• magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 days ago

    If you can’t open chrome on a pc, connect an android phone to it, and use a simple web tool you’re probably not capable of any actual level of digital privacy.

    This isn’t me being elitist its just the fact that the resources needed to make this shit viable and easy are being tied up to corporations in order to make more easy-to-use corporate spyware.

    Privacy under fascism takes time, effort, and education. Stop fucking expecting it to be OOTB. Society is literally engineered against that. Its not a reasonable ask of open source devs making privacy tools.

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      12 days ago

      What else can those who value privacy and have computer skills do but try to be a good example and offer to help to those around them without the know-how?

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        11 days ago

        You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink, especially not when you barely have time in the day to take a drink yourself.

        If someone doesn’t have time or will to put privacy over convenience that’s kind of their gig. It sucks but like I can’t fuckin’ change their life schedule/priorities.

        I spend enough time documenting and working in my homelab, I don’t need other people’s too. I’ll be happy to point people towards information and documentation, but that’s about it.

        However if you’re not willing to:

        1. bury your nose in multiple wikis
        2. change out the OS on nearly every general purpose computing device you own
        3. Live most of your online life anonymously/pseudononymously
        4. Run a homelab (technically not required but makes life nicer)

        You should stop while you’re ahead.

        If you have kids I have no fucking clue how you’d even begin.

        At that point you’re installing rootkit anticheat just to get little johnny playing games with their friends, fucking nightmare scenario.