current day.

[a3n]

I've read that he borrows people's phones.