treating people respectfully is not getting offended. please touch some grass and open your eyes.

they've done it for you by accident

the only thing I'll say is the piece about "no viruses" would kinda go away if desktop Linux picked up at all. the security on a default Linux system is worse than macos and windows with substantial hardening efforts needed. the only reason viruses and other malware isn't common on Linux as is is because of the tiny user base.

with all this said, if enterprise use got more common, security would quickly become an important aspect.

while, yes, regardless of your privacy settings google still collects a sickening amount of data on you, much of these things (like voice recordings and location history) can be managed and disabled in the settings. if you wish to go further, grapheneos removes A LOT of tracking potential.

these should be opt in features, but one can opt out of much of them.

this is known as a strawman. nice try

i would like to add on to this, do not bring your own device, just simply keep school/work and personal stuff entirely separate. simple as that.

all work and schools that allow you to use a personal device that I'm aware of will require you to have whatever software for surveillance that they have on provisioned devices, you'll likely end up messing up and leaking something private, and it just takes up storage space.

it's the organization's device, they can put whatever nonsense they want on it, just be sure that you only ever use accounts from them on the device. never a personal account of any kind.

that's not really the point considering this didn't occur in a vacuum. this one event can come to just be a grift and what I said will still be true.

pronouns are a part of the English, and many other, languages.

there is a difference between something being the airlines responsibility, and you still having some form of etiquette and thought for others when said airline wont fix the issue.

just because it shouldn't be your problem doesn't mean it isn't. absolute individualism is a curse

can I... hear her argument? I just wanna know what fallacy has concocted here lol. not trying to be insulting to your wifi or anything, just bantering a little bit, I've come across some that believe adblocking is piracy though, and I'm curious.

it's a mesh network built on wireguard. it's not just a direct connection to another PC on your network. you can select exit node devices on the fly and control acl's and access based on groups in their admin panel.

and yes, if you want a properly secured vpn setup without the necessary background knowledge, it's pretty difficult. there is no opening ports on your router, which is especially useful for people on cgnat.

Matrix or Signal only for me. nobody uses Whatsapp here in the states, sms is simply insecure in every way, and telegram has very suspicious roots imo, along with a lack of e2ee and a terrible ui.

signal is the most secure option and matrix is federated making it the most "open" option.

semantics

IP is a fake concept

most threat models aren't high enough to warrant worrying about it.

what do you think updates are for?? please stop spreading such terrible practices

idk what to tell you. it's not in any way indicating a message of superiority.

I'm curious what would even be "snuck into it" ?

to be fair you always could remove edge, it just legitimately broke a lot of windows apps