Show them the issues, such as Snowden revelations and the applications for it and how it can be used against them

What is an SDR?

Friends with similar interests

Arch is good for customization. But I value my time more and so rather have something that works to keep it simple and hence use Debian

Yeah I agree, its easier said than done. Web crawling requires a lot of resources

I agree the only thing with Signal is it needs a phone number, but the protocol that is solid. Its more practical to have people switch to signal from whatsapp in my opinion

I do enjoy the fact that Lemmy is federated as I feel like that is the solution long term, rather than placing hands in the power of a few people with other things like Reddit. Decentralization for the win! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

Lets get everyone using Signal, that isn’t actually backdoored by the NSA!

Debian Stable. Old, but it works and that’s all I want my computer to do

I disagree blockchain technology shouldn’t be underestimated

the main issue I see with bitcoin is that so many people are investing in it and not using it for its real purpose (an alternative to actual money). The fact that the fed prints money while bitcoin is finite shows that there will be less inflation issues. Although I am not an economist

I don’t see why we can’t just have something like a blockchain based search engine where crypto is given based on how much indexing (crawling) is done. Of course this is just an idea right now. But have an incentive to people to do crawling of it through something like blockchain. This ensures that there won’t be any centralization and search result manipulation with things such as psyops (brain washing the population through search results)

cheers for the response man

yeah that’s my main issue the anti-cheat system, as I want to play games that use that.

Yeah switching to Linux is good, but the main issue that’s stopping me from switching is the gaming compatibility. Which I know some games work, but really its just not worth the effort for me to actually sit there and check each game if it works and if it doesn’t work

I think Firefox is the best option in terms of privacy and security right now with browsers, but the only issue is that its had to lay off most of its staff due to covid. With that said I do donate to them to support them, but its to the mozzila foundation. How much of it actually goes to the deveopment of firefox is up for them to decide.