Shouldn’t you rather protect your usb ports from Windows?

(Kidding,… or am I?)

That’s awesome. Now to find some opportunities to share this with people.

This gives me an idea.

Sort of a questionnaire that kinda walks you through the kind of things you’ll use your machine for, what kinda hardware you have,… and then eventually gives you say 3 to four choices at the end. (So the average user can look at a few screenshots and make a choice based on that. Because let’s be honest we all choose our Linux partially with our eyes just like we listen to music).

Well fuck, another project my adhd wants to tackle but probably can’t.

Goddamnit, I installed librewolf on my office pc and changed the theme of slopOS-11 “oh he’s a hacker!”.

Not yucking anyone’s jum, but that’s a bit of a weird line up.

Don’t use Waze.

Why wait? Start actively working out solutions alternatives. You can’t take care of everything at once but you gotta play offense.

Make sure to delete the account first.

Keep em coming so we know what to delete 🫡

That’s right, refuse this pollution for the senses to rob your time.

Die advertising, just die.

I hear ya, getting into it can be messy. And having a VM on the side is a good choice.

My current idea of a solid setup to manage long term:

*A main machine that has a bare-bones, lightweight Distro on it. Just the stuff you need to work + a VM program to run:

VM1: a copy of your main OS, test stuff out here first if you think it’s risky.

VM2: big tech corp spy software IF you need it. (Keep that sucker offline)

(And make backups/snapshots of your installation every once in a while).

If you have it: second machine: this one is for degoogling ect, save your social media stuff here before you take it out back.

If you have it: 3rd machine to run as a personal server (working on that myself)

This can all be old gear. In the process of getting to know Linux better and better (which is an ongoing process for all of us) you’ll get more and more fluent.

You got this! Don’t give up!

Have you considered slowly transitioning to another account/service?

I’ve been going through my google account for almost a year now, taking my time to really deal with all that stuff so I can close it for good.

Last year they announced updating their policy to include data usage for AI purposes or something => deleted the next day.

It’s never gotten me a job, it doesn’t mean anything.

All it is is people posting their “look I’m an influencer now too” takes written in semi corporate speak. Boring, meaningless meanderings of self importance.

Congratulations!!!

I’m getting closer and closer to this goal myself.

Old t430 for mail and whatnot (read degoogling) It’s an absolute pleasure to have a machine that’s just to the point, no extra bs.

Yes I apt-get installed packages, and I’m proud of it. AND I’D DO IT AGAIN!!! ILL EVEN UPDATE EM!!!

gets arrested violently

I mean, at least it’s someone that won’t try to force smalltalk and whatnot (if they did then I’d be worried).

I’m someone who likes to walk the path less traveled in general. And in general I’ve found that people don’t respond well to such things. Especially when you explain them in dept. “Oh they choose to be different huh? => let’s ridicule them to cover up our own insecurities”

I’ve learned through trial, error and ridicule that people need to earn the right to an explanation to these matters.

I’m not gonna explain to Joe Shmoe that I use Linux because I’m doing my part in not giving the uprise in fascism the steady flow of data they want to increase their influence over the world.

They’d never understand. They gotta earn that by proving they care about the topic.

No thx.

I’m gonna opt out of whatever bs article they’re trying to get clicks with.

We’re done scrolling assholes!