You forgot "Only uses 10+ year old librebooted Thinkpad" on tech paranoid
uses a modern Notebook which is QubesOS certified and runs coreboot
I forget there are linux-friendly laptops nowadays.
whats librebooted mean
Replacing the bootloader with a FOSS bootloader called LibreBoot
It's an open source bios. There are only builds for a certain few laptops and it involves opening it up and flashing the bios chip
Brave being listed alongside Firefox
Bestie Brave is literally just Chromium again. Not to mention the fact that their CEO is someone who got ousted from Firefox for being a tremendous bigot. It's not a better alternative to Chrome, it's just the same thing again. It you must use a chromium browser, use ungoogled.
Brave also does sneaky shit with your data
I personally use Librewolf. Its just a hardened version of Firefox so you don't have to do it yourself.
Telegram being next to Signal is also questionable.
I fall under Tech Conservative mostly, but I would like to edit the last 2 points to this for myself:
"Believe every publicly traded company is inherently evil"
"Doesn't morally support big tech, but uses some anyway"
Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.
It feels like there needs to be a category in between conservative and paranoid. I'm probably 90% of the way over to tech paranoid but using Tor Browser and Tails is a little much.
Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.
For some reason, the best word to describe it in my mind is "fun". Just fun to learn and play with, fun to install, fun to configure and customize, and fun to daily drive. Definitely not fun when a random package update breaks your system (looking at you grub), but that hardly ever happens anymore provided you don't enable the testing repo.
Also pacman is the fastest package manager I've ever used.
Also pacman is the fastest package manager I’ve ever used.
I hope you enabled parallel downloads, that makes it fast as fuck.
🏳️⚧️ Congratulations on coming out and I wish you a successful transition. 🏳️⚧️
worst username award 🏆
What does MKBHD have to do with this? He's just a tech reviewer who kinda fits between tech normie and tech conservative
He's the kind of guy that looks at a Fairphone and says "if you compare this to a Pixel, the Pixel is faster", talks about how important repairability and sustainability is, vows to mention it in future phone reviews and then proceeds to never mention it ever again but instead keeps on saying how great the new iPhone is.
I'm not kidding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkmzDwgvqQM
And he mostly talks about phones anyway... hardly relevant to the avg pc enthusiast as he only covers macbooks and not their competition, which is silly.
For fellow paranoids:
Mullvad browser is a fairly new Firefox fork which aims to reduce fingerprinting potential while also having sane (paranoid) defaults. Developed with the Tor project. Basically the Tor browser but without connecting to the Tor network. Passes coveryourtracks.eff.org.
SimpleX Chat is a fairly new privacy oriented IM platform which seems to address many issues current ones have. Development is very active. E2E, video and voice calls, decentralized, doesn’t have user ID of any kind.
What if my favorite OS is Mac, my favorite browser is Firefox, and my favorite app is self hosted?
It means you're Tim Cook's mistress
I'm a tech conservative?
Yes. The meme said so and it is now universally and unrefutably true.
Conservative is the wrong word there
Not really. People who use the apps are trying to preserve (conserve) the time when privacy wasn't an afterthought. It's not working, but they're sure trying.
The fact that the favorite OS of the tech conservative is an Arch based distro and and a Debian based distro instead of pure Arch or Debian makes this meme inaccurate.
Tech paranoid all the way, although not the same type of tech paranoid as Luke Smith. The only good computer is one you have the hardware schematics to (i.e. virtually none of them). Thinkpads are just another brand of overpriced laptop. Besides the occasional steam game, I heavily prefer FOSS only and will flat out refuse almost anything that has drm. My unlocked bootloader android phone is so heavily locked down with privacy stuff that I cause Google to lose money merely by existing.
The only good computer is one you have the hardware schematics to (i.e. virtually none of them).
Purism, System76 and, more recently, Framework
"I can't live with modern tech anymore"
uses modern tech
A truly paranoid individual unplugs every piece of technology and uses nothing with screens, buttons or electricity going through it.
Your body uses electricity to send nerve signals...
I fit somewhere between normie and conservative. Philosophically, I agree with the tech conservative, but I also have shit to do and when FOSS gets in my way, it's hard to justify it.
I use Firefox because it was an easy switch.
I used Signal until they killed sms support. Sorry, most of the people I know use a default messages app. And the day I force everyone I know to use Signal is the day they stop talking to me.
I dabble in Linux, but I main Windows because I'm not a programmer or IT admin. I know how to use it, for better or worse, and I don't have to memorize terminal commands to perform even basic tasks. Sure, gaming is getting better on linux, but it's still a compromised experience and I still, to this day, have to look up tutorials and terminal command every time I try to do anything on my Linux box.
But...wherever possible, I use FOSS software.
I like to call it the tech pragmatist. I agree with the conservative, but I'm not that smart and I got shit to do.
i am litterally a 100% match with conservative wtf did you hack me (except I use XMPP for phone service, JMP.Chat is an amazing thing!)
I'm in the last column with the exception of thinking RMS is a misogynistic transphobe asshole
Luke Smith, too
Wish I could just ditch Windows and Whatsapp for something else....... I've tried Linux but every time I quickly wanted to do something it first took me 30/40 minutes to get it working :'( was driving me insane after the cool factor of daily driving Linux went away
How long ago was that and what did you want to get working? In my experience anything I do has been smoother on modern Linux than on Windows.
I'm a software engineer that uses windows and firefox, has no social media accounts (minus message boards), and owns a google pixel. Be confused. You can't stop me.
Tech normie also uses VS Code as a text editor sending data to Microsoft & using proprietary plugins.
tbf vscode is a decent, open-source editor with great support for Rust (it's rust-analyzer's primary platform with nvim and Clion on the second place)
(but the official ms packages ship with a custom config with ms telemetry, branding and marketplace)
basically just use code(oss) or vscodium instead of binary vscode releases
I run arch, have the latest iphone, watch MKBHD, amd use tor… so…. yeah i dunno
I dislike this meme, it's inaccurate
I'm between conservative and paranoid and watch mental outlaw.
I watched one HTML video 5 years ago, and now I'm using a De-Googled phone, Linux, and get a more paranoid than I should when I see and Echo Dot. This is not what I signed up for...
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