"After quizzing these companies about data practices, I learned that most are sharing what’s happening in my home with Amazon, too. Our data is the price of entry for devices that want to integrate with Alexa. Amazon’s not only eavesdropping — it’s tracking everything happening in your home."
#GeoffreyAFowler, 'Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time'
That link has a few dot points and its a good page to reference, but for the average person who just wants to open a browser and do some searches #Tails is pretty wonderful, in every way, really.
Even though we're not fans of GNOME desktop and dislike that they dropped I2P, its still good. Flash-a-USB and forget, almost.
Deltachat relies on IMAP/SMTP (emailK so make sure that you set up a new address with a provider you trust and use an username that can't be linked back to your usual nicknames or worse: your government name.
#Briar is an IM client with mesh support (aka peer to peer) you can restrict communication to your local network to Bluetooth, and redirect internet traffic via tor: https://briarproject.org/manual/
Do note that any blog you posted can't ever be deleted and that you will systematically be sharing your Bluetooth address (you can nuke your account at any time)
#Tails is a portable OS which allows you to "temporarily turn your own computer into a secure machine. You can also stay safe while using the computer of somebody else": https://tails.net/about/index.en.html
When the Raspberry Pi 5 was announced, we all said that most people would probably be better off repurposing an x86 thin client so we bought some dirt cheap new in box Dell Wyse 5070 machines to see if we were right. Spoiler: we were.
@LateNightLinux OFC you were - just like @heiseonline@ct_Magazin were when they bought some #Fujitsu#Futro Thin client with a Celeron J4105 in it, to the point that these are nowadays completely jacked up in pricing on #eBay.de ...