Every learning platform I have ever used was built to need me back. Duolingo needs me to maintain a streak. Coursera needs me to stay enrolled. Khan Academy needs me to keep clicking. The product only works if I keep returning. That is not education. That is retention engineering acting as education. Aether is built on the opposite premise. Open it. Study. Close it. Come back when you want to, not when an algorithm decides you should. What it is Aether is a free, open-source learning platform. Fully static React/Vite. No backend. No accounts. No streaks. No notifications. Progress lives in IndexedDB -- on your machine, not a server. Drop the dist/ behind any web server and it runs. A Raspberry Pi, a $5 VPS, Cloudflare Pages. No database to configure. No auth to set up. No container stack unless you want one.…