You could put out fake data. It’s unlikely that you’ll be able to get your real data removed, so start giving fake info for stuff that doesn’t need know who you really are.

Restaurants who ask for my name, I give “Gordon R” or “Guy F” or something similar. Do that with your digital life.

There was one guy in my classes during undergrad who rode a unicycle while playing guitar. He did this everywhere he went. Cool guy. Very level headed and down to earth, just quirky.

I’m using GrapheneOS, so I can’t speak for the stock spyware that Google puts in. I’m sure that’s horrible.

It’s good quality hardware for sure.

I’m an old Army veteran, I’ve had tinnitus for years. I’m using a Pixel.

Not yet. 😂

I like to carry an air horn for when scammers and other nuisances call.

That’s a low bar at this point. Only die hard cultists like Trump.

I use a hardened Firefox as a daily driver. I have Mullvad set as my default, so any application that redirects to the web won’t see my actual browser. I also keep a webkit based browser around for niche applications and troubleshooting.

IMO, the reason is because scientists haven’t found a way to punch someone in their face over the internet yet.

Have they selected the new pedophile-in-chief yet?

Right? That’s what encouraged me to sail the high seas.

Yeah, I don’t know. Probably because people don’t immediately upgrade? A lot of people use a release until it goes EoL.

ASUS still makes netbooks.

I bought a little $200 model a few years ago. It weighs 9 oz.

I forget Lemmy isn’t full of adult children and fascist algorithms that censor you.

Dehumanizing the enemy is part of any war, otherwise it’s more difficult to unalive them. It’s a tribal quality, not a fascist one.

It defaults to the codename. Any installer you download will be either Bookworm or Sid right now.

I’m also in your age group, and I’m picking up what you’re putting down.

I had a lot of problems with my mental health thatbwere made worse by centralized social media. I can see hoe the younger generation will have the same problems with centralized AI.

Unless you change your sources.list, you’ll just update your current system.

Mint is either Ubuntu or Debian based. I’ve used a touchscreen laptop with both, and they just worked.

can we just call them NPCs?

They were NPCs before AI was invented.