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Me in the pic (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is something that sneaks up on you as well. And all that started a few years ago when I finally decided to get myself my first smartphone and tried to optimize data usage and battery life. I then realized that not only some apps and "system processes" were using battery and data when not in use, but that there wasn't even given a way for me to stop it from happening. I also got creeped out when I moved to work in another building and Facebook started giving me friend suggestions of people who worked there. Location wasn't even enabled on my phone.

And now today I have no mainstream social media account, run GrapheneOS on my phone, Linux on my computer and have migrated to almost entirely FOSS software and apps. I have become the crazy privacy obsessed weirdo.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Not a weirdo. It is the only reasonable thing to do. Unfortunately, many people lack education about the true extent of mass surveillance / profiling and the potential massive repercussions that it can have for society à la Nineteen Eighty-Four.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Os everyone here on graphene OS or other linux privacy phones? Or you guys only draw the line when it comes to desktop OS?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I got a Pixel specifically to install GrapheneOS on it after going on a huge FOSS/privacy kick last year (coincidentally around the same time I joined Lemmy...)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Privacy is not a myth. Keep resisting.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Edit: thank you for those in reply who helped to "annotate" this meme

The software pictured are:

  1. graphene os
  2. new pipe
  3. Signal
  4. MPV
  5. libre wolf
  6. KeepassXC
  7. Aurora Store
  8. fdroid
  9. Free Tube

Bonus. tux

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Are... are we the same person? Steam is my only exception.

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