was checking my old favourite posts and found this.

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      Conservative doesn’t mean braindead.

      It means keeping things the way they are. Like conserving the rain forest.

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        Oh I know this in my head. It’s the negative connotation that’s in my heart that’s the problem.

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    Guilty of being Ricer. To answer the questionmakrs, I decided on Brave (again) recently, although in terms of theming, Firefox definitely offers more.

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    Me Before (Normie CS Dude):

    OS Macos

    Browser Brave

    Search Engine Google

    Services Insta, Reddit, Whatsapp, Microsoft Suite, Netflix, Icloud Drive

    Me Now (I dont wanna get fucked by a facist government)

    OS Debian

    Browser Librewolf

    Search Engine Duckduckgo/Startpage

    Services Signal/Fluffychat, Lemmy, qBitTorrent, Jellyfin, Bluesky, Nextcloud

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    “Has hundreds of messaging apps their friends won’t use.”

    Got caught.

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      Hey, someone in the friend group has to test the apps ahead of time for when they all inevitably wake up and delete Discord, I can guide them to matrix or SimpleX! This is exactly how it will go right?

      Guys… where’d you go?

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    The FSF member does not use libreboot anymore (not entirely free on some boards for a while now). See GNU Boot!

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    I think we’re all in between conservative and newborn paranoid … for me, I love alpha/nightly, which LW doesn’t have, so FF it is. But I cope by telling myself that a properly configured FF is just as good as LW. And Signal is better than needing to use WhatsApp with family members.

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    I’m the Tech Conservative with an iPhone, uses the Fedora Distro as my ride or die at the moment! I feel pretty balanced…Though, I do have a desire to hop to other distros for a while before going back to where it all started: Ubuntu. Ubuntu started my passion for Linux; opened my world to FOSS, issues with Privacy, and viewing most companies with neutrality, unless they’ve shown their dark side!

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      Are you me? This is my tech journey also, including fedora on desktop and laptop, iPhone without any upgrades for last 3 years.

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        I might be if you started on Android but then transitioned to iPhone 15+ and iOS after Google started to cram too much LLM Bullshit into Android. Otherwise, I had been a Windows person first, before I couldn’t tolerate Microsoft’s BS any longer. I should’ve left some more tech history in there, but this meme is certainly my current self!

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          I think I got the first iPhone 3G. Then I moved to android and my last android phone was google pixel 3. Changed to iPhone 13 and been with that ever since. Similar tech history for sure.

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            For the most part, I agree! I started with a dumb phone, moved on to the Samsung series of Android phones up until the inevitable would happen. I really liked those phones too, as theming is a passion of mine! I did switch to the Pixel 7 Pro because I at the time, I wasn’t too distrusting of Google. Alas, if only the pivot to LLM BS never happened and it remained a mostly background affair. The autocorrect with better spellchecking/grammar were nice, but everything else is a PITA.

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    Years ago, when Telegram was relatively fresh, I convinced most of my friends and acquaintances to use it. I don’t know how I did it, but now that I want to get away from Telegram, I wish I could do it again.