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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Which one are you?

Oh nice try government, I won't fingerprint myself in a public comment like some kind of sucker 😏

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So tech paranoid then, got it /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hah, too late. You're already being linguistically fingerprinted by your grammar and word choice. Only option now is to not comment on public forums anymore I guess. 😩

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

has hundreds of private messaging applications that their friends won't use

This hurts

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hits too close to home

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Between Tech Conservative and The newborn paranoid

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Tech Conservative here but don't 100% agree with the icons shown. Everyone has their own needs and reasons to be the way they are and that's ok.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This is marvelous

β€”Tech Conservative

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Tech conservative for the most part. I prefer FOSS, but I'm fine with using some propietary software

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the problem with e-books? Even more the ones you download into your computer and open with okular or some emacs e-pub mode?

(Anyway, I don't know what half of those icons are.)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm in the same boat. I feel like going any further than Newborn Paranoid and you start sacrificing so much of your time, money and convenience it's not worth it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Between conservative and newborn paranoid. I use Fedora and Firefox, but (microg) LineageOS and F-Droid on my phone. Also I don't know what half of those apps are but I'd like to use matrix.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol using tails as a main OS. That’s something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OS ? nah that's bloated and adds too much security flaws, true paranoids use UEFI programs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True paranoids don't use computers. They build a wooden cabin in northern Finland, grow their fish from FOSS genecode since other fishes have microplastic tracker chips inside them now, develop a supernatural sense to see "glowie" auras, and only talk in smoke signals feds do not understand (It runs on the Matrix protocol) all while following FSF philosophy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ahh, apex-level paranoid

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I've wanted to meet FSF member in real life for a long time. No luck so far.

As for Stallman, I find it sad that he has been right about many things. I will not do what he does but I appreciate the fact that someone like him exists and still fights for what he believes in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Tech conservative, although I have to admit that I like MacOS a lot. When it comes to Linux, I use and love Debian

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Definitely tech conservative. I’m aware of all the problems with big tech and closed source software but I’m not going to jump through major hoops to make sure I’m adhering to Stallman’s principles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Somewhere between Tech Conservative and FSF Member.

I don't care about Stallman as a person. I care about being able to use the software I like and not get spied on, and the FSF actively works to ensure I can do that, so even if trying to use all FSF-approved software isn't practical now they're still helping to make things better. They are an important counterbalance to the bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm probably a tech conservative. I prefer FOSS, but will use proprietary software if I absolutely have to. Also I use arch btw

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm ashamed to say I brushed shoulders newborn paranoid before realizing I'm too much of a dumbass and then toned it back to Tech Conservative. Though I randomly use Tor for absolutely no reason other than just being a masochist I guess

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I was newborn paranoid at one point, and am starting to shift back to tech conservative

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Tech conservative and will probably stay here for life. I really hate what the big tech corps are doing but feel like this is a sustainable level not just for me but for the general user. This is what we should have built out as the standard in the first place but money sure does ruin things fast and now we have a world controlled by Microsoft and monitored by Google

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm a Tech Conservative.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"Wants to become a full paranoid but fears the slippery slope."

I feel personally attacked yet fully approve this characterization.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess I'm just a normie with some conservatism in him. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use Windows 10 but see myself in "The Tech Convervative" zone. I will eventually do the switch to Pop!_OS hopefully lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm a tech normie conservative. Apparently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm between newborn and tech paranoid. I run librewolf on gentoo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same. Closer to tech paranoid for me I'd say. Only reason I don't run DWM + Gentoo anymore is because of time, but the control freak in me gets ever so tempted to reinstall it once again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Tech conservative for sure. I own a tuxedo laptop with... Tuxedo os. I use opensource apps as much as possible. But I use Google tools too. For sure I hate Apple πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Mix of newborn and tech paranoid. And i think i'm moving slowly to the paranoid side (started reading OpenBSD docs lol)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tech conservative, with a bit of full-blown tech paranoid. I come across as a weird combination of tech-savvy and complete luddite for the laundry list of services I don't use. Not because they're proprietary, but because they offer me nothing I want.

Disclaimer: I use Arch, btw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tech paranoid is hard :( Going back to new born.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Newborn Paranoid 100%. I both fear and desire the slippery slope. Also, what's the browser next to LibreWolf?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's qutebrowser, kind of like a more "suckless" fork of chromium. Also got an adblocker built-in, which is basically just a hosts file but for qutebrowser.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’m between newborn paranoid and tech paranoid. I wish my friends and family would stop using spyware but it’s out of my control

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I spend 95% of my day on Debian but I don’t like it. Definitely β€œTech Normie” according to this guide.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I know it may not feel like it, but any linux usage, or even an understanding of what linux is, pretty much knocks you out of tech normie territory. One of us! One of us!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be honest, Void doesn't belong in newborn paranoid. That distro is so so far from every other Linux distro regarding GNU philosophy. They're closer to the *BSD philosophy than anything else, but it doesn't fit nicely there as well. Generally, Void has this "if it passes all tests, we merge it" philosophy. It has a lot of proprietery software in the non-free repo.

From what I've gathered so far, their point of view is, if it works, why not use it (which is also my point of view to be honest, so I'm absoluteley fine with that). They didn't even go dark with their sub on reddit. There was a post asking what will the Void sub do about the protest, that post got deleted. Bascially, they see the sub as a means to an end, nothing more. They don't have to run a forum for troubleshooting problems, it's free (as in beer) and it works just fine. They probably don't use any mod tools or very little (it's a small sub), thus, this API thing doesn't affect them at all, so they see no reason to go dark.

I'm not even a tech conservative, I use Linux cuz it's fun and challenging, plus you learn new things all the time. Those are my main resons. Sure I could do the same with *BSD, but it's got a lot less software and drivers, so I just stick to Linux (mostly).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely tech conservative

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