It’s a tradeoff, as you say. Use the platforms and services you are comfortable with. Sacrifice privacy/security for convenience where you must. Your needs; your choice. It’s really individual.

Consider running both untrusted and trusted applications concurrently, where the untrusted one cound run in a sandbox, for peace of mind. Drop it once you feel you don’t need it any more.

Self-censor in forums you don’t feel safe in.

Consider hanging out more in places with less surveilance, if you are not comfortable.

It’s kind of a question of reducing your foot print, not completely eliminating it. Unless you wanna be a hermit.

Those luxury watches got to have huge margins. I imagine watch makers can probably eat the tariff and sell at the same consumer price in the US.

If you choose Arch, you can say “I use Arch btw”, from time to time, in unrelated conversations. That is a plus and should be considered.

Last time i checked; you need to look at commercial displays or computer monitors. But they are more expensive than consumer smart TVs.

Genocide is evil. Hopefully we will see future trials for the people helping the machine along. Similar to how germany have been puting people on trial up until modern times. “following orders” is not a defense.

Today it’s all about finding a dumb display.

Then you won’t have to go outside.

If Gary has any shred of charisma, people will respect his opinions and listen to his words. That applies to young individuals too.

When I was around 13, there was this teacher guy that all the kids respected. He was fun and could be scary stern when the situation demanded it. Kids really liked him and listened to him. He was not rich, his teeth was somewhat discolored cause of tobaco use and I would call him a Gary type character, with an unremarkable life style. But he had charisma and a commanding presence.

I suspect that if anyone parrots tates teachings in proximity to that teacher, they woul become the laughing stock of the class for a week. And they would be ashamed of themselves and remember that for the rest of their lives.

He was a good and competent teacher too.

“However unlikely”

I would assume that it is routine. Regardless of what any exec say.

Taking the lead, showing initiative and being enthusiastic takes energy. People are lazy. So if you are expected to let someone else do it, then that is an easy choice allot of the time.

Yes there are women all over that enjoy this role from time to time. The more comfortable you are with your partner; the more you can expect to see this behaviour in them.

Males and females are not that different. Your local community might be used to theese roles though.

Worth noting; people offten act the way they think you like them to act. They might think they are expected to wait for you to take charge. As you get familiar, that might change.

They buy aggregated data from every other company and organisation in existance. That includes your purchase history and behaviour in great detail. Of course they will also have the data of your relatives and friends, which they will take in to account.

Lawful interception. Lawmakers seek to explore measures aimed at improving cross-border cooperation for lawful interception of data.

Sounds like more of the sameto me.

They want to intercept communications, store it forever, break encryption and use AI to waddle through the massive ammount of data they intercept and imagine they will get access to when encryption can be broken.

How would that work?