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Being cautious ≠ being paranoid. Dwelling on it is. Doing it on a scale that seriously degrades your quality of life is being paranoid — it's a mental disorder.
Picking the best tool you can for the job is the right thing, picking what to do to match the tool that you think is best is weird. It makes you the tool. It's wrong. If you don't trust technology at all, just destroy your computer — that's it, done. Get a cabin in the woods.
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@mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska I see. @m0xee @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki "preventing spying requires some effort so it's better to give up" the only nonfree programs that run on my computers are "firmware" they won't run without (which I try to fix); and I'm not lonely. @iska @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @m0xee @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki Do you think I'm a weirdo? (honestly, you're weirder for being such a reply guy - who barely posts himself.) Your all weirdos or you'd be on twitter lol
@thatguyoverthere @Suiseiseki @mangeurdenuage @m0xee twittors cancel people for making selfies with republicans, I'd rather be a cocaine addict's drawing.  @iska @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki Fedi is a bunch of weirdos! 🤣 @iska @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @m0xee @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki "small chance" my ass, I'll always take it. @pyrate @Suiseiseki @mangeurdenuage @m0xee Many Russians just keep using win, one reason is that they didn't pay for it anyway; We need GNU/Linux advertisements.  Alright, first is to pick the demographic and target the ads according to their needs.
Make a presentation on it and join after that. @colinsmatt11 @Suiseiseki @pyrate @mangeurdenuage @m0xee First patriotism/anti-USA, then business and ease of use, then cover more about freedom, privacy and security. Free software benefits everyone. @iska @colinsmatt11 @Suiseiseki @pyrate @mangeurdenuage Why don't we appeal to conspiracy theorists instead? @m0xee >"Did you know that your tinfoil hat is no longer enough?!"
Tinfoil nor Aluminum was never enough from the very start. Testing has shown that Aluminum foil hats enhance government frequencies rather than reduce them. To get the intended effect, you need a lead foil hat which is also grounded. I just don't go outside, government can't get me in my GNU/kOBSD-libre basement! @iska @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @m0xee @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki If someone is dissatisfied with Google and you tell him to port PmOS to his phone and self-host his mail he will tell you to go to hell. That's a huge strawman, I've never said such thing. @iska @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska I can throw something far heftier than seeds at the enemies of freedom.
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Why care about long-term consequences if you can get drunk and high on cocaine every day? @m0xee @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @cyberspook @m0xee @Suiseiseki @mangeurdenuage You can enjoy bread for longer + drugs diminish fast + money  @m0xee @iska @Suiseiseki
>Excluding yourself by not playing games won't do shit. "If you give data to the data eating monster it won't feed it" I wonder who's behind such posts :Thinker: @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska @m0xee @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki making better alternatives The GNU/Linux desktop is already there. Office, pictures, music, printing and even device support have been in good state for years. Also, "alternatives" implies you'd want to give up your freedom in the first place... |
Paranoid: Exhibiting or characterized by extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others.
Where's the irrational fear or irrational distrust ?
>Doing it on a scale that seriously degrades your quality of life is being paranoid
Yeah you see the issue with such argument is that it doesn't scale up when your opponents are actually tyrannical.
Not agreeing with some negative methodology and being directly or indirectly persecuted/excluded for not doing so it isn't paranoia. Thus why I referred to the definition of it.
>Picking the best tool you can for the job is the right thing
Picking the right tool to remove a teeth and passing by the rectum to reach the mouth isn't what I call a positive way of doing things.
Don't mistake software tools and path to a finality, your software tools will shape how you go to that finality.
>If you don't trust technology
I don't trust proprietary technology. Trust isn't innate, it builds itself, and there isn't a week where proprietary tech doesn't show it's negative influence.
>Get a cabin in the woods.
I wish I could.
Paranoid: Exhibiting or characterized by extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others.
Where's the irrational fear or irrational distrust ?