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  • Very anonymous, it routes all traffic though the tor network and blocks all direct connections except for the unsafe browser.

    Of course tor cannot protect you from bad opsec, the user installing malware on it or a powerful enough opponent that can analyse both entry and exit nodes (or just owns 0 day exploits). But for most common people it’s pretty damn anonymous I would say.


  • I used to upvote anything I agree with or that is somewhat midly interesting, but then I realised that if I do that, then the truly good content gets drowned in a sea of upvotes.

    (For example let’s say I upvote a comment in a thread that I think it’s really good and exceptional, but then I also upvote other comments that ya I kinda support even tho it’s nothing exceptional. Then I’m drowning the exceptionally good comment.)

    Because of that I now tend to limit my upvotes so when I actually vote they weight more.

    As for downvotes I personally think they are rude, and usually try to only downvote when something is factually wrong or downright reactionary.

    Instead I prefer to upvote comments disagreeing instead.

    Sometimes I tend to upvote a comment when I think it was down voted unfairly.

    And also down vote commercial posts of commercial products that I see as nothing but advertisement.




  • Always look both sides before crossing the road, if you wear headphones take one phone off before crossing too.

    Crossing red lights is fine, but make sure you have time to safely get to the other side before a car comes, if your tired just play it safe and wait for the light to change.

    When it’s raining try to stay away from poodles on the road, or drivers will just splash you with water.

    Be aware of dog poo on the floor.

    And bikes and electric scooters on the sidewalks, almost got ran over them several times, they are supposed to use the road.





  • You can make an image of the / drive so it’s easier to restore if they break the system.

    I you can slowly teach them to use the command line, if they can read fluently using the cli shouldn’t be that hard. You can teach them the basic commands, and teach them to install a program with apt.

    Also, you said write a short story? The teach them vim (or emacs if you prefer that).

    You can install vmpk (or some other music keyboard emulation program) so they can play some music. And if they get more interested get them LMMS and later ardour + advanced stuff.

    Krita is a super nice program to draw, and colour (tho no fun without a drawing tablet), maybe you can teach them vectorial drawing on inkscape. And if they like it then install Blender and go 3D.









  • Google controls all smartphones, Amazon controls most products that I can’t find locally, Microsoft controls all computers, even if I don’t use windows generally I still have to pay the Microsoft tax.

    Every other product I can buy like pants also come from companies that pollute, usually in China.

    The problem isn’t exclusively those companies in the pic, it’s every single one of them, those are just bigger.

    The problem is fundamentally capitalism and changing from a buying from one big company to a small one only makes so the small company now has funds to pollute more instead.